en:volve

Consultations with young people on our previous projects record that they often feel isolated from their local community and feel that their ideas and opinions are ignored. However they do feel a sense of ownership for the environment and value the opportunity to get involved and improve it.

By involving young people in environmental projects, we hope to give them the chance to work together with other young people from different communities to achieve fun and challenging tasks.

On Carr House Meadows young people learnt how to use various tools safely including billhooks, bowsaws, pen knives and fire flints to make natural dens, mallets and kazoos.  Working over four days the young people increased their confidence, skills and team work. 

At Carbrook Nature Reserve young people created a base camp and made witches brooms, woodland games were also incorporated in to the sessions as they extended their activities for natural play.