Green Academies Project

Youth Service

Formal Training

Wider Engagement

Apprenticeships

Partners

2009

2 Formal Partners

Bournville College

Birmingham Youth Service

2013

8 Formal Partners

Working regularly in informal partnership with over 20 more local organisations

AchievementsFormal Training

Target - 88 Accreditations

Actual – 180 accreditations to date

Volunteer Participation

Target – 500 Actual – 1900 to date

Apprenticeships

Target – 4 Actual – 4 to date, funding for 2 more raised

Added Value

• Additional £60,000 secured through grants and donations

• Over £100,000 raised externally for Conservation activities

• Significant improvements made on 8 National Trust sites and 14 Urban Green Spaces.

• Communicating our cause and shifting perceptions.

• Local Partnership working increasing our capacity to deliver.

Challenges

• Capacity to deliver at a Property Level

• Accessibility of the Property to our Target Community

• Changes in Government Funding

• Sustaining Partnerships

• Planning for sustainability in a constantly changing climate

Learning Outcomes• Urban Communities and their

relationship with the Natural Environment

• Practical Conservation and it’s relevance to our target community.

• Partnership Working is increasingly essential but challenging.

• Outputs related to Social Change open opportunities for funding

• Growing Support, Communicating our Cause.

Octavia Hill

“We look after beautiful places for the everlasting delight of the people,

For everyone, rich andpoor, city and country dweller, young

and old.”