Plantlife

KCCF support Plantlife with a strategic partnership grant, helping the charity to:

• Protect and restore the diversity of wild plants and fungi to enhance our countryside, towns and cities
• Connect people with nature to improve wellbeing and inspire action to save species and their habitats
• Work in partnerships so that all people and all sectors of society can contribute to tackling the climate and nature crisis we face
• Collaborate and influence on the world stage to empower societies across the globe to help protect plants and fungi

KCCF is supporting Plantlife’s Science and Impact programmes and our funds have helped secure a new role of Head of Science to improve their science and impact data collection activities across the organisation. A new Science and Impact Strategy has since been developed and is now being implemented. This will drive activities across digital data, research and evidence, monitoring and evaluation, learning and collaborative work.

A new series of webinars has been devised to connect the public to the scientific aspects of Plantlife’s work, with 350 individuals attending one on fungi, and more than 600 individuals learning about lichens. In the coming months, Plantlife will recruit a Science Intern to assist the Head of Science in their work.