Community Project Captures The Imagination
Community Project Captures The Imagination
Children at a local primary school are keeping a close eye on a redevelopment project currently underway in the picturesque village of Dunsop Bridge on the Duchy’s Whitewell Estate in Lancashire. After two years’ close consultation with the local community, the disused petrol station on the main route through the village is about to be […]
Leave Only Footsteps….
Two of our rural surveyors took time out today to join local schoolchildren on a litter pick in the village of Dunsop Bridge on the Whitewell Estate in Lancashire. Lydia Richards and James Pyrah joined forces with pupils at Thorneyholme RC Primary School after Headteacher Mrs Olga Jackson invited the youngster to ‘clear up our […]
Community Project Comes to the Classroom
Local schoolchildren are taking an active interest in the redevelopment of two sites in the rural village at Dunsop Bridge. Plans for the repurposing of an old and disused petrol garage site were unanimously approved by local politicians and planners in May last year, together with proposals for a range of flexible workshops and craft […]
Outdoor Learning Facilities For Local Schools
Rural teams at the Duchy of Lancaster have been visiting local primary schools across the estates to encourage open air learning and the extension of the classroom into the natural environment. Several community schools applied to the Duchy of Lancaster Benevolent Fund at the start of the Covid pandemic for additional funding to support new […]
