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Hyndburn's Community-Owned Environmental Charity

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Spring Hill Primary School – Eco Warriors and Garden Gang Session

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Seed Bomb Making

On the 23rd June, the Green Team headed over to Spring Hill Primary School to assist with the cleaning up of their forest school.

Activities for the day included:

  • Using shovels to remove built up soil from a firepit area.
  • Trimming brash piles and using the cuttings to make habitat piles which promote wildlife and biodiversity in the area.
  • Litter picking to give the area a general tidy-up.
  • Removing built up mosses and lichens on stone growing beds using wire brushes (with safety googles and gloves equipped!)
  • Removing vegetation from the growing beds and turning the soil for seed planting at a later date.

All students got a chance to try each activity and everyone had a lot of fun cleaning up their forest school and making small improvements.

Thank you to Spring Hill Primary School for having us, we were happy to help with the maintenance of these incredible schools which do so much for promoting the use of green spaces and improving connections with nature!

We would also like to thank our funders Green Recovery Challenge Fund and National Lottery Heritage Fund for supporting the work we do.

 

Freshers Fair – Accrington and Rossendale

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Freshers Fair - Accrington and Rossendale

On the 13th September Prospects’ Green Spaces Team and the Peel Park Officer attended the Accrington and Rossendale College’s Freshers Fair where we held a stall. Our stall aimed to inform future college students about the various work done by Prospects and to gauge their interest in the environmental sector. We are pleased to report that 40 prospective students visited our stall and expressed an interest in conservation!

Our stall contained all the information about activities, volunteering, and the work done by prospects needed to inspire young people who are interested in the environmental sector. We also created a Climate Pledge Tree using material from our sites, here students could write their eco-pledge onto ‘tree cookies’ and hang them from the tree. The pledge tree stayed at the college in the reception to remind students of their commitments.

It was a great day and it was heartening to see so many students taking a keen interest in their local environment

We would like to thank Accrington and Rossendale College for hosting us and the students who visited our stall.

As always, thank you to our funders at GreenRecoveryChallengeFund and National Lottery Heritage Fund for making this all possible.

Eco Conference – Blackburn Rovers Stadium

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Eco Conference - Blackburn Rovers Stadium

School Sustainability Conference

On the 23rd of June Prospects’ Green Team and Green Mentor projects collaborated at the Blackburn Rovers Stadium taking part in the School Sustainability Conference. The event aimed to raise awareness of environmental challenges among school children by offering relevant activities and learning opportunities. During the event over 100 children visited our stall and went home with their own terrarium!

Prospects hosted two main activities:

Our first activity was foil blanket making using old crisp packets, these were layered together and ironed along the seams to create a full blanket. These can be given to homeless people as emergency foil blankets. This aimed to teach the children how every day waste can be used to create something useful, be a fun activity, and can help the community.

The second activity was terrarium making using upcycled jars donated from the community which were filled with soil and various plants, rocks, twigs and mosses. This activity was planned and ran by Prospects trainee Brandon Cherry. The children could create and decorate their own terrarium and take them home to care for. Here we aimed to raise interest in plants and natural systems, the fully self-enclosed terrarium would maintain its own microclimate that the children could monitor, and watch grow. A special thank you to the funders at GreenRecoveryChallengeFund and National Lottery Heritage Fund for facilitating the purchasing of the plants from our local plant merchant, without this the activity wouldn’t have been possible.

The main stall also featured a lot of Prospects work around Hyndburn and showed examples of fun activities we have done in the past, like the wooden rigs used for willow weaving and plant pots made from eco-concrete.

Rishton Festival – Hyndburn Academy

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Rishton Festival - Hyndburn Academy

Rishton Festival

On the 2nd of June Prospects’ Green Team and the charity manager Alison Silvers were in Rishton for a family fun day festival! We hosted a stall teaching people how to make their own bug hotels from upcycled cardboard and hay. The aim here was to show people how they can help wildlife by simply using waste materials from their house. After the participants had created their bug hotel, we had an arts and crafts section where they could decorate their bug hotel with whatever designs they liked. Our stall also had plenty of information leaflets and posters showcasing all the work Prospects does around the Hyndburn area.

The event was a huge success with 50 people making their own bug houses to take home with them which will have helped a few insects out.

Thanks to all our funders at GreenRecoveryChallengeFund and National Lottery Heritage Fund for supporting Prospects in buying all the supplies needed to make this a great day!

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