Wild YouthThe Wilderness Foundation UK Youth Network

Wild Youth is brought to you by the Wilderness Foundation UK - a registered environmental education charity that has been working in the UK since 1976. Founded by Dr. Ian Player DMS, international conservationist renowned for saving the white rhino from extinction, and the late Sir Laurens van der Post, writer, explorer and philosopher, we are an environmental education and experience organisation, dedicated to preserving the last of the world’s wild places.

We increase understanding of the value of wild places through our trails programmes and through social projects that demonstrate how wilderness offers a vital key to the education and health of society and individuals.

Wild Youth is your place to explore issues affecting wilderness, ways to live a cleaner, green life with less impact on the environment and also share your experiences with other people like you.  Use the blog and the forum to exchange ideas, share knowledge and to become a true advocate for wilderness.

On Monday 8th March 2010  we were at allotments in Hobart close Chelmsford, doing a spring clean and to start sowing some seeds.

We started with clearing the weeds from the area around the pear tree so that we could plant daffodils, sunflowers and rosemary  to give the area nice colour when they flower and to give nice smells.

Also we planted some pumpkin seeds in treys inside Polly tunnel and also some peas.  Also we did as much general clearing as we could but  there will still be work to do next Monday  15th March.  overall it was a great session making an impact at the allotments.

On Wednesday 10th February  ImpACT was at Broomfield Hospital  planting trees throughout one of the woodlands .  We were working together with staff from Broomfield Hospital and kids Inspired group.  The tree planting went well with an estimated two hundred and fifty trees planted.  It was very cold but everyone enjoyed the planting.

On Monday 25th Jan 2010  we went to Chancellor park primary school to do a workshop to get ideas for our Chancellor park dry garden. The workshop went well with many different ideas  for the garden.

Also on the 25th Jan 2010  we met with Chelmsford Borough Council at Chancellor park to have a look at the area that we will be doing the garden.

On Tuesday 19th January 2010 ImpACT was doing a talk to chelmer village Beavers,Cubs and Scouts about our Chancellor park wildlife dry garden project.

The evening went well in each of the groups we did a presentation about the project and went onto filling out an ideas form.  The ideas were good and will help to go towards the final design.

On Wednesday 6th January 2010 ImpACT went to Barns Farm School in Chelmsford to give a presentation to their assembly and do a workshop with the schools Eco group.   Mike and Jonathan talked briefly about impACT and followed on by doing a double act  asking questions about what the young people like about different environments and wildlife.  Then went onto talking about impACT’s Chancellor park project.  After the assembly Mike and Jonathan did a session with the schools eco group to get thier ideas about what they would like to see in the Chancellor park project.

On Tuesday 22nd December 2009 impACT was at Springfield Parish Center filming an Eco Drama. The day started with talking about what we were going to film and how we were going to do so, then we started filming some of the scenes with the help of two Police Community Support Officers. The Day went really well even though it was cold because of the snow.

On Saturday 12th December 2009  from 10am - 2pm ImpACT was as E2V Whoosh!  doing the second session with a group of people. Duren the day we planted a vicroria plum tree, spartas apple tree, then planted tulip bulbs, climatases and dogwood.  It was a wet day but fortunately it wasnt raining while we were doing the planting.  jonathan put up a decorated bird box in one of the existing trees befor packing up after a successful day.

On Tuesday 8th December 09   impACT was at Notley Green school planting an orchard of around twelve trees, the types of trees we planted were Cherry trees, Spartan and Jonagold apple trees and pear trees. some of the children wanted to plant the trees randomly and some wanted to plant a corridor of trees. They dug whole for trees and planted the trees then they put steaks in the ground and tree protectors around the trees.  After the tree planting the children gave ideas about what they want around their school grounds.

On Wednesday 9th December  ImpACT was at Chelmer Valley High Doing a small presentation about impact and about the ImpACT committee. After that Mike and Jonathan did an interactive session asking for ideas on  impACT’s Chancellor Park Project.  The young people had many ideas  and some of them were :  log benches, fountains, four seasons of flowers, trees , union jack of different flowers, log piles, chelmer swan fountain, sculpture made from cans, and more. overall an enthusiastic group.

On Friday 4th December ImpACT was at Broomfield Hospital doing treeplanting with a group of young people from a group called Inspired.  We started with some tree planting around 11:30  then wnet over to another part of the hospital to take some pictures with the Mayor of Chelmsford. ImpACT and Inspired went back over to the tree planting area and finished planting lots more trees.