The Amazing Places Project

The Amazing Places Project

We operate in partnership with Community Space Challenge, funded by the Big Lottery Fund. Community Space Challenge is about young people taking on run down and forgotten spaces and changing them into fresh green places for everyone to use and enjoy. It covers 70 areas of the country and focuses on involving young people growing up in tough situations: they learn about the environment, growing fresh food, creating sensory and wildlife community gardens, and linking them into their communities.

Our target group is those young people who for a variety of reasons may not be in education, employment or training (NEET) or who are deemed at risk of finding themselves in that situation. We also aim to work with young people who have found themselves in trouble with the police.

Our new project will be ‘The Amazing Places Project’ to reflect the expansion of the project from its previous focus on Manningham to encompass the whole of the Bradford area.  If there is a piece of land in the grounds of your own organisation or nearby, then we could discuss how we can improve and transform that place.

One of the fundamental aims of the work that BYDP does is to ensure that our projects will result in sustainable and long term improvements to the environment in the places in which we work. Therefore we offer training and accreditation to people who work in the community or in schools so that they are able to continue the good work once BYDP’s involvement has come to an end. With this long term planning in mind we do look to negotiate an acceptable level of match funding from the organisations with which we work in partnership.

Please free to contact me if you feel that this is something you feel that you and/or your colleagues might be interested in.