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Generation Green is a 16-month funded project that aims to provide over 100,000 opportunities to connect young people to nature, create and save jobs, and build an aspirant workforce for a green recovery.
Funded activities available through the project include day visits and overnight experiences in National Parks and Areas of Natural Beauty, social action and citizen science projects, self-guided learning and micro-volunteering.
Funding is specifically aimed at young people in England in the North West, Midlands and deprived coastal and urban areas.
Outward Bound are part of a coalition with YHA (England & Wales), Girlguiding, Scouts, Field Studies Council and the 10 English National Parks to provide these amazing opportunities.
Take a look at some of our funded projects below or see the official Generation Green website here.
Tori was one of 50 young people, aged 11–17 who benefited from a fully-funded place on an Adventure Day at Outward Bound in the Easter holidays 2021.
Tori completed big challenges, giving her confidence, a new motivation to return to school and opening her eyes to consider a career in the outdoors.
She tells us how the events of 2020 impacted her and how the funded place through Generation Green helped her adjust to life post-lockdown.
Following a successful pilot in 2019, our Young Leaders Programme returned in July. Targeted towards Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds, the 12-month programme offers a progressive series of interventions designed to develop outdoor leadership skills and experience.
By creating a connection with Outward Bound and the wider industry, our aim is to build a pipeline of future outdoor instructors and explorers from diverse backgrounds.
Outward Bound helps connect young people to nature through wild residential experiences.
It's our mission to make what we do available to as many young people as possible.
We believe that role models matter to the young people we work with. And Generation Green funding is playing a part in providing opportunities for the next generation of great female leaders.
This course provides aspirant women leaders with personal adventures, skills development, an understanding of leadership and the psychology of personal development, focused mountain and water skills, shadowing and individualised opportunities to develop a fulfilling career in the outdoors over 10 weeks.
Generation Green is the first project to be delivered by the Access Unlimited coalition. The coalition comprises YHA (England & Wales) – who are hosting the project on behalf of the partners - The Outward Bound Trust, Scouts, Girlguiding, Field Studies Council and the 10 English National Parks.
Generation Green capitalises on the combined reach of the coalition partners of more than two million young people.
Generation Green is funded by the government’s Green Recovery Challenge Fund.
The fund is being delivered by The National Lottery Heritage Fund in partnership with Natural England and the Environment Agency.
"It's been great to work collaboratively on this project to deliver experiences to connect more young people with nature, and develop a more representative workforce for the green recovery. Our work with partners to develop more young leaders from a variety of ethnic backgrounds continues in 2022 and we look forward to having more female instructors from the Women's Outdoor Leadership Course join our team at Outward Bound."
Nick Barrett
