Lambing with Addi Street Supported Housing Project

Addi Street is sheltered housing provided by Catholic Care for adults with mental health issues in Bradford. A group of 10 tenants came lambing at Ribblehead a few weeks ago as part of the People and the DALES programme. The following account of the day is written by one of the tenants: Our Day Out Lambing, [...]

Work experience (and a bit of play) at YDMT

This blog was written by Hannah – who we’ve had the pleasure of having with us on work experience this week. “This week I have been doing work experience at the Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust. I chose to come here for a number of reasons. Mainly because there are a lot of different types of jobs involved [...]

Linking communities in Yorkshire

Meeting people from new places and different communities is often difficult. Our People and the DALES project is helping to break down some of the barriers by setting up links between communities. Two groups who recently became acquanted through the project were a group of young people from Girlington Community Centre in Bradford and a youth group for young people in Stainforth, Langcliffe and Horton in Ribblesdale in [...]

A day out in the great outdoors.

A glorious, cold but sunny March day, that really felt like the beginning of spring saw our People and the DALES team out with a group, marking the start of a new season of visits. Gail Smith, who is one of our People and the DALES Community Workers says: “The unpredictability of the weather at this time [...]

Wood work in the Dales

Our People and the DALES team are really starting to get busy with activities out in the Dales now that Spring has arrived. One of Judy’s groups recently lent a hand to the Bodger at Bolton Abbey – working in the woods. Richard Law is the bodger on the Bolton Abbey estate. During winter he fells certain trees to make way for [...]

People and the DALES video diary

Judy, our People and the Dales Community Worker and prize winning cheese-cake eater (sorry Judy!), took a group from Bradford on a tour of Skipton in March. Follow this link to see the Groups video diary of their day out. http://animoto.com/play/4TdVSERKszDIORDSh1LIOA# The group are called BIASAN – and they are a refugee support group based in Bradford. Many of [...]

Burma meets Malham though People and the DALES

In 2004 the Home Office agreed to accept up to 500 refugees a year under a resettlement programme run by the United Nations. Under this scheme some of the world’s most vulnerable refugees, including many who have lived in refugee camps for years, are given a safe route to the UK and granted indefinite leave to [...]

Helping you ‘take it back home’

YDMT run the People and the DALES project, which is helping disadvantaged and disabled people who live in urban areas to come to the Dales and enjoy different activities in our beautiful countryside. We also hope to inspire people who have been involved to spend more time in the great outdoors, reaping the many benefits [...]

Whatever the weather

Gail Smith is one of our People and the DALES Community Workers. The People and the DALES project, which is run by Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust, aims to enable all sorts of community groups – lots of which are from deprived inner-city areas – to come to the Dales and enjoy days out doing a whole range of things. Gail and Judy (another [...]

Work experience at YDMT

This past week we’ve enjoyed having Izzy around, who is  on work experience from Settle College. As it’s now coming to the end of her week with us I asked her if she would write a bit about her experience of working at the Trust. And so here it is. “This past week I have been on work experience [...]