Winners of the Nature of Scotland Awards will be announced on 17th Nov We are delighted that our Thrive programme has been shortlisted for a Nature of Scotland Award in the ‘Health and Wellbeing’ category. We found out this great news at a ceremony at the Scottish Parliament on
Harris, Rory and Shona with our young explorers at Cramond Beach Every year The Green Team runs a variety of activities during the summer holidays. These activities range from outdoor holiday clubs for 8- 12year olds, young carers summer projects and this year we ran a residential to the
Loneliness is an important factor contributing to higher levels of stress. People's sense of isolation and reduced ability to connect with others has been particularly heightened during the covid pandemic. Enliven Edinburgh offered opportunities for people to connect and reconnect. The Green Team took up the challenge from Enliven Edinburgh
Edinburgh Volunteer Manager of the Year - Mandy Craig We are delighted to announce that Mandy Craig, The Green Team's Volunteer Co-ordinator, was awarded the Paul Bennett Volunteer Manager of the Year earlier this month. The Volunteer Edinburgh Awards were held on 1st June at the City Chambers
Low Carbon Footprint for Green Team Website Thanks to support from The Eco-Friendly Web Alliance (EFWA), The Green Team has actioned the impact that its website has on the environment. Actions suggested by the EFWA included compressing images, reducing image file sizes and overall page weight with the
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
Join us for the Green Team’s AGM and hear all about our successes and delights of 2021. We will be showing the year through a short film and hearing from members of the team and Board about exciting developments and achievements of the year. The AGM is online (we
Written by Penny Radway, CEO. 2021 has been quite the year! We have faced many challenges and opportunities along the way and it is wonderful to be able to look back on the year with a sense of pride for what we have achieved and excitement for what lies
We are launching our new Green Families programme early in the spring. This will provide families with children aged 8 and under the opportunity to take part in outdoor activities, experience nature and explore wild places together. To find out more please complete the survey to register your interest
Thanks to everyone who joined us on a bright winter’s day at Duddingston and Bawsinch for our New Year Gathering. There was a real buzz as people re-connected or met for the first time. We planted (and mostly named) over 30 trees at the woodland edge of Duddingston Golf
No, she's not a new member of the staff team. Evie is our amazing new 100% electric people carrier! We will be using Evie as much as possible for smaller groups and when we can't use active travel to get to projects. She's already had her first outing last
Join us for a some tree planting to welcome the New Year - everyone is welcome. On January 22nd 2022 from 10am-1pm we will be taking some time to reconnect, enjoying time in nature and planting some trees. We will meet at the car park of the Portobello Rugby