Celebrating wildflowers and pollinators in the Adur and Worthing Community, and further afield.
Who?
The Wildflower Trail is a community-driven project dedicated to creating beautiful, biodiverse spaces for pollinators and people.
Originally started by Green Tides, the project is now proudly part of We Are Pollinator Pioneers CIC. We work with local communities, schools, and groups across Adur, Worthing, and surrounding areas to grow, promote, and care for wildflower sites.
What?
The Wildflower Trail is a collection of sites across Adur and Worthing and surrounding area, dedicated to growing wildflowers for the benefit of pollinators and our local community. We want to celebrate this and encourage others to explore our green spaces and feel inspired to dedicate a small patch of ground, or even a flowerpot, to growing wildflowers themselves at home.
Why?
Our Pollinators Need Us
Climate breakdown, habitat loss, and chemical overuse are having a devastating impact on our pollinators. In the UK alone, we’ve lost around 97% of our wildflower meadows, and the widespread use of insecticides and herbicides continues to put immense pressure on our native bees, butterflies, and other vital insects.
Pollinators are essential to life.
They help produce around a third of the food we eat by pollinating crops and play a critical role in healthy ecosystems — serving as food for birds, mammals, and other wildlife. Without them, our diets and our environment would be far less rich, resilient, and diverse. Sadly, these species are now in serious decline.
But there is something we can do — and you can be part of it.
Our Mission
At the Wildflower Trail, we’re working to:
Support pollinators like bees and butterflies
Connect people with nature through community involvement
Celebrate biodiversity through art, education, and accessible green spaces
With walking trails, creative events, and hands-on planting projects, we’re building a more vibrant, sustainable future — one wildflower at a time.
How?
The council and community groups are already doing lots of great projects. Various friends of groups and residents’ associations are enriching our greenspaces with wildflowers. We believe we can and should do more. The Wildflower Trail map will help showcase the work being done by community groups and others.
We want everyone to get involved and get onboard. We will make free wildflower seeds (enough for a 1M2 patch) available to anyone who wishes to help at home. Even small patches, pots or verges, provide steppingstones of energy for bees and resting places for insects. Plus, they look beautiful!
Where?
We have developed a map on our homepage to highlight areas across the local area that you can visit and enjoy.