Training

Volunteers explored six centuries of history through the lives of local personalities, sharing their discoveries through the ‘Woking’s Story’ display at The Lightbox.

A team of 50 volunteer bat wardens worked to increase the population of horseshoe bats in South Gloucestershire, Bath and North East Somerset through monitoring, habitat management and education.

This partnership training scheme provided opportunities for people to take on work-based placements across the South West Wildlife Trusts.

A team of volunteers received training to survey, document and conserve small ancient woodlands for the benefit of local communities.

The Call Up helped participants piece together the lives of refugees living in Hampshire during the First World War.

Young people worked in teams to create new interpretation, helping shape the way visitors engage with the Richmond Borough Art Collection in the future.

The Conservation Volunteers (TCV) joined forces with independent school Building Young People's Potential (BYPP) to help 103 young people in alternative education learn accredited skills and become ‘Green Giants.’

Young people from Lincolnshire explored their area's rich built heritage and gained an insight into traditional building skills.

A project devised by a group of 25 young people after the old Horse Chestnut tree in the grounds of their community centre was felled.

In just four years, Blyth Tall Ship grew from a germ of an idea and a patch of derelict quayside land, to an inspiring start-up business supporting boatbuilding skills.

Sheffield’s long association with industry and trades is epitomised at the important site of Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet. The site has been restored to its former glory with improved interactive interpretation to share its fascinating story more widely.

Do you know your annelids from your arachnids? This training project aimed to increase the number of people skilled in recording invertebrates across Shropshire.