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Liverpool Festival Gardens

For the last two years, Liverpool Festival Gardens has been home to the
Green Angels environmental training programme, which we established
with Big Lottery funding. The programme aims to improve the quality
of life for local people, helping them to learn new skills and improve
their future prospects, whilst also enhancing the park environment.

Green Angels has been a great success, attracting over 200 applications to join the
programme, with over 60 people progressing through the training courses, which
include countryside management, parks maintenance, business skills, environmental
education and horticulture. More than 15 people have since found employment
with others moving onto further training and some creating a social enterprise.

Our Green Angels, in partnership with the local primary school, have started an
environmental afterschool club, engaging pupils in growing vegetables,
composting, making bird feeders and insect identifcation.

15 PEOPLE

FOUND EMPLOYMENT
FOLLOWING THE GREEN ANGELS
TRAINING PROGRAMME

Monkton Community Woodland

Over the last year Monkton Community Over 200 local school children have
Woodland, in the North East of taken part in fun and informative
England, has been part of a Heritage activities about the natural environment
Lottery Funded project Waggonways and local history. Some schools have
and Waterways, which focused on since offered to get involved with the
the social and industrial heritage of management of the site as it provides WINNER
Tyneside and developed a new fve excellent opportunities for their pupils. Educational
mile route – part of which went through Following English Woodland Grant funding Space of
the site. This new route will encourage (page 18) access to the 10 ha site has the Year
greater community access to the site.
recently been dramatically improved with
the completion of 470 m of new trails and a
seven-space car park. These improvements
will enable even more children to gain
knowledge and experience, spend time
interacting with nature, and leave with
smiles on their faces.

A teacher from Bill Quay Primary School said:
“It was wonderful that they got to touch, smell
and see natural things as many of the pupils

would rarely visit a woodland outside of school.”

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