Social Value
Social value is part of every project we deliver. Our programme reflects regulatory requirements, our certification standards and our funding scheme obligations. We then tailor it to align with your targets and ambitions, recording every outcome as data so we can measure and demonstrate the value we create.
Supporting local economies and communities
Our projects are strategically located to support local nature recovery goals. Created in collaboration with local landowners and land stewards, they provide long-term income diversification and support local communities and rural economies.
Where possible, we enhance public access to nature and create opportunities for engagement and outreach with local schools and communities. We also measure the wider ecosystem services each site delivers, providing evidence of the environmental benefits alongside biodiversity gains.
Habitat Bank visits
Welcoming local nature groups and community organisations
We arrange group visits so local people can experience a large-scale nature project in their area and get the chance to spot rare and notable species of flora and fauna found there.
If you’re part of a local charity, nature group, youth programme, or community organisation and would like to arrange a group visit to your nearest Habitat Bank, please get in touch.
Developing skills and careers
Our ecology apprenticeship opportunities combine practical work at Environment Bank with degree study at Harper Adams University. Supporting numerous apprentices, we provide a route into environmental careers while developing the skills needed to deliver nature recovery.
School outreach
Getting young people engaged in nature recovery
We visit schools where we offer talks and interactive sessions with quizzes and activities to help them become inspired about their local ecosystems.
If you’d like us to visit your school or there’s a Habitat Bank from our national network that’s local to your school, please get in touch and we can arrange a visit from one of our biodiversity experts.
Our school galleries
We’ve been delighted to visit a number of schools, including several local to our flagship Nature Shares project, Bog Hall Habitat Bank at the Castle Howard Estate in North Yorkshire. We’ve been sharing details of the project with the pupils, helping them understand habitat restoration, in particular our upcoming beaver release programme. We’ve enlisted their help in illustrating our wildlife, and some of this wonderful artwork will be shortly selected to appear on signage at Bog Hall Habitat Bank.
Slingsby Community Primary School, North Yorkshire
Foston Church of England VC Primary School, North Yorkshire
Terrington Church of England VA Primary School, North Yorkshire
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