Carbon Conscious At the Green Team we are always very conscious of our impact on the planet, and we are proud of the positive change our projects make – whether that is tree-planting to reduce carbon in the atmosphere, removing non-native invasive species to enhance biodiversity or other tasks.
Evelyn Dom: our volunteer videographer We caught up with Evelyn whilst out on an adventure with The Green Team. Find out a bit more about Evelyn, her love of nature and being a videographer. What’s your name and what do you do when you’re not volunteering with The Green
The Thrive Team receiving their Nature of Scotland Health & Wellbeing Award Photo Credit: Mike Wilkinson, RSPB The Green Team's Thrive Programme won the Health and Wellbeing Award at RSPB Scotland’s Nature of Scotland Awards 2022 announced at a glittering event on 17th November at the Edinburgh International Conference
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
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
Thanks to all the inspiring young people who joined the Youth Panel Taster day in November. We started off considering why it is important to hear the voices of young people. Not just those who are already involved in The Green Team, but those who are marginalised or less