We are delighted to announce that we have received another Awards for All grant. Thank you Lottery! This grant is for our environmental volunteering which we intend to make more inclusive at our sites. Volunteering outside can improve well being and also be a useful stepping stone to paid employment. We will support a wider […]
We are always very grateful for grants which help us to achieve a huge amount through our group. Recent successful applications include; A partnership project between our local Forest Education Initiative group and CSOLP to deliver to teenagers. We combined a portion of our SCC youth grant for 2009-2010 with an FEI partnership fund and […]
Sessions for families with young children will soon resume in Charlton Mackrell and begin in Drayton with help from a Grass Roots Grant. We are very pleased as we have missed the lovely Wednesday afternoon sessions with mums, dads, grannies and young children. Please look at the calendar for dates.
We will be able to repair our storm damaged craft shelter area and improve parking at Hallr Wood, thanks to another grant from SCC Aggregates Levy who have supported our summer playschemes for the last two years.
We are ideally placed to offer interesting courses for this age group; bushcraft and bow making, conservation skills and woodland crafts. We are so pleased to hear that Somerset County Council’s Youth grants will help us offer subsidized courses and we are now busy planning a programme for 2009-10. Do get in touch if you are […]
We were thrilled to be awarded funding from the Field Studies Council in the summer of 2007 to develop and trial a living history resource for KS2 to be used in woodlands. The project was conducted on behalf of the Yeovil and Dorset Forest Education Initiative Cluster group who we work closely with. The object of […]
The Subscriptions and Donations Committee of Westland have generously agreed to support our project. We are most grateful to them for £250 which we are planning to spend on a shed in which to store our tools and other bits and pieces in our new wood.
The Forest Education Initiative (FEI) a nationwide campaign that makes connections between the forestry and forest products sectors and Britain’s young people, has awarded funds to the Yeovil and Dorset FEI cluster group for two projects. A grant of £1798 has been awarded by the FEI Partnership fund for a pilot study to be run […]