Nicola Lynes
Community Engagement Officer
Support Staffordshire

Muddy Child
© 2020 Helena Dolby (Sheffield and Rotherham Wildlife Trust/WildNet)
Birdwatching
© 2020 Guy Edwardes/2020VISION (WildNet)
Connecting with Nature
© 2020 Adrian Clarke (Staffordshire Wildlife Trust/Adrian Clarke/WildNet)
Wildlife Surveys
© 2020 Matthew Roberts (WildNet)
This project encompasses a range of events and activities to engage a broad-range of people to provide them with support and resources to be able to identify and record species.
In 2018, my sister and I made a resolution to reduce our plastic use. To achieve that goal we made a year-long plan that worked really well for us. It worked so well in fact that I reduced my plastic use by 91% and Mary managed to reduce hers by 73%!
Here's how we did it...
You might have seen that one of the projects running within the Transforming the Trent Valley scheme is the 'Big Washlands Watch', which is all about citizen science - engaging people with their local wildlife and teaching them how to identify species and submit biological records.
Transforming the Trent Valley scheme is launching our 'Big Washlands Watch' project in 2020. This project aims to learn more about the number and types of species living in the Trent Valley area by encouraging local people to get involved in some citizen science activities. We would like to hear from people and groups within the Transforming the Trent Valley scheme area who want to learn more about the wildlife on their doorstep and would like to help us to record it.