We are looking for a volunteer trustee to support and drive forward our education outreach work with children in local schools.
Our aim is to provide students of all ages with knowledge, understanding, and skills to help them navigate the future with resilience, confidence and wisdom. We want to empower them to make planet-friendly choices themselves, and enable them to amplify their voices in explaining those choices to others. We have developed excellent relationships with schools, and would like to extend our programme to include support with developing policies and activities to embed sustainable thinking across staff and parent communities.
Over the past two years we have delivered more than 100 transformative (and free) assemblies and workshops, reaching over 5,000 children, but with your help we could do much more.
Person profile: You are passionate about engaging with younger generations on the challenges presented by climate change and nature recovery, and you have experience of working in educational settings. There are a variety of activities available, including helping to deliver the sessions, develop new materials where necessary, and assist in management of bookings and communications as needed.
Time commitment: School outreach commitments will require from half a day per week of your time, depending on your engagements. The trustee board meets every month for an hour and half to oversee projects and governance issues. As a key trustee you will be consulted on projects, funding bids and financial matters by other trustees as these arise. There are also one or two full-day meetings a year, normally in the spring, to update strategy.
To express interest or arrange an informal chat with one of the existing trustees about this role, please email us.
Find out more about our work with young people here.
I write to say a huge ‘THANK YOU’ to you all for your recent Climate Change workshops, assembly and presentations ... The focus supported our eco schools, global citizenship and sustainability learning well. The sessions were well organised and led by a team of knowledgeable and passionate people who had the skills to interact well with the children …. you could tell that several had an educational teaching background and this made a big difference in terms of delivery.
...The impact on these sessions supports our work as we nurture tomorrow’s grown-ups! Input like this helps to develop the children’s knowledge and understanding of this very important climate change agenda in the hope that the children will care for our planet in a sustainable way in the future. Regular sessions such as these, led by passionate experts, really help. Thank you. We would thoroughly recommend other schools and organisations connect with PeCAN.
(feedback from a local headteacher)