Supporting wildlife in and around Ascot
for the last 10 years
email ascot.wildlife@gmail.com to find out how you can get involved
join our Facebook Group and share your photos of our local wildlife with other like-minded people.
We hope you will please join us in Windsor this Saturday 3rd June, 7:15pm for 7:30pm, to hear about many easy ways to make a difference for nature in your gardens, alleys and allotments, roadside verges and balconies -- the sky's the limit!
This event will be hosted by Peter Gibbs, of Gardeners' Question Time on BBC Radio 4 and will include brief talks and a Q&A panel session. It will finish by 9 pm.
This Wildlife Gardens Awards event is at the 12th Windsor Scout Hut , Maidenhead Road, Windsor SL4 5EY. The entrance is opposite the BP Garage near Mill Lane. Parking also available in the adjacent St.John's Ambulance Centre
and the Grenadier Guards Club
Please book your FREE tickets here and share this invitation
with your friends, families and colleagues!
Wildlife organisations in RBWM are encouraging all residents and local businesses to enter the Wildlife Gardens Awards and put wildlife at the heart of our outdoor spaces.
New for 2023!
Please show you value local wildlife by entering the
Wildlife Gardens Awards scheme
Everyone can join in - look here to find out more
The Wildlife Gardens Awards are a free to enter local awards scheme to encourage people to put wildlife at the heart of their gardening. The Awards application process is now open but there is still plenty of time for you to add more wildlife-friendly features to your outdoor space before you apply. The awards are open until 31st July 2023.
Have you seen wildlife today?
Please let us know what you see in our area and email us your wildlife photos
- we love to see them -
Record your sightings here via our website or on iRecord
We need to know what is living around us so that we can protect and improve our area for wildlife
A Volunteering Opportunity
Are you enthusiastic about wildlife?
Keen to enhance the environment that you live in?
Have a few hours to spare?
Then we’d like to hear from you.
We are currently looking for volunteers to assist us with a number of projects including:
Helping us publicise activities to get people volunteering and supporting wildlife in their gardens
Working with local children through primary schools and cub groups
Encouraging people to put up swift and other bird nesting and bat roosting boxes
Surveying for bats and other creatures and wildflowers
Creating more wildflower areas
Developing and managing a program of fun family activities
Working with local councils and other groups to improve our biodiversity
If you are able to help with any of these areas or other ideas that may evolve over time then we’d love to hear from you, no matter how much time you think you can spare or how little experience you think you have - we are also enthusiastic volunteers, learning as we go!
Email ascot.wildlife@gmail.com to order your copy of our new booklet!
During the periods of lock-down people have become much more conscious of wildlife and nature. The healing properties of nature have been expressed on television and in literature as well as experienced by many. As people have escaped the confines of their homes for exercise outside, they have been able to embrace and become curious about the world they find outside in their area. This booklet, “Wildlife in Ascot - Who shares your garden?” has 40 pages of information with local colour photographs and some original drawings. It is designed to start people off on a journey of discovery. We hope that it is useful to identify animals and also as a guide on how to help our local wildlife.
Please email ascot.wildlife@gmail.com to order your copy.
These booklets are also available to see and purchase for £4 from Chapmans in Sunninghill
Do have a look in the local publication
for our monthly article written by our very own Fiona Barker!