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CHARITY No 313049

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Environmental Education & Education for Sustainable Development

Bishop's Wood Centre
http://worcestershire.whub.org.uk/home/wcc-edu-bishops-wood.htm

Bishops Wood Centre is recognised nationally and internationally for its work in environmental and sustainability education with schools and for its training courses. The centre is located within a 39-hectare site which includes 17 hectares of ancient woodland and a field of 11 hectares which was planted to re-create mixed broadleaf woodland, meadows and other habitats.

Centre for Research in Education and the Environment (CREE)
www.bath.ac.uk/ cree/home
CREE is the UK 's leading group of researchers whose work focuses on educational issues relating to the environment and sustainability.

Climate Change Wales (Produced by West Wales ECO Centre)
www.climatechangewales.org.uk
An interactive bilingual website covering the impacts of climate change in Wales and the steps that can be taken to reduce our impact. The site aims to help students make the link between the local and the global. Climate Change Wales is funded by the SDF, OGAM, TYF,  CW and additional content is provided by CAT and NMGW.

Forest Education Initiative (FEI)
www.foresteducation.org
FEI aims to increase the understanding and appreciation, particularly among young people, of the environmental, social, and economic potential of trees, woodlands and forests and of the link between the tree and everyday wood products.

Global Dimension
www.globaldimension.org.uk
Website set up by the Department for International Development with teaching resources and information about global issues from climate change to poverty, water to fair trade. Covers all age groups and subject areas.

Human Scale Education (HSE)
www.hse.org.uk
HSE is an education reform movement that works directly with schools and parents to promote human scale learning environments where children and young people are known and valued as individuals.

Love School Grounds
www.loveschoolgrounds.org
This website explains why school grounds matter. It was developed on behalf of the Learning Outside the Classroom Manifesto school grounds sector partnership.

Prince's Rainforest Project - Schools Section
http://www.princesrainforestsproject.org/schools/

The project’s aim is to provide a framework for learning about the rainforests and their global significance, in which children and teachers work collaboratively and find solutions to problems. The resources include 30 lessons, called Quests, which promote an interactive learning style which helps build thinking cultures within classrooms and provokes further questioning. The lessons are compatible with the UK National Curriculum and will help schools teach about sustainability.

Royal Horticultural Society (RHS)
www.rhs.org.uk/Learning/education
RHS School and Family Learning Programme The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) is the UK's leading gardening charity. The RHS School and Family Learning programme is designed to excite, enthuse and educate children about plants and gardening. Services on offer include a School's Membership Scheme, teacher's Continuing Professional Development days and school visits to our four gardens.

RHS Campaign for School Gardening

http://www.rhs.org.uk/schoolgardening

The Royal Horticultural Society aims to get 80% of UK primary schools providing hands-on learning opportunities of growing plants and gardening by 2012.

Sustainable Schools (SUSchool)
www.suschool.org.uk/
The Sustainable schools website. Helping schools to become more sustainable.
Information, inspiration, resources and workshops for Education For Sustainable development.

Teachers in Development Education (TIDE)
www.tidec.org
TIDE is a teachers' network that supports creative work to meet young people's educational entitlement to understanding the global dimensions, development perspectives and human rights principles which will shape their lives.


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NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION (UK)
PRESIDENT:
PROFESSOR DAVID BELLAMY   CHAIRMAN: NORMAN FARMER   HON. SECRETARY: SUE FENOUGHTY
VICE PRESIDENTS: Professor G. Ashworth, Lord Briggs of Lewes, Professor T Brighouse
Viscountess Cobham, Professor Sir F. Holliday, Professor T O'Riordan, Professor J. Palmer, Mr.Philip Neal, MBE and Professor M. Skilbeck.


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