Getting Creative
with Nature
Warwickshire Wildlife Trust Youth
Projects
Warwickshire Wildlife Trust has delivered
dedicated youth projects under the name Living Roots since
2008.
Warwickshire Wildlife Trust's Living
Roots youth projects have engaged young people all over
Warwickshire, Solihull and Coventry in many exciting ways.
The aim of Living Roots is to provide all
young people with new skills and access to green spaces, whilst
instilling in them a desire to care more for these areas. These
experiences aim to challenge young people to engage more with the
natural world and their surrounding communities.
Young people created the Living Roots name
and designed the logo as part of the first official Warwickshire
Wildlife Trust youth project in 2008. Since then young people have
worked hard on Warwickshire Wildlife Trust nature reserves and
other local green spaces to inspire and create environmental music,
films and art, which has inspired themselves and their peers.
Nothing is too ambitious for a Living Roots project.
To date young people have recorded music
in woodlands, organised live art attack animations in art
galleries, created wildlife gardens, ponds and even a bronze age
sweat lodge! We use so many ways to encourage young people from all
walks of life to develop some kind of love and appreciation for
natural environment.
Warwickshire Wildlife Trust has been
granted Reach Achieved status.
Reach is the quality practice framework for
youth action agencies and recognizes our good practice in working
with young volunteers and, in particular, involving young people in
making decisions about their volunteering.
Contact
Any enquiries, please email: enquiries@wkwt.org.uk