Walsall Community Nature Network

The Walsall Community Nature Network is Birmingham and Black Country Wildlife Trust’s new initiative to empower grassroots organisations and community groups in Walsall to deliver small-scale, community-led activities that connect people to nature and capture local voices about how residents value, use, and wish to shape their natural spaces.

As a part of this initiative, we will be establishing a network of practice (in the form of 6 networking and skill-sharing events throughout 2026-7), alongside a ‘micro-grant’ model. This will provide meaningful growth in skills, capabilities, and capacity to deliver grassroots action to connect people with nature. The micro-grant model gives a wide variety of participants the opportunity to lead their own nature connection activity, and the means to deliver this activity amongst their neighbours and peers. This grass roots approach will deliver genuinely community-based moments of nature connection, and these connections will further benefit from the visible nature recovery activity developed within our Wild Walsall project.