Our support
Recommended by his solicitor, he opened a Charity Account, which he says has “made gifting convenient, easy and flexible, with CAF claiming Gift Aid and so increasing the impact of my donations.”
Building on her relationship with staff at the Kent Wildlife Trust, he has used his account to support them in her memory and is now seeing the exciting direct and growing impact of his donations, as nature returns and wilding gradually takes over, increasing biodiversity and hopefully reducing the impact of climate change.
“My Private Client Manager is helpful, available, supportive and positively interested in helping me to achieve my charitable objectives and also in the charities themselves, as well as willing to offer advice when required. Requesting to make donations is straightforward, while CAF are thorough in the actual process of transferring donations,” he told us.
“I believe that our support, with assistance from CAF, will create the lasting positive impacts my wife wanted for nature.”
The impact
Not only is the UK one of the world’s most nature-depleted countries, Kent is one of the most threatened counties in the UK, according to Jane Ayres, Head of Grants & Partnership Development at Kent Wildlife Trust.
In addition to extensive urban development and polluting lorry queues at Dover, the county is often the first to see invasive pests and diseases such as ash dieback. It is also forecast to see temperature rises of 3-4°C compared to 1.5°C for the rest of the UK, meaning it simply won’t be the right climate for oak trees to grow in Kent in ten years’ time.
Driven by the urgency of seeing the effects of climate change, including feeding into the nature crisis, Kent Wildlife Trust’s mission is to create a wilder Kent, to benefit nature and people. They are looking to the future and running ground-breaking projects to help adapt to the changing environment.
One such programme is the introduction of bison at the Blean woods. What bison can do at scale and speed is far more efficient and productive for nature than any human intervention; thinning out the woodland to let light in and encourage new growth, and in turn making species more resilient, spreading mobile species such as pollinators into neighbouring sites, reducing pollution and benefitting the people in nearby Canterbury even before they get out into the woodland.