Mick Leivers, founder of the social enterprise, CAST showed particpants of the Big Local site visit to Newstead how he's been using the natural environment to teach and work with young people about respecting their local surroundings, and increasing their skills at the same time.

1. Newstead and Annesley Country Park

2. Where it all began

3. Early days

4. Getting ready to leave

5. Ash with a river Carp

6. Newstead’s community festival

7. Bringing people together

8. Untouched for forty years

9. Key elements of the team

10. Long hidden plots are revealed

11. A well earned break

12. Learning skills

13. Training young people adds value to
environmental improvements

14. Laying a patio at the Childrens Centre

15. Good times

16. Monsters from Newstead Abbey

17. Rewards for hard work

18. Community landscape

19. A visible landmark

20. Wildlife rich lagoons

21. A wealth of wild flowers