A Wilder Pentwyn Appeal

A Wilder Pentwyn Appeal

£1,728,548 of £1,500,000 goal

We have successfully raised the £1.5 million needed to secure the Pentwyn Farm site, but there is still work to do!

In 2021 Radnorshire Wildlife Trust was loaned £1.5 million by four generous individuals, to buy Pentwyn  - a 164-acre upland farm in the Welsh Marches. As of January 2024, we have paid back the land, and we can now put our full focus into restoring the site for nature.

Every penny we raise over the £1.5 million will be spent fulfilling our vision, turning Pentwyn into a place of hope for people and nature.

We have a new vision for the management and restoration of nature.

Will you help make our vision a reality?

Branch and leaves

Give £10

Help us plant 2 native broadleaf trees
Gilfach Field Fritillary

Give £50

Help us pay for 2kg of native wildflower seeds
Holly Blue butterfly

Give £100

Help us plant 50 metres of hedgerow
Meadow

Give £250

Help us sow half an acre of wildflowers
Devil's-bit Scabious

Give £500

Help us restore half an acre of wetland
Belted Galloways

Give £1,000

Help us pay for GPS collars for our herd
Pentwyn illustration

Pentwyn in 30 years... (c) Jeroen Helmer / Ark Nature

We’re appealing to people everywhere to help us secure and protect this land for the future.

- Iolo Williams, Wildlife TV Presenter and Patron of Radnorshire Wildlife Trust 

Help wildlife thrive at Pentwyn

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Our vision for Pentwyn

Imagine a landscape buzzing, chirping and crawling with wildlife. A landscape that  brings and maintains hope- hope for a better world for nature and people.

The land at Pentwyn will be transformed into a humming, buzzing and chirruping oasis where the calls of threatened birds can be heard once more. It lies beside other wild land so there is good potential to help wildlife thrive again across a wider area by expanding and connecting wild habitat.

We will allow natural habitats to grow back, creating wetlands, scrub and potentially some new woodland, as well as increasing flowering plant numbers and diversity, so that the land is better able to store carbon and help tackle the climate crisis. By restoring nature, the land will also retain more rainwater, filtering it and releasing it more slowly - helping keep the nearby River Lugg clean and healthy.

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Wilder Pentwyn Produce

Lisa and John Sture, our Market Gardeners at Pentwyn Farm, need your support to launch their business: Wilder Pentwyn Produce, and have created a crowdfunding page.

They have brilliant plans for diverse food production on the 5 acres of traditionally sheep-grazed pasture they are working on. Their intention is to develop a mixed farm of vegetables, chickens, mushrooms, microgreens, fruit and trees. They will produce vegetables and locally adapted open-pollinated seed on up to 1 hectare of land, using Permaculture, No Dig and Regenerative Farming methods. On the rest of the land, they will produce eggs from pastured hens, create a forest orchard of predominantly apples and pears, with other fruits and herbs grown alongside, and a small wild campsite.

Support their Business