Wilding Campuses: Our impact and learning

With funding from the National Lottery Heritage Fund, this Nottingham-based pilot focuses on restoring nature into spaces where staff and students work and learn. Led by SOS UK, Wilding Campuses piloted a partnership between the University of Nottingham, Nottingham College and Bluecoat Aspley Academy.

Over two years (spring 2024 – spring 2026), Wilding Campuses project aimed to address this by:

• Increasing the abundance and diversity of local target species and enhancing habitats with them in mind
• Empowering students, staff and young people traditionally excluded from nature to tackle the ecological crisis
• Increasing understanding of connection to and access to nature
• Students increase their feelings of being part of the solution to the climate and nature crises
• Increasing feelings of wellbeing

We also aimed to contribute to a number of the National Lottery Heritage Fund’s core aims of:

• A wider range of people will be involved in heritage
• People will have developed skills
• The local area will be a better place to live, work or visit‍
  

Read our impact report to find out about our achievements in these areas, and what we learnt as a partnership about wilding education estates.