In reply to David:
Hello, I raised your query with our staff involved with the Wildlife Action Awards and they provided the following reply! Hope this helps.
Anyone, anywhere can do the Wildlife Action Awards. You can do the actions on your own, as a family group, if you are home educated, belong to an after school or community club, or even use the scheme as a set of activities for the whole school to do. Many of the activities in the scheme can be adapted to become more challenging for older participants – how far an individual takes an action is entirely up to them.
Yes you can do the activities without having a base. Some actions can be used as “take home” activities, whilst others will need to be done as a group. For example, a group might choose to create a wildlife garden at the venue they meet at, or a group might decide to go pond dipping as part of one of their meetings or trip out. Collecting litter could be done as a group in an area of their choice, whilst green shopping and composting might be actions they do as a ‘take home’ activity.
For each award level you need to complete one activity from each of the four sections plus two other activities of your choice and you cannot repeat an activity unless it is for new children. This means you need to do 6 activities for a Bronze award, a further 6 for Silver, and a further 6 at Gold, making 18 different activities in total. Every child that takes part will receive a personalised certificate and set of exclusive stickers, and the Group would also receive a certificate.
Every time you get a new child you can start the awards again. So a school, for example, could continually roll the scheme so that Year 1 always did Bronze, Year 2 did Silver and Year 3 did Gold.
With regards to free access to reserves, one leader of the club would get free access but any other adults would be required to pay.
Warden Intern at Otmoor.
