Who we are
A small Dorset charity with muddy boots and a big map of the county.
Our story
Started in a field, still in a field
Rewild Dorset began with a handful of neighbours clearing scrub on a borrowed patch of pasture, convinced that Dorset's wildlife didn't need saving so much as room to come back. We're still that kind of organisation — practical first, funded entirely by donations, and run by people who'd rather be hedgelaying than sat in meetings.
Today we work across the county, restoring habitats and stitching them together so hedgehogs, butterflies and barn owls can actually move between them. No experience is ever needed to join us. Just boots you don't mind getting wet.
How a habitat comes back
Everything we value is visible in the way land recovers when you give it a chance.
Step back
We start by doing less — letting scrub, seed banks and soil show us what the land wants to be.
Lend a hand
Volunteer days add what nature can't do quickly: ponds dug, hedges laid, invasive species cleared.
Join it up
We work with landowners so one good field becomes a corridor, not an island.
Watch it thrive
Then we record what returns — and share every result openly, because the evidence belongs to everyone.