Malvern Hills National Landscape
We recently provided some funding to Boundless Outdoors Centres in West Malvern to offer opportunities to primary and secondary pupils to spend time in the National Landscape. 360 children benefited with either a day visit or an overnight stay, taking part in activities such as orienteering, bush craft, night walks and zip wires through oak woodland.
All pupils came from more urban areas of Worcestershire and were selected by their schools on the basis that they don’t normally engage with the ‘outdoors’. Many poorer communities have less access to green space and so are likely to be less connected to nature and to the benefits this brings.
As well as having the chance to get close to nature a majority of participants reported that they had tried new things, improved their communication skills and learnt to believe in themselves a little more. Over 60% of the children had not been on a residential away from home before.
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If the outdoor centre would like a fossil resource box for their work with children please get in touch earthheritagetrust.org/fossils
33 stiles have been replaced by self-closing gates on the public footpaths in the area, thanks to a grant from Defra. It’ll encourage those who find stiles too much of a hurdle, to enjoy the countryside. We’re doing the same this year, so suggestions please to David at darmitage@worcestershire.gov.uk . Our thanks also go to Tom and Chris who can be seen installing a gate in Mathon.
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Yesssss this is brilliant news. If you could work with people who look after the Geopark Way that would be great – there are so many stiles there as to be unusable for us because it's just not safe for my older dog to continually having to jump over high stiles
Great for sciatica sufferers with balance weakness; thanks 😊
Surely you don't hurdle a style, you climb over it.
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