Roberta Antonaci, Policy and Campaigns Manager for Our Bright Future, tells us about her experience at TEDxTeen. On the 24 June, TEDxTeen took place at O2 Arena in South-East London. TED is a non-profit organisation devoted to spreading ideas, usually in the form of short, powerful talks. Independently run TEDx events take place in more [...]
Grainne Martin-wells is the youth representative on the Our Bright Future steering group. She’s also been given the opportunity to get involved in Merit360, where young people are taking action to support the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. This year I, along with 359 other people (aged 18-35) from all over the world, was selected [...]
Share, Learn Improve Coordinator, Nikki Robinson shares her thoughts on the Our Bright Future all project seminar. As the sun peeked over the horizon one Tuesday morning in April, all around the UK people were on the move… from Northern Ireland, Wales, Scotland and England they came. From remote rural communities and inner cities almost [...]
Ranger Gav from Hill Holt Wood talks of the impacts that new experiences have on young people. Growth is a tricky thing. Do you leave well alone and enjoy what you’ve got already? Or do you trim a little here and there, move to a new spot exposed to different conditions and hope the new [...]
Lily Freeston shares the progress of The Environment Now as Heather Wildsmith and Lydia Allen deliver Thinkspriation events around the country this week. The Environment Now is an exciting programme that funds 17-24 year olds to bring their ideas around energy efficiency, waste reduction and recycling, to life. It’s funded by O2 and the Big [...]
Wildlife Watch is the junior branch of The Wildlife Trusts. Dara McAnulty, a 12 year old member, shares his story of the impact nature has on his life. There is something we can all learn regarding the impact nature can have on our mental health and wellbeing. As soon as I was a toddler, my [...]
Anna Heathcote is the new Communications Officer for Our Bright Future. Coming from a charity background, it has been a very natural transition into the Wildlife Trusts’ Our Bright Future team in Newark. Prior to joining the team I juggled two roles, one with fellow conservation charity the RSPB, and the other with local community [...]
Jake Dean Jones is helping to set up Staffordshire University’s farmers’ market as part of the National Union of Students’ Our Bright Future project: Student Eats. The Staffordshire University Students Union is setting up a food market on our Stoke campus. It won’t be as big as the local Tesco or Sainsbury’s, but it will [...]
Hannah Farley, Project Officer for Growing Confidence at Shropshire Wildlife Trust, has been working with a variety of different groups of young people to offer them the opportunity to develop a deeper understanding of the natural world and the environmental sector. I have been working closely with one secondary school to provide an alternative curriculum [...]
Guest blog from The Wildlife Trusts' Communications Support Officer, Beth Rowland Mark Twain famously said, “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education”. That’s confusing, isn’t it? Some people might say that education means school or university, but the Collins English Dictionary defines education as “the act or process of acquiring knowledge” – [...]
