North West Environment Link

NWEL logoNorth West Environment Link (NWEL) is a partnership of environmental voluntary organisations representing over 1 million people in the North West. 

 

Latest news from NWEL:

 

NWEL's  objectives are:

  • To ensure that environmental issues are taken seriously in regional decision making
  • To provide a collective, strategic environmental perspective on major regional policy initiatives, programmes and projects
  • To raise awareness of environmental issues among key regional decision makers
  • To enable environmental Non-Governmental Organisations to develop consensus on major regional environmental issues.

 

NWEL's membership represents key environmental players from the voluntary and community sector in the North West:
 
British Trust for Conservation Volunteers (BTCV)
Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE)
NW Association of Civic Trust Societies
Cheshire Wildlife Trust
Cumbria Wildlife Trust
Landlife
Mersey Basin Trust
Mersey Environmental Trust
North West Transport Activists Roundtable
The National Trust
The Ramblers Association
Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB)
Voluntary Sector North West
Wildlife Trust for Lancashire, Manchester & North Merseyside
Woodland Trust
World Wide Fund for Nature
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

And includes, as associate members, the following key agencies:  

The Environment Agency
Natural England
English Heritage
ENCAMS (Keep Britain Tidy)
 
 
Member activities
Collectively NWEL members: 
  • Engage volunteers
  • Run campaigns
  • Provide life long learning activities and educational programmes
  • Provide training to long term unemployed
  • Support local communities in rural and urban areas
  • Employ a significant number of people in the environmental sector
  • Own and manage some of the finest land for biodiversity, heritage, landscape and community engagement.
Contact 
For more information contact:

 

Peter Wilson
Regional Co-ordinator, NWEL
Tel: 0151 924 2981

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