Educational links

Black Environment Network
T: 01286 870715
Membership organisation that focuses on encouraging ethnic community groups in the UK to be more involved in environmentally sustainable issues and projects. Produces newsletters and hosts a bimonthly networking conference.

Council for Environmental Education
Following the removal of core funding from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, all CEE staff were made redundant on 30 September 2005 and its offices are now closed. Their website still contains useful information and links to other environmental education sites.

Elm Farm Research Centre
T: 01488 658298 elmfarm@efrc.com
Aims to change agricultural practice and policy to bring about a greater uptake of organic farming as a way of contributing towards sustainability in farming and land use.

Environmental Practice @Work
info@epaw.co.uk
EP@W Publishing Co Ltd is a small UK based company specialising in the development of environmental training materials for electronic delivery into workplaces. Currently developing training materials to support the only UK nationally recognised qualification or developing environmental skills within the workplace.

Global Action Plan
T: 020 7405 5633
Global Action Plan runs Action for Schools, an environmental programme that helps the whole school community to go green and save money. It is curriculum linked for key stages three and four and is recognised by the United Nations.

Groundwork UK
T: 0121 236 8565
Groundwork education programmes promote learning, citizenship and sustainability. Work with schools illustrates how individual actions can make a big difference to our immediate surroundings and the global environment. It is often the starting point for larger regeneration projects. Themes include: energy, waste, school grounds, water and transport.

Hillcroft College
Hillcroft is the only college for women within the adult residential sector in the UK. It exists to help women who have not previously been able to fulfil their potential through learning and is open to women aged 19 or over. There are no entrance qualifications and grants are available to cover costs for most students.

National Association for Environmental Education
A registered charity, set up nearly 40 years ago by a group of teachers and teacher trainers to support the teaching of environmental education in nurseries, schools and other educational institutions. Services extend to all those concerned with any aspect of education and the natural or built environment.

Schumacher College
T: 01803 865934
Schumacher College is an international centre for ecological studies. Through interdisciplinary studies, the College aims to explore the foundations of that new vision. Residential education involving physical work, meditation, aesthetic experience and intellectual inquiry creates a sense of the wholeness of life.

Wildlife Watch
T: 01636 677711 info@wildlife-trusts.cix.co.uk
Wildlife Watch is an environmental organisation for young people, and a national network of local groups based on county wildlife trusts. The charity provides information and runs periodic national surveys that involve young people.

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