All schools, nurseries and colleges in England are invited to join the National Education Nature Park – developing young people’s green skills and enhancing biodiversity across the country

All schools, nurseries and colleges in England are invited to join the National Education Nature Park – developing young people’s green skills and enhancing biodiversity across the country - Royal Horticultural Society

The National Education Nature Park will give students the opportunity and skills to map their green spaces and then figure out what can be done to boost this biodiversity. ©The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London

From today, all schools, nurseries and colleges in England are invited to join the National Education Nature Park and boost nature in education

The initiative gives young people the opportunity to act for nature on their learning sites, from building rain gardens to growing pollinator-friendly plants, and collectively enhance biodiversity across the education estate

To celebrate the start of the roll out, schools, nurseries and colleges across the country are being encouraged to take part in a ‘Hidden Nature Challenge’ to get a taste of what the National Education Nature Park is all about, see green skills in action and have a positive impact by working together

From today, all schools, nurseries and colleges in England can join the National Education Nature Park, a new programme designed to empower young people to make a positive difference to both their own and nature’s future.

The programme is being delivered by the Natural History Museum with the Royal Horticultural Society and other partners, working alongside Esri UK. Responding to the urgency of the planetary emergency, this is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to transform the way we teach climate education and support young people to act and increase biodiversity across England.

This new initiative gives children and young people the opportunity to connect to nature while investigating and recording what’s living and growing on their learning sites. They will plan and take action to boost biodiversity, through improvements such as building rain gardens, growing pollinator-friendly plants, installing bird boxes and more. Places of education taking part in the programme will become part of a vast network of spaces across England that together form the National Education Nature Park. The land from schools in England forms an area the equivalent to roughly twice the size of Birmingham, so alongside nurseries and colleges that represents huge potential to collectively contribute to nature recovery across the country.