Kettlethorpe High School students are helping with our Let it Bee relaxed mowing campaign, which promotes natural habitats for wildlife and boosts sustainability in some of our estates.
The youngsters invited our Senior Project Officer for Sustainability, John Pickles, and our PR and Communications Officer, Lindsey Hanson, to their lunch time club to showcase the plans they’ve made so far ahead of our exciting ‘Dragons’ Den’ style event this summer.
The ideas include a sustainable style post box holding leaflets of information which people can collect when visiting the areas, and colourful Let it Bee pin badges to sell and raise funds for the campaign.
Lindsey said: “We have loved getting involved with the young people so far on this project. And I am really impressed with the ideas that the groups were putting together, a big part of this campaign is to get the positive message out there of the importance of why we are letting wild grass grow and I think we may have some ‘budding’ future communications stars in the making.”
John added: “This is such a great project for young people to be involved in, the benefits of having wild grass areas for sustainability and building natural habitats for wildlife are plenty. Managing our greenspaces differently, such as mowing less and leaving space for nature can help wildlife recover from developments and pollution. Exciting, fresh and fun actions and plans like the ones the students are doing mean that future generations can enjoy seeing greenspaces and wildlife thrive.”