If you want to get started with practical conservation work, consider joining one of the active groups in your area. You might find an existing group that aligns with your interests.
We have gathered details about some of those groups below.
Contact us if you would like your group added to this list.
Group list
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 and Bracknell local group
- Theale Area Bird Conservation Group
- West Oxfordshire Farmland Bird Project
Butterflies and moths
Fungi
Geology
Mammals
- Berks and South Bucks Bat Group
- Berkshire Mammal Society
- Binfield Badger Group
- Oxfordshire Badger Group
- Oxfordshire Bat Group
- Oxfordshire Mammal Group
Plants
Veteran trees
Natural history societies
- Abingdon Naturalists' Society
- Ashmolean Natural History Society of Oxfordshire
- Bracknell Forest Natural History Society
- British Entomological and Natural History Society
- Reading and 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 and 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
- Friends 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 and 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 and Conservation Society
- Lambourn Junction Environmental Group
- Lavell's Wetland Trust
- Leafield Community Woodland
- Letcombe Brook Project
- Loddon Fisheries and 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 and 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
- Wild Cookham
- 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 (CAG)
The CAG Oxfordshire network comprises over 100 community action groups across Oxfordshire at the forefront of community-led environmental action. These groups organise events and projects to take action on various issues.
Visit the CAG Oxfordshire website where you can:
- sign up to the CAG newsletter (The Key)
- view the CAG event calendar
Regional groups
- Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust (BBOWT) Team Wilder
- Wild Oxfordshire Directory
Community and parish guide to biodiversity
Wild Oxfordshire have published this guide to help local communities conserve biodiversity in their local patch. They have produced the guide in collaboration with:
- Oxfordshire County Council
- Berks, Bucks and Oxon Wildlife Trust (BBOWT)
Community and parish guide to biodiversity (pdf format, 7.96 MB).