Come and be involved with wildflower meadow restoration, find out why it's so important and how we are doing it, along with behind the scenes work at the Cumbria Seed Bank itself.

We're looking for young people to be at the forefront of delivering this unique project designed specifically to gather and store plant species in Cumbria.  The roles will include surveying plants and learning to identify them, seed collecting and storage, propagation in the nursery and planting out in fields and green spaces across Cumbria.

Working with the Lottery Heritage Fund, we are a special outreach project with the Kew Millennium Seed Bank, designed to gather and store plant species in Cumbria to protect the genetic diversity of vulnerable species, along with restoring endangered wildflower meadows. 

We aim to train twelve young people in these vital heritage skills, to ensure these endangered meadows.  With a 97% decline in these habitats since the 1930s, we hope to give them the restoration boost they badly need.  

In addition to the active restoration work, the project culminates with a 'Young Environmental Leaders' residential to Kew Millennium Seed Bank itself for those who have been most engaged with the project.