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Project
origins
BTCV and the Silvanus Trust developed Tap Routes around
eight years ago in order to provide valued and effective development
opportunities for volunteers, both groups and individuals.
The partnership has since grown and opportunities
for volunteers have expanded to include provision of NVQs in environmental
conservation, skills certificates in areas such as chain-sawing,
and a great variety of courses, all of which are college accredited.
Action
for biodiversity
Tap Routes has helped environmental organisations in Cornwall train
and develop volunteers as well as their own staff in a wide range
of skills associated with good practice in habitat and species management.
Subjects include: Hedge laying, Cornish hedging, tree planting and
care, broadleaved woodland management, traditional orchard management,
veteran trees, stock grazing, bird box making, dune management,
pond management, botanical and butterfly identification skills,
to name but a few.
Relationships
to sustainable development
Tap Routes has greatly increased the capacity of the regional environmental
sector in Cornwall. It has provided work experience opportunities,
skills improvement and confidence building to improve the employability
of volunteers. This people development has occurred in the natural
environment of Cornwall, managing and improving it. Thus the work
of the Consortium has both social and environmental benefits and
also brings economic gain in the form of a resource which promotes
tourism and other investment in the area.
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