Member Article

Uniting to help young people

Northumberland Wildlife Trust recently joined forces with Children North East to give a group of 8 young people a great day out, all courtesy of players of People’s Postcode Lottery.

The young people, aged between 12 and 18 from the Tynedale Youth Link Peer Mentoring Project headed to Kielder Water and Forest Park, a first for many of the young people, for a one-off Woodland Day

In the beautiful Northumberland surroundings, the youngsters, led by the wildlife charity’s People & Wildlife Officer, Tracy Evans, were pitted against each other in a number of challenges before making pencil holders and pendants from green wood, trying their hands at campfire cooking and making dens from materials found on the floor of the forest.

Tracy Evans said: “The support from players of People’s Postcode Lottery is really appreciated by the Trust and doesn’t just get spent on the large conservation projects but smaller projects such as this Woodland Day which meant a great deal to the young people taking part in it.”

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Sue Bishop .