Legacy Landscape Sponsorship Sites
Whether you're celebrating a life or a death, an event or an occasion a legacy landscape plot is a gift that endures. Your tribute will serve as a lasting memorial that can be revisited repeatedly, and benefits local wildlife too. You have the opportunity to make a dedication in various carefully chosen sites in Kent, enabling you to select a location that holds special significance. Each area is dedicated only once, ensuring that your tribute is truly one-of-a-kind and long lasting.
Click on your chosen reserve below to select your plot and begin your dedication...
Lydden Temple Ewell
Lydden Temple Ewell is situated on the outskirts of Dover. The sweeping steep slopes of the reserve are home to ancient semi-natural chalk grasslands, which support an abundance of insects, land snails, orchids and birds. The reserve is an oasis for Kent’s butterflies, with over 20 butterfly species having been recorded in recent years.
Kent is fortunate to boast 5% of the UK’s chalk grassland, a habitat of international importance to nature. This rich habitat is now very rare and fragmented, largely due to changes in traditional agricultural practices which historically ensured that grasslands were grazed at a low intensity. When managed in a wildlife-friendly manner, chalk grassland can host as many as 40 plant species per square metre. Many of the plants and animals that occur within these grasslands are endemic to them, meaning that the loss of this habitat has resulted in the decline of a concerning number of specialist species. To lose Britain’s chalk grasslands is to lose a whole host of plants and animals that simply cannot survive elsewhere.
By sponsoring a quarter acre or more of Lydden Temple Ewell, you can become a champion for chalk grassland and every species that relies on its survival.
Marden Meadows
Nestled between Marden and Staplehurst, this idyllic reserve boasts one of the best remaining examples of unimproved hay meadows in Kent. Several ponds and fields are bordered by mature hedgerows, providing the perfect habitat for yellow hammers, swallows, reed warblers and skylarks. A complex diversity of plants can be found at Marden Meadows, including orchids, daisies, vetches and wild grasses. This rich natural heritage enables the reserve to act as a key donor meadow site for the Coronation Meadows Project, providing invaluable meadow seed to local restoration projects.
97% of British meadows have been lost in the last 75 years. Your support will help us to protect this precious, rare habitat, securing a safe space for wildflowers to bloom for years to come.
Brenchley Wood
Brenchley Wood in Pembury is home to majestic beech and oak trees and pockets of heathland habitat. These areas of heath represent a rare habitat for Kent; over 80% of British lowland heath has been lost since 1800, so it is vital that we afford this unique habitat the protection it deserves.
The rich woodland at Brenchley Wood provides food and shelter to hundreds of plants and animals, including familiar woodland birds such as woodpeckers, tits, treecreepers and goldcrests. Mature oak trees support an array of beetles and fungi, and sunny rides attract colourful red admirals and peacock butterflies.
Woodlands cover a mere 2.5% of the UK. It is crucial that we do everything we can to protect the invaluable woodlands that we have left. Please help us to ensure that Brenchley Wood remains a part of Kent’s wild legacy by sponsoring a quarter acre or more today.