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Environmental education charity Field Studies Council says time outdoors must be part of the answer to the youth mental health crisis and is urging MPs to back a bill which would guarantee schoolchildren time outside every day. The call from...
More citizen scientists and wildlife watchers across Britain are getting involved with key research designed to monitor climate changes and encourage people to engage with nature. In 2024, the Field Studies Council and Royal Society of Biology launched the Signs...
A leading outdoor education charity has backed an MP’s bill calling for compulsory outdoor activity in schools – to halt a ‘vicious’ mental health crisis. Liberal Democrat MP Caroline Voaden presented the Outdoor Education Bill in parliament earlier this week...
A leading outdoor education charity has launched a £20,000 appeal to ensure more school children get the chance to go on school trips. Research suggests that nearly half of all children in the UK are currently missing out on school...
A new Natural History GCSE will be a defining moment for environmental education and open the door to green careers for a generation. That was the message from leading education charity Field Studies Council as the Government today launched a...
Leading outdoor education charity Field Studies Council has committed to building a nation of adventure learners with the roll-out of a new programme of school residential trips. The +Adventure programme has already been launched at three flagship sites including the...
Citizen scientists young and old have made a significant and important contribution to a new data set which will be used to track changes in UK biodiversity. More than 3,700 individual submissions were made to the Signs of Spring Survey...
After working overseas for most of his adult life Nathan Whittaker has returned to his homeland of Suffolk to lead an environmental education centre. Nathan, who grew up in the Gipping Valley but has lived in East Asia since early...
A UK scholarship designed to help young people learn a range of environmental skills and explore future career opportunities in the natural world is open for applications. The Field Studies Council is looking for 75 young people aged 16 to...
Schoolchildren from two schools in South Wales have helped the UK’s leading environmental education charity celebrate its 80th birthday by planting new trees. Pupils from Mynydd Cynffig Primary School in Bridgend and Bodringallt Primary School in Rhondda also got to...