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London Wildlife Trust (The) Report and Financial Statements For the year ended 31st March 2025

London Wildlife Trust protects and restores the capital's wildlife and wild spaces, manages nature reserves across London and helps Londoners, especially young people, connect with nature. Its report covers the year to March 2025, in which it reached 10,000 school children through its learning programmes.

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About

London Wildlife Trust manages nature reserves across the capital, seven of which hold Green Flag Awards, and restores habitats at sites such as Spencer Road Wetland, Denham Lock Wood, Hutchinson's Bank and Birdbrook. It helps young people into green careers through Keeping it Wild traineeships, its Youth Board and the Green Careers Showcase, and builds community action for nature through Next-Door Nature. Partnerships include Nature-in-Mind with Newham CAMHS and Championing Nature with the AELTC. The Trust also shapes how London looks after its wildlife, supporting the Mayor's Rewild London Fund, reviewing the city's Sites of Importance for Nature Conservation and training local authorities in Biodiversity Net Gain.

Key Metrics

Key Metric 1 London Wildlife Trust reached 10,000 school children and 12,000 family learning participants in 2024-25, and had 12,700 memberships.
Key Metric 2 Through Tranche III of the Mayor's Rewild London Fund, 21 projects shared more than £1m, creating or restoring around 125 hectares and engaging around 40 Sites of Importance for Nature Conservation.
Key Metric 3 Total income rose to £7.3 million from £5.6 million the previous year, with expenditure of £6.2 million (up from £5.7 million) (GBP).

Key Outcomes

  • 15 young people completed four-month Keeping it Wild traineeships, and 104 young people from diverse backgrounds met 14 employers at the Green Careers Showcase.
  • Seven of the Trust's nature reserves achieved Green Flag Awards in 2024.
  • Biodiversity Net Gain training was delivered to 14 London local authorities, and the London Deer Strategy and London Woodland Condition self-assessment tool were launched.

Geography

London

Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
5,999 active volunteers contributed 776,242 hours in 2025/26
Key Metric 2
137 winter maintenance projects across 45 canals; 109 lock gates replaced
Key Metric 3
101,640 children participated in Explorers/STEM outdoor learning, including 67,896 water-safety participants
Over 80% of the network kept fully open despite drought.
Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
The Eco-Schools programme reached over 1.4 million pupils, with 2,162 schools awarded the Eco-Schools Green Flag in 2024/25
Key Metric 2
326,000 volunteers pledged to the Great British Spring Clean, picking up 425,626 bags of rubbish, supported by 288 local authorities and parish councils
Key Metric 3
2,227 Green Flag Awards given to parks and green spaces in the UK; 151 beaches given a Blue Flag and/or Seaside Award
98.3% of educators felt the Eco-Schools programme significantly supports young people's development of 'green skills'
Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
First known breeding success of spoonbills in the Norfolk Broads in around 400 years, recorded at Hickling Broads and Marshes
Key Metric 2
Over 60 nature reserves managed across Norfolk, with land owned or managed for wildlife exceeding 5,000 hectares
Key Metric 3
1,500 volunteers helped protect wildlife across the county during the year
New urban nature reserve co-designed with the local community, expanding accessible green space in Norfolk
Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
61,819 native oysters deployed across UK restoration projects in 2024/25
Key Metric 2
15,064 people participated in the Beachwatch beach clean programme, submitting 1,256 litter surveys — the highest in the programme's 31-year history
Key Metric 3
17,613 young people engaged through in-person or online youth programme sessions
£11.5 billion Ofwat investment package secured for storm overflow cuts in England and Wales following sustained MCS advocacy