Jo Boylan is the Youth Outreach Officer at Belfast Hills Partnership. She and the team deliver the Belfast Hills Bright Future project. They attended the all-project seminar on 19-20 June 2019. Here are her thoughts. Queen University’s Riddel Hall, was a beautiful setting for the annual Our Bright Future all project-seminar. Over 100 staff and [...]
Millie Duke and Lucia Hackl are apprentices at the Fife’s Our Bright Future project. They took a trip to Yorkshire to visit fellow Our Bright Future projects; Green Futures and Tomorrow’s Natural Leaders. As two Our Bright Future apprentices based in Fife, Scotland, we had the opportunity to travel to the Yorkshire Dales to meet [...]
Lydia Allen is the Programme Delivery Coordinator at National Youth Agency and oversees the Our Bright Future Youth Forum. She is celebrating Volunteers’ Week 1-7 June 2019. Volunteers’ Week recognises everyone who gives their time and energy to good causes whether that’s joining in with the local litter pick team or supporting a national wildlife [...]
My name is Sion and I’m currently taking part in the UpRising Environmental Leadership Programme, which is one of the Our Bright Future projects. It all started with a missed call and a text from Libbi, the UpRising Programme Coordinator for Cardiff. The text read “Give me a call when you can, I have an [...]
Earlier this year a group of UpRisers on the London Environmental Leadership Programme took trip down to Greenwich Peninsula Ecology Park. They had a tour by one of the park wardens and heard all about the fantastic work going on. The park is maintained by The Conservation Volunteers (TCV), a community volunteering charity that conserves [...]
22 year old Paige Bentley from the Our Wild Coast project in North Wales travelled to Glasgow last month to attend the Scotland International Marine Conference and British-Irish Council Marine Litter Symposium. Here’s what she learnt. The Scotland International Marine Conference was held at Strathclyde University and was focused on national and international actions to [...]
Our Bright Future Youth Forum member, Rachel Sampara shares her experience of heading to London to meet with MPs. She is a beekeeping tutor at the Blackburne House project, BEE You. The 5 March 2019 was a crisp spring day in London. The scene was set for Our Bright Future projects from across the UK [...]
My name is Sarah Dorman, I’m 23 years old and I’m involved with the Grassroots Challenge project and Young Farmers Clubs of Ulster in Northern Ireland. In my opinion this is one of the best opportunities you get in life to work in both the environment and agricultural sectors. Who doesn’t love pulling on a [...]
The Growing Up Green project at Hill Holt Wood is one of 31 Our Bright Future projects located across the UK. It’s engaging 4,000 young people near Lincoln, with nature on their doorstep. Senior Ranger, Gavin tells us about their road trips to visit the other Our Bright Future projects. ‘We’re going to visit every [...]
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 [...]
