Our work with Colleges and Universities

Colleges

We enjoy strong links with the local College and Universities.
Students from the Media Studies department at Calderdale College, Halifax, annually base their project course work on the habitats and wildlife of Cromwell Bottom Nature Reserve. Project work starts with student and tutor visits to the reserve, which include discussions with volunteers, photography and generating ideas for their individual projects.
The final products are exhibited in a formal presentation, either on the college premises or in our Visitor Centre, before going for accreditation.
To date, many creative outcomes such as T shirt designs, information posters, board and computer games, key rings, banners and badges have been produced. These provide a range of resources which are available to schools for free and opportunities for us to offer items of merchandise for purchase in the Visitor Centre.
Manchester University recently conducted a Butterfly survey at the reserve and Huddersfield University have worked with us on various projects.
Contact us here if you would like to arrange a visit
Students presenting their work on the Cromwell Bottom project.
Newly produced T shirt complete with Goldfinch.
Key rings with Cromwell Bottom Wildlife Group logo.

Universities

The range of water features on the reserve, namely, ponds, river and the lagoon enables students from Huddersfield University to regularly monitoring the quality of water on the reserve, and relay such information to the wildlife group.

University students deciding which part of the lagoon to carry out research
University students testing the water in the lagoon