Our funded projects allow us to educate and engage with schools and communities across the UK, supported by like-minded councils, charities and organisations
The Sand Snails Project
Our Sand Snails project focusses on improving the understanding of NPT nature and ecology within the community engaging local children and the wider community with the sea snails (gastropod marine molluscs) found on their sandy shores. This is being done through classroom outreach, field trips to Aberavon beach and outdoor family engagement events increasing local biodiversity and identification knowledge.
Funded: NPT Local Nature Partnership
Seashore Trails Series
A series of four family-friendly walks on the Bridgend Coast developed and designed by Beach Academy.
We combined the health and wellbeing of coastal walking with easy beach activities that could be completed unaccompanied by a guide to explore the intertidal marine environment and wales coast path.
Each trail can be downloaded and completed at any time and suitable for all ages.
Funded: Reach, Bridgend CBC
The Ogmore Reefs
Aim of the project was to increase public awareness and understanding of our natural world, by focusing on the Honeycomb worm reefs at Ogmore-by-Sea Beach in the Vale of Glamorgan. Many locals, and visitors, are unaware of what these fragile protected habitats on our shore are. An education pack and A3 information poster were produced as digital downloads for everyone to access and learn more about them.
Funded: Vale Local Nature Partnership
Seashore Creatures Specimen Tour
This project immersed pupils from 20 BCBC schools in a world of living things they had never seen before. Collected by the founder of Beach Academy the specimens are kept for children to connect and learn about the living things found on their own shores, not far away. An A3 identification chart was also produced to support the learning, an engagement weekend for families was also held with guided nature trails and a touch table,
Funded: Bridgend Local Nature Partnership
Rockpool Guardians
Rockpool Guardians focused on how to protect and preserve marine life on local beaches whilst taking part in the outdoor activity of Rockpooling, historically enjoyed by generations on the welsh coast. The project encouraged beahviour change to protect the living things found in Rockpools from injury, disturbance and destruction and why, now more than ever, we need to.
Funded: Nature Networks Programme, delivered by the Heritage Fund, on behalf of the Welsh Government.
Project Starfish
Project Starfish helped pupils and the public learn how to spot, identify and record starfish on the South Wales shore by looking at the different species you can find here in Wales, what to do when you see one, how to rescue them and top tips on how you can help protect them from harm when on the beach or rockpooling.
Funded: Vale Coastal Project and Vale Nature Partnership
Project Driftwood
Project Driftwood focused on the importance of driftwood in strandline habitats and the biodiversity of invertebrate life that strandlines support, including action to encourage the endangered Strandline beetle back to NPT shores. We did this through biodiversity recording, engagement events like beetle hunts and the creation of an identification resource.
Funded: NPT Local Nature Partnership
