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Dreaming of a wild Christmas - festive gifts from The Wildlife Trusts

Dreaming of a Wild Christmas

This festive season The Wildlife Trusts are offering a gorgeous range of gifts and wildlife-themed goodies for those looking to make greener choices this Christmas. A page of inspiring ideas can be found here. Buyers of beaver jumpers, animal themed tee shirts and birdfeeders will support The Wildlife Trusts' work to help nature recover across the UK.

The Wildlife Trusts’ marketing officer, Abbie Hargreaves, says:

“Christmas isn’t Christmas without a festive beaver jumper! Over recent years beavers have been the ‘comeback kids’ of the natural world, with successful releases taking place at Wildlife Trust nature reserves across the UK. These success stories give us hope that nature can recover, and The Wildlife Trusts are working hard to ensure it does.

“Funds raised by these wildlife gifts will help us towards our ambitious 30 by 30 goal – restoring and protecting 30% of UK land and seas for nature by 2030. The struggles of the last few years have renewed our connection to the natural world, and we hope this will lead to greener choices this Christmas.”

Christmas star buys:

Our Christmas beaver jumper can be worn all winter long, and is printed on 100% organic cotton using renewable energy. The Wildlife Trusts have been at the forefront of bringing back this charismatic creature that’s brilliant at restoring wetlands.
Beautiful animal tee shirt designs featuring puffin, otter, owls and insects, made from 100% organic materials using renewable energy.
Feed the birds all year long with bird food and stylish feeders from conservation award-winnning Vine House Farm.
Adopt an animal - whether you have a thing for owls or are crazy about otters, there is an adoption available for you! Money raised goes to helping important conservation work. Special gift box presentations featuring a certificate and soft toy are also available for some species.
Give the gift of a wilder world through Wildlife Trust virtual gift cards. Every purchase helps to protect and restore our precious wildlife – a gift nature-lovers will adore.
Membership package or donations to local Trusts support projects and wildlife close to home and start from as little as £3 a month with family and children’s membership options available.

A range of gifts from individual Wildlife Trusts are also available online, such as plastic-free homeware, children’s toys, lunchboxes and flasks, jewellery and accessories. For the garden, there are wildflower seeds, bird boxes and attractive bird feeders. All sales directly support the work of local Trusts caring for wild spaces and the creatures that live there. These include:

Wiltshire Wildlife Trust supplies beautiful kits for children such as the make-your-own 3D animals set, learn to stitch set, and make your own cardboard bugs set, as well as soft toys and Christmas cards. They also offer some rather stylish bamboo socks, and a lavender scented wellbeing gift set to make the season both stylish and serene!
Suffolk Wildlife Trust has teamed up with Beadstorm designs and local artists to supply beautiful silver pendant jewellery and laser-cut wooden decorations as well as earrings and necklaces.    
Yorkshire Wildlife Trust’s online store includes a wide selection of wildlife homes and feeders, a plastic-free range along with sustainably sourced homeware, kitchenware and children’s games. Gorgeous nature-themed gift boxes to inspire are packed with ideas and items to help people make small changes in their lives.
Derbyshire Wildlife Trust has a beautiful range of bird feeders, books, games, locally made candles and beauty products such as hand creams and scrubs as well as jewellery. Collect your own box of grass-fed beef from cows grazed on Derbyshire’s nature reserves.
Worcestershire Wildlife Trust has created a gorgeous range of virtual gifts including a carpet of bluebells, a home for dormice or flowers for the bees. You can also adopt an otter, dormouse or barn owl. Some beautiful wildlife-themed homeware is also available, including tea towels, mugs and tote bags.
Herefordshire Wildlife Trust’s online store includes a selection of beautiful books and handmade soaps, as well reusable crackers to start Christmas for many years to come.
The Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales offer soft toys made of recycled materials, as well as the Wildlife Trust calendars which are produced using eco-friendly processes and materials.
Send e-Christmas cards this year via Cumbria Wildlife Trust