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Annual Review 2024-25

Plantlife's Annual Review 2024-25 details the charity's work championing wild plant and fungi conservation, including advisory support reaching over 1,260 Welsh farmers and landowners on sustainable grassland management and continued delivery of the Natur am Byth species and habitat recovery partnership in Wales.

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Grassland, meadow and rainforest habitat conservation, landowner and land manager advisory services, policy influencing and campaigning, public engagement and species monitoring

Key Metrics

Key Metric 1 Over 1,260 Welsh farmers and landowners reached with sustainable grassland management knowledge in 2024/25
Key Metric 2 Contribution to the Natur am Byth partnership, Wales's flagship species and habitat recovery programme
Key Metric 3 Continued delivery of wild plant and fungi conservation action across a global network of partner organisations

Key Outcomes

  • Expanded partnership work under Natur am Byth to restore priority species and habitats across Wales
  • Continued positioning as a leading global voice for wild plant and fungi conservation, working with governments, public and private bodies
  • Advisory support delivered directly to farmers and land managers to improve grassland habitat management for wild plants and fungi

Geography

UK-Wide

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