Andy O'Callaghan, Youth Project Officer from Our Wild Coasts gives us an update from North Wales Wildlife Trust As Our Welsh Coasts gears up for working with young people across North Wales, it was time for the development workers to get their hands dirty and understand the ins and outs of how a wildlife trust proactively [...]
Ruth Hudson, Project Officer for Growing Confidence, shares what she and the team are learning about social enterprise The team from Our Bright Future project Growing Confidence wanted to explore how social enterprise could benefit the young people we are working with. However, first of all they needed to understand more about what social enterprise [...]
Andy O'Callaghan, Youth Project Officer for Our Wild Coasts tells his story of how he got involved with Our Bright Future Our Bright Future. It is a title that can be interpreted in many different ways but, for me, those three words speak of hope: although there are many issues to be tackled by our [...]
Peter Ainsworth, Chair of the Big Lottery Fund, shares his excitement as Our Bright Future activity begins An estate in London's Hammersmith; it's not where you'd expect to find much green stuff going on. But it is happening. Earlier this year I met some young people there who had just started training with Groundwork London. [...]
Three months on from the Paris climate change agreement, more than 30 organisations are using £33 million from the Big Lottery Fund to help young people step up and create what is rightfully theirs: a healthy planet, a thriving economy and a brighter future. With more than 50,000 young people reached through the programme, Our [...]
Programme Manager, Cath Hare introduces Our Bright Future Our young people are becoming disconnected from the natural environment. Humans now spend more than 80% of their time indoors. Kids roam 300 yards on average and not the six miles we did four generations ago. Hence some kids in Cornwall haven’t been to the beach and [...]
