THE CONSERVATION VOLUNTEERS

Grant to The Conservation Volunteers

Grant to The Conservation Volunteers

Grant to The Conservation Volunteers

Grant to The Conservation Volunteers

Nature Nurture at Hull Road Park

Grant to The Conservation Volunteers

To provide free trees for community groups, faith groups, housing associations and schools in London, and training and ongoing support for planting and maintenance

The courses will have a graded suggested payment schedule, online booking depends on the honesty and generosity of participants. The course descriptions will include an explanation of the ethos and rationale of our approach. The course fees will ....more

The courses will have a graded suggested payment schedule, online booking depends on the honesty and generosity of participants. The course descriptions will include an explanation of the ethos and rationale of our approach. The course fees will include the option to add a discounted light lunch, to boost the base income of the café and awareness of it. There is also scope for additional produce sales. TCV will make use of its well followed and developing social media accounts: • Facebook; 3500 followers, some posts reach 600 people. We share posts to other groups locally and use a few ads to boast our reach. • Twitter; 2720 followers, Instagram; followers) TikTok; launched May 2023 so far 7 followers • Our direct marketing is run via a Mailchimp newsletter and we have options to create subgroups e.g. ; that subscribers can opt into. • We have a separate Mailchimp for professionals e.g.; linkworkers. • Hardcopy publicity on site, in local libraries and community centres. • Word of mouth is very important. Some similar courses are run by Leeds Wood Recycling, Meanwood Valley Urban Farm (willow crafts etc) Leeds Permaculture Network. Full day charges are typically £60 -£70, a few offer concessions. TCV Hollybush’s courses are part of a wider environmental volunteering centre, the setting is attractive and distinctive. Each provider has a different immediate local catchment. Kirkstall Valley Farm may expand their offer as facilities develop, Rodley Nature Reserve do some events although their core offer is nature and wildlife.

Green Gyms

Grant to The Conservation Volunteers

Health & Wellbeing in Nature with TCV in Leeds

Grant to The Conservation Volunteers

Grant to The Conservation Volunteers

Grant to The Conservation Volunteers

Grant to The Conservation Volunteers

Regular unrestricted award

The funding will be used to create an orchard on part of a large grassed area. The project aims to enhance the park for the local community providing food and wellbeing.

Capital costs for Environment/Conservation/Heritage

We aim to continue to provide volunteer opportunities for adults of all ages and abilities to empower them to make a difference to green spaces to benefit people and wildlife.

This funding is to provide free packs of 50 trees for community groups, schools and housing estates.

This project will support the Mayor’s mission to make London a greener, more liveable city, where everyone has access to healthy outdoor space, by providing 31,0000 trees to community groups, housing associations, tenants or residents’ ....more

This project will support the Mayor’s mission to make London a greener, more liveable city, where everyone has access to healthy outdoor space, by providing 31,0000 trees to community groups, housing associations, tenants or residents’ associations, schools, friends of parks groups and other charities. Trees are available as packs of 50 whips for ‘Hedgerow’ ‘Fruiting’ or ‘Wildlife’, each containing a mixture of UK species specially chosen to be easy to plant and to complement London’s native plant and animal life.

Toward volunteer costs, tools and materials for Lockleaze Green Gym which provides weekly opportunities for community volunteers to improve local greenspaces for the benefit of wildlife.

Funding to support the Hull Road Park Bee Happy Project. These sessions will run for 2.5/3hrs every two weeks and take the form of activity time and refreshment time encourage people to engage within their local community and improve emotional ....more

Funding to support the Hull Road Park Bee Happy Project. These sessions will run for 2.5/3hrs every two weeks and take the form of activity time and refreshment time encourage people to engage within their local community and improve emotional wellbeing.

providing support and infrastructure to successfully refer green social prescribing in the borough of Trafford, Manchester.

Develop a social enterprise around woodwork, gardening and crafting sessions at Hollybush, complementing the established health & wellbeing outcomes experienced by people with care and support needs, who enjoy our non-judgemental, accepting ....more

Develop a social enterprise around woodwork, gardening and crafting sessions at Hollybush, complementing the established health & wellbeing outcomes experienced by people with care and support needs, who enjoy our non-judgemental, accepting environmental volunteering centre.

TCV Skelton Grange staff and volunteer team will deliver 24 days of fun, outdoor, experiential sessions with children and young people at Skelton Grange Environment Centre in Stourton. The sessions will be designed to be engaging, active and ....more

TCV Skelton Grange staff and volunteer team will deliver 24 days of fun, outdoor, experiential sessions with children and young people at Skelton Grange Environment Centre in Stourton. The sessions will be designed to be engaging, active and sociable, with a range of outdoor play and activities to interact with the natural environment and have fun! We work with a high ratio of staff to young people to allow us to offer engaging hands on activities for the young people to challenge themselves and do activities like firelighting that they may not have had the opportunity to do before.

Regular unrestricted award

This group will employ a Senior Project Officer who will deliver a range of activities which connect people with their local greenspaces and improve mental wellbeing. The group will provide opportunities for volunteers and members of the community ....more

This group will employ a Senior Project Officer who will deliver a range of activities which connect people with their local greenspaces and improve mental wellbeing. The group will provide opportunities for volunteers and members of the community to come together and learn more about the natural environment through practical holistic activities. Over 3 years the project will engage with 540 participants and 96 volunteers.

We will work with the Child Friendly Leeds team to provide 10 fun days out in nature to support the wellbeing of children from the Leeds Fostering service.

Improve and maintain wetland and wildlife habitats at Doffcocker

Reclaiming the Riverside will restore the green corridor along the River Crane at Cranford, West London, revitalising 3km of riverside and adjoining habitat and putting the diverse local community at the heart of delivery.The Lower Crane at ....more

Reclaiming the Riverside will restore the green corridor along the River Crane at Cranford, West London, revitalising 3km of riverside and adjoining habitat and putting the diverse local community at the heart of delivery.The Lower Crane at Cranford, immediately east of Heathrow Airport, is badly affected by habitat degradation, fly tipping and invasive species, with one 250m section closed off and abandoned. This land will be restored, expanding the urban wildlife corridor and connecting higher quality patches of priority habitat along the riverside including nature reserves downstream. Local volunteers, largely from Asian, Sikh and Muslim groups, have already removed 200 tonnes of litter with little formal support. TCV working with these volunteers, the councils, river catchment partnership and other partners will:-Conserve and restore nature across 20 hectares, including river and grassland priority habitat.-Connect 650 local people with nature through practical volunteering, citizen science and other nature-based activities, and reopen a key section of river path.TCV will create 1.51 and retain 0.55 FTE jobs. £102,100 will be spent in the supply chain. All landowners are partners; contractors in late 2022 will need a giant hogweed spraying licence. We are ready for immediate start.

To increase and help sustain community forest and woodland outreach activities being delivered to school children, particularly those in disadvantaged areas, to benefit their mental health & wellbeing, engagement with school and other programme ....more

To increase and help sustain community forest and woodland outreach activities being delivered to school children, particularly those in disadvantaged areas, to benefit their mental health & wellbeing, engagement with school and other programme outcomes. Objective 1: To increase community forest and woodland outreach with schools in areas of disadvantage and/or special schools and/or APIs. Objective 2: To increase community forest and woodland outreach in ways that are designed specifically to help sustain the use of community forest and woodlands by schools/special schools/APIs beyond the end of the project. Objective 3: To gather evidence to complete project monitoring and reporting, and support evaluation.

TCV Skelton Grange staff and volunteer team will deliver 4 days of outdoor experiential sessions with children, engaging them in social outdoor play and activities to interact with the natural environment and have fun! Participants will be given ....more

TCV Skelton Grange staff and volunteer team will deliver 4 days of outdoor experiential sessions with children, engaging them in social outdoor play and activities to interact with the natural environment and have fun! Participants will be given healthy meals, as well as food and activity packs to take away.

Grant to The Conservation Volunteers

COVID19 The Conservation Volunteers

Funding under Sport England's Small Grants funding programme for a Revenue project titled COVID-19 Get Active Outdoors. This project lists its main activity as Exercise & Fitness

TCV Skelton Grange staff and volunteer team will deliver 20 days of environmental themed activities and meal packages, designed to safely broaden the education, play and dietary horizons of children and young people in need during the COVID-19 ....more

TCV Skelton Grange staff and volunteer team will deliver 20 days of environmental themed activities and meal packages, designed to safely broaden the education, play and dietary horizons of children and young people in need during the COVID-19 crisis.

£10,550.00 to fund the essential and urgent costs outlined in the application, in order to carry on providing support to Londoners

Our project will provide ongoing support, mentoring and training to community gardening and health walk groups that were initially established by the Leeds city-wide Green Gym programme 2018-20. This will enable at least four groups to complete ....more

Our project will provide ongoing support, mentoring and training to community gardening and health walk groups that were initially established by the Leeds city-wide Green Gym programme 2018-20. This will enable at least four groups to complete their journey to independence with a tapered programme over two years.

Emergency food and/or activity provision in response to Covid-19 outbreak and lockdown.

To increase and help sustain community forest and woodland outreach activities being delivered to school children, particularly those in disadvantaged areas, to benefit their mental health & wellbeing, engagement with school and other programme ....more

To increase and help sustain community forest and woodland outreach activities being delivered to school children, particularly those in disadvantaged areas, to benefit their mental health & wellbeing, engagement with school and other programme outcomes. Objective 1: To increase community forest and woodland outreach with schools in areas of disadvantage and/or special schools and/or APIs. Objective 2: To increase community forest and woodland outreach in ways that are designed specifically to help sustain the use of community forest and woodlands by schools/special schools/APIs beyond the end of the project. Objective 3: To gather evidence to complete project monitoring and reporting, and support evaluation.

This pilot will be a step change for Hollybush. Combining café operations with onsite courses or activities for priority groups gives a robust level of weekend staffing for safeguarding and lone working. The café makes Hollybush a safe community ....more

This pilot will be a step change for Hollybush. Combining café operations with onsite courses or activities for priority groups gives a robust level of weekend staffing for safeguarding and lone working. The café makes Hollybush a safe community space without the stigma of being a “setting for specific groups”. There will be café volunteer opportunities for our priority clients Building profile within the wider community and being “open to all” brings integration benefits of people just coming together. Potential pay as you feel activities and hosting external groups brings income versus time limited grant funded sessions.

Experienced Skelton Grange staff and volunteers will improve the confidence & wellbeing of Looked After Children, and children living in poverty, through structured enrichment activities in an outdoor natural environment.

Wild in the Woods

Wild in the Winter will give classes of school children from disadvantaged areas who don't normally have much contact with the natural environment the chance to enjoy exploring and interacting with nature in winter, a time when many people avoid ....more

Wild in the Winter will give classes of school children from disadvantaged areas who don't normally have much contact with the natural environment the chance to enjoy exploring and interacting with nature in winter, a time when many people avoid spending time outdoors, and will provide volunteer leadership opportunities to the people helping to lead the days.

TCV 60th Anniversary Tree Planting

30000 trees to Londoners

Funding capacity building support to community organisations that benefit the environment in Trafford

South Norfolk Claylands

Reshaping Tomorrow Week is a nationwide, annual community volunteering programme run by Wates, which is planned to take place between 17th and 21st June 2019.

Grass Roots - Natural heritage skills for young people at Skelton Grange in Leeds

TCV Skelton Grange's trained staff and volunteers will deliver 18 outdoor experiential activity days designed to broaden the environmental and dietary horizons of children and young people, through direct engagement with the natural world and the ....more

TCV Skelton Grange's trained staff and volunteers will deliver 18 outdoor experiential activity days designed to broaden the environmental and dietary horizons of children and young people, through direct engagement with the natural world and the food that can be enjoyed from - and within - it.

We will provide 'Wild in the Woods' days out for fostering families with their birth and foster children doing activities such as den building, crafts, games, challenges and cooking on a campfire.

The project will deliver a regular Green Gym in HS2-affected or adjacent Camden wards, totalling 50 sessions, 75 volunteers and 10 sites per year for three years and TCV will support community groups across Camden to manage green spaces.

The project will deliver a regular Green Gym in HS2-affected or adjacent Camden wards, totalling 50 sessions, 75 volunteers and 10 sites per year for three years and TCV will support community groups across Camden to manage green spaces.

This group will use the funding to engage West Lothian school pupils in practical conservation activities, working in partnership with the local community.

Growing Trafford's Roots

TCV Building Roots

We aim to deliver a Winter Wellbeing in Wellies project focussing on engaging people outdoors in winter.

Funding for community tree packs and individual trees

The funding will be used to support the cost of running a weekly green gym. The project aims to help isolated people from the local community improve physical and mental health and build support networks, whilst developing a key urban green space.

Funding to support the Ouse Beck Wetland Himalayan Balsam Removal Project.

We would like to provide days of outdoor, nature based learning sessions for classes and groups of children from schools in the disadvantaged communities surrounding our Centre in south Leeds, and volunteer leadership opportunities to young people ....more

We would like to provide days of outdoor, nature based learning sessions for classes and groups of children from schools in the disadvantaged communities surrounding our Centre in south Leeds, and volunteer leadership opportunities to young people helping us to deliver them.

Blackpool Museum Project

TCV Skelton Grange's trained staff and volunteers will deliver a series of outdoor experiential activity days designed to broaden the environmental and dietary horizons of children and young people, through direct engagement with the natural world ....more

TCV Skelton Grange's trained staff and volunteers will deliver a series of outdoor experiential activity days designed to broaden the environmental and dietary horizons of children and young people, through direct engagement with the natural world and the food that can be enjoyed from - and within - it.

Environmental volunteering at Crawfordsburn Country Park

Richmond Green Gym at Kneller Gardens

Richmond Green Gym at Kneller Gardens

Richmond Green Gym at Kneller Gardens

Richmond Green Gym at Kneller Gardens

Richmond Green Gym at Kneller Gardens

Richmond Green Gym at Kneller Gardens

Richmond Green Gym at Kneller Gardens

Richmond Green Gym at Kneller Gardens

Improving Lousehill Copse Woodland

TCV will work with NHS England, local healthcare services, commissioners, academics and charities to inform when and how social prescribing is used to help people living with specific health issues, such as mental health problems and musculoskeletal ....more

TCV will work with NHS England, local healthcare services, commissioners, academics and charities to inform when and how social prescribing is used to help people living with specific health issues, such as mental health problems and musculoskeletal disorders. This will include developing and piloting a quality assurance and evaluation framework to measure different social prescribing models.

Community Tree Packs 2017-18

Jupiter Naturability Programme

Ponds of Croydon

This project aims to connect communities with green spaces and use the opportunity of under-utilised open spaces to improve the health and wellbeing of people living in the most disadvantaged areas. The project seeks to focus on two areas of ....more

This project aims to connect communities with green spaces and use the opportunity of under-utilised open spaces to improve the health and wellbeing of people living in the most disadvantaged areas. The project seeks to focus on two areas of significant deprivation, Eastbrook and Northbrook. By working to bring about better green spaces, it is hoped there will be multiple benefits. People will see lasting changes to their health, wellbeing and self-esteem. They will feel proud of where they live.

SSB Welcome through Wildlife

Towards the “Wild in the Woods” days out for children from the Barnardo’s Willow Young Carers project.

This is a project by a charity in Doncaster, benefiting people in Chichester. They will use the funding to create a green gym, which will provide a range of outdoor exercises and physical environmental activities to the local community. The gym will ....more

This is a project by a charity in Doncaster, benefiting people in Chichester. They will use the funding to create a green gym, which will provide a range of outdoor exercises and physical environmental activities to the local community. The gym will help to increase people’s fitness whilst improving local green spaces.

Delivery of a further year of Green Gym sessions at Hounslow Health Green Gym, including the recruitment and training of additional volunteer leaders to make it more self sustainable in the longer term,

Nature Connections Programme (NCP)

North Walsham’s Natural Riches: transport and wildlife heritage around a historic Norfolk town

Discover, Explore and Conserve our Natural Heritage at Sale Water Park

Community Rewilding

To fund the continuation to deliver practical volunteer sessions for Hounslow residents in improving Pevensey Road Local Nature Reserve

The group promotes conservation through activities with local communities. They are using the £10,000 to provide a horticulture project for unemployed young people in Portadown and Craigavon.

Reviving Hampshire's Community Ponds

To develop and run a new Green Gym offering volunteering opportunities with physical health outcomes for residents.

Accelerating Ideas programme grant to The Conservation Volunteers Grant Ref AC00508

Themelthorpe’s Natural Connections

Eardley Road Sidings Nature Reserve restoration

Towards the “Wild in the Woods” days out for school classes from areas of Leeds suffering high levels of disadvantage.

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Centre for Social Action Innovation Fund programme grant to The Conservation Volunteers Grant Ref AC00439

Green Speed Volunteering

Volunteer delivered hedge laying project at Pevensey Road Open Space