Engaging young people through volunteering to preserve and celebrate their local heritage parks and green spaces.
Fields in Trust has partnered with green space charity Groundwork and The National Youth Agency on the 'Future Proof Parks', programme funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.
The project is supporting Friends of parks groups and local young people to work together in a series of innovative projects which will support heritage parks and widen the understanding of their importance. The aim is to encourage young people to join their local friends of park groups and volunteer to preserve and celebrate the local spaces that matter to the communities they live in.
The three-year programme has been awarded funding through the National Lottery Heritage Fund's Kick the Dust programme, which aims to enable more young people to be involved in the UK's heritage.
These guides support green space volunteer groups in working with young people aged 14 to 24, by providing an introduction to key considerations when including teenagers and young adults in your activity. They can be read as a series or individually as relevant to your plans.
Including young people in your organisation
This guide provides insight, tips and tools you can use to: understand what young people are concerned about today; develop and plan your approach to inclusion of young people; consult with young people and develop an offer for them within your organisation.
Whilst these guides focus on teenagers and young adults, if you will be working with young childen outdoors then advice and guidance is available from the respective Home Nations Play Associations: Play England, PlayBoard NI, Play Scotland and Play Wales.