Avon Wildlife Trust was founded in 1980 as a charity to safeguard Avon’s precious green spaces and was Britain’s first urban wildlife trust, focusing on people and wildlife habitats in Bristol, Bath and other urban areas across the region. Since then our work has extended to urban and rural areas across the West of England. We continue to champion urban wildlife, promote landscape-scale conservation, manage nature reserves, stand up for wildlife against inappropriate development and other threats, work to influence decision-makers locally and nationally to put nature and wildlife at the heart of policy and we inspire people of all ages to connect with nature in their everyday lives.