This workshop will look at how to engage young people and communities in biodiversity - exploring issues, experimenting with activities, sharing ideas, finding inspiration, gathering momentum, preparing for action…a workshop for anyone looking at ways of bringing a spark to biodiversity education.

Ideal For:
Education staff, rangers, community and biodiversity officers wanting to educate and excite people about biodiversity

Learn to -
- Use a range of techniques to educate about biodiversity
- Be creative in involving people in their immediate environment
- Make ‘biodiversity’ a real and relevant issue for school groups/families/young people/older people
- Adapt creative activities to a range of settings
- Devise your own biodiversity initiative or event

Highlights include -
- Participating in a variety of hands-on activities
- Taking part in the same step-by-step creative process that you could use with a group

Location: This course will take place near Totnes, Devon.

Times: 9.30am - 4.30pm

Event Leader - Gordon MacLellan
One of the Britain’s leading environmental educators, Gordon, otherwise known as 'Creeping Toad', is a freelance community environmental arts worker and author of a number of influential and inspirational books in the field of environmental education and creativity.