Welcome to our project page! We’re Going Wild in Bishop’s Castle or ‘Going Wild’ for short. We invite you to embrace our slightly alarming name and indeed everything else about us as we endeavour to create ‘wildlife corridors’, essentially habitat highways criss-crossing the Parish and town of Bishop’s castle, to help our pollinators, hedgehogs and amphibians navigate about. This will help us to spread nature from our more fruitful pockets to elsewhere, as well as providing a helpful insurance policy in the event of climate change and seasonal stresses.

We achieve this through the tireless work of our volunteers, trustees and supporters, who all help us to work together with land-owners and local communities to create and manage meadows, woodlands and hedgerows. We also record the fantastic wildlife on our doorstep through our local Moth Group and Swift Group, who meet monthly and seasonally (owing to the Swift’s sensible habit of disappearing over Winter). Our Going Wild Kid’s club helps us nurture younger people into discovering the natural world through play and discovery, as well as some light habitat work! If it’s nurturing you’re into, you may also be interested in our budding Wildlife Gardening group, growing plants for wildlife.

Whatever your interest, this project is for EVERYONE! In addition to everyone already mentioned, we also work with contractors and ecologists to create habitat management plans and carry out any major works that go beyond the capabilities of hand tools and will-power. All of this is fed into a ‘toolkit’ which will be made available to other local parishes and councils at the end of the project, so that our model can be replicated.

All of this simply would not be possible without the tireless work of our volunteers as well as funding provided by players of the People’s Postcode lottery and Bishop’s Castle Town Council, as well as some generous donations from private individuals.

Going Wild in Bishop’s Castle would like to make it clear that we are proud to be an inclusive organisation.

Membership, volunteering and activities are, and always will be, open to all. We welcome feedback and suggestions that can make us as accessible to everyone that we can be.

We are proactive in standing against all forms of discrimination, both in the world of wildlife conservation and in all sectors of our society. We endeavour to make all activities as accessible as possible and strive to remove barriers to ensure that, everyone that wants to, can, participate in Going Wild in BC. This includes any physical, sensory, psychological, learning and any other barriers that may restrict participation.

We want people from all aspects of society, all backgrounds and abilities to enjoy our activities and not to be made to feel unwelcome or uncomfortable by any element of our activities or our community.