New Funding Partner!

Massive thanks to one of our amazing Directors Amy Kemmet for all her hard work in winning us funding for £187k to be spent over 3 years, including a new Rewild Truck, funding for 3 years for:

Growing Futures project, working with Primary aged children to learn how to grow.

Rekindle Youth, Secondary aged children excluded or at risk of exclusion.  Developing a qualification in Heritage Craft Skills and Edible Landscapes. – Funded by Thirty Percy for 3 years and Campaign for Protection of Rural England (CPRE)

Both qualifications will be co designed with the students to create a sense of involvement and ownership.

The Heritage Craft Skill vocational qualification with the youth will aim at inspiring young crafts people to develop a craft using sustainable locally sourced material.  The intrinsic benefits of crafting is well documented.

The Edible Landscape vocational qualification with the youth will aim at young land workers and community organisers. We will guide them in creative ways of consulting / engaging their local community, reading landscape , designing with and without local residents, implementing designs and working with different types of groups, maintenance of the sites and harvesting / processing. We shall also engage with the schools and utilise their school grounds for growing.

 Both these qualifications will link into our (and existing relevant land projects) existing community land projects and future ones.

These qualifications can also link in with the existing national curriculum.

The long term vision is to create a Post 16 qualification and/or/both apprenticeships for Heritage Crafts and Community organisers and Land Workers.  These three areas (Heritage Crafts, Edible Landscapes and Community Organising) alone have huge potential for future local sustainable economical markets and are fully inclusive with associated health benefits.