Groundwork West Midlands, working in partnership with the Environment Agency, the Wild Trout Trust and Stoke City Football Club is working with young volunteers who are helping to improve the Lyme Brook at Lyme Valley Parkway, Newcastle-under-Lyme, a social action project that benefits those taking part and the wider community.
The young volunteers aged between 16 and 17 are taking part in a National Citizen Service Programme, run locally by Stoke City Football Club. The volunteers commit 30 hours of their time, usually in the school holidays, to a social action project that benefits those taking part and the wider community. Many continue to volunteer after their week long social action project.