Junior membership
Wildlife Watch is the junior branch for The Wildlife Trusts, the club for all animal fans, nature nuts and young environmentalists. You will receive a special starter pack as soon as you join.
Wildlife Watch Members receive 6 mailings a year filled with wildlife stories, details of family events, activities and things you can do at home or at school.
Check out the main Wildlife Watch website for more! Call us on 01622 662012 to find out more.
What you will get
A starter pack containing:
- Watchword magazine,
- Wildlife Extra poster
- "Watchout" - Kent Wildlife Trusts junior newsletter
- Wildlife Watch badges
- Membership card
- 'Ready for Action' guide to Wildlife Watching
- Information about the awards programme
- Watchword magazine or
- Wildlife Extra posters
Call us on 01622 662012 to find out more.
Gold award
The Gold Award is designed for nature nuts of 8 years and above. The award scheme comprises eight challenges designed to encourage members aged eight and over to explore and protect their enviornment, whilst offering plenty of scope for individual choice and ability.
As a member of Wildlife Watch there are loads of ways for your child to follow and develop their interests in wildlife and the environment and the Gold Award is here to encourage and reward them.
Starlet award
Watch Starlet Award enables younger members aged five and over to learn more about wildlife, with opportunity to complete a whole range of exciting activities.
Once your child reaches their eighth birthday as a member of Wildlife Watch they can move onto the Gold Award with further projects and activities to encourage and reward them for their achievements.
Adults info
Wildlif Watch aims to encourage children to engage in their environment and the issues affecting it. The principles which underpin all Watch activity:
- increasing understanding of our whole environment
- help you celebrate the environment with your child.
- fostering awareness and feeling for the world we live in encouraging a caring attitude towards wildlife and participation in conservation
- creating factual, informal, fun ways to investigate our surroundings
- ensuring that young people’s environmental concerns, ideas and opinions are recognised and developed, and opportunities are created to act upon them.
- improve your childs skills and understanding.
- give your child the opportunity to become a wildlife champion.
Wildlife Watch Groups
Across
the UK thousands of adult volunteers are dedicated to running Wildlife
Watch groups where children can meet and enjoy exploring their
environment. Going regularly to a group, along with their peers,
enables young people to have lots of fun and make new friends whilst
they develop real understanding and commitment.
Watch groups give children opportunities to discover local wildlife and get stuck into practical activities likely to encompass anything from environmental artwork and waste recycling, to barn owl surveys, pond dipping and wild flower fun days. All groups operate within a monitored framework of child welfare and safety and all Watch leaders undergo a thorough recruitment process to check their suitablity to work with young people.
Simple support material is available to parents and guardians of children active in Watch:
Gold Award Information
Starlet Award Information
