Project details

Project summary

Directly supporting the scheme’s volunteer led activities, and developing sustainable local capacity for the future long term management of the heritage landscape and its special features.

Key partners

Project outputs

New volunteers recruited
Returning volunteers
Trained volunteers
Third sector groups supported

Project outcomes

Increase constructive volunteering opportunities
Increase the sustainable capacity of local organisations and the wider community to manage the heritage landscape
Foster a sense of collective social responsibility

Scheme objectives

Increase local awareness of Holy Island’s heritage
Increase community participation in local heritage activities
Engage new people and hard to reach individuals
Improve awareness and understanding of heritage conservation and management
Develop local capacity for the sustainable management of Holy Island’s heritage landscape and its features

Activities

As part of the Partnership’s outreach and engagement activities, together with key partners such as Keep Wales Tidy, Ramblers Cymru and Kehoe countryside, volunteering days have been delivered from 2021 onwards and throughout 2022. To date over 30 volunteering days have taken place totalling over 700 volunteer hours by local people of all age groups. The project has made a real difference to the protection of nature and heritage sites as well as providing the opportunity for participants to learn new skills, meet new people and improve their health and wellbeing. Activities include litter picks and beach nurdle hunts, dry-stone walling, the creation of a wildflower meadow and the planting of fruit trees, path repair and maintenance and wildlife surveys.