Local Groups
Many people are collecting natural environment data in Berkshire and Oxfordshire. If you are interested in learning more, click on the links below to find out contact details for local recording/ wildlife groups and other organisations.
A guide has been produced by Oxfordshire County Council, Berks, Bucks and Oxon Wildlife Trust (BBOWT) and TVERC to help local communities conserve biodiversity in their local patch:
Community & Parish Guide to Biodiversity (PDF, 12MB)
Amphibians and Reptiles
Birds
- Banbury Ornithological Society
- Berkshire Ornithological Club
- Birds of Berkshire
- Newbury District Ornithological Club
- Oxfordshire Ornithological Society
- RSPB - Otmoor local group
- RSPB Oxford Swift City
- RSPB - Oxford local group
- RSPB - Reading local group
- RSPB - Vale of White Horse local group
- RSPB - Wokingham & Bracknell local group
- Theale Area Bird Conservation Group
- West Oxfordshire Farmland Bird Project
Butterflies and Moths
Fungi
Geology
Mammals
Plants
Veteran Trees
Natural History Societies
- Abingdon Naturalists' Society
- Ashmolean Natural History Society of Oxfordshire
- Bracknell Forest Natural History Society
- British Entomological & Natural History Society
- Reading & District Natural History Society
- West Berkshire Countryside Society
- West Oxfordshire Field Club
- Woodstock Natural History Society
Site and Parish Based Groups
- Abingdon Green Gym
- Action for the River Kennet
- Addebury Lakes
- Appleton Churchyard Project
- Aston Tirrold & Upthorpe Environment group
- Basingstoke Conservation Volunteers (BeC)
- Benson Nature Group
- Besselsleigh Wood Group, Oxfordshire
- Berkshire Conservation Volunteers
- Biodiversity Bloxham
- Blackwater Valley Countryside Trust
- Bracknell Conservation Volunteers
- Brightwell-cum-Sotwell Environment Group
- Charlbury Wildlife Society
- Chipping Norton Green Gym
- Cumnor Conservation Group
- Cuttlebrook Nature Reserve
- Deddington Environment Network
- Earley Environmental Group, Reading
- Eynsham Nature Recovery Network
- Friends of Aston's Eyot, Oxford
- Friends of Bayswater Brook
- Friends of Clayfield Copse (part of Econet)
- Friends of Daeda's Wood, Banbury
- Friends of the Emm Brook
- Frieds of Ewelme Watercress Beds
- Friends of Faringdon Folly
- Friends Of Fobney Island Wetland Nature Reserve
- Friends of Island Pond Wood
- Friends of Keephatch LNR
- Friends of Linear Park
- Friends of Lye Valley, Oxford
- Friends of Mapledurham Playing Fields (part of Econet)
- Friends of McIlroy Park (part of Econet)
- Friends of Meadow Lane Nature Park
- Friends of Milham Ford Nature Park, Oxford
- Friends of Reading Old Cemetery (part of Econet)
- Friends of Ruscombe Wood (part of Econet)
- Friends of the Trap Grounds, Oxford
- Friends of Waterloo Meadows (part of Econet)
- Friends of Watlington Hill
- Greener Henley
- Greening Chinnor
- Hagbournes & Upton Group for Sustainability
- Hampstead Marshall Wildlife
- Hinksey Heights Fens
- Holt Copse Conservation Volunteers
- Hook Norton Wildlife Group
- Hurst Water Meadow Trust, Dorchester-on-Thames
- Keep Nethercote Rural
- Kintbury Wildlife Group
- Kirtlington Wildlife & Conservation Society
- Lambourn Junction Environmental Group
- Lavell's Wetland Trust
- Leafield Community Woodland
- Letcombe Brook Project
- Loddon Fisheries & Conservation Consultative
- Lower Windrush Valley Project
- Moor Green Lakes Group, Berkshire
- Oxford Conservation Volunteers
- Oxford Urban Wildlife Group
- Radley Lakes Trust
- Reading Urban Wildlife (part of Econet)
- River Thame Conservation Trust
- Sonning Common Green Gym
- Shotover Wildlife, Oxford
- South Stoke Wildlife & Conservation Group
- Sustainable Blewbury, Didcot
- Warfield Environment Group, Berkshire
- Watlington Environment Group, Oxfordshire
- West Berkshire Countryside Society
- Wild About Kennington
- Wild About Wallingford
- Wild Bracknell
- WildCookham
- Wild Maidenhead
- Wildlife in Ascot, Berkshire
- Windsor and Maidenhead Conservation Volunteers
- Withymead Nature Reserve, Goring-on-Thames
- Witney Woodland Volunteers
- Woodcote Conservation Group
- Wychwood Forest Trust
Community Action Groups
The CAG Oxfordshire consists of over 80 groups across Oxfordshire at the forefront of community-led environmental action, organising events and projects to take action on issues including waste, transport, food, energy and biodiversity. Collectively the network runs over 4,200 events per year, attended by over 81,000 local residents. CAG Project staff offer hands-on, day to day help and advice for groups, and help the network to grow.
To find out more contact the staff team and sign up to The Key, the fortnightly newsletter for all of Oxfordshire's sustainability news, events, funding and jobs. To get involved straight away, have a look at the CAG Event Calendar.
See also the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust (BBOWT) website for information about local wildlife and the Wild Oxfordshire Directory to explore other groups and organisations across the county and how to get involved.
Please let us know if you would like your group added to this list.