We’d like to say a huge thank you to everyone who donated to our Earth Raise campaign. We were completely blown away by the generosity of our members, supporters and NBN Atlas users – together you helped us reach and exceed our target. The total amount we raised (including Gift Aid) was £21,423!
We know there’s a lot going on in the world at the moment, and understand many people are having to make difficult financial decisions, which makes your support in helping us reach our target even more fantastic. Every donation really does mean the world to us as a small charity, so we’d like to pass on our heartfelt thanks to everyone who contributed to our campaign.
What will your donation do?
As a national environmental charity focused on biodiversity data, the NBN Trust plays an essential role in sharing and safeguarding the hundreds-of-millions of UK wildlife records collected over centuries by amateur naturalists, volunteer citizen scientists, and professional ecologists. This data is crucial to understanding how our wildlife species are faring, and in planning and monitoring nature recovery projects.
As many of you will know, we develop and host the free-to-access NBN Atlas biodiversity data portal, which contains over 335 million species occurrence records. As a small charity supporting the entire UK wildlife conservation sector, our priorities of ensuring the stability, security and public accessibility of the NBN Atlas go hand in hand with providing direct support to our partners, so that vital data continues to flow into the platform. Your donation will help us to do all of this. Thank you.
How else you can get involved
If you’d like to stay in touch or do more to support our work, here are a few ways you can do just that.
Sign up to Network News, our month e-newsletter
If you’d like to find out more about our work, please sign up to our monthly newsletter. It’s packed full of information, not only from the NBN Trust, but also from the 100s of environmental and conservation related organisations which are part of the Network.
Become an NBN Trust Member
If you’re a regular NBN Atlas user or would like to support our wider work promoting wildlife recording and running the National Biodiversity Network, please consider individual or organisational membership of the NBN Trust. You can read about the benefits of membership here, or get in touch to find out about our corporate memberships and partnerships.
Nominate someone for an NBN Award for Wildlife Recording
If you’re involved in wildlife recording, or know people who are, consider nominating someone for an NBN Award for Wildlife Recording. Hearing amazing stories from the unsung heroes who have dedicated their life to recording or verifying records, as well as those who are just starting out, is one of the highlights of the NBN year. You can find out more and make a nomination here (deadline for nominations is 18 May).
Donate via our website!
Finally, if you missed our Earth Raise fundraising campaign and weren’t able to donate before it ended, then we’d love it if you would consider supporting our work, including the NBN Atlas, by making a donation. Every £1 donated will go towards supporting our mission of “making data work for nature”. Thank you for anything you can give!
Thank you once again to everyone that supported our NBN Atlas Earth Raise campaign, and please do stay in touch to hear updates about work.