Oxfordshire Nature Recovery Support Directory
This directory is intended to support community members with accessing the right level of help in planning and implementing your nature recovery strategies.
Check out the table below or download it as a PDF. Links to websites and contact details can be found here (or scroll down)
Are you a nature recovery organisation and want to be added to this directory? Email info@cagoxfordshire.org.uk.
BBOWT | CAG Oxfordshire | Community First Oxfordshire | Cotswolds National Landscape | Earth Trust | Great Western Community Forest | Int'l Tree Foundation | Oxford Friends of the Earth | Oxfordshire Nature Project | Trust for Oxfordshire’s Environment | Wild Oxfordshire | |
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Signpost to nature recovery resources and organisations | 🟢🟡 | 🟢🔵 | 🟢🟡🔵 | 🟢🟡🔵 | 🟢🟡🔵 | 🟢🟡🔵 | 🟢🟡 | 🟢🟡🔵 | |||
Publish guides on nature recovery strategies and actions | 🟢🔵 | 🟢🔵 | 🟢🟡🔵 | 🟢 | 🔵 | 🟢🟡 | 🟢🟡🔵 | ||||
Provide educational training or workshops | 🟢🟡 | 🟢🔵 | 🟡 | 🟢🟡🔵 | 🟢 | 🟢🔵 | 🟢🟡 | 🟢🟡🔵 | |||
On-the-ground work (i.e. planting trees, hedgerows, wildflowers) | 🟢🟡 | 🟢🟡🔵 | 🟢 | 🟢🟡🔵 | 🟢🟡 | 🟢🟡🔵 | |||||
Recruit and coordinate volunteers to engage in on-the-ground work | 🟢🔵 | 🟢🟡🔵 | 🟢🟡 | 🟡 | |||||||
Subject matter expertise on which place-based strategies are most appropriate | 🟢🟡 | 🟡 | 🟢🟡🔵 | 🟢🟡 | 🟢 | 🟢🔵 | |||||
Technical expertise on mapping, monitoring, use of technology, etc. to advance nature recovery strategies | 🟢🟡 | 🔵 | 🟢🟡🔵 | ||||||||
Guidance on working with local authorities to adopt more nature recovery actions | 🟢 | 🟢🟡🔵 | 🟢 | 🟡 | 🟢🟡🔵 | ||||||
Convene stakeholders to discuss nature recovery strategies | 🟡 | 🟢🟡🔵 | 🟡 | 🟢🟡🔵 | 🟡🔵 | 🟢 | 🟢🟡🔵 | ||||
Grantmaker | 🟢🔵 | 🟢🟡🔵 | 🟢🟡🔵 | ||||||||
Support with funding bids | 🟢🔵 | 🟢🟡🔵 | 🟡🔵 | ||||||||
Access to facilities which groups can use as a resource (e.g. education centre, nature reserve) | 🟢🟡🔵🟣 | 🟢🟡🔵 | 🟢 |
How to Get in Touch
click on the links to find out more about each organisation or email them direct.
All organisations support groups across Oxfordshire unless a specific District or area is listed.
Community Action Groups Oxfordshire (CAG)
Peer networking and learning; trainings and events; signposting to other resources including for community gardens
Community-led stewardship approaches to place-based ecological and climate action
All things related to protecting and conserving the national landscape including planning permissions, outreach, grant funding support, farming in protected landscapes, etc. School partnerships and support.
(Georgraphical area: Cotswold National Landscape and Evenlode Catchment)
Great Western Community Forest
Meadow restoration/management; Woodland creation/tree planting
email: lucy@internationaltreefoundation.org
UK Community Tree Planting programme offers grants and advice for tree, orchard and hedgerow planting
email: naturerecovery@cagoxfordshire.org.uk
Opportunity maps for nature recovery activities; individual support for parishes and community groups