How It Works

Conservation Works puts conservation and conservation workers first, while recognising that the outcome from every conservation battle can help to inform the conservation war.

Conservation Works ~

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


• has no staff, but uses conservation specialists to prepare and apply the grants. The specialist’s employer becomes a collaborator.


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


• chooses projects that represent a wider implication for conservation, so each project becomes the model for a new or improved strategy.


• 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