9. Learning and Skills: Outcome and Measures

Desired Outcome 9 

More people are learning about Bowland and its natural beauty, and practising the skills that help to conserve and enhance its characteristic features

 

MEASURES

For National Government, ALBs and/or Local Government For Conservation bodies For farmers and land managers For Communities and Businesses
9A Provide and support educational visits to Bowland, including engaging schools and colleges from nearby towns ✔ ✔ ✔  
9B Provide support to teachers to help them develop and deliver Bowland-related programmes, including links between food and farming, in the classroom and in the field   ✔ ✔    
9C Support school travel costs and work to remove barriers to participation in environmental educational activity. ✔ ✔    
9D Provide support for, and input to, lifelong-learning programmes linked to the area’s nature, culture and heritage   ✔    

9E Develop and resource opportunities for citizen science with a strong element of training and learning that support increases in the quantity and quality of data on species and habitats

 

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9F Provide training opportunities in skills which are key to conserving and enhancing Bowland's components of natural beauty, including developing more opportunities for peer-to-peer learning   ✔ ✔ ✔
9G Create apprenticeships, traineeships and placements in rural skills, and professional roles in local organisations, to establish career pathways into the farming, forestry, nature and heritage sectors ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔

Targets

Local Indicators 

Number of training days held

Number of people trained

Number of farm education visits

Number of schools engaged