The first informal environmental education
network was held at Glachbeg Croft Education Centre in September 2005. The event
was organised in conjunction with HEN. The group is informal and is for the purposes
of sharing information and ideas.
The emphasis for the group is on the informal,
with no office-bearers or constitution, just opportunities for those involved in environmental or outdoors education in the
Highlands to get together.
Benefits the network hopes to bring:
- Idea swapping
- Sharing problems face to face and be e-mail
- Look at similarities and differences between what people do
- Promoting others in the network
- Collaborating events
- Bringing in experts
- Tapping into our own experience/expertise
- Training
The group proposes to meet 3 or 4 times per
year, visiting different centres around the Highlands. The hosts of each meeting will conduct the required
organisation – invitations, reminders and circulate any minutes as necessary.
For details of the discussion that took place
at Glachbeg Education Centre in September, or for more information about the Centre, please contact Bob Bull
e-mail: robert.bull@tiscali.co.uk Tel 01463 811923.
The last meeting took place at Abriachan Forest
Trust on the 17th January 2006. Health and Safety in environmental
education in an outdoors setting was taken as a focus topic, which was explored through a walk around Abriachan. For more details on the days discussions, please contact Suzan Bar: e-mail jbarrabr@aol.com or tel: 01463 861259
The next meeting will be at
Aigas Field Centre, on Monday the 3rd of July at 12 am. Climate Change has been
suggested as a topic for discussion. For more details please contact Melanie
Lister–Kaye: e-mail
melanie@aigas.co.uk or tel
01463 782443
Dunnethead Trust have offered
their exciting centre as a future venue after this summer’s meeting at Aigas.
For more details about this meeting or about the Dunnethead Trust, please contact Tina Irving – e-mail: sparbac@dunnethead.com or tel: 01847 851991 www.dunnethead.com
