One-time
A gift when you feel like it
The simplest thing. Give once, at whatever moment moves you — after a walk, at the end of a year, or in someone's memory.
Support the land
An acre needs a decade
Buying a bank of willow is cheap. Keeping the grass off it for ten years is not. Gifts to the trust pay for the unglamorous, unfinishable part of conservation — the tending, the monitoring and the annual walk that makes an agreement worth the paper.
Why it matters
The expensive part comes after the photograph
Almost every grant we receive pays for a project: a planting, a logjam, a fence. Very few of them pay for what happens next. But a planted bank that nobody weeds is a field of reed canarygrass in three summers, and an agreement that nobody walks is a filing cabinet entry.
Unrestricted gifts are what let us keep showing up. They pay for the summer weeding rounds, the annual monitoring visit on every property we hold, the fuel to get up a gravel road in February, and the staff time to sit at a kitchen table for as many evenings as a family needs.
Ways to give
Choose the shape that suits you
Every one of these goes to the same place. The difference is only in how the money arrives and what it lets us plan for.
Monthly
The tending fund
A monthly gift is the one we quietly hope for. It is what lets us promise a landowner that we will still be weeding their bank in a decade.
Annual, directed
Adopt a reach
Choose a valley or a particular creek and put your giving behind it. We will send you that reach's notes each year, mud and all.
Legacy
Leave it in your will
A bequest, a beneficiary designation, or land itself. The longest-lasting gifts we receive arrive this way, and they are worth a conversation first.
Monthly giving
The gift that matches how the work behaves
Conservation runs on a decade clock and most funding runs on a twelve-month one. Monthly donors are how we bridge that. A steady, unspectacular amount arriving every month is what allows us to say yes to a project whose weeding obligation runs past the end of the grant that built it.
You can stop it whenever you like, and nobody will telephone you about it.
Other ways
Not everything arrives as a card payment
A cheque in the post
Made out to the trust and sent to the office on North Forest Street. We still prefer this one, and we still write back by hand.
Employer matching
Many employers will match a gift, and some will match volunteer hours as well. Ask your human resources team and send us the form.
Stock and donor-advised funds
Both are straightforward and both are welcome. Ask your adviser to contact the office and we will send the details they need.
Gifts in kind
Native plant stock, a truckload of mulch, a day with a mini-excavator and an operator who knows how to use it. Ask us what we are short of.
The trust is a registered nonprofit, and donations may be tax-deductible where allowed by law. Ask the office and we will send a written acknowledgement for your records; your own tax adviser is the right person to tell you what it means for your return.
From a supporter
“I give monthly because I walked a reach they planted before I moved here, and somebody I will never meet paid for the shade I was standing in.”
Priya Raghunathan · Bellingham
Support the land
What we protect now is what remains.
Give once, give monthly, or write to us about something larger. However it arrives, it ends up in the same place: boots on a bank in February.