London Wildlife Trust

London Wildlife Trust is an English wildlife charity based in London.^[1]

London Wildlife Trust

View of the Engine House building at London Wildlife Trust's Walthamstow Wetlands Nature Reserve
Formation	1981
Type	Charitable organization
Focus	Nature recovery
Headquarters	Fivefields, 8-10 Grosvenor Gardens, Victoria, London, SW1W 0DH
CEO	David Mooney
Chair	Rufus Radcliffe
Key people	Sam Davenport (Director of Nature Recovery), Mathew Frith (Director of Research), Charlie Sims (Director of Visitor Experience)
Staff	50+
Volunteers	700+
Website	https://www.wildlondon.org.uk

Founded in 1981, London Wildlife Trust is one of 46 members of the Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts (known as The Wildlife Trusts), each of which is a local nature charity for its area.^[2][3] The Trust manages 36 nature reserves in Greater London^[4] and provides education services for schools, events for nature enthusiasts, and information on how to help London's wildlife.

The Trust pioneered the systematic recording of data on wildlife and the environment in the capital. Its "Biological Recording Project" became the semi-independent "Greenspace Information for Greater London", known as GIGL.^[5]

The Trust has more than 50 members of staff^[6] and 700 volunteers, and is supported by over 12,000 members.^[1] It's reserves receive over 1 million visits per year.^[7][8]

In its 2024 strategy document the Trust sets out its vision and mission, as well as plans for a five-year period. The trust states its vision as "A London alive with wildlife, nature in everyone's neighbourhood."^[9][7]

Nature reserves

Sites

Site	Location[a]	Public access[a]	Description
Birdbrook Road Nature Reserve[10]	Kidbrooke	No	A reserve in Kidbrooke and one of London's most important strongholds for newts.
Braeburn Park[11]	Crayford	Yes	A former orchard, quarry and landfill site reclaimed by nature and now managed in partnership with the Land Trust.
Bramley Bank[12]	Croydon	Yes	Restored woodland and heathland in Croydon which typifies London's semi-natural habitats, providing a home for stag beetles and woodpeckers.
Camley Street Natural Park[13]	King's Cross	Yes	Camley Street Natural Park is in central London - between King's Cross and St Pancras.
Centre for Wildlife Gardening[14]	East Dulwich	Yes	Wildlife garden and visitor centre in a residential street in East Dulwich.
Chapel Bank	Croydon	Yes	A chalk grassland reserve with butterflies.
Crane Park Island[15]	Whitton	Yes	A variety of habitats including woodland, reedbed, ditches, ponds and river. On a site formerly used for gunpowder production in Whitton.
Denham Lock Wood[16]	Hillingdon	Yes	An example of wet woodland in London, designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) in the Colne Valley.
Dews Farm Sand Pits[17]	Hillingdon	Yes	A combination of acid grassland and young woodland habitats in Harefield, Hillingdon.
Farm Bog[18]	Wimbledon	Yes	One of the largest of London's six remaining lowland bogs on Wimbledon Common.
Frays Farm Meadows[19]	Uxbridge	Yes	One of the rare wet grazing meadows in London and part-designated Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI), near Uxbridge, Hillingdon.
Frays Island and Mabey's Meadow	West Drayton	Yes	Alder and willow woodland set between the Rivers Colne and Frays in West Drayton.
Gunnersbury Triangle[20]	Chiswick	Yes	A reserve framed by intersecting railway lines, close to Chiswick Park Station.
Gutteridge Wood and Meadows[21]	Hillingdon	Yes	An ancient oak and hazel coppice woodland and adjacent associated meadows in North Hillingdon. The woodland has bluebells in spring and a year-long haven for birds and wildflowers.
Huckerby's Meadows[22][b]	Hillingdon	Yes	Wildlife reserve beneath the flight approach to Heathrow Airport.
Hutchinson's Bank[24]	Croydon	Yes	An area of chalk grassland and woodland, supporting rare plants and insects.
Ickenham Marsh[25]	Ickenham	Yes	An array of wetland plants dominate this riverside site.
Isleworth Ait[26]	Isleworth	No	An sanctuary for birds, beetles and rare molluscs on an island in the middle of the River Thames.
New Cross Gate Cutting[27]	Brockley	No	An area of woodland in South London set on the slopes of a deep railway cutting, which supports 170 species of flowering plants
Oak Hill Wood[28]	Barnet	Yes	This steeply-sloping medieval woodland in East Barnet is home to bats, rare trees and flowers.
Park Road Pond[29]	Hillingdon	Yes	A site with amphibians in Uxbridge.
Riddlesdown[30]	Croydon	Yes	A chalk grassland and yew woodland in North Downs.
Saltbox Hill[31]	Greater London	Yes	This rare fragment of surviving downland in Biggin Hill is said to have inspired a local man called Charles Darwin.
Spencer Road Wetlands[32]	Beddington Corner	No	An area of wet willow woodland and reed swamp next to south London's River Wandle.
Sydenham Hill Wood and Cox's Walk[33]	Sydenham Hill	Yes	A mix of new and ancient woodland in Dulwich, with remnants of Victorian gardens. The Trust's oldest nature reserve.
Ten Acre Wood and Meadows[34]	Hillingdon	Yes	A century-old oak plantation over hazel coppice in Hillingdon.
The Grove	Hillingdon	Yes	A remnant of an old Victorian garden in Hillingdon, the site is aided by the presence of wetland areas.
The Warren[35]	Kevington	Yes	This mixed woodland reserve close to the Cray Valley on London's Kent border was formerly part of the estate of a Georgian manor house.
Threecorner Grove	Croydon	Yes	A chalk woodland on London's southern extremity.
Totteridge Fields[36]	Barnet	Yes	Traditional English countryside within London's northern fringe in Barnet.
Walthamstow Wetlands	Walthamstow	Yes	15 minutes from central London.
West Kent Golf Course[37]	Downe	Yes	In the rough grass, a natural habitat with butterflies and orchids.
Wilderness Island[38]	Carshalton	Yes	Where two arms of the River Wandle meet in South London.
Woodberry Wetlands[39]	Hackney	Yes	Woodberry Wetlands is in Hackney: 11 hectares of reed-fringed ponds and dykes.
Yeading Brook Meadows[40]	Hillingdon	Yes	Wild flowers and grasses dominate this meadow in West London's Yeading Valley, hosting insect life.

See also

• Environment portal
• London portal

• List of Local Nature Reserves in Greater London
• List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Greater London

Notes

1. The location and public access are taken from the London Wildlife Trust page for each site.
2. This site is indexed by the London Wildlife Trust as Huckerby's Meadows,^[23] but the information page is headed Crane Meadows.^[22]