Youngwilders

🕷 📣 Three days left to apply for our Summer Internship! 📣 🐞 Key details: Pay: £100/day + expenses Working hours: 1-2 days a week, 7 hour day(s), specific day(s) flexible Contract type: Fixed term 8 week contract, commencing July 29th Location: Remote, UK, able to travel to London and SE Application close date: Sunday 21st July, 6pm About the role: The role is a smorgasbord of activities relating to ecology and youth nature engagement. Core priorities include helping to coordinate young people nature education events, particularly Overgrowth at the Knepp estate, September 14-15th, as well as helping us develop ecological restoration plans and, though not compulsory, doing some in-person ecological work. It’s giving all-purpose. The role can also be partly shaped around the interests of the successful applicant. No specific prior experience or qualifications are required. How to apply: It’s giving CV and 2 minute video (sorry!) sent to jack at jack@youngwilders.uk. Please see our website for more instructions on the application and details on the role: https://lnkd.in/eiZBay4A

If the future of UK nature is in the hands of people like Prerana Balu we're safe! Massive thank you to everyone that came to Hepple for our first Wild Weekend. It was very special to spend a longer period of time together in nature - and everyone was so keen to learn. We have two more nature skills weekends coming up at Maple Farm in Surrey this summer - check out our eventbrite for more info!

Exciting to see the Rewilding Britain Network visit the Hepple Estate as part of their #Rewilding gathering. It's not long to go before we bring 30 young people to the same place for a weekend of camping, walking, ecology skills and nature restoration activities!

Are you a camping-curious young nature nerd interested in gathering/bolstering your ecology skills and having a relaxing weekend in a wonderful place? If yes, consider coming to our ‘Wild Weekend’ at Hepple Wilds in Northumberland National Park! In collaboration with the lovely folks at Hepple Wilds, we are co-hosting hilltop workshops, guided walks and fireside talks across the first May bank holiday, May 4-6th. It’s set to be a beauty. You don't need to be working in the wilding/conservation sphere to attend, if you're interested in the sector or just open to learning new things, there will be something for you! Tickets are £33.22, please email Jack (jack@youngwilders.uk) if you are interested but need financial assistance. More details and tickets here: https://lnkd.in/eTT-AwUp

Last Thursday, we held our first corporate partnership day with Foodsteps! Their brilliant team braved gale-force winds to mulch trees planted by young volunteers at our site in Essex. Foodsteps' CEO and Founder - the unstoppable Anya Doherty - is a co-founder of Youngwilders, and some of the team are regular volunteers (shout out to Joe Duncan-Duggal and Joe T.) so it was special to have them choose us for their team day.

As we near the end of the working day, here’s a sunny memory from one of our ‘Hedgeruary’ planting days - our yearly cycle of February volunteering days planting up scrub and hedgerow across a variety of sites, led by young people for young people, in collaboration with farmers, landowners, local councils and other charities and organisations. In this photo, we helped a farmer plant over 200m of FiPL (Farming in Protected Landscapes) funded native hedgerow. This #WorldRewildingDay, we’re giving a huge shout out and thank you to all our amazing volunteers, landowner collaborators, funders and, most importantly, THREE new team members (!!!), plus all the amazing and tireless people working on nature recovery across the sector and beyond. We’re extremely excited and hopeful for the year to come ⚡️

An extremely exciting day for Youngwilders! We're so thrilled to have Meg join the team to accelerate our ecological surveying and habitat management work, alongside a programme of field skills education. What did we do to deserve this!? 😱 💥 🌳