Highland Primary Schools Birdbox Project

The Highland Primary Schools Birdbox Project is a deceptively simple plan; to supply each of the 175 primary schools across the Highland Council area with x10 birdboxes each over a four year period. The boxes will be built in Tom’s Borders workshop using sustainable and recycled materials, and will be delivered personally to primary schools across the region.

At the time of writing, all 450 boxes for the first year and x300 for the second year have been completed and delivered to Highland Council schools along the Spey Valley, Fort William, Ardnamurchan, the Small Isles and around Inverness. Tom has also built a further x350 boxes (to be delivered July 2022) including the 1,000th Highland Primary Schools Birdbox!

Tom has worked with the RSPB and Highland Council to create teaching resources to accompany them.

The boxes have been mapped using a GIS data mapping system where pupils and staff will be able to collate and share the results of their observations, in accordance with RSPB & British Trust for Ornithology best practice.