A Wilder Pentwyn Appeal
We have successfully raised the £1.5 million needed to secure the Pentwyn Farm site, but there is still work to do!
In 2021 Radnorshire Wildlife Trust was loaned £1.5 million by four generous individuals, to buy Pentwyn - a 164-acre upland farm in the Welsh Marches. As of January 2024, we have paid back the land, and we can now put our full focus into restoring the site for nature.
Every penny we raise over the £1.5 million will be spent fulfilling our vision, turning Pentwyn into a place of hope for people and nature.
We have a new vision for the management and restoration of nature.
Will you help make our vision a reality?
Give £10
Help us plant 2 native broadleaf treesGive £50
Help us pay for 2kg of native wildflower seedsGive £100
Help us plant 50 metres of hedgerowGive £250
Help us sow half an acre of wildflowersGive £500
Help us restore half an acre of wetlandGive £1,000
Help us pay for GPS collars for our herdWe’re appealing to people everywhere to help us secure and protect this land for the future.
- Iolo Williams, Wildlife TV Presenter and Patron of Radnorshire Wildlife Trust
Help wildlife thrive at Pentwyn
Our vision for Pentwyn
Imagine a landscape buzzing, chirping and crawling with wildlife. A landscape that brings and maintains hope- hope for a better world for nature and people.
The land at Pentwyn will be transformed into a humming, buzzing and chirruping oasis where the calls of threatened birds can be heard once more. It lies beside other wild land so there is good potential to help wildlife thrive again across a wider area by expanding and connecting wild habitat.
We will allow natural habitats to grow back, creating wetlands, scrub and potentially some new woodland, as well as increasing flowering plant numbers and diversity, so that the land is better able to store carbon and help tackle the climate crisis. By restoring nature, the land will also retain more rainwater, filtering it and releasing it more slowly - helping keep the nearby River Lugg clean and healthy.
Wilder Pentwyn Produce
Lisa and John Sture, our Market Gardeners at Pentwyn Farm, need your support to launch their business: Wilder Pentwyn Produce, and have created a crowdfunding page. They have brilliant plans for diverse food production on the 5 acres of traditionally sheep-grazed pasture they are working on. Their intention is to develop a mixed farm of vegetables, chickens, mushrooms, microgreens, fruit and trees. They will produce vegetables and locally adapted open-pollinated seed on up to 1 hectare of land, using Permaculture, No Dig and Regenerative Farming methods. On the rest of the land, they will produce eggs from pastured hens, create a forest orchard of predominantly apples and pears, with other fruits and herbs grown alongside, and a small wild campsite. |