Lane Cove Bush Kids is a local initiative of the Lane Cove Bushland and Conservation Society, a not-for-profit, volunteer-run organisation founded over 40 years ago in Lane Cove to protect our natural environment (http://lanecovebushland.org.au/ ). Lane Cove Bush Kids is designed to increase our local community’s awareness, understanding and engagement in the natural environment. It does so by providing regular environmental education activities set in local bushland for children and their families.Lane Cove Bush Kids is also about building community, encouraging connections between local families and increasing our knowledge and engagement with the place we live in. Lane Cove Bush Kids commenced as a pilot in late 2010 and has recently been awarded grants from the NSW Environmental Trust ($47,512 over 3 years) and Lane Cove Council ($1,995 in 2012). With these grants and with the support of Lane Cove Council, we will:
Continue to provide fortnightly activities set in local bushland for children and their families residing in the Lane Cove Local Government Area. The target age of the children participating in these activities will be expanded from 2-5 to 2-10 years. In January 2016 Lane Cove Council formed a partnership with the Lane Cove Bushland & Conservation Society and took over the running of the program. Ideally, the program would build a team of trained volunteers to support Lane Cove Bush Kids activities to ensure that these activities become a permanent feature of Lane Cove's local area. Documentation of the Lane Cove Bush Kids model to enable it to be easily adopted by other interested communities is another initiative to be undertaken by LCBK.
