Youth Justice Service calls for conservation ideas
Warwickshire’s Youth Justice Service is calling on residents to suggest simple conservation projects that could do with a helping hand.
As part of their reparation programme, 10 to 17-year-olds across the county get involved in a number of projects such as building bird, bee and bat boxes; clearing grassland; and maintaining local allotments.
The bird and insect boxes are proving particularly popular with requests from various organisations to use them in communal gardens, conservation areas or at home. It is expected that this project will be expanded as demand continues to grow.
Projects such as this help young people learn new skills to increase job prospects in the future as well as increasing knowledge of wildlife and the countryside. The local community benefits from improved conservation areas.
Now Warwickshire’s Youth Justice Service is asking for suggestions of other wildlife conservation projects that could benefit from the young people’s help.
Heather Shilling, Operations Manager for Warwickshire’s Youth Justice Service, said: “The aim of the reparation directory is to give young people working with us the opportunity to make up for crimes they have committed, in ways that benefit a whole community.
“So it’s really important for residents to be involved in deciding what those are. Any ideas will be considered by the team with a selection chosen for inclusion in the directory.”
For more information regarding Warwickshire’s Youth Justice Service or to submit your Conservation project ideas for the reparation directory, visit http://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/yjs.