green tiger bettle at Lower Crockford Bottom

Educational support organisations

Artsway
Presents a changing exhibition programme, hosts an artist in residence, offers professional development and a wide range of courses & workshops in a unique forest environment.
www.artsway.org.uk

BTCV
Provides help for schools in developing their grounds and raising environmental knowledge and understanding. Also provides training courses and the 'EnvironMentors' scheme.
www.btcv.org/southerncentral

Eco-Schools
Provides a simple framework to allow schools to analyse operations and become more sustainable.
www.eco-schools.org.uk

English Heritage
Focuses on developing the learning potential of the historic environment, including English Heritage's own site, for schools, colleges, families and lifelong learners.
www.english-heritage.org.uk

Forest Schools
Aims to encourage and inspire individuals of any age through participating in motivating and achievable tasks in a woodland environment.
www.forestschools.com

Hampshire Country Learning
Provides opportunities for children in Hampshire, Southampton & Portsmouth to visit and learn about the countryside with particular emphasis on farming.
www.countrylearning.org.uk

High-Tech Wild-Trek
With video equipment linked to microscopes and computers, Wild Trek can visit schools directly and enable a range of plant and animal life to be displayed and recorded.
www.5kingdoms.co.uk

Healthy Schools
This is a scheme based on health and education partnerships that ensures that health education is an integrated part of the school curriculum.
www3.hants.gov.uk/healthyschools.htm

Soil-Net
Provides educational materials concerning current developments affecting soil science.  Includes a guided soil walk around an area of the New Forest.
www.soil-net.com

Trailblazer
An award scheme promoting outdoor learning and environmental education for young people of all ages in Hampshire.
www.hampshiretrailblazers.hants.gov.uk

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