Natural Environment: Lending Library

In order to conserve nature, we need to know what is around us and how it is changing. Field identification is key to this.

To help enable the brilliant wildlife community groups, the Borough have purchased some new field monitoring equipment. This is called the Equipment Lending Library and is stored at Braywick Nature Centre.

Fill in this form to register interest for borrowing any equipment.

The equipment is free to borrow for Borough residents, to complete their own surveys of local nature. Once surveyed, please fill in the following form and upload your results to a national monitoring scheme (we will provide more info on this) to ensure the data collected helps conserve our wildlife! This will also help us to complete the targets set in our Biodiversity Action Plan.

Check out the image of just some of the equipment on offer and see the full list written in the documents tab on the right.

We do ask borrowing groups to be responsible for their own safety and returning the equipment in good condition.

Collection times from Braywick Nature Centre:

We hope you enjoy finding more about the wildlife in your local Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead. Please note equipment is intended for residents of RBWM. If you live outside the Borough you will not have priority but you may still be able to borrow. Please note if you live outside of Berkshire or Oxfordshire, your results shouldn't be sent to TVERC but should be sent to your local Records Centre - find this here.