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Three new Norfolk schools go wild thanks to new funding

Wilder Schools Mile Cross session 5 (credit: NWT)

We’ll be supporting three Norfolk Primary schools to get hands on with nature thanks to new funding from Ørsted’s Hornsea 3 Community Fund.

We received £16,685 from the Fund to support the continued roll-out of our Wilder Schools programme. Thanks to the new funding, we’ll be able to work with three new Norfolk primary schools to deliver nature-based, curriculum-linked sessions designed to inspire environmental action, improve wellbeing, and enhance biodiversity within school grounds.

Over two years, we will deliver classroom sessions for 150 children, teacher training, school assemblies and on-site conservation activities like wildflower planting and installing bat boxes at Rollesby Primary School, Loddon Junior School and Hillside Avenue Primary and Infant School.  

Isabelle Mudge, NWT Wilder Learning Manager, said: ‘This generous support from Ørsted will enable Norfolk Wildlife Trust to work with three primary schools in Norfolk to inspire children and their school communities to take action for nature. The project will bring outdoor learning into the classroom, developing pupils’ skills and confidence to help them feel part of a wilder future.’

Three schoolchildren sit at a blue desk, looking through a microscope

Wilder Schools Mile Cross forensic ecology session (credit: NWT)

Four schoolchildren gather round a table in a classroom, showing off their wooden hedgehog house

Wilder Schools Angel Road session 5 (credit: NWT)

A group of children using tools to build a nest box in a playground

Wilder Schools Mile Cross session 5 (credit: NWT)

A woman holds something out in her hands, while a primary school class stands around her looking amazed and excited

Wilder Schools Mile Cross forensic ecology session (credit: NWT)

Imran Nawaz, Senior Advisor and Community Benefit Fund Manager at Ørsted, added: ‘It’s great to give young people the chance to get hands on with nature and to help boost the next generation of conservationists. We were so impressed with the range and quality of projects funded – all of which help to create a stronger future for young people.’

A total of 11 education and training projects across communities in Lancashire and Cumbria, East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, and Norfolk and Suffolk have received a share of this year’s combined £275,000 Ørsted Skills Fund allocation.

The Ørsted Skills Fund is made up of three separate, ring-fenced funds that sit within the company’s UK Community Benefit Funds portfolio:

East Coast Community Fund – £100,000

Walney Extension Community Fund – £100,000

Hornsea 3 Community Fund – £75,000

Each Skills Fund supports projects in its respective region, with the shared goal of improving access to education, training and employment opportunities in areas located near Ørsted’s offshore wind farms. 

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