"Do you like nature and the outdoors?"

Matt and I have always loved going on walks.

It's where we spend most of our time chatting, arguing, taking photos and just hanging out. The problem is I'm terrible at picking walks, like truly terrible. The walks I would pick were either too short, FAR too ambitious, complicated, boring, far away, not taking account of the weather... and all of this was before a baby came along. I have tried to use blogs and would recommend searching 'miles without stiles' and the National Trusts recommended walks if you are similar to me and a bit clueless when it comes to finding good walks. 

Just by chance today, whilst leaving Booths we were stopped by a Local Volunteer for Wildlife Trust - an organisation I had never heard of before, she asked us a question and we found that we couldn't say no to it and so I ask you.

"Do you like nature and the outdoors?"

With that we were hooked, she was incredibly knowledgeable and friendly and also not too pushy (some volunteers are a bit sales-y looking at you Cats Protection). 
We ended up signing up for a membership - which I recommend you do here and if you keep reading I will tell you why we signed up and you should too.

1. Most important to us, unfortunately at the moment, the membership donation is whatever you want to set it to. They recommend a minimum of £3, we went a bit higher and with the aim of upping it even further when we have the funds freed up.
2. The walks are exactly the type of walks we want to go on - lots of wildlife, lots of nature and not as many people/tourists. We also love the idea of the areas not being signposted, without car parks and some of the walks being access only.
3. They are tackling climate change, in an incredibly positive way. I'm used to hearing all doom and gloom but with Wildlife Trust it was very optimistic and hopeful. Read more here and here
4. The amount of family friendly activities that are on (which is very exciting with Robin) for babies and for toddlers. They also have a lovely child orientated website and group called Wildlife Watch
5. David Attenborough is the President Emeritus and has said this about it (enough said)
6. The sixth and most mind-blowing for me; they're the ones who actually look after the Red Squirrels in Formby. (This is going to be a blog-post for another day)

Wildlife Trust is a grass-roots organisation they look after more than 2,300 nature reserves, covering 98,500 hectares, and operate more than 100 visitor and education centres in every part of the UK, on Alderney and the Isles of Man.

There are forty-six individual Wildlife Trusts, each of which was formed by groups of active and motivated people getting together to make a positive difference to wildlife and future generations, starting where they live and work.

Follow them here on
wildlife trusts - twitter