vInspired, the UK’s largest youth volunteering charity, is currently looking for new partners to help them deliver vInspired Eco-Talent, part of the Big Lottery Fund’s ‘Our Bright Future’ programme. Eco-Talent aims to provide full-time volunteering opportunities to young people within the environmental sector, and is modelled on a programme that vInspired have been running with local delivery partners since…
Here’s a link to show who’ll be talking at the Communicate 2016: Swapping Spectacles event in Bristol Zoo on 02 & 03 November. According to the organisers, these are the top 5 reasons for going to Communicate: Cross sector networking – the conference is programmed to offer ample opportunities for both structured and open networking in a friendly, welcoming atmosphere…
‘Secrets of the Vegetable Garden’ is a picture book with a difference! Children hold the book up to light or shine a torch behind the page to reveal the hidden activity going on in the garden: seeds appear magically under soil in a pot; roots and worms, normally hidden to us, become apparent under the…
Researchers from Lancaster University and Save the Children have produced a new report on a study exploring children’s and young people’s experiences of the UK winter 2013/14 floods, in which they worked with them to develop ways of improving policy and practice to provide better support and enhance resilience. They found a number Apply and,…
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Sadly, NAEE missed the fact that yesterday was the International Day of Action on Throwaway Cups. We can only apologise and hope that you didn’t throw too many away as a result. Here’s a link to the International Paper Network website. Mandy Haggith, co-ordinator of the Network says, ‘Throwaway cups, whether made of paper, Styrofoam or…
COMMUNITY ECOLOGY: 1st and 2nd October in Redruth Community development for conservation and ecological projects. Help your community to establish growing projects and natural spaces in urban and rural areas. EVERYDAY BOTANY: 15th and 16th October in Totnes Plant identification, Microscopy, Measure Ecosystems and biodiversity, Links to citizen science, Education for Sustainable Development, ethnobotany. For more details call…
The NUS has launched 30 faces, a small project designed to help it identify what it was that influenced 30 young people to lead on sustainability. NUS says that their responses are insightful and motivational, and that 30 faces has helped it shape the new Green Impact for students’ unions [GISU] which was also recently…
Food Growing Schools: London is delighted to invite you to a celebration event… Thursday 13 October 2016 – The Living Room, City Hall, The Queen’s Walk, London, SE1 2AA Food Growing Schools: London is a Lottery funded project, which started in 2014 and aims to get every London school growing their own food. It says: “Join us to…
In the 13 year history of the Countryside Educational Accreditation Scheme (managed by FACE on behalf of the Access To Farms partnership), a total of 2,323 people have attended training, with nearly 75% of them choosing to enter their work for an accreditation through OCN. A long-term survey of farmers who have taken the course has just been…
Sara Marshall, Eco Drama Schools Officer explores its latest project Out to Play. Founded in 2007, Eco Drama engages, entertains & inspires people of all ages to value and care for our natural world through inventive theatre, music, storytelling and creative learning workshops. Eco Drama’s latest project ‘Out to Play’ was designed to explore the…
The German non-profit project WissensWerte, has published a hand drawn, animated short-film called Awesome Oceans. It shows how fascinating this habitat is, but also how human behaviour endangers it. The video can be watched here. It has a Creative Commons license and can be used and shared for free in any way.