Help fund the gap

Join our campaign to help restore Cornish hedges.

By helping us fund the gap your business helps restore nature, preserve heritage skills and rebuild the habitat corridors wildlife urgently needs, all while safeguarding an iconic part of Cornwall’s identity.

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Detail of back of Drolla - The Storytelling Bench showing Cornish Hedge
James Innerdale Bodmin Moor artist illustration

More than one kind of impact

Supporting wildlife, heritage craft, climate resilience and Cornwall’s living landscape.

Wildlife needs connected habitats

New Cornish hedges rebuild safe corridors that wildlife depends on to move, feed and survive.

Hedges make Cornwall, Cornwall

Cornish hedges carry centuries of history. Your support helps protect a defining part of Cornwall’s identity.

A craft at risk without real projects

Cornish hedge building is a centuries-old craft. Your support helps keep this rare skill alive.

Grow Cornwall’s climate resilience

Cornish hedges slow runoff, protect soils and store carbon. Your support helps build stronger, more climate-resilient landscapes.

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Choose how your business gets involved from supporting hedge restoration to hands-on experiences and education.

Every hedge tier includes our annual Business Supporter membership, connecting your business with a wider community supporting Cornwall’s protected landscape.

Explore three ways your business can get involved

Hedge Seed

Help seed the future and support the collective restoration of Cornwall’s ghost hedges

Includes:

  • Annual Business Supporter membership.
  • Campaign updates.
  • Recognition of your contribution to the shared campaign.

Hedge Builder

You’ll help educate young people about the Cornish hedge, developing skills and helping to safeguard the endangered craft.

Includes:

  • All Hedge Guardian benefits.
  • Annual Business Supporter membership.
  • An on-site “Hedge in a Box” workshop, with opportunities to help build an actual section of hedge, subject to timing and availability.
  • Support for the campaign’s Cornish hedge education work with schools.

Hedge guardian

Support restoration and connect with the protected landscape through a hands-on experience facilitated by Cornwall Landscape Trust.

Includes:

  • All Hedge Seed benefits.
  • Annual Business Supporter membership.
  • A “Hedge in a Box” workshop to experience the craft of Cornish hedging.

Business Supporter membership

Interested in supporting the bigger picture across Cornwall National Landscape? Business Supporter membership is also available beyond the hedge campaign. Get in touch to find out more.

  • A welcome meeting with a Trustee at your premises, with an opportunity to discuss sustainability and take photographs for your online channels.
  • A business profile on the Business Supporters page, including a link to your website.
  • A personalised certificate to display at your premises.
  • Social media thank-you’s when we highlight grants awarded: “Your support makes this happen.”
  • An Annual Impact Report.
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Included in every tier

  • Every hedge tier includes annual Business Supporter membership, bringing your business into a collective supporting people, place, nature and climate across Cornwall National landscape.

  • Membership helps enable the Cornwall Landscape Grant, supporting local organisations and individuals to do good things in their communities. It also supports our team in putting plans into action across the 12 Sections of the Cornwall National Landscape.

The Power of the Cornish Hedge

Part wall, part living habitat, Cornish hedges are one of Cornwall’s most defining features. They protect wildlife, preserve rare craftsmanship, store carbon, and hold centuries of cultural identity. Funding new hedges creates visible change that lasts for generations.

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More wildlife movement
40%
Pollinator increase
2x
Skilled hedgers
30
Less soil erosion
50%
Species supported
1,500+
Miles of Cornish hedges
3,699

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Do good. Show it. Prove it.

Why B Corps back this project

Discover how supporting this work delivers measurable impact across key B Corp areas, from nature recovery and climate resilience to community benefit.

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The hedgehog

Small, vulnerable & disappearing fast.

Across the UK, hedgehog numbers have fallen sharply as their habitats become fragmented. In Cornwall, restoring hedges is one of the simplest ways to give them space to move, feed and thrive again.

Your support helps reconnect the landscape and gives hedgehogs a fighting chance.

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Create safe routes through the landscape

Cornish hedges act as wildlife corridors, letting hedgehogs move between feeding and nesting areas without crossing exposed ground.

Restore real habitat, not just planting schemes

A traditional Cornish hedge supports insects, plants and shelter year round. It is a living structure, not a temporary fix.

Protect a species close to home

Hedgehogs are part of Cornwall’s everyday wildlife. Funding hedges helps safeguard them locally, where the impact is visible and lasting.

Not a Business?

Everyone can make a difference

If you’re not a business, you can still support the Cornwall Landscape and the hedgehogs with a small monthly donation, or volunteer locally.

Volunteer CNL Trust

A perfect fit for B Corp

Cornish hedge funding delivers exactly the kind of nature-positive, place-based action B Corps are expected to champion. It supports two of the strongest, highest-value areas of the B Impact Assessment: Environment and Community.

This makes it one of the simplest, most defensible ways for your business to demonstrate real, locally delivered impact.

  • It’s place-based, evidence-based, and locally delivered
  • It supports two of the most heavily weighted B Impact categories
  • It provides your business with a transparent, meaningful impact story
  • It’s easy to record, report and communicate at recertification
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Climate

Environment

A nature positive investment.

  • Restores biodiversity corridors used by hedgehogs, birds, insects and small mammals

  • Strengthens soil structure and slows erosion

  • Supports carbon retention in hedge banks and vegetation

  • Tangible restoration project that connects your business’s values with Cornwalls landscape

People

Community

Direct support for local heritage skills and rural livelihoods.

  • Funds work carried out by specialist hedge builders

  • Helps protect a 1,000-year-old heritage craft with very few remaining practitioners

  • Circulates investment into Cornwall’s rural communities

  • Strengthens a cultural landscape businesses and residents benefit from

Be The First

Every movement starts with a first step

Turn purpose into visible impact in Cornwall

Lead the way

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Tell us a little about your business and what interests you. We’ll talk through the options and help you find the right way to get involved.

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Your support can help us fund the gap

Together, we can reconnect the landscape and protect the heritage skills behind a Cornish tradition stretching back more than 3,500 years. Create a lasting legacy for nature, communities and future generations.

  • Help wildlife move between places where it can feed and shelter.

  • Helps shelter livestock and crops and retain soil, supporting farmers

  • Supports rare heritage skills and craft

  • Delivers visible, lasting change

  • Provide flood resilience by slowing surface water run off

  • Strengthen community connections

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If your organisation would like more information about hedge funding or wider partnerships, complete the short form below. We’ll follow up with tailored guidance and options.

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Submitting your pledge helps us plan future hedge projects. We’ll contact you to arrange next steps and funding options.

Funding a stretch of new hedge was one of the simplest, most meaningful things we’ve done as a B Corp. It felt good to invest in our community and see the impact take shape in the landscape rather than hiding in a spreadsheet.

Tom Reeves, Co-Founder
Kestrel Creative