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The Land Trust Annual Review 2022

Education

Green spaces All Land Trust sites offer the opportunity to see nature at first hand, with many
offer the perfect of them also offering additional educational and learning opportunities. Green
spaces offer the perfect virtual classroom whether visitors engage with onsite
virtual classroom interpretation or more formal educational activities with our rangers and
whether visitors partners.
engage with In addition to our Green Angels courses, our schools programme aims to inspire,
onsite as well as educate, the next generation of guardians of our green spaces. A
interpretation or number of schools use our sites to teach children wider curriculum subjects in our
more formal woodland classrooms.
educational As we came out of Covid-19 restrictions in 2021, our sites were able to increase
activities with the number of in-person regular sessions and the social value delivered was once
our rangers and again significant across a range of age groups.
partners The feedback we receive from our visitors from our Green Angels courses clearly
demonstrates how much our courses are valued:

“It would definitely help career prospects and confidence.”
“Positive engagement, self-esteem building which carry forward into my day to day
life. I have learnt a new skill I feel I can use.”

“I have gained a deeper understanding of the relationship between environment
and wildlife.”
“I have learned a good knowledge of the environment, wildlife, weeds, trees etc.
hands on experience of building a planter, planting seeds, bulbs, propagating.
Learned a great deal. Lots of information and skills gained.” Silverdale Country Park, Education Site of the Year
Staffordsihre
Silverdale Country Park was the worthy winner of the Educational Site of the Year
“Thank you and I really wish the course had been longer. Please keep me up to
award. The site is used by the Fire Service to provide safety videos to schools
date with any other courses that come up!”
nationally, so far delivering to an online audience of over 10,000 UK schools and
homes. The site’s ‘Meet the Ranger’ video series at Silverdale has also educated
“Thank you for such an amazing course. I really enjoyed it, learnt so much and it children on issues and dangers such as; frozen water, vandalism, litter, wild fires
was great to meet everyone and have that weekly time in nature, I am going to
and picking up dog poo.
miss it.”
Hogmoor Inclosure, Hampshire In addition, a collaboration with Keele University has seen the Ranger providing a
guest lecture to a class of third year biology students using Silverdale as a case
study. While the University opted to use this site for their first and second year
biology student field trip modules studying wildflower diversity and abundance.
Collaborations also continue with Reaseheath College, with the park providing a
work placement opportunity and field trips.
Economic and Social Value Table
Education Value (per annum) 2021-22 Type of Value
Engagement (children) £413,706 Economic Value
Adults engaged in training £131,000 Gross Value Added

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