The Magdalen Environmental Trust

Who we are

The Magdalen Environmental Trust is a charity based on an organic farm, which is the setting for most of our work.

Our vision is of a sustainable future in which a healthy environment and thriving, fulfilled communities are integral and essential to one another.

Our purpose is:
 To help people recognise their environment as integral to their wellbeing.
 To strive towards sustainability in our practices, and demonstrate it in action.
 To provide understanding and enhanced wellbeing through inspirational experiential learning for people of all ages, abilities and backgrounds.
 To use sound organic farming and conservation practices which enhance biodiversity, while recognising the needs of a hungry world.

Magdalen was founded in 1990 under the name The Wessex Foundation. Its history has been one of evolution and adaptation in order to meet the needs of the community and provide better avenues for people to understand and embrace sustainability. We appreciate that our role in tacking socio-economic and environmental problems is to work in partnership with others, and to provide bespoke services that fit within overarching strategies, care plans and curricula. We can only ever be ‘one spoke in the wheel’, but we do our part to the very maximum of our abilities. Magdalen makes a difference.