News and Updates

Welcoming the Stranger - Year 3
2025-26 is the third year of our Welcoming the Stranger project and we're continuing to deliver in schools in the west of Cumbria with The La'al Collective and with funding from the Paul Hamlyn Foundation.

Blue Influencers - autumn 2025 update
Geoff continues to work with schools and youth centres in his role as a Blue Mentor for the Ernest Cook Trust.

Youth Climate Summit 2025 film
This year's Youth Climate Summit was hosted at Furness Academy in Barrow and made possible with funding and support from National Lottery Community Fund, Cumbria Community Foundation, Westmorland & Furness Council, Futureproof Cumbria and Zero Carbon Cumbria Partnership.

National Education Nature Park
The National Education Nature Park is a project empowering children and young people to make a positive difference in their schools’ outdoor spaces by enhancing biodiversity and protecting green spaces for nature and for the future.

Connected Cumbria
Student photography project, exhibition and film

Youth Practitioners’ Forum
Would you like to introduce more climate action into your work with young people? You and your young people are invited to join us for a Climate Fresk workshop and conversations about climate action you can take.