Green Academies Project
Youth Service
Formal Training
Wider Engagement
Apprenticeships
Partners
2009
2 Formal Partners
Bournville College
Birmingham Youth Service
2013
8 Formal Partners
Working regularly in informal partnership with over 20 more local organisations
AchievementsFormal Training
Target - 88 Accreditations
Actual – 180 accreditations to date
Volunteer Participation
Target – 500 Actual – 1900 to date
Apprenticeships
Target – 4 Actual – 4 to date, funding for 2 more raised
Added Value
• Additional £60,000 secured through grants and donations
• Over £100,000 raised externally for Conservation activities
• Significant improvements made on 8 National Trust sites and 14 Urban Green Spaces.
• Communicating our cause and shifting perceptions.
• Local Partnership working increasing our capacity to deliver.
Challenges
• Capacity to deliver at a Property Level
• Accessibility of the Property to our Target Community
• Changes in Government Funding
• Sustaining Partnerships
• Planning for sustainability in a constantly changing climate
Learning Outcomes• Urban Communities and their
relationship with the Natural Environment
• Practical Conservation and it’s relevance to our target community.
• Partnership Working is increasingly essential but challenging.
• Outputs related to Social Change open opportunities for funding
• Growing Support, Communicating our Cause.
Octavia Hill
“We look after beautiful places for the everlasting delight of the people,
For everyone, rich andpoor, city and country dweller, young
and old.”
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