Ecotalk and the RSPB

Our partnership has now ended but between 2020 and 2023, Ecotalk, the UK’s pioneering green mobile provider’s donations supported the RSPB to buy back areas of land equivalent to almost 588 rugby pitches!

We are incredibly grateful to everyone who supported the RSPB by switching their SIM card to Ecotalk. For every month you stayed a customer, Ecotalk donated 50p on your behalf.

Thanks to Ecotalk’s generous donations and promotion of the Horse Common appeal, we were able to restore natural habitats and create vital spaces for wildlife to thrive.

Once the largest colliery spoil heap in Europe, Fairburn Tips has been restored for nature and is now part of our Fairburn Ings reserve. It’s home to a fabulous array of rare wildlife, including bitterns, willow tits and spoonbills.

The reserve protects a large area of wet grassland, intertidal mud and saltmarsh in the Norfolk Broads, supporting over 85,000 wintering wildfowl and waders each year. The reserve is ideally placed for the RSPB to trial new and innovative approaches to wetland restoration.

Located in the heart of the Somerset Levels and Moors, Greylake is the perfect place to get closer to nature. Previously arable farmland, Greylake is now a haven for dazzling dragonflies, beautiful butterflies and even otters!

This blanket bog in Shetland helped us make a significant extension to the work we were already doing at our Lumbister Reserve. The West Neaps land purchase brings greater protection to nationally-important deep peat and vulnerable species like curlew, snipe and redshank.

In 2020, the RSPB and Ecotalk launched the Horse Common appeal. The call for help was promoted through the Daily Express with the help of TV presenter Chris Packham, to help us reach our fundraising goal to purchase Horse Common in the New Forest.

To help secure an incredible gift for Christmas, Dale Vince, the founder of Ecotalk, generously agreed to match fund all donations made in December 2022.

Thanks to the support of the public and Ecotalk’s match-funding, we were able to secure Horse Common and begin undertaking significant woodland restoration work to turn the commercial forestry plantation into its natural state of mixed woodland, heathland and boggy mires.