Education & activities
Learn with your Wildlife Trust - from school trips, training courses for adults to Nature Tots, Nature Babies and Forest Schools, we do it all!
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Wild Schools
We can help teachers and schools bring subjects to life with school visits, creating wilder school playgrounds and taking the schoolchildren out on trips to see wildlife and nature reserves across Derbyshire.
Education centres
Our education centre has welcomed thousands of people over the years - we have our Wildlife Discovery Room based at Carsington Water near Ashbourne and our outdoor classroom. So come and get wild with us!
Wild Outings for Schools
We offer a variety of school visits, from talks, to explorations on our nature reserves to educational workshops, all linked to the National Curriculum.
Education team contact form
Education team contact form
Corporate education talks and training
Supporting employees with new skills and knowledge is a great way to motivate and inspire them. Education is also one of the best ways to support nature as it’s through knowledge that we can learn the significance of our actions.
Wild Schools at home
Learn with Derbyshire Wildlife Trust whilst spending more time at home!
Tree nurseries in schools and the community
Growing a tree from seed or nut is an incredibly rewarding activity. It’s a simple action your school or community can do to help nurture our environment and make a lasting impact for future…
Education & People Engagement voluneteering
Join us and help us to engage, inspire and educate!
For peat’s sake: new project underway to support sustainable nature-friendly farming
A Derbyshire Wildlife Trust project to support farmers and landowners to generate sustainable income, whilst facilitating nature’s recovery, has started with more than £80,000 from the Co-op’s…
Outdoor education gets the go ahead at one of Derbyshire’s premiere nature reserves
A new outdoor education area is set to be created at Hilton Gravel Pits Nature Reserve in the Trent Valley thanks to a £23,210 project funded by Veolia Environmental Trust through the Landfills…
How to help wildlife at school
Whether feeding the birds, or sowing a wildflower patch, setting up wildlife areas in your school makes for happier, healthier and more creative children.