The team, usually based at the much loved Attenborough Nature Centre, has been unable to operate the café and shop at the centre due to the lockdown restrictions; resulting in a significant drop in income for the Wildlife Trust and visitors being unable to stock up on products such as wild bird seed and feeders.

Spring is usually an extremely busy time in the centre’s shop with customers replenishing supplies as the birds in their gardens enter the busy and all-important breeding season. Now, in an effort to help ensure that customers can provide food for garden birds and continue to connect with nature from the safety of their own homes, the trading team has introduced a temporary home delivery service for a range of bird food and feeders.

Speaking about the initiative Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust Trading’s Dr Ed Tripp said:

Last week the charity began taking orders for local deliveries, initially in the NG9 area close to Attenborough Nature Centre, and has been heartened by the response - with over a ¼ tonne of seed delivered in just a few days, plus hundreds of fat balls and thousands of mealworms – all ideally timed to help adult birds busy rearing chicks.

Ed continued:

The charity is looking to expand the areas covered by the delivery service, which observes full social distancing guidelines, in the weeks ahead whilst also planning for when the team can once again welcome visitors back to the nature centre.

Ed explained:

Orders can be placed online via the web shop.

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