How It's Done

So … …

Conservation Works ~

• is not an organisation. It is a Charitable Trust with, itself, almost no overheads


• has no staff, but uses ‘Conservation Locksmiths’, specialists known to the Trustees, as its agents. The locksmith’s employer becomes a collaborator in each endeavour


• has no need for proposals, the Locksmiths bring projects they have already identified


• chooses projects that represent a ‘bigger brief ’, so each project becomes the model for a new or developing strategy, effecting conservation change exponentially


• provides training to ensure effective utilisation of every grant


• follows up projects in person, with minimal formal reporting


• evaluates the outcomes, feeding them back into a participative data bank, the ‘ Workshop’, which identifies the success and failure factors and makes them available to all


• using its independent status, works with any ‘sector’, and proactively towards cross-sector collaboration