Our Trust in action in 2025

The Ramble Worldwide Outdoor Trust plays a significant part in enabling greater access to the outdoors to a wide range of individuals and organisations every year. A selection of the work funded so far in 2025 is listed below, with links to how to apply for a grant at the foot of the page.

In July 2024 Ramble Worldwide Outdoor Trust generously awarded DofE Wales a grant of £4,000. 

DofE Wales have sent us their 2025 impact report detailing how this grant has helped support the provision of bursaries in respect of volunteer leader training courses such as; Lowland Leader Training, Hill and Moorland Leader Training, and more.

Every year, the Ramble Worldwide Outdoor Trust donates to emergency services in recognition of the incredible volunteers who stand ready to help—whatever the circumstances. While we hope we never need to call on them, we are proud to support the people and organisations who are always prepared to step in.

RWOT co-funded four £3000 grants to the University of York (consumables for peat core analyses such as glassware, filters, storage vessels, and chemicals), the University of Birmingham (gas flux analyser repairs), and RBG Kew (maintenance at the Thursley Common experiment), supporting long-term ecological research at sites in York, mid-Wales, Staffordshire, and Surrey.

In the Spring of 2025, Jeff Sissons, a trustee of Ramble Worldwide Outdoor Trust, caught up with the charity Happy to Chat, Happy to Listen, which works to raise awareness of mental health and suicide in Perthshire, Scotland.

One creative initiative the charity has developed is a series of Bench Trails across the local area, offering walkers a chance to pause, enjoy the scenery, and connect with others who may be sharing the bench.

Our charitable trust supported this project by funding plaques for the benches, each displaying mental health and suicide emergency helplines for anyone in need.

Compassion is a responsibility we all share. When we show care and empathy, we not only lift others up in their time of need but also strengthen the bonds that unite us as people.

Our charitable trust is privileged to provide £1,500 to The Compassionate Friends, helping to support their walks that offer comfort, understanding, empathy, and hope to bereaved parents, siblings, and grandparents who have experienced the loss of a child of any age and from any cause.

We didn’t anticipate after giving a grant to support Scotland’s wonderful marine wildlife would lead to us receiving a birthday invitation, but it’s appreciated none-the-less! 

To represent our charitable trust at this event which marks a quarter century of education, conservation, and coastal inspiration, we sent Ramble Worldwide Leader Susan Butts who has a personal connection with this great cause.

“The event at the Scottish Seabird Centre marked 25 years since its opening by King Charles (then Prince of Wales). Having lived in North Berwick at the time and worked as the local librarian, I recall supporting the Centre’s early development. It was a pleasure to reconnect with those involved and celebrate its continuing success.” – Susan Butts, Ramble Worldwide Leader