Creative Nature

Most people are fascinated by wildlife and, increasingly, people are spending more time outdoors, re-connecting with the countryside. In the past people kept nature diaries and used inspiration from the natural environment to feed in to all sort of hobbies, from embroidery to poetry writing.

Now Leicestershire County Council’s Community Heritage Initiative is offering free training, through the Creative Nature programme, on topics such as creative writing, digital photography and botanical drawing. The programme is running until summer 2008.

Creative Nature Programme of Events January - July 2008 (PDF document 280KB)

People can also request a free Recording Naturally pack (pdf document, 1.78mb) pack which is full of ideas for making their own wildlife diaries, with modern day twists such as wildlife web sites and digital scrap books. The free pack complements many of the wildlife and habitat surveys available from the Initiative, which is supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund and Rutland County Council.