Member Article

Students say: “I can do” on nature reserve

Funding from Players of People’s Postcode Lottery has enabled a group of students from Newcastle College to experience a wild day out on a nature reserve in Northumberland.

The students, aged between 16 - 20 years of age, who are involved in the Sir Leonard Cheshire ‘Can Do’ Project, headed up to Northumberland Wildlife Trust’s Hauxley reserve on Druridge Bay where they got up close to nature. Their day included feeding the Flexigraze scheme’s cattle and sheep, enjoying a walk around the reserve, and a bird and mammal identification session, before rolling up their sleeves and helping to plant a hawthorn hedge.

Tracy Evans, Northumberland Wildlife Trust People & Wildlife Officer who entertained the students for the day said: “Funding from players of People’s Postcode Lottery enabled students to really enjoy learning about nature in the great outdoors rather than in the classroom. Getting hands-on and planting the hedge gave them a real sense of achievement and, in years to come, they will be able to look at the fully grown hedge and say to their family and friends: “I helped to create that.”

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