It's been a busy few weeks for Young Place Shapers. A group came together during the Easter holidays to plant native, bee- and insect-friendly wildflower seeds at Canbury Gardens on a super sunny morning. With fantastic support from Quadron - who provide park services to the Royal Borough of Kingston-upon-Thames - and visits from lots of locals, everyone got down to work.

Group of early rising young volunteers - check. Professional trainers - check. Functioning technology - check. Lots of great ideas - check!

Young Place Shapers is very excited to be working with media production company, Digital Drama, on the Stories of Our Park project this spring.

Over three sessions, Stories of Our Park will train a group of young people in recording, interviewing and editing skills. They will use these new skills to go out and speak to park users at Canbury Gardens, Kingston, to find out:

• what locals like about their parks and
• why they are important to them

They will then work together to create an audio/ sound archive of their work.

Rachel Monaghan, Young Place Shapers project worker, writes: