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
YDMT’s People and the DALES project empowers people from underserved communities to spend time in the Dales and connect with nature. For the last 16 years we’ve been working with one of these groups, BIASAN, to support the refugee community... View Article
Aila Taylor recently joined YDMT as a Woodland Trainee. In her blog she tells us about her hopes for improving accessibility to the Yorkshire Dales for everyone, and how YDMT helps asylum seekers and others to do just that through... View Article
February 7, 2024
In October, we took seven families to camp under the stars for the first time and enjoy some respite in the Yorkshire Dales at Swinton Estate’s Bivouac site in Masham. Women and children from Apna Haq in Rotherham who are experiencing domestic... View Article
November 13, 2023
In July, our People and the DALES team welcomed mums from Bradford and our new Trustee Noreen Khan to the woods above Austwick Hall for a culinary competition by campfire – a curry cook-off in the woods! The women are part of NEESIE,... View Article
August 16, 2023
The theme of Refugee Week 2023 was ‘Compassion’. Compassion is what drives Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust’s (YDMT) People and the DALES team. They bring people to the Yorkshire Dales to foster connections with communities who otherwise might not be able... View Article
February 15, 2022
We are all devastated by the needless loss of life of people trying to reach safety in Britain by crossing the English Channel. Here in the Dales, we continue to do what we can to support refugees and asylum seekers living in towns and... View Article
September 22, 2021
Our first People and the DALES residential since the start of Covid-19 saw 24 women and children from the Maternity Stream of the City of Sanctuary Leeds come to Gearstones Lodge near Ribblehead. An ordinary weekend of fun and activity... View Article
June 16, 2021
The theme of this years Refugee Week is: We cannot walk alone. It seemed like a great time to share some of the remarkable stories of people we have met – and often walked with – through our People and... View Article
September 23, 2016
This September the small community of Malhamdale in the heart of the Yorkshire Dales opened their homes to a group of refugee and asylum seeking women and children for a weekend of fun and friendship.
