Education with LWT

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Education and Community Action Project

Below is the "Executive Summary" taken from the Education and Community Action Project document, available in it's entirety as a download from this page.

In November 2001 the Heritage Lottery Fund awarded a 75% grant to the Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust towards the costs of a three-year heritage education project.

The total project costs will be approximately £500,000, the balance being made up from landfill tax credits contributed by Waste Recycling Group, the Trust's funds, Local Authorities and voluntary contributions.

1. The Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust includes among its charitable aims the promotion of education linked to natural heritage. For over 50 years it has encouraged educational use of nature reserves, particularly at Gibraltar Point where it operates a residential field centre.
2. The Trust has conducted research into the needs associated with environmental heritage education and has consulted the three Local Education Authorities in Lincolnshire, the University of Lincolnshire and Humberside, De Montfort University, Bishop Grosseteste College, other colleges, schools, teachers, the local WEA Tutor/Organiser and community groups.
3. As a result of this research and discussion, the Trust, in liaison with partners, has concluded that their are needs:
   • To provide opportunities for using nature reserves more effectively for education
   • To develop teaching resources in accordance with curricular requirements
   • To promote greater awareness of nature reserves as heritage sites, their management, and the need for more community involvement in them
4. The project which has been devised to address these needs focuses on four distinct audiences linked with four principal natural heritage sites – Gibraltar Point, Whisby Nature Park, Snipe Dales and Far Ings. In addition 20 other nature reserves will benefit from the development of teaching resources. Community outreach, market research, website development, and school visits will also feature in the work programmes.
5. The project covers a three-year programme of development and involves the employment of an Education Development Officer, two site-based Education Officers and a peripatetic Education Assistant.
6. The aims of the project may be summarised as:
   • To provide new and accessible educational resources for school pupils, college and university students and the wider community based on a series of natural heritage sites across the region between the Humber and Wash estuaries, drawing on new audiences
   • To raise awareness and encourage active participation by all sections of the community in the enjoyment and management of heritage sites for nature conservation

Contents of the Support Document

1. Executive Summary
2. Project Rationale
   1. Introduction
   2. New direction
   3. Support for change and development
   4. Previous experience
   5. Target audiences
3. Site Information
   1. Principal Heritage Sites
   2. Location Map
   3. Gibraltar Point
   4. Whisby Nature Park
   5. Far Ings
   6. Snipe Dales
4. Project Proposals
   1. Aims
   2. Objective 1
   3. Objective 2
   4. Objective 3
   5. Audience 1 – Gibraltar Point – The Lincolnshire Coast and Marsh
   6. Audience 2 – Whisby Nature Park – The Lincoln Edge
   7. Audience 3 – Snipe Dales – The Southern Wolds
   8. Audience 4 – Far Ings – The Humber Hinterland
   9. Project Map
5. Project Management
   1. Steering
   2. Line management
   3. Recruitment
   4. Monitoring and evaluation
   5. Volunteer Input
6. Exit Strategy