Action for Conservation

☀️ Action for Conservation's FREE Summer Camps are back for 2025! ☀️ Taking place in UK National Parks, our camps offer an experience like no other, providing young people with an opportunity to explore the outdoors and participate in incredible and transformational experiences. Please share this opportunity with young people in your networks as well as parents, teachers and youth workers! This is an amazing opportunity for young people aged 12-16 living in England and Wales to… 🌻 Learn how to take action for nature  🪶Discover wildlife  👍Make friends & have fun! ➡️ Visit https://lnkd.in/dHHRGRD for more information or to download an Application Pack. ➡️Apply here: https://buff.ly/4hddtjz Applications close on Monday 5th May 2025! #AFCSummerCamp #naturebasedsolutions #natureeducation #nationalparks

Exciting news 🐙 Action for Conservation and The Trust For Developing Communities are bringing a series of new coastal nature conservation workshops to Brighton! 🦆🐬🦐 If you’re aged between 13 & 16 (in years 9-11 at school), or you know someone who is, then get in touch to find out more information! 📱 🗓️ The sessions will take place at Woodingdean Youth Centre, with the first session taking place on Wednesday 5th March! During the workshops young people will work in a team, make friends and design and deliver their own project to help nature. They'll develop their skills and get hands-on conservation experience like learning how to make planters! 🪴 Interested? Get in touch today by emailing: mentor@actionforconservation.org #youthgroup #youthgroupbrighton #brightonnature #brighton

Want to learn more about the Penpont Project? Check out this case study! ⬇️

We're thrilled that the #PenpontProject is one of the initiatives the Nature Networks Programme is funding! This vital funding will support the Penpont Project's restoration of parts of the River Usk. The team will be able to take action by restoring lost areas of riparian woodland as well as wetland and open-water habitats! #NatureNetworks / #rhwydweithiaunatur The National Lottery Heritage Fund

Over the last two years, we've been lucky enough to work alongside an incredibly talented photographer, Andy Pilsbury, as part of the #WeFeedtheUK project with The Gaia Foundation and the team at the Penpont Estate. 🌿 Excitingly, Andy's portrait of Youth Leadership Group member Gwion has been shortlisted by The British Journal of Photography in this year's Portrait Of Britain, volume 7. 🏆 The winners will see their work displayed across the country in 2025 on Jcdecaux screens. #PortraitofBritain is a nationwide exhibition that turns the country’s familiar signs into an exhibition celebrating the diverse and unique heritage of modern Britain. See if you can spot these amazing photographs while you're out and about this year! 🔎 See the shortlist ➡️ https://buff.ly/40hdLhQ Find out more about Andy's work ➡️ https://buff.ly/40bT9rw 💬 Andy said of the experience, "Photographing Gwion was particularly significant to me because of his intrinsic connection to the area. He embodies the essence of the landscape, symbolising the project’s commitment to grounding its efforts in the local community. Capturing his portrait was an effort to highlight the importance of local involvement in environmental restoration and to showcase the faces behind these transformative initiatives. Gwion’s portrait was made during a sheep tuberculosis workshop led by the Davies family and tells a story of dedication, hope and the power of collective action. It serves as a visual testament to the critical role that local youth play in shaping a sustainable future, reinforcing the message that true environmental change is rooted in the collaboration between generations and the active participation of those who call the land home.” #photography #youthleader #portraitphotography #bjp #AndyPilsbury

🌟 Happy New Year from Esmée Fairbairn Foundation! 🌟   Thinking about a change? We've got two fantastic job opportunities to join our team and make a difference for people and planet. If you're passionate about creating a fairer future and improving our natural world, we’d love to hear from you!   1️⃣ Funding Manager - A Fairer Future   Help us drive social justice in our focus areas: Arts and creativity making change, Racial, Gender, and Migrant justice, and Children & Young People's rights.   💷 Salary: £45,000 to £49,000 📍 Location: Kings Cross, London (Hybrid: office days Tues & Wed) 🗓️ Closing Date: Friday 10 January 2025 (11:59pm) 👉 Apply Now: https://lnkd.in/e9ZJ6jmY     2️⃣ Funding Officer - Our Natural World   Join us in making a positive impact for nature and the environment spanning a broad range of issues from habitat recovery to nature friendly farming, fishing and marine.   💷 Salary: £34,500 to £38,500 📍 Location: Kings Cross, London (Hybrid: office days Tues & Wed) 🗓️ Closing Date: Tuesday 22 January 2025 (3pm) 👉 Apply Now: https://lnkd.in/gAsBHf2V Esmée Fairbairn Foundation is a leading independent funder. They aim to improve our natural world, secure a fairer future and strengthen the bonds in communities in the UK.

Young people in England! The Youth Shadow Panel wants to hear from YOU about your experience of school or college! ✅ What do you like? ❌ What needs to change? 💡 What could be better? Share your views through a short survey, you can get creative with pictures, videos and art. You can also share your thoughts on social media which will help to make sure education reflects the priorities of young people. 🗓️ Deadline: 12 January 2025 Find out more here ➡️ https://lnkd.in/eGxNtSDQ #shadowCAR #YouthVoice Students Organising for Sustainability (SOS-UK), The Scouts, I have a voice CIC, UK Youth, The Duke of Edinburgh's Award, Young Citizens, RECLAIM,  National Youth Agency

👋 Do you know any young people aged 12-16, living in or near Matlock, Derbyshire? Yes? Then check out this amazing opportunity! 🤩 Action for Conservation and Heartwood CIC are looking for young people to help tackle climate change head-on. 🌍 Our nature restoration project in the heart of #Derbyshire, the Heartwood Project, is looking for young people to join the Youth Leadership Group! This is a fantastic chance for young people to join an incredible project, meet like-minded people and help restore nature and wildlife on the project site! They'll develop new skills and gain experience working with the local community, scientists and farmers. 🦋 If you know a young person who would love to join the group of young people leading this project then please share this opportunity and encourage them to apply today! 👨🌾 Information Pack ➡️ https://buff.ly/4gsdqPP Apply here ➡️ https://buff.ly/4gqofSy ⏰ Deadline: 26th January 2025 #matlock #youthopportunity #youthleadership #climatechange #opportunity #youthworker #matlock

🏆 We’re so excited to say that the Penpont Project's Youth Leadership Group (YLG) won the Campaign for National Parks 2024 Young Changemaker of the Year Award!!! 🎉 🌿 Deep and Helen from the YLG accepted the award on behalf of the project and have worked tirelessly with the rest of the YLG over the last few years to lead nature restoration on the project site in the #BannauBrycheiniog (Brecon Beacons). The group of young people have worked alongside farmers, landowners, scientists and local people to re-vision the future of 500 acres of Welsh upland and river valley in Bannau Brycheiniog National Park. 💚 We’d like to say a huge thank you to our partners, the Penpont Estate, for all their hard work, support and immense enthusiasm for the #PenpontProject!!! 👏 Finally, a massive congratulations to all the nominees, they are leading the way for young people to access, protect and enhance our natural spaces, thank you so much for all your hard work, Tidy Climbers CIC and William Lock from Exmoor Young Voices! Diolch!!! #changemaker #nature #youthempowerment

🏆 The winner of the 2024 Young Changemaker of the Year Award is....Penpont Project Youth Leadership Group! Action for Conservation This group of young people have brought together farmers, landowners and others to re-vision the future of 500 acres of Welsh upland and river valley in Bannau Brycheiniog National Park. 🥾 Runners up are Tidy Climbers Tidy Climbers CIC and William Lock from Exmoor Young Voices Exmoor Young Voices Thank you to Sawday's and Canopy & Stars for sponsoring this award