Bradford Urban Discovery Evaluation Report (Final)

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Bradford Urban Discovery (BUD) has met, and indeed exceeded, most of its aims. It has improved
local green spaces in some of Bradford’s most deprived areas; increased the physical and mental
wellbeing of children and young people; been led by the needs and wishes of local communities;
and seen community groups taking more of an interest in looking after these green spaces. It has:
• Worked with over 400 adults and almost 1000 children in some of Bradford’s most
deprived areas. 20% live in the 1% most deprived areas nationally. 75% live in the top ten
most deprived areas nationally. [Indices of Multiple Deprivation 2019]
• Enabled more people to fulfil their potential by working to address issues at the
earliest possible stage. BUD reached children and young people at all ages of childhood,
from babes in arms and early years, through to 17 and 18 year olds at sixth form.
• Improved the health and wellbeing of children and young people in these areas and
address low levels of physical activity in families and young people. On average,
children and young people’s wellbeing increased by 9.5% and their physical activity
increased by 14%.
• Brought people together and built strong relationships in and across communities.
BUD was a catalyst for bringing local communities and stakeholders together around a
shared ambition, generating new relationships, more locally joined up working, increased
investment, more stable local organisations, and new engagement between local
communities and Bradford Council services.
• Improved places that matter to communities. Not only has BUD improved places that
mater to them, it motivated them to care about spaces that did not matter to them before.
BUD has generated a new layer of infrastructure across some of Bradford’s most deprived areas.
New relationships between local stakeholders have been set up, and existing relationships have
been strengthened.
The children, young people and families directly involved with BUD have discovered new spaces,
learned how and why nature matters in ways they say were compassionate, informative, playful,
accessible, and witnessed what an embodied relationship with nature looks like. Adults have seen
children and young people become more confident, more interested in freshly picked foods, more
caring about nature, and samples of data show children and young people doing more physical
activity, and spending time being more mindful.
Local green spaces are cleaner, with less crime, better looked after, more known about, safer, and
environmentally healthier. As a result, more investment has been allocated to them, and more
interest has been raised in their long-term future.
Sustaining this impact longer term is more uncertain. Small pockets of voluntary care and
management look promising though there are no formal agreements or plans in place. Local
stakeholders at the council are keen to identify local level steering or management groups of
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stakeholders to carry on the momentum built through BUD. At a strategic level, most stakeholders
agree that focussing on a smaller number of areas would help ensure ongoing and visible benefits.
At Great Horton, everyone involved in BUD there agrees ongoing engagement and finding a local
group to care for the sites are crucial. Brackenhill Meadows has been informally adopted into the
Brackenhill Park’s immediate future, though the Friends of Brackenhill Park is currently
undersubscribed and not as active as they would like.
At Wibsey, permanent tangible changes have been made, with the mill pond embedded in Park
interpretation. The Friends of Wibsey began to think of this extension as part of their other work
supporting and enhancing the park. After covid, the Friends group is less active, and there are no
formal agreements about the long-term care for the mill pond area.
Across Low Moor and Oakenshaw, incredible progress has been made with improvement to the
land. The local conservation group is confident about keeping on top of the work done, though they
are small with limited capacity, and the future of Low Moor Banks is still uncertain. In addition,
because this area is less deprived than others, the assumption among some stakeholders is that ‘it
will be okay’. However, local residents involved with BUD are concerned the area is at tipping point
because so many resources are falling away, and covid has reduced the voluntary / community
impetus, so the assumption it doesn’t need intervention like other places do put it at risk of
becoming more deprived. Locals there said continued support now will help grow community
involvement, and in turn help tip the balance back the other way to ensure the area doesn’t need as
much intervention in coming years.
RECOMMENDATIONS
1. Continue working on bringing together local communities / community groups to
ensure the continued management of the green spaces. This needs more time to be
successful and to ensure the continued management of the green spaces is embedded for
the longer term. Local steering or management groups and formal agreements need to be
in place before BUD can confidently step back. This applies equally in all three BUD zones.
2. Great Horton needs ongoing investment to see a long-term change in the wellbeing
of children and young people. The complexity of the local population’s lives, and levels of
deprivation in the area, make it difficult to assume the work will ever become entirely self-
sustaining. Direct face to face engagement between BUD and children / young people has
been key to the success in this area. It is not just the being there that mattered. But also,
the combination of compassion, care and thorough expert knowledge that made a
difference to participants and local stakeholders alike. Partners working with BUD on the
project all commented that no-one else provides this unique combination in the area.
3. More work needs to be done to ensure YWT ‘front-line’ staff working in highly
deprived areas are more equipped and confident to gather appropriate evaluation
information.
There is a strong culture of monitoring and research embedded into YWT. However, those
on the ‘front-line’ are under confident in collecting evaluation information when working in
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areas of high deprivation. There is an (incorrect) assumption that it can’t be done without
disrupting the flow of the work and engagement people come to join in with. There appear
be two main reasons for this. One – that some systems proven to be academically robust,
really aren’t a good fit for this kind of work (they are too formal, lengthy and wordy and
generally inaccessible for people without English, or without much experience of being in
nature). But there are other ways to do it which can be embedded much more appropriately
without risking robust, reliable results. Two – this kind of data gathering isn’t typical in the
work YWT does, so it isn’t modelled across the layers of the organisation.
This is especially relevant when working in deprived areas. In other places, people tend to
be more used to evaluation and have less language or literacy barriers.
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FULL REPORT
FULL REPORT 5
Contents
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY .............................................................................................................................................................. 2
INTRODUCTION TO BUD ......................................................................................................................................................... 7

EVALUATION APPROACH ........................................................................................................................................................9
MEETING BUD’S STRATEGIC AIMS AND TARGETS ................................................................................................ 10
GREAT HORTON’S BUD JOURNEY..................................................................................................................................... 15
WIBSEY’S BUD JOURNEY.......................................................................................................................................................18
LOW MOOR & OAKENSHAW’S BUD JOURNEY ............................................................................................................ 21
IMPACT ON WELLBEING ....................................................................................................................................................... 23
IMPACT ON VOLUNTEERS .................................................................................................................................................... 25
IMPACT ON GREEN SPACES ............................................................................................................................................... 27
LEGACY & CONCLUSION ....................................................................................................................................................... 31
APPENDIX...................................................................................................................................................................................... 33
1. USING THIS DATA........................................................................................................................................................... 34
2: ENGAGEMENT DELIVERY ................................................................................................................................................. 35
3. ENGAGEMENT ATTENDANCE ......................................................................................................................................... 36
4. ENGAGEMENT DEMOGRAPHICS.................................................................................................................................. 38
5. CHILDREN & YOUNG PEOPLE’S WELLBEING ....................................................................................................... 43
6. VOLUNTEERS .......................................................................................................................................................................... 47
7. IMPROVEMENTS TO GREEN SPACES ......................................................................................................................... 51
8. USE OF GREEN SPACES ................................................................................................................................................... 55
9. INTERVIEWS ........................................................................................................................................................................... 57
FULL REPORT 6
INTRODUCTION TO BRADFORD URBAN DISCOVERY
Bradford Urban Discovery (BUD) is a Yorkshire Wildlife Trust’s (YWT) project, funded by the
National Lottery Community Fund (formerly the Big Lottery Fund) and Bradford Council. YWT have a
strong tradition of combining engagement work with environmental improvement. The BUD project
broke new ground for the organisation by taking what they knew and testing how it could help much
more urban places.
YWT identified three zones covering seven ‘green space’ sites very close to built-up areas with the
potential to become natural spaces for play and exploration.
GREAT HORTON
o 1. Brackenhill Meadows
o 2. Haycliffe Hill
o 3. Black Mountain
WIBSEY
o 4. Reevy Mill Damn
LOW MOOR & OAKENSHAW
o 5. Raw Nook
o 6. Toad Holes Beck
o 7. Low Moor Banks
By improving these spaces, hand in hand with local

communities, they saw the opportunity for people
with difficult lives to increase their wellbeing, and for
previously unloved places to become better
maintained. In so doing, they knew this would
improve the natural ecosystems of the environment,
reducing neglect and improving biodiversity.
The project had three key strands:
1. Children and Young People. Improving spaces for play, exploration and discovery and a
programme of engagement activities to increase children and young people’s health and
wellbeing through their connection to nature.
2. Communities. Working with local community groups and volunteers to change how people
use the green spaces and improve their wellbeing.
3. Green Spaces. Improving awareness and advocacy for the sites, and working with
communities so local people can take on the management of them in the longer term.
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Covid’s impact.
The project began in 2019 and had just begun to pick up momentum after its first summer and
autumn. With the covid lockdown in 2020 activity wound down. Engagement work had no choice to
but to come to a standstill. Site improvements were also impacted though some work could
continue once outdoor working had been approved in the easing of lockdowns.
The project was given an extension to counteract the lost time, however the impact of covid is
several fold:
a. The progress which had started to be built in engaging children and young people was
shattered. Especially in the more deprived areas, where building trust is hard and needed
consistency and regularity.
b. The project’s delivery was planned to work with the seasons, making the most of April-
October. This was the heart of when lockdown kept everyone indoors. Afterwards, not only
was engagement activity harder to plan and run until the following Spring, it transpired that
lockdown had affected everyone’s confidence in going out at all. So, while in theory activity
could begin again, in reality the team weren’t just starting from where they had set off, but
actually from a worse position. They had more ground to cover under more difficult
circumstances.
c. That said, one result of lockdown as it eased, was that more people were looking for places
to find greenery and walks. Anecdotally local residents have said they did see more people
using some of the spaces (in the less deprived areas), especially dog walkers.
d. Because of all the above factors, we cannot always be certain what changes are due to BUD,
and what are due to covid. Though where possible the impact of both has been considered
in the analysis for this evaluation.
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EVALUATION APPROACH
Yorkshire Wildlife Trust wanted to evaluate the wellbeing of the children and young people newly
exploring the green spaces on their doorstep, the wellbeing of volunteers, and how volunteers and
local residents use and look after the spaces in the long term.
Annual interim progress reports were created in the first two years (excluding lockdown), with this
final report being the third of the series.
Yorkshire Wildlife Trust are producing their own narrative report with rich details of each space and
the people who use them. For this reason, they requested the independent evaluation focus more
on the statistical details and the independent feedback of project partners.
There are some limitations on the data available for analysis.
1. A framework was created as part of the funding application. While it was academically
robust, it did not translate so well in reality in deprived areas where many families were
transient and spoke little English or communicated more with spoken rather than written
words. Assumptions were also made in the application stages about the existing levels of
nature experience children and young people might have and the words they might
understand. For these reasons a simplified framework with guidance on how to embed
information gathering sensitively, appropriately, and creatively into activity was created
which better catered to the people involved in the project.
2. The project’s delivery team collect regular information for YWT’s monitoring purposes, but
were new to, and underconfident in, evaluation data collection. In addition, constantly
changing attendance, learning, and adapting delivery differently according to each
community’s needs, and the impact of lockdown resulted in different data across different
activities and small sample sizes, making it hard to compare and draw confident
conclusions from. To overcome this as much as possible, across different surveys, questions
were categorised into: wellbeing, nature connectedness, community connectedness, and
use of green spaces. Then changes between start and end scores of each question are
presented in percentage form so that different questions, surveys, and sample sizes can be
compared and presented with some consistency. The results are best read as an indication
of trends rather than precise representations of activity or communities. More detailed data
is included in the appendix.
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MEETING BUD’S STRATEGIC AIMS AND TARGETS
BUD ACHIEVED, AND OFTEN EXCEEDED, ALMOST ALL OF WHAT IT SET
OUT TO DO IN ITS PROPOSALS TO THE NATIONAL LOTTERY
COMMUNITY FUND (BIG LOTTERY FUND AS WAS) AND BRADFORD
COUNCIL.
Yorkshire Wildlife Trust said it would address these funding priorities:
ENABLING MORE PEOPLE TO FULFIL THEIR POTENTIAL BY WORKING TO ADDRESS

ISSUES AT THE EARLIEST POSSIBLE STAGE
BUD has reached children and young people at all ages of childhood, from babes in
arms and early years, through to 17 and 18 year olds at Sixth Form.
The Little Explorers group of South Asian and Muslim mums with early years and home schooled
children in Great Horton; and the Stay and Play sessions and resources at Wibsey Community
Gardens reached brand new babies and early years children. Nature Club, work with Southmere
Primary Academy and Lidgett Green Primary has involved children in Key Stage 2 years, with taster
sessions for children in all classes at Southmere Primary. Holiday and after school activity, as well
as young people’s volunteering, have also all helped involve children and young people of different
ages. Informal independent play and partnership work with the Youth Association in Great Horton
have been especially successful in attracting young people of secondary school age.
BRINGING PEOPLE TOGETHER & BUILDING STRONG RELATIONSHIPS IN AND

ACROSS COMMUNITIES
BUD has been a catalyst for bringing local communities and stakeholders together
around a shared ambition, generating new relationships, more locally joined up
working, increased investment, more stable and sustainable local organisations,
and new engagement between local communities and Bradford council services.
In Great Horton, the continual and consistent presence of BUD has successfully made the case for
more investment in green spaces, linking Brackenhill Meadows to the local park and therefore
securing it as a site for investment by the council. Also in Great Horton, BUD helped Youth
Association workers increase their capacity and attract new funds from other grant providers for
further partnership work with BUD. The project also partners with the local community hub at Great
Horton to improve the offer for local families and diversify the people coming to this community
centre. It has facilitated the bringing together of local stakeholders who now know one another
anew, or better, and who can now better support one another’s agendas. BUD has also created new
connections between local families in social housing and council departments, where before there
were no relationships.
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At Wibsey, BUD helped a local community interest organisation secure its lease, stabilise, and grow
the organisation, reach new target audiences / communities, and advocate for more long-term
support with the local council. BUD also helped the council’s countryside services, parks
department, and Friends of the local park work more closely together to share knowledge and
plans. It helped the nearby high school add to its community presence by placing pupils’ artwork as
sculptures around the Reevy Mill Dam space.
In the Low Moor and Oakenshaw area, BUD helped build new and stronger relationships between
the local conservation group and the council’s countryside and environmental services.
The project has made a wider difference to Bradford by raising the profile, need and potential for
each place at a city-wide level particularly within the council. It helped increased the visibility and
profile of the countryside services team, overturning assumptions that its value was limited to rural
areas. It also helped ward officers and Councillors draw more attention to the impact of BUD on
wider services such as Communities, Partnerships, Environment, Youth Services and even Policing,
which in turn brings more attention and ultimately resources to the areas where there is potential
to build on the good work being done.
IMPROVING PLACES AND SPACES THAT MATTER TO COMMUNITIES
Not only has BUD improved places that matter to communities, it motivated
communities to care about spaces that did not previously matter to them.
The ways in which BUD has improved the local spaces in the project are many, varied, visible and
tangible. From new plants, cleared scrubland, new sculptures and signage, safer bodies of water; to
new gates, fences and steps; reducing health and safety risks in wild and managed spaces; making
places safer and cleaner to play in or walk through; and removing invasive species and attracting
more biodiversity, which in turn helps local people become more interested in those sites and
improves the quality of time they spend there.
The knock-on effect of this is that additional funding has been brought to those places (for
example, new council investment for Brackenhill Meadows now it is viewed holistically with
Brackenhill Park; more funding for joint work with the Youth Association in Great Horton; and the
organisational growth of the Community Gardens at Wibsey, as their income grew from under £50k
to around £250k thanks to their relationship with BUD, especially in the first year of the project.
Local people care more and are more able to make the case for continued support in those places.
In Great Horton for example, families on the Withins social housing estate now contact the council
to report fly tipping where before this would have been ignored. At Low Moor & Oakenshaw, the
local conservation group are better equipped with new skills, better access to appropriate tools,
and a clearer vision of what to prioritise to make the most of their limited capacity going forward.
They now feel they can keep on top of their work. They have also identified species on a site they
hope to secure as a nature reserve in the future, and report much cleaner spaces with far less litter
than before.

OVER THE THREE YEARS, (BUD) WILL ENGAGE 280 ADULTS AND 500 CHILDREN IN
SOME OF BRADFORD’S MOST DEPRIVED AREAS.
BUD has worked with over 400 adults and almost 1000 children in Bradford.
20% live in the 1% most deprived areas nationally*
75% live in the top ten most deprived areas nationally*
*Indices of Multiple Deprivation 2019. Sample size 1200.
For children and young people BUD has achieved
• 12542 contact hours (attendance x delivery)

• 3790 attendances (individuals x sessions)
• 1186 hours of activity (timetabled delivery)
• 900+ individual children and young people
• 321 sessions
• 105 young volunteers
• 52 strands of activity (40 play; 9 community; 3 education)
(See Appendix 3, Figs. 4-6)
Almost 300 individual children and young people are individually registered with the programme,
but the full total far exceeds this in reality, by working with families on a drop-in basis; a full school
engaging every child in at least one taster session (420 pupils); targeted groups at two secondary
schools (estimated 50 pupils); informal drop-in activity with teens in partnership with youth
association staff; and over 100 young volunteers from schools, youth groups and cubs and scouts.
For adults, BUD has included
• 560 Volunteers
o 164 new to YWT
o 402 working in improvements to the green spaces such as litter picking, hard
landscaping, planting, and clearance on overgrown areas
o 11 Trainees helping delivery community engagement including co-leading on
sessions, and embedded into community sites like Wibsey Community Gardens
o 147 local residents helping out on community days helping with litter picking and
wildflower planting
(See Appendix 6, Fig. 8)
• 2865 Volunteering hours in total

o 1287 Spent on site improvement
o 1578 Helping engaging communities
o 54 hours at community days
(See Appendix 6, Fig. 7)

IN LINE WITH CONSULTATION FINDINGS FOR COMMUNITY EVENTS, PLAY AND
AND WORKING IN PARTNERSHIP WITH DISCOVERY.
BRADFORD CITY COUNCIL, BUD WILL
BUD WILL ADDRESS LOW LEVELS OF
IMPROVE THE HEALTH AND WELLBEING OF
PHYSICAL ACTIVITY IN FAMILIES AND
CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE IN THESE
YOUNG PEOPLE WHICH LEADS TO ABOVE
AREAS BY EMPOWERING LOCAL
AVERAGE LEVELS OF OBESITY, POOR
COMMUNITIES TO DEVELOP AND IMPROVE
PHYSICAL FITNESS, AND 7-10 YEARS’
UNDERUSED GREENSPACES INTO SPACES
SHORTER LIFE EXPECTANCY.
On average, children and young people in BUD saw their wellbeing increase by 9.5%
and physical activity increase by 14%
• On average, children and young people’s wellbeing increased by 9.5%

• The number of children and young people visiting one of the BUD locations once a week or
more increased from 67% to 78%
• The number of children and young people spending 2 or more hours at one of the locations
increased from 75% to 91%
• The variety of play and exploration activities CYP do at the green spaces increased by 24%
• Children and young people’s physical activity increased by 14% as they moved away from
sedentary activities to physical ones
(See Appendix 5, Table 1 and Appendix 8, Figs 31-33)
SUSTAINABLE LONG-TERM MANAGEMENT IN PLACE FOR THE GREENSPACES

THROUGH THE DEVELOPMENT OF ‘FRIENDS OF’ GROUPS
Although some developments have taken place around this outcome, it has been
more difficult to fulfil than the others.
Wibsey: At Wibsey, care for the Reevy Mill Dam has been embedded into signage and nature trails
for the created by the Friends of Wibsey Park. Though there is no formal agreement confirming
their ongoing stewardship, YWT and Bradford Council feel confident the Friends now see the mill
pond area as part of their footprint.
Low Moor & Oakenshaw: At Low Moor and Oakenshaw, the local conservation group are more
confident about keeping on top of their progress. They now know what to prioritise for maximum
impact on the land, are considering creating an annual schedule to help formalise this and are
looking at the potential to advocate for Low Moor being turned into a nature reserve. Bradford
Council have invested in occasional site days for Yorkshire Wildlife Trust working on the sites
periodically over the coming year to help build on the work done to date. The new land
management contact in the council’s environmental services has been discussing the site’s future
with Yorkshire Wildlife Trust, and the council and conservation group are better connected to
maintain the levels of care they have reached throughout the course of BUD.
Great Horton: The future for the Great Horton sites is more mixed. Brackenhill Meadows will
benefit from wayfinding and interpretation planning and development as part of a holistic
investment for Brackenhill Park which will now extend outwards to the Meadows. The Friends of

Brackenhill Park are small with stretched capacity, so currently can’t commit to care for the
meadows too. However, they hope investment in the park will help grow the group and are keen to
find funding for a member of staff – both of which would allow them to do more than is currently
possible.
There is no obvious existing group to care for the Black Mountain and Haycliffe Hill sites. YWT and
the area’s ward officer are keen to discuss this with the local housing association who have already
acknowledged the benefit to residents of the houses adjoining the green spaces. There is more
work to do to reassure local residents that this will open opportunities for them rather close down
or police how they use the site so any consultation going forward needs to be done slowly and
meaningfully. YWT have developed trust and good relationships with local residents so would be
well placed to gently facilitate this process.

GREAT HORTON’S BUD JOURNEY
1. Brackenhill Meadows. A dismantled
railway site which is now woodland surrounded
meadow adjoining Brackenhill Park.
2. Haycliffe Hill: This is a hill space

labelled on some maps as a dog walking park,
and on others, incorrectly labelled as Black
Mountain Millennium Green. In fact, it has no
official name and is referred to colloquially as
Poplar Grove or Haycliffe Hill or ‘the big hill’. In
this report, Haycliffe Hill is used for
consistency. The Great Horton Community Hub
garden was the actual base for a lot of activity
labelled as Haycliffe Hill. So, results are under
the heading of Haycliffe Hill, but activity could
have been either space. This is because Great
Horton Community Hall became a successful
‘outreach / inreach’ partner site to introduce
people to the wilder spaces over time.
3. Black Mountain: This is the smaller flat green space next to Haycliffe Hill, named on boards at
the site as Black Mountain Millennium Green, from when it was last landscaped. This space is at
the end of the neighbouring Withins housing estate. Due to an error this space is unnamed on
official maps, but it is referred to as Black Mountain by BUD and in this report.
Together these three spaces fall within the Great Horton ward of Bradford
Across Great Horton, take-up was slow. Families there did not traditionally play out in spaces and
ways that made the most of nature. Children and young people in the area did play out
independently, but more streetside and on the local sports spaces than in green spaces.
Some families in the area do not have English as a first language, or in some cases no English at
all. This added to the difficulties in engaging children and young people in the area.
The team realised they needed to work closely with other local partners to make the most of
inroads already established. A key partner in Great Horton was the Great Horton Community Hub.
This community run library and community hall offered activities for a range of different local
people and had a largely unused garden between the building and the street on two sides, giving
BUD a place to set up camp and grow its visibility.
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After a few informal sessions, it became clear how little interaction there was between local people
and the natural spaces on their doorstep. Wildlife walks were a step too far (literally) with
families turning back the further away from community hall they were taken.
The gardens needed attention so in line with their volunteering ambitions, BUD was commissioned
to offer social prescribing sessions (Green Prescribing). Here people could work on improving the
site bit by bit, improving their wellbeing and getting more used to nature along the way. They could
then become ongoing volunteers with YWT if they wanted and make more of a difference to the
green spaces in their community. Take up for this was again slow, with just one person taking part
each ‘season’. Though disappointing, those two people did make a big difference to the site, and
their wellbeing did improve. Both later joined in with other YWT volunteering activities. The
community hub gardens were then ready for more engagement activity. The team visited twice a
week hoping to attract more people. Eventually they noticed patterns in the people chatting to
them. In the mornings, a group of mainly Muslim women with very young children and home-
schooled older children started to come every week. In response, the BUD team developed the
Little Explorers programme for them. Starting out on the familiar ground of the community hall
gardens gave everyone chance to build relationships, trust and knowledge and skills about nature.
Bit by bit, confidence grew, and the group were enthusiastic to try out walks to the green spaces.
“I wasn’t the type to always be into nature. She [daughter] would have been more scared a few
years ago. Now she has questions all the time, like life cycles of insects, bugs. She’s really
interested in caterpillars. She’s okay with dirt. She’s a lot more adventurous. She’s happy just
foraging away by herself now!” Little Explorers Mum
Involving the wider community was still a struggle, so the team began working with local schools
to try the same approach – build trust and understanding on familiar (i.e., school) grounds, with a
view to eventually leading people to the green spaces. Southmere Primary Academy backs
directly onto the Black Mountain / Haycliffe Hill site and was keen to work with BUD and use nature
as a resource for their children. The population of the school includes children living in extremely
difficult situations, so for much of the time BUD worked with nurture groups, taking them outdoors
with staff, and watching their learning, self-confidence, motor skills, joy, and vocabulary blossom.
BUD also planned after school sessions so that the whole school community could have access to
nature exploration. Progress was going well, then lockdown happened.
After lockdown, children’s development, confidence, and attendance had all been delayed. Planning
was hard for the school, with frequent changes of covid regulations and teacher and pupil illness
ongoing, despite the ease of restrictions. Eventually BUD were able to work with the school again
but not in the same deep, targeted way it could before. Instead, each class was given a taster
session, which meant the BUD team only saw them once.
However, in the later stages of lockdown and just after, BUD ran outdoor sessions on the Black
Mountain spaces and came into contact with Youth Association workers who were running activity
for teens at the adjoining site. They agreed to work together, with BUD taking the younger children
for nature play / exploration, and the Youth Association taking the teens for football and other

activity. Despite the struggles maintaining links through the school, a new avenue had opened up to
reach the same children. Indeed, some of the same children worked with in school also started
coming to the independent nature exploration sessions now being offered.
As a result, that same group who BUD worked with when they were in Years 4 or 5 of school but
were less able to work with as Year 6s, are now at the heart of a legacy project with new funding, to
help them as they transition into Year 7s at their new secondary school. This Street Voices project
empowers young people to take ownership of decision making in their local community, and with
BUD and the Youth Association, they will look at ways to continue improving the Black Mountain /
Haycliffe Hill sites for the wider community.

WIBSEY’S BUD JOURNEY
Reevy Mill Dam:
Originally labelled on
YWT’s maps at the
project proposal stage
as Buttershaw Mill Pond,
it is more commonly
called Reevy Mill Dam.
Like Haycliffe Hill, in

fact many activities
presented under this
heading took place at a
nearby outreach /
inreach partner site. Wibsey Community Gardens is a social enterprise in the nearby Wibsey Park
and was used as a friendly space to familiarise people with the basic nature principles before
moving them outwards to less organised green space.
Reevy Mill Dam and Wibsey Park and Community Gardens all fall under the Wibsey Ward and are
sometimes generically referred to as Wibsey.
The Reevy Mill Dam site adjoining Wibsey Park is a small piece of land with a pond at its heart.
In the early stages of the project, concerns were raised about the safety of the pond. Firstly, it is
exposed to roads on two of the four sides of the land, which made it unsafe for family engagement
activity. Secondly, there were concerns about the quality or contamination levels of the water, which
affects its potential for family engagement and as a site of biodiversity improvement. If the water is
unsafe, the life and ecological systems it should support are at risk. Much discussion took place
about how the water could be tested and what the impact of the results might be. The cost of
cleaning the pond was large and had not been budgeted for, so where the funding for any clean up
might come from was uncertain.
Meanwhile, in preparation for the BUD project, YWT helped Bradford Organic Communities
Services (BOCS) to secure the future of nearby Wibsey Community Gardens within Wibsey Park,
supporting them with partnership planning and guaranteed income through rented office space for
their first twelve months. This provided a safe, fenced off nature-based space for the engagement
of children and young people, and was the project management home for the BUD team in the
project’s first year.
Trial activities were run to see who might come and the kinds of existing knowledge or interests
they did or didn’t have. The park is well used by local families and has an active Friends of Wibsey
Park group who promoted the park regularly on Facebook. Activities were well attended with a
small number of loyal families coming time and time again. As time went on, more families visited.
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Initially YWT offered sessions for all ages of children and young people. Children aged 6-11 visited
the most, often with younger siblings coming too as part of the whole family visit. The team
learned it was hard to ensure all children could have the most meaningful experience in this way as
attention was spread too thinly across the different ages. In response to this, they created a stay
and play nature play area for early years children and their parents, freeing the team up to
concentrate on work with the older children who could get more out of the activities YWT planned.
Activity at Wibsey was going well, with loyal families, some of whom also started to visit the other
sites. That said, YWT thought they were perhaps not reaching the children most in need and knew
the green spaces they were using were not as ‘wild’ as those at the heart of the project. To address
this, the BUD project team contacted the high school opposite the park to try and make inroads
with less advantaged children. They looked for more opportunities to work in partnership with the
Friends of the park and council’s countryside service, to identify ways to make the most of Reevy
Mill Dam and introduce more wild nature to park visitors by working with the council on new
park maintenance approaches. Path side verges stopped being mown and instead were seeded
with wildflowers. In turn this brought more wildlife to the park and helped make a more obvious
connection between the park and the mill pond site.
When covid hit, BUD’s approach pivoted. They partnered with the Community Gardens team to
create food and activity parcels for families in extreme need, providing food, recipes, and from
BUD – nature arts, crafts, and exploration activities.
As lockdown eased, BUD took the opportunity to review progress and step up the commitment
towards improving the wellbeing of children and young people in some of Bradford’s most deprived
urban areas and improving local green spaces for their ongoing exploration and play. It became
clear the Reevy Mill Dam site would not be able to be a place for engagement on the level BUD first
envisaged. Instead, an alternative two-pronged approach was developed.
Firstly, YWT placed full-time trainee (Tia) into the Community Gardens for two days a week. In this
time, Tia landscaped an unused end of the gardens into a wild area with a small pond, and a safe
fire pit space. There she showed communities working with the Community Gardens what they
could learn, explore, and do around those spaces and began to run some of the engagement
activities on offer in school holidays.
Secondly, the Reevy Mill Dam pond was brought within the umbrella of care and interpretation for
the park by The Friends group, who - supported by BUD - included the pond site in their planning
and spending. The pond started to be included in their signage for the park and became the
first stop on a new nature trail they created. BUD’s activities turned more to nature walks, to
include more people and make more of the park’s new wilder resources created in partnership
with the Friends and council’s countryside services.
BUD began conversations with the high school across from the park to reach more local young
people, based on the differences they were seeing in the young teenagers in Great Horton. The
school was invited to join BUD to create new banners for the park, promoting the nature exploration

potential to other young people. The school were keen to involve their Year 7 after school art club,
who began wildlife designs. The banner project stumbled when BUD suggestion the activity could
be opened out to young people who rarely experience such a project, such as those with extra
nurture support or those on reduced curricula. Ultimately, the school went quiet, and the full banner
project could not be realised although the young people’s designs were still used in artwork for
the site.
Activity across the Wibsey partnerships started to lead outwards from the community gardens, and
more into the park’s wild spaces and the mill pond. More people joined the nature walks, and by
the end of BUD, Reevy Mill Dam had been embedded into the park’s interpretation. Although
the pond could not be fully restored as originally planned, it has been landscaped to be more
engaging. A new boardwalk has been made from recycled plastic, where people can watch the
dragonflies and fish. The school pupils designed wildlife sculptures which have been made reality
by a metalwork artist. The sculptures are now attached to fences and the ground at the site as a
backdrop for visitors.

LOW MOOR & OAKENSHAW’S BUD JOURNEY
5. Raw Nook and 6. Toad Holes Beck: Two sites divided
by a railway line and small industrial park. Activity often
happened on both sites in one day, so they are often
included jointly. Raw Nook, as the locals know it, is
officially named Railway Terrace Nature Reserve.
7. Low Moor Banks: Low Moor Banks is a former refuse

site close to Raw Nook and Toad Holes Beck. The
council’s management and decision making about the site
has been in flux so engagement activity there has been
minimal, with Raw Nook and Toad Holes Beck being better
sites for activities. It still benefitted from maintenance via
the volunteers site improvements.
The sites sit across Bradford’s ‘neighbourhoods’ of Low

Moor and Oakenshaw and are often referred to together
as such.
Low Moor Banks, the largest of the three sites in this

area was decided to be unsuitable for engagement sessions for several reasons. The scale of the
site is huge so that knowing where everyone was proved impossible. The site itself is a former
refuse site with several council stakeholders interested in its potential future. Ideas about what it
might become, and the processes needed to make it more usable were in constant discussion and
council management changed over the project. All of which engagement activity impractical.
Engagement activities were therefore held on Raw Nook and Toad Holes Beck sites, where
nature play sessions were held for all ages and catering especially to younger children. Bushcraft
activities were programmed to better suit those in the ‘tween and teen’ age brackets.
Engaging children and young people in this area was consistently difficult, with low attendance
regardless of what the team tried. In hindsight they realised that with no partner organisation on
site to build with they were starting from scratch. In addition, families in the area were generally
not so deprived so already had busier organised extra-curricular lives. In turn this meant children
and young people had less free time and were less likely to play out independently. The exception
to this was one family with two sons who attended as much activity as they could, with the boys
joining play activities in the early months of BUD. By the end they were joining in independently as
volunteers for events like the Bio Blitz, a 24-hour session improving the site through litter picking,
building animal habitats, and enjoying bat walks. To ensure their continued engagement even when
BUD activities thinned out, the two boys were recommended to the Yorkshire Dales
Millennium Trust Green Futures programme for young people which “helps to tackle the
inequalities that make it hard for young people to access and enjoy the countryside, and brings
them together in the Yorkshire Dales to take action, reconnect with nature, tackle climate change,
LOW MOOR & OAKENSHAW’S BUD JOURNEY 21

and get involved in conservation work, gaining new experiences, skills and confidence, and seeing
their health and wellbeing improve along the way.” [YDMT website] The boys now regularly travel
independently across Yorkshire to join weekend and residential activities as a result of their
experiences with BUD.
Despite difficulties in engagement, work has been done to better support the local visitors of the
sites in their independent exploration. Information boards have been created for the site
entrances showing information about the site, species, and suggested walking routes. For those
who might not use that board, a nature trail of short circular walks has been created through
Raw Nook and Toad Holes Beck. These are signposted by a series of 19 wooden rubbing posts
with plants and animals carved in the end and five ‘food chain’ themes mosaic stepping
stones, for children and families to discover and interact with.
The area has a committed and active conservation group, so developments in improving the
green spaces really took hold by working closely with them. Membership of the group is small and
capacity limited. They were struggling to keep on top of the management of the area. Over time,
BUD helped them learn to use more effective tools – scything rather than strimming for example.
Regular volunteer task days were held, and the spaces benefitted from scrub clearance,
improved pathways, better gates and steps, better upkeep of trees, wild flower planting, and better
care around the edges of the ponds at Toad Holes Beck. As the activity progressed, BUD were able
to enhance the relationship between the conservation group and council, by helping the group
better understand who to contact for support at the council and increased their confidence in
doing so. The conservation group now has access to more and better tools, which it can borrow
from Yorkshire Wildlife Trust because of the strong relationship now in place. Likewise, when they
need support from council colleagues, the council is aware of their work and the good will to do
what they can is high. To demonstrate this, the council’s countryside service has invested a small
amount for the next year so YWT can continue occasional task / support days to keep building on
the progress made in the area.
The future of the Low Moor site is still uncertain. However, BUD, with the conservation group and in
particular, their voluntary wildlife and field officer Martyn Priestley, are advocating for the site to
become a nature reserve, like Raw Nook and Toad Holes Beck. It’s a long and slow process, the
first step of which is to have the site registered as a designated protected area because of its
natural significance. The conservation group’s discovery of several new rare orchid, moth and
fungi species on the site could help this along, particularly now the group’s relationship with the
council’s countryside service is so much stronger. In the meantime, the area has been named as
Low Moor Banks because of BUD. Formerly it had no real name and was colloquially called ‘the old
tip’. The conservation group and council countryside service are both confident this new name and
the signage confirming its identity and natural value will help protect its status as a place for nature
and wellbeing going forward.
LOW MOOR & OAKENSHAW’S BUD JOURNEY 22

IMPACT ON WELLBEING
Overall, across the BUD project, wellbeing in children and young people increased by
around 9.4% on average, and their physical activity on the spaces increased by 14% based
on what they do when there.
METHOD
Wellbeing was measured in two ways. Through self-reported subjective wellbeing measures, and
through self-reported nature connection proxy measures proven to understanding how nature
improves wellbeing. ‘Overall’ changes show the average across the differences in wellbeing and
nature connection together.
Wellbeing: Self-reported subjective wellbeing using SCWBS: The Stirling Children’s Wellbeing
Scale1 or WEMWBS: The Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale2, depending on the age of the
young person.
Connection to Nature: Proxy measures through connections to nature, using either the Nature
Relatedness NR-6 Brief Form3 or the Connection to Nature Index4, depending on the age and
nature literacy levels of the young person.
Therefore, each activity strand shows an average wellbeing difference, a nature connection
difference, and an average overall difference (which is the average across the wellbeing and nature
scores).
They also answered multiple choice questions about how often they use the spaces, for how long,
and what activities they do while there.
The majority of engagement activity with children and young people took place across Great
Horton. This includes a mix of informal play and exploration activity, and work with schools (mostly
primary aged children). The Wibsey (Reevy Mill Dam) and Low Moor / Oakenshaw areas had roughly
the same amount of time invested though both less than Great Horton. That said, attendance was
much stronger in Wibsey than Low Moor / Oakenshaw. This means that data collection is strongest
at Great Horton, where there were more people taking part in more activities. Most of the wellbeing
data relates to that area. However, there is also some data from the Nature Play sessions which
were spread across all the sites. Data collection does have some limitations in the BUD project with
sample sizes quite small, so while results across the whole project are more robust, results from
one place or activity to another should be seen as indicative rather than conclusive.
1
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/med/research/platform/wemwbs/using/faq/scwbs_children_report.pdf
2
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/med/research/platform/wemwbs
3
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00813/full
4
Cheng, J. C.-H., & Monroe, M. C. (2012). Connection to nature: Children’s affective attitude toward nature.
Environment and Behavior, 44(1), 31–49. https://doi.org/10.1177/0013916510385082 See also guide-to-
using-the-connection-to-nature-index.pdf (rspb.org.uk)
IMPACT ON WELLBEING 23
RESULTS “A is a sucker for peer
See Appendix 5 for full data. pressure. He feels like
there’s no-one like him at
Despite the obstacles and impact of covid, BUD has raised the
school, interested in the
wellbeing of children and young people via their engagement
same things. He gets
with nature. anxious. And there’s not a lot
BUD was most effective with children and young people through goes in the village because
it’s not as deprived as some
independent ‘play’ in the most deprived areas. These young
places, so we don’t get that
people tend to play out independently more, so the frequency of
much here. They first started
their time on green spaces hasn’t changed, but the duration and
with BUD’s after school club.
quality of their time there has, as they become more connected Sarah [Bud Project Manager]
to nature and experience increases in wellbeing. is a calming influence, so
passionate and
Black Mountain activity saw the highest increases in
knowledgeable and
wellbeing with an average increase overall of 22%. This was
informative. She’s not just a
also where children and young people from the most deprived
‘worker’ – she’s really got
parts of Bradford (and indeed the country) live. such a heart for young
people and nature and
Children and young people at Black Mountain said they played
Bradford, and it comes
and explored on green spaces the same frequency as before,
through. Now if A isn’t
but for longer periods. The number of children and young
feeling great, he knows he
people playing there for an hour or more increased 20% from needs to get outdoors and
the start. By the end of the BUD activity strand they took part in, look, explore, whittle. So now
100% of children and young people were spending at least him and his brother use Raw
an hour at Black Mountain when there independently. Nook a lot. For a 13 and 15
year old choosing to spend
Their physical activity stayed the same, however they spend
their Saturday night at a
time more mindfully, with an 18% increase of activities like nature reserve to join in bat
making things or watching and listening. walks – they feel equipped
now to go on their own, it’s
Across the rest of the programme:
theirs, they own that
• Informal activities increased wellbeing more than activities
themselves now. And now
in schools.
they’ve been invited to join
• In all engagement strands participants showed increases in the Yorkshire Dales youth
at least one of these measures: visiting the site more often, forum, they didn’t know
spending more time there, or having more things to do anyone, they just get on the
whilst there. train and get themselves
• Children and young people feel the changes in their there and they’ve found
connection to nature more strongly than changes to their people like them. So now
subjective wellbeing. Nature connection is proven to he’s looking towards a future

in ecology or a vet or
increase wellbeing, so this suggests that wellbeing
something in wildlife.”
improvements are happening, but the children aren’t
[Participant’s mum]
explicitly aware of the impact it has on them.
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IMPACT ON VOLUNTEERS
VOLUNTEERING IN THE COMMUNITY
The volunteer strand of BUD was intended to help increase the wellbeing of local people. In
particular those in the most deprived areas. This was so that people would feel more strongly
connected to their local community, make new friends, or strengthen existing friendships.
For the first two years BUD tried several approaches to attract local adults to community and
volunteering opportunities. At first, drop-in community days were trialled though attendance was
lower than hoped. Great Horton presented the greatest challenge, with the highest number of
volunteering opportunities across the project, yet the lowest take up by volunteers (see Appendix,
Fig 19. % Share of Volunteer Impact by Area). BUD then became involved with social prescribing
(or Green Prescribing). Again, take up was low, though the impact for the two people who did join
was high, and both have continued to volunteer on other YWT work since then. Following these
struggles, and the setbacks of lockdown, BUD prioritised supporting children and wellbeing in the
areas of most need, and as much improvement to the green spaces as they could.
Knowing there were barriers to involving adults in volunteering in the most deprived areas, BUD
partnered with University of Leeds to carry out more research into what prevents people in their
target areas from volunteering. A separate report is available, but the most useful learning is that:
- Around 80% of people interviewed in Great Horton said the biggest barrier was a lack of
time.5
However, this misses some of the nuance of the lives of people in Great Horton. As part of the 10%
most deprived parts of the country, many adults there are living difficult, complex lives. Some of the
other highly rating barriers start to give more insight
- Over 40% said they feel like volunteering isn’t for them
- Over 40% also said they thought they couldn’t make any difference by volunteering
This suggests that cultural and social barriers make a big difference too, with adults not
feeling confident or valuing enough the impact they can have in their locale. This is perhaps
the more useful finding, and closer to the experiences the BUD team have had in trying to engage
people in volunteering in the more deprived areas.
Great Horton adults interviewed almost unanimously agreed they would be most likely to
volunteer on an informal drop-in basis.6
This also helps explain the low turn-out, since volunteering community type days were infrequent,
where perhaps regular attendance and visibility would work better so local people can build up
familiarity over time and make spontaneous decisions to join in based on how they feel that day
without having to find marketing information or pre-book.
5
The Attitudes to Nature Project [Draft 2], Holly Bentham, p8
6
The Attitudes to Nature Project [Draft 2], Holly Bentham, p7
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VOLUNTEERING FOR SITE IMPROVEMENTS
Despite challenges in recruitment, BUD still achieved a huge amount in terms of the improvements
volunteers helped make to the green spaces. YWT’s existing volunteering model had an impact, as
they worked with community and corporate groups to bolster the volume of volunteer power helping
out BUD and Bradford Council staff. Through this, BUD spent at least around half to a day each
week on site improvements across Low Moor and Oakenshaw sites, and the same again across
Great Horton. Less time was spent at Wibsey because the site is so much smaller, more contained,
and was waiting for decisions to be made about the safety of the pond water.
PROJECT TOTAL
1265
787
341
98
Total Volunteers New Volunteers Volunteer Hours Bags of Litter
For details of contributions at each site, see Appendix 6, Figs, 19 and 22.
ACTIVITIES VOLUNTEERS HELPED CARRY OUT
Wildlife survey 1
Wildlife box 3
Crime / Neglect Reparation 58
Interpretation & Interaction 23
Hard Landscaping 14
Tree maintenance 17
Invasive / Non-native species removed 37
Planting 14
Scrub clearnace 12
Ground maintenance 42
For details of contributions at each site, see Appendix 7, Figs. 24-30
The impact of this work is shown in the following section: Impact on Green Spaces.
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IMPACT ON GREEN SPACES
There is no doubt that the spaces are much improved. The variety and volume of improvements
made is impressive, with nearly 1300 hours spent on site improvements. Local residents and
infrastructural stakeholders are seeing and feeling the difference across all the sites.
The description of activity carried out each day on site is summarised as a word cloud below:
(For detailed breakdowns of activity across BUD, and on each site, see Appendix 7, Figs 29-36)
LITTER & CRIME

“I used to live on Haycliffe Lane so often did litter picking in the green spaces around there - it is a
bad area for rubbish and humans not caring. Its heart-warming and encouraging to see BUD
engaging young people and trying to keep the space clean and safe.” BUD Facebook Group member
787 bags of litter were collected and taken away in the BUD project. (Appendix 6, Table 9).
Local people commented time and time again that the sites were noticeably tidier with less litter.
Litter picking days were a frequent occurrence and this is something volunteers did come along to.
By installing new gates at Black Mountain, fly tipping has stopped now that vans can no longer
pull up onto the site. In turn, when residents have seen fly tipping around the area, they have
contacted the council to report it, which did not happen before.
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BETTER AWARENESS OF AND ACCESS TO GREEN SPACES
In covid, BUD was the only thing we could do because you weren't allowed to do things indoors. I
remember looking for places and there was nothing I came across that was nice. Most are on the
other side of Bradford. I don't drive so I can't get there. So, this has always been super fun. And
we've discovered even more areas like Bracken Hill Meadow as well. Little Explorers Mum
BUD activities have helped local people – especially families – find out about green spaces they
were previously unaware of or didn’t have access to.
Several parents spoke about how they had to travel to find a good place to take their children
before BUD. Sometimes because they didn’t know about closer places, sometimes because they
thought of nearby spaces as dirty or unsafe. The combination of improvements to the sites, and the
engagement activities there, have resulted in the start of local people finding good quality spaces
within easy walking distance.
“There's not many these kinds of opportunities available in Bradford I feel like even if you're
looking, you're having to travel out.” Little Explorers Mum
“As a worker and parent, I went to the pond near Wibsey to help plant anemones. Me and lots of
the other parents didn’t know about that pond before!” Ludmila Novosjolova, Participant’s Mum /
Local Stakeholder
“Raw Nook Meadows has been transformed. I’ve been there with Sarah and seen new families
coming for activities and people tell us ‘we had no idea it was there’.” Claire Stonehouse,
Conservation Group Member
“I'm really impressed because I used to have to travel out quite a bit to take them to like a forest
kind of school. So, I was really impressed when I came across this.” Little Explorers Mum
In addition to local people becoming more aware of the good green spaces on their doorstep, new
green spaces have been created.
At Great Horton Community Hub, the gardens around the building have been developed into usable
spaces for activity through tidying, landscaping, planting, and painting.
At Wibsey Community Gardens, a wild area has been landscaped and organised with a small pond
area, better pathways, a clearer boundary, and a contained fire pit, meaning the organisation can
now work with primary schools, and is better equipped to welcome more children, young people,
and vulnerable adults with additional needs. They have already used the space to work with
neurodiverse young people on Kickstarter placements and find the young people are much happier
in natural outdoor spaces.
“Everyone sees the site differently now. They didn’t know it was so big. The wild area and pond
mean everyone sees whole site now because they have to go through it to get there. The rest of our
space is focussed on food growing so you’d have to be doing food. So, the wild space gives us a
way to be with more people doing different things. And we really want people to come and just
benefit from being here and enjoy doing nothing. Just being able to sit in a nice safe wild little
place.” Jen White, Wibsey Community Gardens
BETTER CONDITIONS FOR NATURE
The main BUD sites and the adjoining and outreach / inreach spaces are now more able to
support positive natural development. With less invasive species, clearer paths, more wildflower
areas, spaces benefitting from weed and non-native tree clearance, new species of plants and
animals, and increased numbers of existing plants and animals have been all been seen.
Whilst this obviously has a vital impact on the environment in general, it also has an immediate
impact on the attractiveness of the spaces for local people. In Great Horton parents have
talked about the difference seeing insects and foraging for plants and fruit has made to them
feeling safer and more confident to bring the children to those sites.
At Wibsey, seeing the effect of BUD’s engagement with children and young people in nature has
encouraged the Parks team to stop mowing the grass verge alongside main footpaths through the
pack, and wildflowers have been seeded on those strips instead. Work to clean up the boundaries
of water bodies at Reevy Mill and Toad Holes Beck have made those spaces safer, and a healthier
place for life cycles to develop. In turn this means more butterflies, dragonflies and bats can be
seen by local residents, making the sites a more enticing place to visit and giving people a
reason to spend more time there, as demonstrated at a Raw Nook event where families walking
through at normal pace slowed down and spent more time exploring when given a butterfly ‘I Spy’
sheet to take with them.
INCREASED INVESTMENT
“It’s forced us to do something. We have to put a new access path in all the way through to the
wildlife reserve area. BUD helped us see the place holistically and show the worth and the value of
that part of the land” Mohammed Taj, Ward Officer, Bradford Council
BRACKENHILL: £300k is confirmed for investment into the Brackenhill Park and Meadows area.
This is due to committed advocacy from Friends of Brackenhill, who in turn have credited BUD for
their support, knowledge, and enthusiasm in the past few years. The Friends group has been small
and quiet during BUD’s lifetime and the impact of a strong, positive, enthusiastic, consistent
champion in BUD’s project manager Sarah has helped the Friends keep up their active
campaigning for money from the sale of a park building to be reinvested back into the area rather
than, as a local council officer said, ‘being absorbed into the council’s budget’. Not only has BUD
helped the Friends champion this local reinvestment, it has also helped the council and Friends see
the area more holistically, so that the adjoining Brackenhill Meadows is now part of a joint vision.
Some of the funds will go to paths, nature trails and interpretation which all extend out of the park
into the meadow area. Indeed, the partnership with YWT and the ‘wildflower meadow’ is explicitly
referenced on the vision and masterplan documents for this investment.
Meanwhile Bradford Council’s Countryside Service is investing a small mount to ensure YWT can
continue occasional maintenance days in the Low Moor & Oakenshaw area so the successes there
can continue to build.

WIBSEY:
“We wouldn’t have kept Wibsey Community Gardens without Sarah’s help. I don’t think the
organisation would have survived. The place we’re in now is a very different place from where we
were before.” Jen White, Wibsey Community Gardens
BUD’s support has enabled Wibsey Community Gardens to secure a 7-year lease for the space and
have organised wild spaces on site. This has enabled them to work with more and different kinds of
people, not just those interested in food growing. They can better support people with special
needs and neurodiversity and work with primary school groups. The area is also safer, with a more
organised landscape. The pond provides cool and quiet respite from the perilously hot polytunnels
volunteers often spend time in. The lease has enabled the organisation to secure over £100k
capital funds for a refurbished kitchen, staff canteen, raised beds, composting station, orchard,
apiary and rebuilt polytunnel. They have grown from one member of staff and income of around
£35k, to around £250k (March 2022), 7 staff and delivery of 23 projects.

LEGACY & CONCLUSION
“We’re carrying on talking to YWT, to make sure we haven’t just parachuted in and out”
Danny Jackson, Bradford Council Countryside Services
BUD has generated a new layer of infrastructure across some of Bradford’s most deprived areas.
New relationships between local stakeholders have been set up, and existing relationships have
been strengthened.
Children, young people and families engaged through BUD discovered new spaces, learned how
and why nature matters in ways they say were compassionate, informative, playful, accessible, and
modelled what an embodied relationship with nature looks like. Adults saw children and young
people become more confident, more interested in fresh foods and more caring about nature. Data
shows children and young people being more physically active, and spending time more mindfully.
“We’ve carried it on at home. I built a mud kitchen in my garden. The boys like to dig out there. And
they always find bugs. They build like homes for bugs in that garden. And we get whenever we go
to the park, we’re forever picking up sticks, my front garden is filled with logs and rocks. He likes to
play with wood and build stuff in the garden. It’s all from Sarah and BUD.” Little Explorers Mum
Local green spaces are cleaner, with less crime, better looked after, more known about, safer, and
environmentally healthier. As a result, more investment has been allocated to them, and more
interest has been raised in their long-term future.
Sustaining this impact longer term is more uncertain. Small pockets of voluntary care and
management look promising though there are no formal agreements or plans in place. Local
stakeholders at the council are keen to identify local level steering or management groups of
stakeholders to carry on the momentum built through BUD. At a strategic level, most stakeholders
agree that focussing on a smaller number of areas would help ensure ongoing and visible benefits.
At Great Horton, everyone involved in BUD agrees ongoing engagement and finding a local group
to care for the sites are crucial. Brackenhill Meadows has been informally adopted into the
Brackenhill Park’s immediate future, though the Friends of Brackenhill Park is currently
undersubscribed and are not able to be as active as they would like.
At Wibsey, permanent tangible changes have been made, with the mill pond embedded in Park
interpretation. The Friends of Wibsey began to think of this extension as part of their other work
supporting and enhancing the park. After covid, the Friends group is less active, and there are no
formal agreements about the long-term care for the mill pond area.
Across Low Moor and Oakenshaw, incredible progress has been made with improvement to the
land. The local conservation group is confident about keeping on top of the work done, though they
are small with limited capacity, and the future of Low Moor Banks is still uncertain. In addition,
because this area is less deprived than others, the assumption among some stakeholders is that ‘it
will be okay’. However, local residents involved with BUD are concerned the area is at a tipping
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point because so many resources have fallen away, and covid has reduced the voluntary /
community impetus, so the assumption it doesn’t need intervention like other places do puts it at
risk of becoming more deprived. Locals there said continued support now will help grow community
involvement, and in turn help tip the balance back the other way to ensure the area doesn’t need as
much intervention in coming years.
LEGACY & CONCLUSION 32

APPENDIX
APPENDIX 33
1. USING THIS DATA
A note of caution in how the following data is understood and used more widely. As mentioned in
the introduction to the report, there are some limitations on the data available for analysis.
1. A framework was created as part of the funding application. While it was academically
robust, it did not translate so well in reality in deprived areas where many families were
transient and spoke little English or communicated more with spoken rather than written
words. Assumptions were also made in the application stages about the existing levels of
nature experience children and young people might have and the words they might
understand. For these reasons a simplified framework with guidance on how to embed
information gathering sensitively, appropriately, and creatively into activity was created
which better catered to the people involved in the project.
2. The project’s delivery team collect regular information for YWT’s monitoring purposes, but
were new to, and underconfident in, evaluation data collection. In addition, constantly
changing attendance, learning, and adapting delivery differently according to each
community’s needs, and the impact of lockdown resulted in different data across different
activities and small sample sizes, making it hard to compare and draw confident
conclusions from. To overcome this as much as possible, across different surveys, questions
were categorised into: wellbeing, nature connectedness, community connectedness, and
use of green spaces. Then changes between start and end scores of each question are
presented in percentage form so that different questions, surveys, and sample sizes can be
compared and presented with some consistency.
Sample sizes have been included wherever possible as a guideline to the accuracy of the data.
• Samples sizes of 100 or more: Large sample sizes are taken from either or both: registers
from engagement activity or data across the whole of the project. These generally relate
to attendance or demographic information and are statistically reliable.
• Sample sizes of less than 100, and mostly less than 20: Small sample sizes are taken
from wellbeing data collected in different ways from different activity strands. Often only a
small number of children and young people gave responses that could be used for start and
end point comparisons. These generally relate to wellbeing information and
information about how children and young people’s usage of the green spaces
changes over time. These results are best read as a guide and used with caution.
USING THIS DATA 34

2. ENGAGEMENT DELIVERY
Fig 1. Number of Engagement Sessions Delivered
321
256
26 27
12
Education Other Play Activities Social Prescribing TOTAL
Fig 2. Number of Engagement Contact hours
12542
9838
2013
561 131
Fig 3. Number of Engagement sub strands
58
40
9
6
3
2. ENGAGEMENT DELIVERY 35
3. ENGAGEMENT ATTENDANCE
Sample size: 1613 attendances by 354 unique individuals
Fig 4. Engagement Attendances by Activity Strand

3790
3015
323 405
47
Fig 5. Engagement Attendances by Location
43%
17% 19%
12%
9%
0%
Black Mountain Brackenhill Haycliffe Hill Low Moor Raw Nook / Toad Reevy Mill Dam
Meadows Holes Beck
Fig 6. Engagement Delivery Hours by Activity Strand
1186
705
405
50 26
3. ENGAGEMENT ATTENDANCE 36
Across BUD, most children and young people came to an average of 3.5 sessions, totalling
9.4 hours per person
5 people attended over 20 sessions, including 3 people attending more than 40
3. ENGAGEMENT ATTENDANCE 37
4. ENGAGEMENT DEMOGRAPHICS
Fig 8. Average Participant Age by Location
14
11 12 11
10
Black Mountain Brackenhill Meadows Haycliffe Hill Raw Nook / Toad Reevy Mill Dam
Holes Beck
Fig 9. Children & Young People ages across the project
215
Number of participants
144
130
111
70 65 68
57
32 36 39
18 26
16 8 12 16 8
6
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
Age
Fig 10. Participant Postcodes by Indices of Multiple Deprivation Decile
75%
12%
6% 3% 3%
1% 1% 0% 0% 0%
10% most 11-20% 21-20% 31-40% 41-50% 41-50% 31-40% 21-30% 11-20% 10% least
deprived most most most most least least least least deprived
deprived deprived deprived deprived derprived deprived deprived deprived
4. ENGAGEMENT DEMOGRAPHICS 38
Fig 11. Average Indices of Multiple Deprivation Percentage of
Participants at Each Location
32.59
21.59
12.04
7.50
5.98
Black Mountain Haycliffe Hill Brackenhill Meadows Reevy Mill Dam Raw Nook / Toad
Holes Beck
Most deprived Least deprived

areas areas
Any other White background
46
English, Welsh, Scottish, Northern Irish or British 521
White
Gypsy/Romany/Irish Traveller
112
4
Irish
10
Any other Asian background
Mixed or multiple
ethnic groups 19%
British 29%
Asian or Asian
Fig 13. Ethnicity Summary
Bangladeshi 79
0
Chinese
Fig 12. Ethnicity of Participants
15
Indian
Asian or Asian British

Pakistani
307
Any other Mixed or multiple ethnic background

105
81
White and Asian
groups
White and Black African
80
White and Black Caribbean
Mixed or multiple ethnic
African
39
or African 4%
Any other Black, Black British, or Caribbean
0
White 48%
background
Black, Black British, Caribbean

or African
Black, Black
14
British, Caribbean Caribbean

0
Any other ethnic group

group
3
Arab
Other ethnic
ETHNICITY BY ACTIVITY
Fig 14. Ethnicity by Activity
BLACK MOUNTAIN (Sample 391) 26% 5% 12% 1% 56%
STREET VOICE (Sample 38) 26% 7% 12% 54%
GRANGE (Sample 8) 63% 37%
FOREST SCHOOL (Sample 132) 35% 11% 2% 52%
NATURE PLAY (sample 236) 56% 10% 17% 67%
ALL (sample 1417) 29% 4% 19% 48%
NATURE FOREST STREET BLACK

ALL
PLAY SCHOOL GRANGE VOICE MOUNTAIN
(sample
(sample (Sample (Sample 8) (Sample (Sample
1417)
236) 132) 38) 391)
ASIAN / ASIAN BRITISH 29% 56% 35% 63% 26% 26%
BLACK, BLACK BRITISH,
4% 10% 11% 0 7% 5%
CARIBBEAN, AFRICAN
MIXED OR MULTIPLE ETHNICITIES 19% 17% 0 0 12% 12%
OTHER ETHNICITIES 0 0 2% 0 0 1%
WHITE 48% 67% 52% 37% 54% 56%
ETHNICITY BY SITE
Fig 15. Ethnicity by Location
Reevy Mill Dam 7% 8% 86%
Raw Nook / Toad Holes Beck 20% 4% 77%
Haycliffe Hill 35% 4% 28% 33%
Brackenhill Meadows 52% 2% 43%

4%
Black Mountain 26% 5% 12% 1% 56%
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
Raw Nook /
Black Brackenhill Reevy Mill
Haycliffe Hill Toad Holes
Mountain Meadows Dam
Beck
ASIAN / ASIAN BRITISH 26% 52% 35% 20% 7%
BLACK, BLACK BRITISH,
5% 2% 4% 0% 0%
CARIBBEAN, AFRICAN
MIXED OR MULTIPLE ETHNICITIES 12% 4% 28% 4% 8%
OTHER ETHNICITIES 1% 0% 0% 0% 0%
WHITE 56% 43% 33% 77% 86%
5. CHILDREN & YOUNG PEOPLE’S WELLBEING
WELLBEING SUMMARY ACROSS THE FULL PROJECT

(Sample sizes given on tables in next section)
Table 1. Summary of Wellbeing Across the Project
ACTIVITY AVE. AVE. AVE. OVERALL AVE AVE

NATURE % WELLBEING % CHANGE AGE IMD*
CHANGE % CHANGE %
NATURE CLUB 6 9 6 10.3 10.64
(All areas)
FOREST SCHOOL 16 -5 0.4 11.5 8.5
(Great Horton)
STREET VOICE 14 8 10 11.3 8.8
(Black Mountain)
GRANGE - - 9 15.1 12.9
(Black Mountain)
BLACK MOUNTAIN 55 21 22 12.3 3.1
PROGRAMME AVE. 22.75 8.25 9.48 12.1 8.8
(CYP)
*IMD = Indices of Multiple Deprivation (2019)
Fig 16. Average Overall % Difference per Person
22
10 9.48
9
0.4
NATURE CLUB FOREST SCHOOL STREET VOICE GRANGE BLACK PROGRAMME

MOUNTAIN AVE. (CYP)
5. CHILDREN & YOUNG PEOPLE’S WELLBEING 43

Fig 17. Wellbeing % Difference Per Person
21
9 8.25
8
-5
NATURE CLUB FOREST STREET VOICE GRANGE BLACK PROGRAMME

SCHOOL MOUNTAIN AVE. (CYP)
Fig 18. Nature Connection % Difference Per Person
55
22.75
16
14
6 Insufficient data
NATURE CLUB FOREST SCHOOL STREET VOICE GRANGE BLACK PROGRAMME AVE.
MOUNTAIN (CYP)

SUMMARY OF WELLBEING BY ACTIVITY
Table 2. Summary of Wellbeing Changes at Nature Club
NATURE CLUB Averages Sample size

Nature change 6% 7.5
Wellbeing change 9% 7.5
Overall change 6% 7.5
Ave age 10.3 15
Ave IMD 10.64 15
By the end of BUD 100% of children / young people play on the site at least once a week.
Which is an increase of nearly 50% on the figure at the start.
[Visiting once a week min. Start – 67%. End – 100%. Sample – 8]
The number / variety of activities children and young people do on site has increased 47%
[Start - average 3.78. End - average 5.57. Sample 8]
Table 3. Summary of Wellbeing Changes at Forest School
FOREST SCHOOL Averages Sample size

Wellbeing change -5% 9.5
Overall change 0.4% 9.5
Ave age 11.5 4
Ave IMD 8.5 17
Frequency / duration of visits – insufficient data
[Start - average 1.75. End - average 4. Sample 9.5]
Table 4. Summary of Wellbeing Changes at Street Voice
STREET VOICE Averages Sample size

Nature change 18% 9
Wellbeing change 8% 9
Overall change 10% 9
Ave age 11.3 8
Ave IMD 8.8 17
By the end of BUD 89% of children / young people play on the site for at least an hour when
visiting.
Which is an increase of nearly 33% on the figure at the start.
[Visiting once a week min. Start – 67%. End – 89%. Sample – 9]
[Start - average 2.67. End - average 3. Sample 9]
Table 5. Summary of Wellbeing Changes at Grange
GRANGE Averages Sample size

Nature change Insufficient data
Wellbeing change Insufficient data
Overall change 9% 7
Ave age 15.1 15
Ave IMD 12.9 7
Not taken
Not taken
Table 6. Summary of Wellbeing Changes at Black Mountain
BLACK MOUNTAIN Averages Sample size

Wellbeing change 21% 7.5
Overall change 22% 7.5
Ave age 12.3 15
Ave IMD 3.11 15
By the end of BUD 100% of children / young people play on the site for at least an hour.
Which is a 25% increase on the figure at the start.
[Spending an hour+ at the site: Start - 80%. End – 100. Sample - 5]
[Start - average 6. End - average 6.6. Sample 5]

6. VOLUNTEERS
VOLUNTEER TALLY
Includes all volunteers attending task days for site improvements, and trainees working on
engagement activity
Table 7. Summary of Volunteer Hours
YEAR Engagement Hours Site Hours Community day Total Hours

hours
2022 633 658 25 1316

2021 560 290.5 15 865.5
2020 127 205 12 344
2019 258 133.5 2 393.5
TOTAL 1578 1287 54 2919
Table 8. Summary of Volunteer Numbers
YEAR Engagement Volunteers Site Volunteers Community day Total Volunteers

volunteers
2022 3 216 34 253
2021 3 110 68 181
2020 1 45 29 75
2019 4 31 16 51
TOTAL 11 402 147 560
PERCENTAGE SHARE BY AREA

This chart shows how each measure of volunteering impact is shared between the three BUD areas
Fig 19. % Share of Volunteer Impact by Area
LOW MOOR &

47% 59% 20% 48% 36%
OAKENSHAW
WIBSEY 38% 10% 72% 24% 8%
GT HORTON 15% 31% 6% 28% 56%
AVE NO. VOLS PER EVENT TOTAL VOLUNTEERS AVE NEW VOLS TOTAL NEW VOLS ACTIVITY DAYS
6. VOLUNTEERS 47
BREAKDOWN OF SITE VOLUNTEER GROUPINGS
Table 9. Breakdown of Site Volunteer Groupings
VOLUNTEER LIST
GROUP Young people Adults Grouping
Brackenhill School 64 Group
NCS 7 Group
Prince's Trust 8 Group
Youth group 5 Group
Scouts / cubs 10 Group
Dixons Academy 11 Group
Wibsey Community Gardens 8 Group
Community Payback 12 Group
NG Bailey's 18 Group
Solenis 9 Group
Trainees 8 Individuals
TNL 13 Group
Local residents drop in 5 Individuals
LMOCG 8 Group
Individuals not with a group 18 Individuals
Subtotal 105 99
TOTAL 204
Fig 20. Volunteer Groups or Fig 21. Volunteer Adults or Children &
Individuals Young People
Individuals
15%
Adults
49% CYP
Groups 51%
85%
6. VOLUNTEERS 48
SUMMARY OF VOLUNTEER CONTRIBUTIONS TO SITE IMPROVEMENTS
Table 9. Summary of Volunteer Contribution by Location
Site 2019 2020 2021 2022 Grand Total
Black Mountain
New Volunteers (Sites) 4 0 2 0 6
Volunteer Hours (Sites) 38.5 13 31.5 60 143
Bags of Litter (Sites) 9 31 39 90 169
Total Volunteers (Sites) 10 3 17 17 47
Brackenhill Meadows
Volunteer Hours (Sites) 24 31 64 181 300
Haycliffe Hill
New Volunteers (Sites) 0 13 2 15
Volunteer Hours (Sites) 20 18 93 131
Bags of Litter (Sites) 123 15 78 216
Total Volunteers (Sites) 4 21 27 52
Low Moor Banks
New Volunteers (Sites) 0 16 16
Volunteer Hours (Sites) 43.5 117.5 161
Bags of Litter (Sites) 2 23 25
Total Volunteers (Sites) 12 33 45
Raw Nook
Volunteer Hours (Sites) 56 61 79 140.5 336.5
Reevy Mill Dam
Volunteer Hours (Sites) 10 21 15 39.5 85.5
Toad Holes Beck
Volunteer Hours (Sites) 5 59 39.5 15.5 119
Bags of Litter (Sites) 0 1 1 2
(blank)
New Volunteers (Sites) 0 0
Volunteer Hours (Sites) 11 11
Bags of Litter (Sites) 3 3
Total Volunteers (Sites) 5 5
Total New Volunteers (Sites) 13 2 26 117 158
Total Volunteer Hours (Sites) 133.5 205 290.5 658 1287
Total Bags of Litter (Sites) 43 225 166 353 787
6. VOLUNTEERS 49
Fig 22. Summary of Site Volunteer Contributions by Location
Total Volunteers New Volunteers Volunteer Hours Bags of Litter
PROJECT TOTAL 341 98 1265 787
Reevy Mill Dam 30 24 86 73
Toad Holes Beck 28 3 119 2
Raw Nook 86 22 337 31
Low Moor Banks 45 16 161 25
Haycliffe Hill 52 15 131 216
Brackenhill Meadows 48 12 278 268
Black Mountain 47 6 143 169
6. VOLUNTEERS 50
7. IMPROVEMENTS TO GREEN SPACES
SUMMARY OF SITE IMPROVEMENT TASKS CARRIED OUT
Fig 23. Total Improvement Activities Across BUD Sites
Wildlife survey 1
Wildlife box 3
Hard Landscaping 14
Tree maintenance 17
Planting 14
Scrub clearnace 12
7. IMPROVEMENTS TO GREEN SPACES 51

SITE IMPROVEMENTS – GREAT HORTON
Fig 24. Site Improvement Activities at Black Mountain

Hard Landscaping 3
Tree maintenance 2
Planting 3
Scrub clearnace 1
Fig 25. Site Improvement Activities at Haycliffe Hill

Hard Landscaping 2
Tree maintenance 2
Planting 2
Scrub clearnace 1
Fig 26. Site Improvement Activities at Brackenhill Meadows
Wildlife box 1
Hard Landscaping 4
Tree maintenance 4
Planting 3
Scrub clearnace

SITE IMPROVEMENTS – RAW NOOK & OAKENSHAW
Fig 27. Site Improvements at Raw Nook
Wildlife box 1
Hard Landscaping 1
Tree maintenance 7
Planting 3
Scrub clearnace 4
Fig 28. Site Improvements at Low Moor Banks
Hard Landscaping
Tree maintenance 1
Planting 1
Scrub clearnace 2
Fig 29. Site Improvements at Toad Holes Beck
1
Wildlife box 1
1
3
Tree maintenance
6
Planting 1
3

SITE IMPROVEMENTS – WIBSEY
Fig 30. Reevy Mill Dam
Hard Landscaping
Tree maintenance 1
Planting 1
Scrub clearnace 1

8. USE OF GREEN SPACES
How Children and young people use the space is collected as part of wellbeing surveying, so is only
available according to which type of sessions they took part in, but not which location they were at.
That said, apart from Nature Club, most of the activities shown below are at Black Mountain and
Haycliffe Hill.
Across BUD, the number of CYP visiting once a week or more increased from 67% to 78%
(See Tables 2-6 for sample sizes)
Fig 31. Frequency of CYP Play at their Chosen Site
END 30% 30% 17% 13% 9%
START 24% 27% 15% 9% 24%
Every day 2-3 Times a week Once a week Once a month A few times in a year
Across BUD, the number of CYP spending 2 or more hours on green spaces increased from
75% to 91%
Fig 32. Duration of CYP Play at their Chosen Site
END 23% 36% 32% 5% 5%
START 25% 31% 19% 13% 13%
More than 3 hours About 3 hours About 2 hours About an hour Less than an hour
8. USE OF GREEN SPACES 55

Across BUD: On average, the variety of play and exploration activities CYP do at the green
spaces increased by 24% and physical activity increased by 14%.
Table 10. Number of Activities

AVE NO. ACTIVITIES START END CHANGE
OVERALL 3.7 4.6 24%
NATURE CLUB 3.78 5.57 47%
BLACK MOUNTAIN 6 6.6 10%
FOREST SCHOOL 1.75 4.00 129%
STREET VOICE 2.67 3.00 13%
Table 11. Changes in Activity
What do you do when you play on the CHANGE ACTIVITY

greenspace? (% Increase / decrease since start) TYPE
Climb things 13.4% Physical

Run around -0.4% Physical
Talk to friends -12.7% Sedentary
Watch and listen -17.8% Sedentary
Make things 16.5% Sedentary
Explore -7.5% Both / Either
Play games 8.5% Both / Either
Fig 33. Average % Difference Since Start Activity Summary

(Sample 149) 13%
-14%
Physical activity Sedentary activity
Fig 34. Changes in Variety of Independent Activities for CYP on their

Chosen Site
24% 47% 10% 129% 13%
Average Number of
4.6 5.57 6.6 3.00

4.00
Activities
3.7 3.78 6 2.67

1.75
OVERALL NATURE CLUB BLACK MOUNTAIN FOREST SCHOOL STREET VOICE
START END CHANGE
8. USE OF GREEN SPACES 56

9. INTERVIEWS
In-depth one to one interviews were carried out with a range of local stakeholders involved with
BUD project.
The basis of each interview followed these questions, with deeper dives in response to individual
answers.
1. Could you tell me when you got involved with this project, how that came about and what’s
happened since then?
2. What are the successes you’ve seen or heard about from local people?
3. How is that additional to or different from what would have happened anyway?
4. What do you put that success down to? What are the ingredients that made it happen?
5. In hindsight, what could have been better or more effective done differently?
6. Is there any legacy from this now BUD is coming to an end?
7. What else is important to say about the project from your perspective?
Thanks go to the following for their time and thoughtful responses in interviews:
GREAT HORTON
Cllr Joanne Dodds
Ward Officer, Mohammed Taj
The mothers of the Little Explorers
Southmere Primary Academy Teacher, Zohaib Pasha
Participant’s mother, Ludmila Novosjolova
Great Horton Village Hub Organiser, Claire Perkins
Youth Association Officer, Ellie Rogers
WIBSEY
Wibsey Community Gardens Manager, Jen White
LOW MOOR & OAKENSHAW

Participants’ mother, Kirsty Ferguson
Low Moor Conservation Group member, Claire Stonehouse
BRADFORD WIDE
Bradford Council Countryside Services, Danny Jackson
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY .............................................................................................................................................................. 2

INTRODUCTION TO BUD ......................................................................................................................................................... 7

By improving these spaces, hand in hand with local

The project had three key strands:

INTRODUCTION TO BRADFORD URBAN DISCOVERY 7

INTRODUCTION TO BRADFORD URBAN DISCOVERY 8

There are some limitations on the data available for analysis.

ENABLING MORE PEOPLE TO FULFIL THEIR POTENTIAL BY WORKING TO ADDRESS

BRINGING PEOPLE TOGETHER & BUILDING STRONG RELATIONSHIPS IN AND

MEETING BUD’S STRATEGIC AIMS AND TARGETS 10

IMPROVING PLACES AND SPACES THAT MATTER TO COMMUNITIES

MEETING BUD’S STRATEGIC AIMS AND TARGETS 11

For children and young people BUD has achieved

• 12542 contact hours (attendance x delivery)

For adults, BUD has included

• 2865 Volunteering hours in total

MEETING BUD’S STRATEGIC AIMS AND TARGETS 12

• On average, children and young people’s wellbeing increased by 9.5%

SUSTAINABLE LONG-TERM MANAGEMENT IN PLACE FOR THE GREENSPACES

MEETING BUD’S STRATEGIC AIMS AND TARGETS 13

MEETING BUD’S STRATEGIC AIMS AND TARGETS 14

2. Haycliffe Hill: This is a hill space

GREAT HORTON’S BUD JOURNEY 15

GREAT HORTON’S BUD JOURNEY 16

GREAT HORTON’S BUD JOURNEY 17

Like Haycliffe Hill, in

WIBSEY’S BUD JOURNEY 18

WIBSEY’S BUD JOURNEY 19

WIBSEY’S BUD JOURNEY 20

7. Low Moor Banks: Low Moor Banks is a former refuse

The sites sit across Bradford’s ‘neighbourhoods’ of Low

Low Moor Banks, the largest of the three sites in this

LOW MOOR & OAKENSHAW’S BUD JOURNEY 21

LOW MOOR & OAKENSHAW’S BUD JOURNEY 22

subjective wellbeing. Nature connection is proven to he’s looking towards a future

Total Volunteers New Volunteers Volunteer Hours Bags of Litter

ACTIVITIES VOLUNTEERS HELPED CARRY OUT

Crime / Neglect Reparation 58

Interpretation & Interaction 23

Invasive / Non-native species removed 37

For details of contributions at each site, see Appendix 7, Figs. 24-30

LITTER & CRIME

IMPACT ON GREEN SPACES 27

IMPACT ON GREEN SPACES 29

IMPACT ON GREEN SPACES 30

LEGACY & CONCLUSION 31

LEGACY & CONCLUSION 32

USING THIS DATA 34

Education Other Play Activities Social Prescribing TOTAL

Fig 2. Number of Engagement Contact hours

Education Other Play Activities Social Prescribing TOTAL

Fig 3. Number of Engagement sub strands

Education Other Play Activities Social Prescribing TOTAL

Fig 4. Engagement Attendances by Activity Strand

Education Other Play Activities Social Prescribing TOTAL

Fig 5. Engagement Attendances by Location

Fig 6. Engagement Delivery Hours by Activity Strand

Education Other Play Activities Social Prescribing TOTAL

Fig 8. Average Participant Age by Location

Fig 9. Children & Young People ages across the project

Fig 10. Participant Postcodes by Indices of Multiple Deprivation Decile

Most deprived Least deprived