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Community engagement forming part of Pioneering Places East Kent a joint Arts Council
and National Lottery Heritage Fund project saw participants provide their thoughts on

potential future uses of the space in notebooks which were brought together into a Big
Drawing by Charles Holland. Further volunteer participation came in the form of a two week
community archaeology dig which informed landscaping plans and specification which

appointed architects developed and secured Scheduled Monument Consent.

The potential value of the space to a new residential estate on adjacent land has resulted in
the developer agreeing to provide water and electric supplies which will support potential
event use.

Outside if Fun- TCV Kiveton and Diddington

Outside is Fun, led by The Conservation Volunteers (TCV), was part of the Children and
Nature programme funded by the Department of Education and supported by Natural
England. The funding finished in March 22.

The Children and Nature programme is part of the Government’s 25-year environment plan
and comprises three separate projects. Outside is Fun is one of five Community Forest and

Woodland Outreach (CFWO) projects and sits alongside Nature Friendly Schools and the
Growing Care Farm project.

The aim of the CFWO initiative was to increase and help sustain community forest and
woodland outreach activities being delivered to school children, particularly those in

disadvantaged areas, to benefit their mental health and wellbeing, engagement with school
and other programme outcomes.

Outside is Fun aimed to establish a rolling programme that engaged year five or six pupils,
within walking distance of community woodland sites across Barnsley, Rotherham and

Doncaster. We had to adapt our approach to Covid right in the middle of the funding and
have received some great feedback from pupils and staff from the schools.

We are looking at how we can use the learning and reflections from this great project to take

forward into our team for future work.