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Litter Pickers clean up for World Clean Up Day

***UPDATE*** A huge thank you to everyone who joined us for our sponsored litter pick on Sunday at Hailes Quarry Park. Our youth panel, volunteers, Mandy, Margon and Penny from the staff team and some lovely Green Champions from BlackRock all took part. Friends of Hailes Quarry Park also

2024-09-24T17:12:37+01:00September 24th, 2024|

Sponsored litter pick for World Clean Up Day

 Join The Green Team for a sponsored litter pick to mark World Clean Up Day. We have chosen Hailes Quarry Park, Murrayburn to concentrate on. It’s a well used and lovely park but needs a bit of a clean up.We are trying to raise £2,000 towards a new electric cargo

2024-09-24T17:08:29+01:00August 22nd, 2024|

We’re recruiting for a Co-CEO

We are very excited to publish that we are recruiting for a co-CEO to lead The Green Team in the coming years.Co-CEO – Corporate ResponsibilityPermanent contract, 21 hours per week£45,000 pro rataEdinburgh (potential for hybrid working)Closing date 6:00pm on Friday 6 September 2024OverviewThe Green Team was founded in 1995 to

2024-07-25T14:25:01+01:00July 25th, 2024|

Peter crosses the finish line!

After almost 3 weeks in the saddle, our inspirational patron, Peter crossed the finish line on the 29th June in Duncansby Head having bike-camped diagonally across the country. The route was whopping 860kilometres from the Mull O'Galloway.At 77 years of age, Peter said:"It was a humongous effort, but worth

2024-08-22T21:59:52+01:00July 2nd, 2024|

especially for our volunteers…

This volunteer’s week we’re taking the time to celebrate and thank all our amazing volunteers. We have people behind the scenes helping with fundraising, events and admin, volunteers capturing amazing images and video to portray our work, our board who give of their time tirelessly, our youth panel who

2024-06-06T08:22:27+01:00June 6th, 2024|

Impact Video Previewed at AGM

Our thanks to everyone who braved the downpour to join us for our A.G.M. on Thursday, 23rd May at our new home in The Risk Factory. Gregor presenting together with some of our Youth Panel at the 2023 AGM As A.G.Ms go it was pretty exciting... a

2026-04-01T12:24:03+01:00May 29th, 2024|

Pete’s Pedal for young minds

Our amazing and unstoppable patron, Peter Wright, is getting back in the saddle this summer to take on another challenge to help young people like Chloe improve their mental wellbeing. "I wish I could be here all week. Usually I have regular suicidal thoughts, but at Thrive I don’t

2024-05-02T16:46:08+01:00April 25th, 2024|

2023 Impact Report Published

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

2024-03-12T15:34:16+00:00March 12th, 2024|

Green Team publishes 2022 Impact Report

It was great to publish our 2022 Impact Report full of inspiring stories and statistics of the transformative power of our work. The 16 page document shares the outcomes of each of our programmes in words, pictures and quotes. Last year was one in which some of the challenges

2026-04-01T12:24:52+01:00March 9th, 2023|
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