Wetland Engagement Advisory Services
About us
Our multi disciplinary team can offer a full consultancy service to help you deliver inspiring, immersive experiences for your wetland centres and wetland sites worldwide.
- We design environments and experiences that will help you tell the stories of your wetlands and their wildlife.
- We offer expert advice to help you drive deeper nature connections and raise awareness of wetlands.
- We work collaboratively with our clients to support project development and realisation.
Planning a project? Get in touch.
Our services
Delivering the best engagement experiences for your visitors.
1. Interpretation
We offer a full copy, design and illustration service for all your environmental interpretation needs.
Strategic planning
We can work with you from initial consultation, research and audience/market assessment to create a bespoke plan for your interpretation activities.
Exhibit and Experience Design
We design world class innovative and immersive exhibits and environments that feature dynamic storytelling and media.
Live interpretation
Be it live interpretation, eg animal experiences and wildlife walks, or talks and tours, we can work with you to plan and design meaningful interactions that will inspire and engage your visitors.
Signage
We can provide bespoke signage and placemaking solutions to enable your visitors to engage with your site, stories and collections.
Project management and Implementation
We offer oversight and execution of complex multi-disciplinary build processes.
2. Training
We deliver bespoke on and offsite engagement training, courses and workshops.
This can include training on CEPA (communication, capacity building, education, participation and awareness) to ensure staff have the tools they need to deliver effective wetland site management.
3. Education
We develop, design and deliver formal environmental learning and education programmes. We can develop resources for both schools and more general educational use.
We can carry out an informal review of your current environmental educational materials and offer creative ways to build on your current offering.
4. Informal Learning
We create informal learning programmes for general visitors, be they seasonal trails, holiday activities or fun games for families.
"The presentations by WWT's Wetland Engagement Advisory Service were very informative and will definitely help further participants' understanding and skills in wetland conservation and management."
Yaqin Yao, Program Coordinator
Nanjing University Ecological Research Institute of Changshu, China
Meet the team
Our team has experience drawn from their time working across WWT and its 10 wetland centres, including the globally recognised London and Slimbridge Wetland Centres, the birthplace of conservation.
Depending on your project's needs, we will bring in various experts from our WWT team to ensure the highest level of expertise and service.
Alex Hughes, Project Manager
Alex has been designing inspiring engagement experiences, learning programmes and interpretation plans for nearly a decade.
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Connor Walsh, Project Support
Connor has worked in International Engagement at WWT since 2019 and has a background in international wetland communications.
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