Sixteen and seventeen year olds who want to do their bit for the environment over the holidays in 2009 could still find a spot on a National Trust for Scotland’s Trailblazer camp.
Sixteen and seventeen year olds who want to do their bit for the environment over the holidays in 2009 could still find a spot on a National Trust for Scotland’s Trailblazer camp.
Trailblazers are a holiday with a difference – they give teenagers the chance to experience conservation work first-hand in some of Scotland’s most beautiful and remote locations.
This year, week-long camps will take place at six of the Trust’s most spectacular countryside properties - Ben Lomond and Ben Lawers in Stirlingshire, Brodick on Arran, Glencoe and Kintail in the West Highlands and Mar Lodge, Aberdeenshire, throughout July, August and October.
Young people will be supervised in projects to improve the properties, getting the chance to get their hands dirty with fence-building, footpath maintenance and dry-stane dyking.
Violet Dalton, Head of Volunteering said:
“Young people are amongst our most powerful advocates for the environment and our Trailblazer camps are very popular with those who want to do their bit for conservation. It’s not all hard work though – the teenagers have a lot of fun too – and they get to spend time in some of Scotland’s most beautiful scenery. Maybe that’s why we’re seeing an increase in the number of international visitors signing up for 2009.”
For more information on Trailblazers, visit
www.nts.org.uk/ThistleCamps