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South West Wildlife Trusts
The South West Wildlife Trusts partnership is a jointly owned charitable company, established in 2002, by the eight Wildlife Trusts that safeguard wildlife and biodiversity in Avon, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire, the Isles of Scilly, Somerset and Wiltshire.
Each member Trust remains financially and legally independent, with its own identity, governance, locally managed teams, landholdings, priorities and supporter networks.
The South West Wildlife Trusts partnership (SWWT) exists to set local work in a regional context, taking forward strategic initiatives, sharing best practice, speaking as a single voice on issues of shared concern, and jointly influencing the development and implementation of regional policies.
This regional partnership links up with the 39 other Trusts across the UK through The Wildlife Trusts, the national registered charity of which they are members. The work of the SWWT is managed by a Board of Directors drawn from member Trusts and implemented by its Director of Regional Programmes.
Collectively the South West Wildlife Trusts are one the region’s biggest, broadest and most active guardians of the environment.
The mission that staff, volunteers, members, working partners and sponsors share is the rebuilding of regional biodiversity and the creation of a sustainable future for the South West's wildlife and people.
