Plymouth City Council, GB Natural Grid project merges youth training with park restoration

Plymouth City Council, GB Natural Grid Youth Training Park

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Plymouth Natural Grid is an 18-month project to rewild and restore 12 green sites covering 390 hectares. A new urban ranger team works with apprentices aged 18 to 24 on biodiversity projects. Each cohort spends six months learning skills useful in future careers like forest management and habitat maintenance. Council officials anticipate at least 1,000 participating in nature engagement weeks at restored locations.

Parks and Recreation Training & Development Youth Services Resiliency

Plymouth City Council, GB

Unitary authority in England

United Kingdom

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Plymouth Natural Grid | PLYMOUTH.GOV.UK

Bringing nature to everyone Plymouth Natural Grid is a partnership project between Plymouth City Council, The National Trust and Real Ideas. The project has secured £1.2m from the Government’s Green Recovery Challenge Fund to deliver a cross-country enhancement and restoration project over 18 months. From September 2021 to March 2023, we are on a mission to create jobs for

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Plymouth Natural Grid gets a kickstart | PLYMOUTH.GOV.UK

NaturalGrid_apprentices.jpg Ten young people have started an innovative six month work programme with Plymouth’s newest nature project. The young people have joined the Plymouth Natural Grid, which launched this summer to help make nature more accessible to residents across the city, through the national Kickstarter programme. The Kickstarter scheme is a nationwide placement

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