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An environmental mitigation company
We are one of very few companies that can deliver bespoke mitigation across sectors and regulations, with a track record for government and major infrastructure.
- Position
- Second-largest private supplier in England
- Projects
- 25+ across England
- Capital
- £56.5m for land and habitat
- Credit rating
- Very Low Risk, international score A
Trusted by organisations that cannot afford a scheme to fail, across government, defence, health, water, energy, transport, technology and logistics.
Why Wild Capital exists
Wild Capital was founded in 2023 to address a recurring cause of planning delay. Biodiversity, nutrient and protected species requirements were holding up consents, and no single provider combined the capital, ecological expertise and land needed to secure the mitigation in advance.
We own freehold land, create and register habitat, and supply credits to developers who cannot comply on site. We also take on long-term management for developers who don’t want to steward habitat themselves.
Unusually for our scale, we own the freehold to every scheme, backed by independently managed endowments and secured by conservation covenants or planning obligations.
What we mitigate
- Biodiversity net gain
- Area, hedgerow and watercourse units, registered with Natural England.
- Nutrient and water neutrality
- Phosphorus and nitrogen credits for sensitive catchments, from constructed wetland and habitat creation.
- Protected species
- European protected species and priority species, including dormouse, great crested newt and Brent goose.
- Habitat Regulations
- Compensation and mitigation for schemes affecting designated European sites.
- SANG
- Suitable alternative natural greenspace for Thames Basin and Solent catchments.
- Onsite habitat management
- Long-term management of habitat on land you retain.
Funding and building projects for others
Our capital and delivery team are not limited to our own habitat banks.
Funding partners’ projects
We can fund nature projects that partners bring to us, from land and habitat creation through to long-term management, and recover our capital as the outcomes are delivered.
Projects built to order
Where a client or partner needs a specific outcome, we design, fund and build the project for them, on their land or on land we secure.
Across the UK and Europe
We are taking the same model to Europe, working with local consultancies and landowners on mitigation for major projects.
Freehold, perpetuity, capital and independent monitoring
How most of the market works
Most providers sell from land they lease or hold only for the statutory minimum, and often verify their own habitat.
How we work
We own every site freehold and protect it in perpetuity, so there is no cliff edge at year thirty. Endowments are funded at sale and held by a regulated investment manager, and independent ecologists verify what our team manages.
Where we work
Winchester
37 Southgate Street
Winchester SO23 9EH
Postal address
London
8 St James Square
London SW1Y 4JU
Wimborne
Dorset House
Church Street
Wimborne BH21 1JH
Woking
Unit 6, High Street One
Woking GU21 6BG
Stone
5C Kern House
Brooms Road
Stone Business Park
Staffordshire ST15 0TL
Registered office: Lynton House, 7 to 12 Tavistock Square, London WC1H 9BQ.
Who stands behind the obligation
- The land
- We own the land freehold, with no lease and no third-party landowner.
- The covenant
- A conservation covenant or planning obligation protecting each site in perpetuity, registered against the title.
- Responsible Body
- An independent Responsible Body or the local authority can step in if we ever fail to deliver.
- The endowment
- Long-term management is funded by an endowment set aside at allocation.
- Financial strength
- We have £56.5m of capital for land and habitat, and are rated Very Low Risk with an international credit score of A. That capital lets us buy land and create habitat before your programme needs it, and fund its management for the long term.
Consented sooner. Nature better off.
That is the business as it stands today, and our mission explains where it is going.