FREE SESSION: 13TH OCTOBER 2024 We're sharing the love this October and offering free places to new explorers, aged 8-12 years, who would like to experience one of our sessions and find out just how awesome they are. This October we’ll be exploring Redford Woods and we’d love
It is with a real sense of pride that we share the stories and stats from 2023 in our annual impact report. The report highlights the variety of our work and the significant difference it makes to hundreds of young people across Edinburgh and The Lothians. In a year
“It smells like Christmas” Around 100 wreaths were made with The Green Team in November/December by three different organisations. This included Syrian teenage girls from MCFB (multicultural Family Base), a wellbeing greenspaces group from FCCT (Fountainbridge Canalside Community Trust) and employees from BlackRock. All individuals enjoyed the mindful, relaxing
At The Green Team we place considerable value on our volunteers and the contribution they make
World Clean Up Day with Decathlon We were delighted to be asked to support Decathlon's litter pick event for World Clean Up Day on the 17th September this year at Sighthill Park. We provided a small support team consisting of members of our youth panel and staff along with
“this is amazing” “ great to see parents so engaged with their children” This summer we supported City of Edinburgh Council with their Discover! programme, facilitating nature play in local parks. The Discover programme is open to disadvantaged families accessing free school meals to alleviate pressures during the school
The summer holiday club week which ran from 17th-21st July was such a delight this year. We really explored all over Edinburgh and the Lothians. We enjoyed trips to the coast fossil hunting, woodland conservation work in East Lothian, a trip to Five Sisters Zoo to help with their invertebrate
At the start of the summer holidays a group from Skylarks and Green Volunteers spent a week on the majestic Isle of Eigg. Working alongside community groups and the local wildlife rangers, we cleared around the orchard apple trees to help with local food initiatives, helped in the tree
We had a magical day at The Green Team’s New Years Gathering on Saturday 28th January. Everyone arrived for 2pm at The Risk Factory in Edinburgh for an afternoon of hedge planting. Spades and trees were unloaded from Evie (our all electric people carrier) and everyone got to work.
After 10 years as Green Angels, our programme for girls and non-binary young folk aged 12-18 is now called Skylarks. The new name was announced at our Winter Celebration. It was chosen in consultation with current participants on the programme, they ranked the options after an open call for
11th June: Environmental Education Methodologies & Activities Training We are delighted to announce the first in a series of regular environmental and outdoor learning training opportunities with The Green Team. These sessions will be ideally suited to nursery, primary and secondary school teachers as well as youth workers
After what has been a really busy summer for our team this year, we aren't resting on our laurels once school starts back. There's lots to look forward to.... Nature Play for pre-school children and their parents/carers restarts at the end of August with morning sessions running on a