Radnorshire Wildlife Trust represent a community of nature lovers committed to nature’s recovery and tackling climate change. We purchased Gilfach in 1988 shortly after the organisation’s establishment, and over the last 35 years the site has been managed with nature’s restoration as its core objective. Gilfach is now our main flagship site, where wildlife flourishes in a broad variety of habitats including the high moorland and wetland pasture.

We wish to introduce a herd of native hardy ponies to graze 130 hectares of land at Gilfach, primarily it’s open hillside and wetland Rhos pasture areas. we will provide GPS collars, which act as a valuable tool in aiding the practicality of managing the herd, a method we have successfully adopted at other RWT sites. Gilfach offers good provision of grazing infrastructure, with two livestock handling areas, well maintained fences, and water troughs throughout.

Gilfach is well loved by RWT members and supporters, as well as the wider public, and has received extensive press and media coverage – it was voted one of the nation’s favourite nature reserves in a newspaper poll. There will be media and promotional opportunities should any grazier wish to engage in such activities, indeed this would be encouraged, however this is not a material consideration in the tender and the grazier is very welcome to remain anonymous.   

The right candidate will have an interest in the goals of Gilfach’s management and its broader impact on nature’s recovery, and work alongside the Trust in adapting our approach as we learn to ensure the remit of nature first is continually at the heart of all actions on site.

Please make your application by email, phone or post, explaining why you feel you are the right person / persons to be awarded the tender for the grazing at Gilfach Nature Reserve, St Harmon.

The Radnorshire Wildlife Trust is also tendering for a grazier to introduce a herd of cattle to Gilfach, if this is also of interest please request further details.

The successful applicant will be selected following an informal meeting on site.

Date applications close: 5pm, Thursday 29^th February, 2024

Grazing agreement;  31^st March 2024 – 31^st March 2025

Please make applications to: Robert Hall, 07990 913227, or robert@rwtwales.org or you can write to us at the address on the letterhead.