The Green Place project focused on connecting people with nature by focusing on deep connection to ‘place’, nature restoration and nature-based solutions. The project empowered young people as agents of change within their communities, inspiring them to take action through nature-based community projects to enhance biodiversity, heritage and engagement with the natural environment.
The project was delivered across Cumbria, within and outside of the Lake District National Park and North Pennines Area of Natural Beauty, working with Playful Nature, Cumbria Action for Sustainability and North Pennines Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). It was also supported by CAfS, SAPERE and John Muir Trust.
This project aimed to equip children, young people and a range of communities with the skills, competences and values required to develop a deep connection to place: people, nature and cultural and landscape heritage.
This connection to place and heritage, and the range of skills built, will address climate change, strengthen young people’s mental health and wellbeing and secure the future of the heritage they have curated and enhanced. The Green Place project will focus on empowering young people as agents of change within their communities; inspiring them to take action through nature-based community projects to enhance biodiversity, heritage and engagement with the natural environment, amplifying the heritage of their place to celebrate, enhance and develop real connections with nature.
We had the privilege of working with a range of communities and groups through this project- Carlisle Youth Zone, Multicultural Cumbria's Diaspora groups, Tullie House, Talkin Tarn, Richard Rose Central Academy, Staveley Primary School and SENS, Underley Garden School, Riverside Housing, Ormsgill Together, 4Eden, Susan's Farm, Dig Ventures
You can find the Green Place Toolkit here.
