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NBN Trust Strategic Plans – Update
At its May 2026 Board meeting, the NBN Trustees agreed to extend the current NBN Trust Strategy 2022-2027 to April 2028. This gives the Trust time to engage properly with members, data providers, funders, and users, and to develop the next strategy on stronger evidence.
It also approved the Trust’s Business Plan for 2026 – 2027 which outlines our priorities for the year ahead and the direction of travel as we prepare for the next phase of the Trust’s development.
A vision for the next phase
Our mission remains unchanged: to make data work for nature. As biodiversity data grows in both volume and importance, and as technologies such as AI continue to evolve, we must ensure that the Trust is well placed to provide lasting value to the biodiversity data community.
Our ambition is to help biodiversity data flow more effectively across the UK, strengthening trust, quality and connectivity to better support nature recovery. This includes continuing to develop the NBN Atlas, advancing the NBN Record Manager, supporting data providers and users, and helping biodiversity evidence inform decisions more effectively.
The year ahead: Stabilisation and strategy readiness
The period 2026 – 2027 will focus on strengthening foundations and confidence, protecting core services, progressing funding opportunities and preparing for a full strategy development process from April 2027. The extension of the current Strategy to April 2028 will allow us the time needed to gather evidence, engage stakeholders and build a robust future strategy.
Read the full news update on the Trust’s Strategic Plans.
Historic information relating to the Strategy 2022 – 2027
The NBN Trust published its 2022 – 2027 strategy – “Making data work for nature” – on 4 May 2022.
Our vision is of nature thriving everywhere, in all its diversity. We passionately believe that, together, we can reverse the biodiversity crisis. That’s why partnership is central to our mission. Working with our National Biodiversity Network – the UK’s largest partnership for nature – we create a vast flow of data carrying the evidence needed to protect and restore biodiversity, and the stories to inspire wonder and commitment.
The new strategy takes us into the NBN Trust’s third decade and celebrates the fifth anniversary of the launch of the NBN Atlas, one of the world’s largest databases of publicly available biodiversity data and the UK’s biodiversity data infrastructure. With more than 385 million records of over 51,000 UK species, the NBN Atlas is at the heart of the data flow for nature’s recovery and is a vital resource for those who wish to understand and protect nature.
We have only a few years to bring about the changes that are needed to address the biodiversity crisis in the UK. The NBN Trust’s new strategy sets out our ambitions and our commitment to helping make this happen.