Jon Hawkins – Surrey Hills Photography
Give a gift in your will
Want to leave a lasting legacy for Welsh wildlife? Where there’s a will, there’s a way.
When you give a gift in your will to The Wildlife Trust of South & West Wales, you're helping to protect puffins, save seals and create a brighter future for Welsh wildlife!
Every gift in every will, however large or small, makes a huge difference to Welsh wildlife.
Gifts in Action
Read Colin, Karen and Marion's story to see how gift in wills are essential to our conservation work across South & West Wales.
Janet Packham
Colin’s butterflies
Colin Vyvyan was a lover of wildlife, passionate about butterflies, and a committed volunteer at Lavernock Point Nature Reserve. When he sadly died Colin left a legacy to support the work on habitat management for butterflies and to inspire people to love wildlife in the same way he had. We are now investing his gift in butterfly habitats, in Lavernock Point and on a number of projects around the Vale, east Glamorgan and the Valleys.
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Megan's monitoring boxes
Megan Jones kindly left a gift in her will which enabled us to provide 50 nest boxes tor Kestrels. Thanks to Megan we were able to construct and installed 50 nest boxes across our reserves in Ceredigion, including Cwm Clettwr and Teif Marshes. These boxes have provided a safe place for Kestrels as well as Barn Owls, Tawny Owls and Stock Doves to breed in.
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Marion's nature reserve
Thanks to a generous legacy left by Marion Price, a new nature reserve was created in south Ceredigion. The legacy enabled us to purchase eleven fields of species-rich grassland which lay very close to two existing nature reserves - Rhos Pil Bach and Pennar Fawr. The new reserve has been named Rhos Marion after its benefactor. Today orchids and butterflies are already flourishing on the site.
Parc Slip Visitor Centre and Pond.
Karen’s visitor centre
Renovation of the Parc Slip Visitor Centre was made possible in part thanks to a legacy from a very dedicated volunteer and valued friend, Karen Morris. Karen's parting gift to the Trust was the support to improve the visitor centre and nature reserve that she had known so well. Today visitors are able to look over the nature reserve and watch swallows and lapwings gliding over wildflower meadows alive with colour.
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Securing Skokholm's future
Without gifts in wills The Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales wouldn't have been able to purchase the last piece of Skokholm Island in 2013. This included the lighthouse and its surrounding land which is a delicate honeycomb of nesting burrows. By accomplishing this goal the future of Skokholm Island's wildlife is secure! Skokholm and Skomer Island hold the world's largest population of Manx shearwaters - over 700,000 - and both islands are internationally important for seabird populations. between them they also have over 28,000 Atlantic puffins, 7,000 Razorbills, 23,000 Guillemots.