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
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
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
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 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
November 13, 2023
A thriving woodland on a Yorkshire Dales farm is helping to demonstrate how planting trees and hedgerows can benefit farming, as well as creating vital habitats for wildlife and tackling climate change. Westfields Farm in Chapel-le-Dale has seen 2,000 new trees planted along a beck, as... 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
May 24, 2023
Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust has led efforts to protect, restore and manage species rich wildflower meadows in the Yorkshire Dales since 2006. Meadows are crucial in addressing biodiversity loss and climate change, and can support more than 700 species of wild plants, and a rich... View Article
November 8, 2022
YDMT’s pilot Woodland Wellbeing project is bringing the wonders of the woods to young people who need it most. Connecting with nature provides many of the opportunities that young people need to develop life skills – confidence, self-esteem, self-understanding, building... 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
