A crowdfunding appeal linked to Sir David Attenborough’s Wild Isles TV series is raising money for three wildlife projects in Worcestershire.

Inspired by the BBC series, a £1m Save Our Wild Isles Community Fund has been set up by Aviva, WWF and the RSPB.

The fund allows community groups to crowdfund for their projects on its website and will match-fund donations, with Aviva giving £2 for every £1 raised.

The Worcester and Malvern RSPB Local Group has three projects featured on the crowdfunding platform.

‘Hallow Fields’ sees the group working with Malvern Hills District Council to restore 45 acres of farmland to nature-rich grassland, orchards, marsh and woodland.

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The second project is ‘Farmland bird ark’, which involves helping farmland birds through the winter by growing and studying a birdseed crop alongside the University of Worcester, and feeding one of the last remaining flocks of Corn Buntings near Evesham.

The local RSPB group is also crowdfunding for ‘Brilliant Bird boxes’, a project to provide and install nest boxes to help swifts and barn owls, as well as nest boxes with cameras in schools to inspire children by giving them a unique view of the family life of garden birds.

You can contribute to any of these conservation projects online - search ‘Worcester and Malvern RSPB Local Group’ and you’ll find links to the fundraiser.

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Or follow one of these links: 

www.avivacommunityfund.co.uk/p/hallow-fields

www.avivacommunityfund.co.uk/p/farmland-bird-ark

www.avivacommunityfund.co.uk/p/brilliant-bird-boxes

The appeal ends on May 11 and every donation is tripled, so if you donate £5, it’ll become £15.

“Over 40 members of our local group are involved with conservation projects, which usually means working with other organisations but often project work is inspired by our group members,” said the group’s Simon Evans. “We welcome everyone with an interest in birds.”

The RSPB group works with Worcester City Council on some of its green spaces, with the Canal and Rivers Trust, mainly on Diglis, Bevere and Holt ‘lock islands’, with Heart of England Forest on land near Naunton Beauchamp and with the Wildgoose Care Farm near Grimley, who work with people with learning difficulties.