Fifteen students from Lakes College at Lillyhall have helped plant around 1,000 native trees.
The cohort taking part in the college’s Stay West: Realising Our Potential life skills scheme have worked with Raegan Blacker, Workington’s nature partnership officer.
She said: “We’ve been planting all kinds of native species in a special nursery area in Curwen Park.
“We’ve had a whole range planted including beech, silver birch, oak, hawthorn, willow.
“They’ll stay there for a few years and when they’re ready they’ll be moved to other areas of the town.
“The students seemed to really enjoy the day. It was great to have their help too, otherwise it would’ve taken a long time to do it all on my own.”
The young trees were donated by the conservation volunteers organisation TCV.
Raegan works on a range of nature programmes and sites across Workington in a drive funded by Allerdale council and Workington Town Council.
She regularly works with voluntary and community groups as well as local schoolchildren.
Next month she will be leading a beach clean-up operation at Harrington as part of Keep Britain Tidy.
Anyone interested in getting involved can email
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