CRC’s Green Team are Make a Difference finalists!

Cambridge Regional College’s Green Team have been selected as finalists in this year’s BBC Make a Difference awards, having been nominated in the Green category.

Made up of students with special education needs, the Green Team spends time in the community getting hands on with nature to make a difference to the local area. The team has spent time at Hinchingbrooke Country Park maintaining the parklands and building dens, alongside similar work at Anglesey Abbey and Grafham Water.

Jeremy Lloyd, Assistant Principal for SEND and DSL at Cambridge Regional College, said: “We are absolutely delighted to be nominated as BBC Cambridgeshire Green Award Finalists. This reflects the amazing amount of work our most complex and challenged students with SEND and staff do across the county to transform different green spaces. An absolute honour.”

Speaking of the award nomination, lecturer Andrew Fountain added: “It’s all about the recognition they deserve, and being proud of the work they do.”

Each student in the Green Team has differing levels of needs, but the work Andrew and the team do seeks to help them develop their individual skillsets so when they leave CRC they can flourish and progress onto bigger and better things. Andrew said: “We want people to see past the disability and see what they can do, what skills they offer.”

Mark Robertson, Principal of Cambridge Regional College, said: “I’m delighted our Green Team has been nominated and named as finalists for this fantastic award. The work the team have done over the course of the year and the impact it has had on both the students and wider community has been superb.  Well done to them all.”

The ceremony will take place in early September, where the Green Team will learn whether they’ve won.

Good luck, Green Team!