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Green Shoots & Green Leaders

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Transforming Young Lives Through Nature

We are seeking a dedicated corporate partner to support Green Shoots and Green Leaders, a groundbreaking youth engagement programme based within the North York Moors National Park. This initiative specifically targets young people from deprived areas, many of whom are disengaged from mainstream education or not currently in full-time education.

Green Shoots offers weekly structured support to help young people develop life skills, emotional resilience, and a deep connection to nature. The programme is rooted in a co-design approach, ensuring that young people play an active role in shaping their experiences and defining their personal goals.

Key components include:

  • Sustained, weekly support to foster skills in problem-solving, teamwork, and self-confidence
  • Personal development through nature-based activities that improve mental health, wellbeing, and emotional resilience
  • Targeted interventions designed to achieve deep and lasting impact for each individual, delivered during term time

Green Leaders builds on this foundation, offering monthly weekend volunteer activities through the Young Ranger programme, providing both graduates of Green Shoots and other young people the opportunity to give back to their communities and further their development through environmental leadership.

The programme also includes the employment of a part-time officer to manage, guide, and deliver these experiences.

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National Parks Partnership works with leading organisations to deliver nature recovery, social impact and climate action at national scale.

Through a partnerships spanning a few to all fifteen UK National Parks, we help businesses move from ambition to demonstrating real and measurable impact.

Whether you are exploring your first partnership, or looking to deepen existing commitments as part of a wider partnerships portfolio, our team will work with you to shape a partnership aligned to your organisation’s goals, governance and reporting needs.

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Partnering with the National Parks brings our technology together with on-the-ground initiatives to make a real impact.

Importantly, our research not only shows that people want to engage more with nature, but that they expect businesses to play their part too, so we are proud to help meet that challenge.

Nicki Lyons, Chief Corporate Affairs & Sustainability Officer, VodafoneThree