Inmates at Garth Prison are taking part in the Tools Shed project, The Conservation Foundation’s recycling project.
The Ulnes Walton prison’s role in the project is seeing inmates repair broken and unwanted garden hand-tools before giving them to schoolchildren taking part in environmental activities at Brockholes Nature Reserve, neighbouring the M6 motorway at Preston.
Brockholes volunteer, Hugh Sloan, said: “Tools Shed started as a pilot at HMP Wandsworth in 2006 and it was a great success. It’s now running in seven prisons across the UK, thanks to funding from the Big Lottery.