The Badger Trust Design Challenge is back. We are inviting you to create amazing new designs to be sold in our Badger Trust X Teemill shop!
This year, designers will be offered the choice of entering four categories.
We’re looking for creative, eye-catching designs that capture the spirit of our beloved badgers. There will be four winners in total, one from each category, where we'll feature the winning designs on our official merchandise, which will be sold to raise funds to support our work protecting these wonderful creatures and their habitats.
As a thank-you, winners will receive a special hoodie or t-shirt featuring their very own design - a unique way to showcase your talent and support a great cause.
We welcome everyone to take part whether you’re a professional or, like some of us, you haven’t graduated from stick people.
How to live in harmony with badgers
Whilst badgers are one of the most persecuted native species in Britain, the good news is that there is space for badgers and humans to live sustainably, side by side.
Watch the Secret Life of Badgers video and find free badger educational resources here
Educate the next generation of badger protectors
Our hard-hitting short film, ‘Stopping Badger Crime’, aims to raise public awareness of crimes against badgers and encourage reporting
WARNING: contains distressing content
Badgers are a key part of maintaining healthy, balanced ecosystems. Often unseen and unheard, they wander quietly into gardens at night, feeding on the earthworms, grubs, snails and slugs they find in lawns and borders.
Learn how to live with your new garden visitors, discover why badgers may be visiting your garden, what to do if badgers dig up your lawn, and where you can get more advice.
Whether you buy a gift for yourself or your loved ones, from our exclusive charity calendar and cards, to badgery gifts or warm winter hats, there's something for everyone. 100% of the profits support badgers.
All the products in our shop are designed in the UK by local artists and artisans so – like us – you’re supporting British talent as well as one of the UK's most recognised and popular native mammals.
Badgers follow ancestral pathways to feed and socialise. The rapid rise of property and road development across England and Wales means that new roads and ancient paths can meet, leading to significant risks for badgers.
Slow down. Ensure you're driving within the speed limit and be alert to wildlife, especially on countryside roads around dawn and dusk.
Report. If the worst happens, please report a dead badger at the roadside to us. If it's safe, please check on the badger to confirm it’s dead. If the badger is alive, urgently contact your local badger group*, wildlife rescue or vet. *Use our Badger Groups Map or google your county/town and 'badger group'.
Save lives. Share these tips with the drivers in your clan to raise awareness and keep people and wildlife safe on our roads.
Our extensive new report shows a collaborative way forward on bTB control that ends the distracting, destructive, costly badger cull.
Supported by a commentary from eminent scientist and expert Professor David Macdonald, our report sets out clear and evidence-based recommendations for tackling the disease together and protecting our natural world.
Download a PDF of the full 130-page report Tackling Bovine TB Together
Download a PDF of Prof. David Macdonald's Commentary on Current Policy
Badger setts across England sit empty for the first time in history.
Culling spells disaster for badgers, a native protected species. And fears grow as government kill figures revealed the badger cull has claimed up to half of Britain's estimated population.
Badger Trust’s wish for badgers is simple – to see badgers thrive in the place they have called home for 250,000 years.
Our campaign film highlights what England's national wildlife heritage could lose if the cull continues. For badgers to thrive, the controversial and unscientific badger cull must end now.
Any gift you can make will help us support badgers.
A collaboration between Badger Trust and Binfield Badger Group with teacher notes and KS1 and KS2 pupil worksheets
Our educational film is a great place for your cubs to start learning about badgers.
Packed with real-life footage of badgers and clear, bright infographics, this 12-minute film is narrated by zoologist and wildlife presenter Billy Heaney.
It's mainly suitable for primary school-aged cubs, but you've told us it's a great watch for anyone who wants to learn more about these secretive native animals!
Visit the Education hub for more FREE educational resources and fun activities for KS1, KS2 and KS3 learners.
