Hello there,

My name is Trisha McGlynn and I work as a Forest School Project Officer at Lancashire Wildlife Trust, based at Brockholes Nature Reserve in Preston.

We are extremely proud that the Wildlife Trusts are People’s Postcode Lottery’s charity of the week. It gives us an opportunity to share with you all the wonderful work we have been able to undertake thanks to support from players, including delivering Forest School programmes within inner city settings in Liverpool and Manchester, supporting setting staff with their Level 3 Forest School Leader qualification and assisting with the development of their outside spaces to promote learning and wildlife.

During this time of uncertainty, funding raised by players of People’s Postcode Lottery has allowed us to support staff and children within schools in Manchester and Liverpool. We facilitate children’s curiosity in the world around them and assist with their learning, investigating, testing and discovery. They access risk and challenges whilst playing in the woodland or green spaces within school grounds.

Support from players of People’s Postcode Lottery enables inner city children, who may have access to limited green spaces, the chance to explore and the freedom to be. The sessions promote self-confidence, emotional intelligence and resilience; skills that will stay with them into adulthood. The opportunity for learners to lead their own learning, go at their own pace and take part in activities rich in natural resources is one of the unique experiences offered at Forest School for the children.