Resources
Here you’ll find a variety of papers, reports and media that we’ve created and collaborated on.
These go into more detail about our vision, impact and ambitions for the future and also explore the need for more green jobs and programmes like ours.
Papers
Policy papers
'Green Shoots: Growing the green workforce of the future': A paper we developed with Green Alliance exploring the demand for green jobs and solutions to bridge the green skills gap.
'National Nature Service: a briefing': A paper we collaborated on with Green New Deal Rising and Wildlife and Countryside Link exploring how a National Nature Service would work in practice.
'Levelling up through the National Nature Service: Piloting the next step': A proposal to pilot the National Nature Service through the UK Government's Levelling Up Agenda.
About YES
'YES Programme Overview': A brief explainer of the Youth Environmental Service model, our purpose and the impacts our programme will have.
'YES Theory of Change': Our Theory of Change outlines our organisational goals and how we plan to achieve them.
New to Nature
'New to Nature Programme Evaluation - Report 1: Learning from the recruitment phase': A short report analysing the recruitment phase of the programme and examples of good practice.
'New to Nature 12-Month Impact Report’: A report summarising the various impacts of the programme on trainees and their host organisations.
Media
We need a National Nature Service - 2024
Off the back of our National Nature Service policy paper we hit the streets at the Restore Nature Now march to hear what people thought about the idea.
YES x Glimpse 2024
Over a few months we worked with the creative communications agency Glimpse on a series of videos showcasing the importance and variety of green jobs.
We connected three influencers with some of our New to Nature trainees who showed them around their workplace and gave the influencers an idea of what they get up to working in their green job.
The influencers created two videos each, one focusing on the trainee and their role and the other featuring our Programme Director, Billy, explaining the importance of green jobs and how programmes like ours can make them more accessible to other young people.