About us

Wilderkind exists to accelerate rewilding in Great Britain by connecting businesses with the natural regeneration of our isles.

Our Mission

Wilderkind’s mission is to rapidly scale rewilding in Great Britain. Through employee membership, we offer businesses an impactful & transparent way to support nature recovery in their local area, whilst meaningfully engaging employees and customers with our shared journey towards nature recovery.

Less, ‘We bought 12 Tons of carbon offsets from Indonesia’, more, ‘Our team introduced beavers back to Somerset, re-wiggled this river and boosted biodiversity by 250%'.’

Why Rewilding, Why Now?

“We are facing nothing less than the collapse of the living world. The very thing which gave birth to our civilisation… To restore stability to our planet we must restore biodiversity. The very thing we’ve removed. It’s the only way out of this crisis we’ve created. We must rewild the world.”

— Sir David Attenborough, ‘A life on our planet’

Key benefits of rewilding

  • Rewilding provides crucial habitat for nature recovery. Unlike more traditional forms of conservation, which often manage the land to support a particular species, rewilding’s hands-off approach lets nature lead the way. Where rewilding has taken place, we’ve seen incredible results. But sadly less than 3% of Great Britain is protected for nature recovery.

  • Second only to the oceans, soil is the largest carbon sink on Earth, and rewilding is a highly effective way to sequester carbon. Although we do not sell carbon credits, we know that our projects have a profound impact on carbon, locked up in the soils, wetlands and peatlands.

  • Trees are highly skilled at growing without human interference (as they have been happily doing for the past 360 million years). Depending on the type of soil and seed bank, in the absence of grazers land will naturally regenerate into closed canopy forest. With introduced grazers, like long horn cattle, deer and boar, land will return to wooded pasture, with native scrub protecting trees in their first few years. This creates a far more ecologically complex and healthy ecosystem than a tree plantation, and one with far fewer costs & plastic tree guards. Another rewilding win-win.

  • With over 1,000,000 pollution events taking place in 2022, water quality in Britain is in a terrible state. To compound the problem, most rivers in GB have been straightened or altered and wetlands have been drained, which has diminished our water systems’ natural capacity to provide habitats for life, to slow floods and to retain water in times of drought. Rewilding our water systems creates habitats, filters pollution and retains water like a sponge for times of flooding and drought.

  • A study by ‘Rewilding Britain’ found that rewilding boosts local jobs by 54% in comparison to traditional land management. Rewilding is not about totally removing human influence from the landscape, its about helping the land return to its complex and unpredictable natural state. Land is so heavily altered now, that nature often needs a helping hand to get there, for example through species reintroductions. It is also important to record and study the changes in the land, something which requires a wide range of scientists and volunteers.

How we help our clients

With an increase in the number of organisations making Net Zero pledges and numerous scandals exposing shortcomings in the Global carbon offset market, Wilderkind provides a more transparent alternative for organisations looking to have a meaningful impact on their surrounding environment. Given the visual nature of rewilding and our local presence, we make it much easier to engage your customers and employees with your environmental and social values.

  • 80% of your membership fee goes directly specific project costs at our rewilding partner sites.

  • Connect your employees with the nature recovery you are supporting with a monthly newsletter and funding progress bar showing how your membership is building towards a specific upcoming project.

  • Differentiate your messaging by sharing your work with Wilderkind. We will provide you with quarterly content updates, showing the impact you’ve had, project milestones and future plans.

Meet the team

  • Nick Allport

    FOUNDER & CEO

    Nick is on a mission to recover the natural world in Great Britain, reversing biodiversity decline and rebuilding the health of our ecosystems.

    With a background leading & training sales teams, and working with companies like Google, IBM & Adobe, he believes that businesses can play a pivotal role in plugging the £6 billion funding gap necessary for protecting our ecosystems. To make this happen, we need to ensure that businesses see return from their investment in nature through improved employee experience and positive PR.

    Nick is passionate about wildlife and was compelled to change career having increasingly researched the scale of the biodiversity & climate crises. He was inspired to launch Wilderkind after visiting some of the world’s foremost rewilding projects and witnessing how even the most degraded ecosystems can flourish given the time, space and a helping hand.

    Every decision at Wilderkind is viewed with this question in mind: ‘Will it accelerate nature recovery in Britain?’

    If that purpose inspires you, get in touch and join our team!

  • Natalie Fée

    VISION & CAMPAIGN ADVISOR

    Natalie Fée is an award-winning environmentalist, author of How to Save the World for Free and Do Good, Get Paid, speaker, nature facilitator and founder of City to Sea, a UK-based organisation running campaigns and behaviour change initiatives to stop plastic pollution at source. Natalie set up City to Sea in 2015 and it's gone on to become one of the UK's leading environmental organisations combatting plastic pollution at both grassroots and government level, through award-winning campaigns such as Refill and Rethink Periods.

    In 2019 Natalie won the Sunday Times Volvo Visionaries Award for her campaign work with City to Sea, and in 2018 she was listed as one of the UK’s ‘50 New Radicals’ by The Observer / Nesta. In the same year the University of the West of England awarded her the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science in recognition of her services to the environment.

    She won the Sheila McKechnie Award for Environmental Justice in 2017 for City to Sea’s #SwitchtheStick campaign and was named Bristol 24/7’s Woman of the Year for 2018.

    Natalie brings invaluable experience to Wilderkind, particularly focused on how to drive positive environmental change at scale, and we're delighted to have her on the advisory board.

  • Wojciech Bendorf-Bundorf

    MARKETING ADVISOR

    Wojciech "Woj" Bendorf-Bundorf leads B2B marketing for Google ChromeOS, Chrome browser and Android Enterprise across EMEA.

    Over 10 years at Google, his teams contributed to building successful technology partnerships with large and SMB customers and a wide range of partners (ad agencies, OEMs, resellers, distributors, ISVs) across Google Ads, Chrome and Android. He's known for building and managing high-performing teams that deliver growth marketing programs that are grounded in customer focus, creative excellence and clear business impact.

    As part of Startups for Sustainable Development at Google, he advises entrepreneurs working on products and services that advance one or more of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

    Woj is a passionate advocate for the natural world and we’re delighted to tap into his marketing expertise to help Wilderkind reach new audiences!

  • Chris D'Agorne

    REWILDING ADVISOR

    Chris D'Agorne is the founder of How to Rewild - the UK's top rewilding advice website; and Life to Land - a new service that helps landowners understand how to deliver nature recovery on farms, fields, and in gardens.

    Chris has a BSc in Zoology and Psychology from the University of Bristol, two years of postgraduate research experience from Oxford Brookes and two years at Ecosulis - an ecological consultancy which specialises in rewilding interventions and advice. With a 3.5 acre rewilding project of their own in Somerset, Chris is 'learning by doing', and enthusiastic about testing out new techniques, from rewilding, permaculture and regenerative agriculture - dedicated to finding a holistic approach to land management which delivers both nature recovery and sustainable food production.

    Chris is advising Wilderkind on its approach to rewilding, helping us to select the most effective rewilding interventions, track progress and develop our broader strategy.

  • James Lyon

    TECHNICAL ADVISOR

    James has a background in IT, financial services, and engineering and has worked for NatWest, Lombard, Santander, Cambridge University's Institute for Manufacturing, and GKN. He has led large and small IT teams, and more recently has focussed on using data to quantify and drive the reduction of CO2 emissions.

    James has spent the last 3 years reducing CO2 emissions in financial services, transport, and logistics. During this time he has come to realise the urgency of resolving the twin challenges of climate change and biodiversity loss, and identified that this is the decade in which we have no choice but to act.

    As a result he’s decided to devote the rest of his career to working on these issues. James knows they are not going to be solved in his lifetime but the more people (and businesses) that lend a hand the sooner future generations will see the benefits of our actions.

    James is an enthusiastic innovator with a track record of successful deliveries. We are delighted to have him join the Wilderkind advisory board as we start the development of the IT solutions that will help us rapidly scale and accelerate the rate of biodiversity restoration in the UK.

  • Charlie Forshaw

    BUSINESS STRATEGY ADVISOR

    Charlie is an entrepreneur and advisor working with high-growth climate and sustainability focussed companies.

    Charlie has over a decade of experience in building and growing value generating products and services for social and environmental good by focussing on scalable business models, fundraising, and hiring high performing teams. She is known for balancing her passion for environmental benefit and focus on diversity, equity and inclusion in the teams she works with and a need for sustainable value generation and company growth.

    In her previous role, Charlie lead Arup's digital ventures team - creating a number of climate and sustainability focussed ventures focussed on carbon reduction, biodiversity, catchment area management and climate data risk. She founded her own company using IoT to keep older people safe at home for longer, worked as Chief of Staff at Bill Gates backed Mission Zero Technologies helping scale from Seed to Series A, and more recently set up tech for social good accelerator Baltic Ventures. Charlie started her career at Deloitte where she worked as a consultant and has an MBA from Cambridge University.

    Charlie’s solution focused approach makes her an invaluable part of the team, and we’re delighted to have her onboard!