Biodiversity wins in Devon

Little Green Change is celebrating the biodiversity improvements in Devon in 2025 carried out in conjunction with primary and secondary schools across the county. Their Biodiversity in Schools Project provides a range of free environmental education assemblies and school ground biodiversity improvements to state-funded schools, thanks to funding from The Norman Family Trust, the Nineveh Charitable Trust, and Devon Environment Foundation. 

In 2025, this project worked with 1,719 children across 23 state-funded primary and secondary schools in the county to deliver a wide range of biodiversity improvements including the planting of willow plants in flood prone areas, native trees, and Spring flowering bulbs, plus new and improved wildlife habitats, and planting to prevent river bank erosion along the River Lim in Uplyme. 

Schools that have participated include All Saints Primary School in Axminster, Sidmouth Primary School in Sidmouth, Colyton Primary Academy in Colyton, Kenton Primary School in Exeter, and Blackawton Primary School in Totnes.  

Little Green Change's Founder and Director, Clare Matheson said, "It's been wonderful to see how enthusiastic children are about protecting wildlife, and how much the participating schools are enabling them to do this. Hands on experiences like the ones we provide empower children to believe they can make a positive difference, which can then has a ripple effect on the whole community. If we want to protect humans, we must also protect nature, as we rely on it as a species to survive and thrive."

You can find out more about this impactful project on their website: littlegreenchange.com/biodiversity

Little Green Change also runs a range of other projects, programmes and community events and initiatives covering topics including climate change, waste, renewable energy and human health, as well as community give and take events and seed sowing events with local libraries and town councils.