Widening Participation in the Natural Environment
SEM’s CEO had the opportunity to meet Trudy Harrison, the new Minister for the Environment at the House of Lords on Tuesday November 15th 2022 read more here. The Minister spoke at the 40th anniversary celebrations of Groundwork Trust UK.
King Edward VII School in Sheffield was the venue for the prestigious Schools’ Climate Assembly 2022 This significant event was attended by 1,500 young people on 20.10.22.
Our CEO Maxwell Ayamba was part of the guest panel and he spoke about the importance of our climate and how it impacts on our health and wellbeing.
“The Schools’ Climate Assembly has been created to educate and encourage the next generation to enact change. This student-led movement attracts pupils from all walks of life and speakers who are at the very heart of the climate change debate. ” Greenpeace website October 2022
You can learn more abut this Greenpeace UK initiative here
Natural England have been commissioned by the Department of Health and Social Care to conduct research into the potential to equitably increase the provision of GSP activities to improve people’s mental health and general wellbeing. There are two different surveys which form part of this research, one is to be completed by social prescribing link workers and the other is to be completed by activity providers, where some or all of these activities are green or nature based. The links to each survey are:
Activity provider survey: https://defragroup.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0H5lL2EqTojFr0i
Link worker survey: https://defragroup.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3ZNKP2ipp3qaYLA
During the Sunlight Doesn’t Need a Pipeline Festival, our CEO and founder Maxwell A Ayamba was in conversation with artist Luiza Prado.
The Sunlight Doesn’t Need a Pipeline Festival was a community based collaborative literacy and climate justice event which took place on 7th October 2022 at Stanley Picker Gallery based at Kingston University London.
“Sunlight Doesn’t Need a Pipeline is a collaborative literacy and climate justice project in search of transformative and regenerative repair. A coalition of art workers, agitators, dream weavers, growers and caregivers have co-created a holistic and ever-growing decarbonisation plan for the art sector and beyond.” from the Sunlight Doesn’t Need a Pipeline website.