The Parks Foundation
As a charity, the Parks Foundation delivers community projects and fundraises for our parks in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole with your help.
We want to create inspirational parks that improve people’s health and wellbeing, reconnect people with nature and bring diverse communities together.
Visit www.parksfoundation.org.uk.
The Parks Foundation YouCAN updates
The Parks Foundation’s Young Adult Ranger Work Experience full programme launched in July 2024. 19 sessions were delivered throughout the summer in parks across Bournemouth, Christchurch, and Poole.
The sessions are designed to help young people aged 16-25 years develop environmental skills in a variety of areas – from managing meadows to surveying butterflies.
19 young people have attended the summer activities with five of them already completing a course of six sessions, and some rangers have gone on to attend even more.
As well as the Ranger Work Experience sessions, five students from Bournemouth University have undertaken short-term work placements, and bespoke sessions have been delivered for students at a local school.
Hear what some of the rangers said on BBC Radio Solent.
One young adult junior ranger, Charlie, joined the Countryside Education Trust’s internship programme, another YouCAN project, following a recommendation from The Parks Foundation.
You can read Charlie’s story here.
