New Perspectives Storytelling Grants

As part of our New Perspectives project we have offered grants to young people to share their stories of National Parks

Tell us your story

As part of our New Perspectives project, funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, we offered funding opportunities of up to £1,000 to young people who want to develop their communication and storytelling skills and share their stories of National Parks. We heard from young people who wanted to develop a project exploring an issue, topic or story relating to one or more of the 13 National Parks in England and Wales.​

Explore their stories below.

Thanks to National Lottery players

The best piece of advice I ever got as a young trans person was “there are happy trans people in the world, you just have to figure out how to be one.” For me, that meant getting outdoors and exploring the UK’s National Parks. Meeting other trans people while hiking in the South Downs National Park has given me a sense of community, connectedness, and hope for the future that changed my life. That is what the National Parks mean to me.

Felix, on his project Transing the Wild: Wilding the Trans (2025)

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