September 19, 2024
Getting jobs in the environment sector is not easy for young people. In 2021, we recruited our first YDMT Woodland Trainees to help address the shortage of young people coming into the forestry sector and to bring much-needed skills to... 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 8, 2024
No two days are the same on a rural apprenticeship. For Callum, who completes his placement with Cumbria Wildlfie Trust this spring, a ‘typical’ month included mountain skills training, fencing and a day in parliament. In autumn we welcomed six new apprentices... 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 19, 2023
We are delighted to welcome Hannah Russell as our YDMT Youth Ambassador! Hannah is a Yorkshire Dales author and entrepreneur, who loves the outdoors and animals. Along with authoring a best-selling book collection about her pony Alf and his friends,... View Article
A new and enhanced grants programme was launched by Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust in June – enabling more people and groups to make a difference across their communties in the Yorkshire Dales and surrounding areas. The programme will build on YDMT’s previous grants... View Article
August 16, 2022
As the loss of our iconic ash trees transforms the Dales landscape, planting field trees is increasingly important to replace and extend lost tree cover. Ash is prevalent in woodlands across the Dales and a landmark in our fields, farms,... 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 4, 2021
Introducing Keziah! Keziah (on the left!) joined our Environmental Apprenticeship Scheme this year, as an apprentice at Cumbria Wildlife Trust. “I’ve had an amazing experience so far,” Keziah said. “We’ve been dock pulling, nettle digging, bracken bashing, clearing barns, osprey... View Article
November 3, 2021
Thanks to support from the European Outdoor Conservation Association, our Plastic Free Woodlands project has already made significant progress in removing redundant plastic tree guards from the Yorkshire Dales landscape, championing alternatives, and highlighting the issue of plastics in forestry... View Article
