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Education Land Trust Annual Review 2020
“We are passionate about inspiring a love
of the great outdoors through our training
and education activities”
Economic and social value delivered Educational site of the year
The Trust’s array of education activities created The winner of 2019-20’s Educational Site of the year was
approximately £750,000 of economic and social value. Countess of Chester Country Park. Managing partners,
Over £500,000 of this money comes through our The Conservation Volunteers, working in partnership
engagement with children and young people. with an excellent volunteer workforce led by the Friends
of Countess of Chester Country Park, have arranged a
We engaged with four young offenders throughout the number of different education activities that benefit
course of 2019-20, while the Trust continued to work people of all ages.
with young people not in education, employment or
training, mainly through our Green Angels programme. There are regular Forest Schools sessions run on the
site, which are now so popular that there is a waiting list
for schools to take part, while they also run bush craft
activities at weekends and during school holidays.
They also run sessions for the teenage mental health
patients from the adjoining Countess of Chester hospital.
The Land Trust’s Green Angels programme remain
very popular with courses on hedge laying, post and
wire fencing and woodland management while the TCV
Midweek Group is on site once a week.
The Young and Green at Heart project designed to reduce
isolation in the over 50’s was also a great success.
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