March 7, 2025
One of our priorities at YDMT is to connect more people with the places we love in the Yorkshire Dales, Nidderdale and nearby areas. Our Youth Environment Forum does just that, by helping to tackle inequalities that make it hard for young... View Article
September 19, 2024
Our Big Day Out in the Yorkshire Dales this summer saw young people from across Bradford coming together to do something positive for the environment. The Big Day Out is part of our Green Routes project – aimed at empowering... View Article
February 7, 2024
Over the last 12 months, Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust has supported 46 young people who face challenging circumstances as part of our Woodland Wellbeing programme. Taking part were four groups of young people from across Yorkshire, who face a range of difficulties... View Article
November 3, 2023
In September, we hosted our annual Youth Environment Summit, bringing together Youth Forum participants from over the years to take part in a variety of environmental experiences and challenges. Anthea Hanson, our Youth and Sustainability Officer, talks about this year’s... View Article
February 23, 2022
Grants awarded to young people through the Youth Environmental Action Fund have supported 33 grassroots environmental projects so far, with a new round of funding opening in February 2022. So far more than £25,600 has been awarded to help bring... View Article
November 25, 2020
In November, we invited the young people involved in our Green Futures project to take over our social media channels and blog, to talk about what’s important to them about climate and the environment. In the face of a challenging... View Article
November 9, 2020
Back in Autumn, our Young Ambassador Rosemary Kelly swapped Cumbria for Deep Springs College in California to live, study and labour on a small cattle ranch / university that teaches Hobbesian philosophy and horsemanship. Her new home is a two-hour... View Article
November 3, 2020
This November we’re handing over to the passionate young people who are involved in our youth programmes to hear what’s important to them about climate and the environment. Keep up with the latest on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter! Young people... View Article
August 15, 2019
Connecting young people with nature is vitally important if we want to protect our landscape and wildlife, and tackle climate change. And above all nature makes us happy! Yet young people have never been more disconnected from nature. Our Green... View Article
May 9, 2019
Inspiring the next generation is a key part of what we do at Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust and our rural apprenticeship scheme continues to be a very successful way of doing so. Our apprenticeships aim to engage young people to... View Article
