Community Payback form one of the delivery strands of the Our Bright Future Milestones project, funded by The National Lottery Community Fund. Since the Care Farm opened in November 2016, Community Payback has undertaken a variety of tasks at least once most weeks. The Care Farm uses therapeutic farming practices to help young people learn [...]
Ben Derrick, Gardener Trainer at St Mungo’s writes about a visit the young people on the Putting Down Roots for Young People project, took to Kew Gardens. One of many beautiful shots captured at Kew Gardens At Putting Down Roots for Young People we’ve been working with young people who are unable to access [...]
I can’t remember a time when I didn’t love nature. Growing up I was surrounded by urban wildlife; foxes, grey squirrels, badgers and mallards. I lived on the back of the River Wey where my father was a water warden for the National Trust, and my childhood consisted of searching for badger setts, making footprint [...]
Millie Duke and Kyle Baker are from the Fife Our Bright Future project. They were part of a group of young people from projects working in Scotland that visited the Scottish Youth Parliament in December 2018. Here are their reflections. Our recent visit to the Scottish Youth Parliament (SYP) in Edinburgh helped us gain a [...]
Lily Stringer is taking part in the Cardiff Environmental Leadership Programme, delivered by UpRising. Her blog challenges our Christmas present buying habits. Make it Sentimental This may sound a sinister start to a post about Christmas, but consider this: if you were forced from your home and only able to take one bag of belongings [...]
The UpRising Environmental Leadership Programme 2018-19 launched in November this year in London, Cardiff, Manchester and Birmingham. We kicked off the programme with a Leadership Launch Weekend that was held simultaneously across the four cities. During the weekend UpRisers shared knowledge about the key environmental challenges facing their local communities as well as understanding their [...]
Grassroots Challenge Youth Forum member and Our Bright Future Evaluation Panel Youth Representative, Arwen Greenwood gives an update on the recent Grassroots Challenge Celebration Event. This year’s Grassroots Challenge celebration event was held on Friday 23 November at the Craigavon Civic Centre and was a brilliant success. This is the second year of the project [...]
In 2008, the UK set ambitious targets for tackling climate change. To mark this anniversary two projects from The Environment Now have shared their thoughts and how their businesses are making a difference. Tackling climate change one wipe at a time! Twipes was founded in 2015 by biochemist Elle and entrepreneur Al to tackle the [...]
In August Milly Spencer became the Our Bright Future Intern at Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust. Before we begin, introduce yourself! How did Our Bright Future enter your life? My name is Milly, I’m from Manchester and moved here (to Gloucestershire) to study. I recently graduated with a degree in Wildlife Conservation, and have just started this internship at the Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust Our Bright Future [...]
Policy and Campaigns Manager, Roberta Antonaci gives an update on the Our Bright Future campaign. With its 31 projects running across the UK, Our Bright Future is creating and improving many places and changing the lives of many young people across the four nations. We have already engaged more than 80,000 young people, breaking our [...]
