Montgomeryshire Wildlife Trust

Who we are

Founded in 1982, we are the county's leading nature conservation organisation. Our mission is to sustain biodiversity and encourage people to engage with their environment by becoming active and influential wildlife champions. Our vision is of people close to nature with land and seas rich in wildlife. We want to ensure that every person has the opportunity to experience wildlife in their daily lives.

Our culture and values

Despite covering a sparsely populated area of Wales, we have more than 2,000 members and around 300 volunteers who help us with activities from habitat management to people engagement. We are a registered charity and limited company with headquarters in Welshpool and guided by a trustee board, with daily operations conducted by a CEO leading around 16 members of staff. We care for 18 nature reserves, including Cors Dyfi a wetland haven and home to the Dyfi Osprey Project and Dyfi Wildlife Centre, Alongside more traditional conservation initiatives, we run a range of community projects to enable everyone to experience wildlife in their daily lives.

Equality, diversity and inclusion policy

The Wildlife Trusts are wild about inclusion. For us this means our people truly valuing the principles of equality, diversity & inclusion to bring about a stronger Wildlife Trust movement. It underpins our belief that ‘everyone should have the opportunity to experience the joy of wildlife in their daily lives.’ We aim to better recognise and reduce inequalities in accessing and engaging with wildlife and bring diverse communities closer to nature. This includes recognising that the conservation sector is one of the least diverse professions in the UK and access to careers, training and volunteering opportunities need to be significantly improved.

Our vision for equality, diversity and inclusion is that: More people, from all parts of society, are engaged in our movement and are closer to nature as a result of us becoming more reflective of and meaningful to our communities, and Our people are ‘wild about inclusion’ and embrace increasing the diversity of our staff, trustees and members as crucial to our success in bringing about nature recovery. We openly acknowledge that our current Board of Trustees is not as diverse as we would like it to be. We want our Trustees to better reflect the communities in which work and are committed to creating a board which is more inclusive of diverse identities, backgrounds, skills and experience. Whist we would encourage anyone who is interested to consider becoming a Trustee to apply, we particularly encourage applications from those who are currently underrepresented on our board, including people from minority ethnic backgrounds, people with disabilities and those under 25 years old. We are committed to providing the right support to enable support every Trustee on our Board to fulfill their role and have a rewarding experience as a Trustee.