Stockbridge Junior Rangers
“On one weekend alone they pulled 36 burnt out cars from the woods. You see the kids enjoying themselves, the woodland is improving and they’re learning to look after wildlife. Hopefully they’ll teach their kids to respect the woods, the wildlife and the world we live in.”
Phil Parry, Stockbridge Junior Rangers
Stockbridge Junior Rangers is a wildlife watch group in a deprived area of Knowsley in Merseyside, set up to make children from the local estate part of the solution to fly-tipping and anti-social behavior that blighted local woodland. The group is hugely popular and has turned the woods into a positive resource for the local community. On one single weekend they pulled 36 burnt out cars from the woodland. Originally led by external staff the group is now run by volunteers from within the community.
Stockbridge Junior Rangers won an Ecover Ethical Kids Award at The Observer newspaper’s Ethical Living Awards in 2009.
- Community-centred projects are vital to cohesion and can bring about long-term sustainable protection of environmental resources.
- The cost to government agencies of anti-social behaviour is approximately £3.4 billion per year.
- Reducing anti-social behaviour in children presents significant savings; by adulthood, antisocial children have cost the public 10 times more than children with usual social behaviour.
For more information
about the Stockbridge Rangers visit www.stockbridgerangers.org
Stockbridge Junior Rangers are a WATCH club: WATCH is the children's branch of the Wildlife Trust and has been running for over 30 years. In Lancashire, Manchester and North Merseyside there are 12 WATCH groups led almost entirely by volunteers, each group supporting between 15 and 40 children.
Stockbridge Rangers is also a Mersey Forest project: www.merseyforest.org With more than 8 million trees planted since 1984, the Mersey Forest is a growing network of trees, community woodlands and green spaces across Cheshire and Merseyside, bringing social, economic and environmental benefits to the region.
Now is the time to listen to, value and invest in the Third Sector in England’s North West.
Stockbridge Junior Rangers are a WATCH club: WATCH is the children's branch of the Wildlife Trust and has been running for over 30 years. In Lancashire, Manchester and North Merseyside there are 12 WATCH groups led almost entirely by volunteers, each group supporting between 15 and 40 children.
Stockbridge Rangers is also a Mersey Forest project: www.merseyforest.org With more than 8 million trees planted since 1984, the Mersey Forest is a growing network of trees, community woodlands and green spaces across Cheshire and Merseyside, bringing social, economic and environmental benefits to the region.
Now is the time to listen to, value and invest in the Third Sector in England’s North West.
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