Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust

People and the Dales

Submitted by BEF Admin on 24 April 2009 - 9:45pm

Diversity, Access, Learning, Environment and Sustainaibilty
2009- 2012

Do you want to visit the Yorkshire Dales, take part in fun activities, enjoy this magnificent landscape, learn about the environment and find out what you can do back home?

If you are part of a community group from a BME, disability, youth or disadvantaged background and live in West Yorkshire or North Lancashire then take part in ‘People and the DALES’.

Responding to Climate Change - Skipton

Submitted by BEF Admin on 4 March 2009 - 11:41am
19 Jun 2009 - 10:00
19 Jun 2009 - 15:30

Responding to the challenge of climate change - Local and Global

Venue: Local Area Education Office in Skipton.

This course is aimed at teachers and those working in education who want to build sustainability and the global dimension or climate change issues into the their work / teaching.

Both courses are being organised by Craven Development Education Centre (DEC) and are funded through the Yorkshire & Humber Global Schools Association.

Teaching about community and conflict resolution, Keighley

Submitted by BEF Admin on 3 September 2008 - 10:11am
23 Oct 2008 - 10:30
23 Oct 2008 - 16:00

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Putting the global back into sustainable schools, Keighley

Submitted by BEF Admin on 3 September 2008 - 10:08am
25 Sep 2008 - 10:30
25 Sep 2008 - 16:00

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Becoming a Fairtrade School, Keighley

Submitted by BEF Admin on 3 September 2008 - 10:05am
6 Nov 2008 - 10:00
6 Nov 2008 - 15:15

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Rural Trades Network

Submitted by David Tayler on 25 February 2008 - 12:56pm

A website based scheme to put local contractors in touch with potential customers, training providers, advisors and each other.www.ruraltrades.org

Location

United Kingdom
See map: Google Maps

Hay Time

Submitted by David Tayler on 25 February 2008 - 10:49am

A four year £520k programme aiming to restore 280ha of meadows within the Dales and North Pennines. This has started highly successfully, with 53 ha restored at 13 sites. 120 landowners have registered an interest, work has been undertaken, good publicity generated and many practical lessons learned. Besides restoring a vital part of our landscape and biodiversity, this project aims to provide new and sustainable income streams for farmers.

Location

United Kingdom
See map: Google Maps

Dales Woodland Restoration

Submitted by David Tayler on 25 February 2008 - 10:45am

A £330k scheme to plant 150 hectares new native woodlands by 2008. Traditional species such as ash, rowan, birch, hazel and elder, shrubs, hawthorn, holly. Builds on ten years of woodland creation which has seen us fund the planting of more than 700,000 trees.

Location

United Kingdom
See map: Google Maps

Countryside Apprenticeships

Submitted by David Tayler on 25 February 2008 - 10:43am

Creating opportunities for young people to remain in the area, managing the landscape, is a priority. Our scheme of training and work experience has placed 16 people with organisations such as Bolton Abbey Estate, The Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority and Natural England.

People and the Dales

Submitted by David Tayler on 25 February 2008 - 10:41am

This project is based at the Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust, May 2009 to October 2012. The focus is working with deprived, excluded and needy individuals from BME backgrounds, disabled groups, young and urban people living around the Yorkshire Dales who have had little or no positive experience of the countryside.

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