FREE NATURE-CONNECTION PROGRAMME FOR SCHOOLS
The Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT) have recently launched their Generation Wild programme, which will connect 45,000 children and their families with nature.
It includes FREE school visits (including FREE transport), FREE visits for families and a specially designed website to encourage continued nature-connection activity at school, at home and in local greenspaces.
Children and their families will find themselves transported by a magical narrative as they meet Ava, a part-bird, part-human creature in a giant nest. Can they help her to find her family, fulfil her destiny and unlock some of nature’s wildest secrets along the way?
The programme is now open to schools in disadvantaged areas, with places offered on a first-come-first-served basis.
Eligibility criteria (based on % of pupils eligible for free school meals) vary across centres so please visit the Generation Wild website to find your nearest centre and see if your school qualifies.
The scheme is running at seven wetland centres across the UK.
| Centre | Location |
Local Authority areas covered
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| Arundel | Arundel, West Sussex, BN18 9PN |
Brighton and Hove East Sussex Hampshire West Sussex
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Castle Espie |
County Down, Northern Ireland, BT23 6EA |
Antrim (county) Armagh (county) Down (county)
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| Llanelli |
Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, S Wales, SA14 9SH |
Bridgend Caerphilly Carmarthenshire Neath Port Talbot Pembrokeshire Powys Rhondda, Cynon, Taf Swansea Vale of Glamorgan
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| London | Barnes, London SW13 9WT | Bracknell Forest
Brent Croydon Ealing Hammersmith and Fulham Harrow Hillingdon Hounslow Kingston upon thames Lambeth Merton Reading Richmond upon thames Slough Southwark Surrey Sutton Wandsworth Westminster Windsor and Maidenhead Wokingham
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| Martin Mere | Burscough, Lancashire, L40 0TA | Blackburn with darwen
Blackpool Bolton Bury Halton Knowsley Lancashire Liverpool Manchester Oldham Rochdale Salford Sefton Stockport Tameside Trafford Wigan
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| Slimbridge |
Slimbridge, Gloucestershire, GL2 7BT |
Bath and North East Somerset
Bristol City of Cardiff Gloucestershire Herefordshire Monmouthshire Newport North Somerset South Gloucestershire Swindon Wiltshire Worcestershire
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| Washington | Washington, Tyne and Wear, NE38 8LE | Country Durham
Darlington Gateshead Hartlepool Middlesbrough Newcastle upon tyne North Tyneside Northumberland Redcar and Cleveland South Tyneside Stockton-on-tees Sunderland |
