Thank you Aramark, Social Current, and Mass Audubon Drumlin Farm for another amazing and impactful volunteer event! Aramark volunteers helped plant 650 native seedlings and 8 shrubs, cut back invasive plants, remove debris and help create a native wildflower demonstration bed. This bed will not only attract pollinators and restore natural habitat, but will also help eliminate grass which helps save financial and environmental resources. After a day of hard work, volunteers had the opportunity to go into the sanctuary and visit the adorable baby goats - a perfect conclusion to their volunteering session! Special shoutout to Mary Fondas, PMP for bringing us together to volunteer 🎉 #AramarkBuildingCommunity #BuildMoreImpact
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What a day for a worm survey! 🪱 It was lovely to be joined by some of the Lloyd & Whyte team for a day of corporate volunteering. If your team would be interested in joining us for a day like this, please email [email protected] for more information. #Rewilding #CorporateVolunteering #CorporateDay #Environment #Biodiversity
We've been out volunteering as part of the Benefact Group Big Give Back week!😁 Mandy & Sonya have visited the beautiful Heal Somerset, and were treated to a tour of the Heal rewilding site, from CEO Jan Stannard; totally immersed in nature from insects, to birds, to plants and trees and other animals🌱 Our team also took part in worm surveys, which provided a big insight in to the quality of the soil and the habitats of the different kinds of worms. Thank you to Heal Rewilding for welcoming us on site, our team has described their experience as 'truly magical'💜 #BigGiveBack2024
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Community Giving Week is all about giving back to Camp and School—but we would be remiss not to extend that spirit of giving back to the place we call home! To celebrate our Adirondack community, we wanted to recognize one of our great nonprofit partners here in the region, AdkAction. Here are some pollinator facts they shared with us recently: 🦋 Three-fourths of the world’s flowering plants and about 35 percent of the world’s food crops depend on animal pollinators to reproduce. That’s one out of every three bites of food you eat! 🐝 Threats including habitat loss and fragmentation, pesticide use, climate change, and disease are causing a decline in global and local pollinator populations. 🐞 Pollinators that can’t find the right quantity or quality of food (nectar and pollen from blooming plants within flight range) don’t survive. Right now, there simply aren’t enough pollinator friendly plantings to support pollinators. Learn more about AdkAction’s work in this recent conversation between our Garden Manager Kim Smart and Hannah Grall, AdkAction Project Coordinator - visit https://lnkd.in/ej96TWVK to watch the full interview. And if you haven’t made your gift yet, donate today at https://lnkd.in/e5-rHD2S!
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And what a fantastic day it was 💙 Natural Flood Management (NFM) utilises landscape and natural processes to reduce flood risk. It involves measures like planting trees, restoring rivers to their natural courses, and creating wetlands to absorb and store excess water, thereby mitigating flood impacts while enhancing biodiversity - a holistic approach to climate resilience! Flood risk reduction like this project at Gissing is critically important. It protects communities from the devastating impacts of flooding, enhances public safety, and supports sustainable development.
For National Volunteers’ Week we’re celebrating some of our amazing volunteers! Just like this team who spent the day at Gissing in Norfolk helping to reduce flood risk through a Natural Flood Management project with Norfolk Rivers Trust. They got stuck in by installing woody debris and carrying out essential maintenance tasks. The project is a collaboration between NORFOLK RIVERS TRUST, River Waveney Trust, our partner WWF-UK and us. It will go a long way to protect communities from the increasing risk of flooding, whilst improving biodiversity. At Aviva, we’re proud to offer our people up to 3 days volunteering leave per year 💛 #VolunteersWeek #HelpingTheUKGetReady
Aviva volunteers at Gissing in Norfolk
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Today is World Environment Day, and the 2024 theme is restoring land, halting desertification and building drought resilience. Using the UNEP's practical guide, we've pulled together three activities that you can use to get your students involved, beyond #WorldEnvironmentDay 🌱 Find or create a community garden, that your students can use to learn about where their food comes from. Optional extra: get your school canteen or cafe involved using food from the garden and promoting it with students! 🌱 Why not take your younger students on a tree planting day with a charity near you? Teach them about which trees are local to your school, and how healthy soil helps the environment. 🌱 Run a session on rivers and waterways and examine maps to see how water near you has changed over time. Cover water-based animal habitats, and teach your students how to look after them. Any more tips? Drop them in the comments! And why not take a look at the UNEP's practical guide for more information 👉 https://ow.ly/8ral50S6ZW0
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🌊What does the ocean mean to you?🌊 For the last few hours of World Ocean Day 2024, let's take a moment to think about the services our blue planet provides for us. For me, completing university on the Cornish coastline meant having a soothing blue haven on my doorstep, to recover from the challenges of university life, to connect with nature, and spend many happy evenings on the beach with friends listening to the sound of the waves. In fact, the ocean is scientifically proven to improve mental health in humans. Looking further afield, in our troubled climate, the ocean takes most of the impact for us. Heatwaves would hit much harder if the sea didn't store as much thermal energy as it does. Tsunamis would be far more damaging if it weren't for coral reefs and mangroves absorbing wave energy. These impacts might be a little hard to imagine, especially if they're far from home. So take a moment to think, what does the ocean offer to you? How do you feel when you're by the sea? Let's keep forging a strong connection between people and the ocean, to celebrate and safeguard our blue planet. #WorldOceanDay
Cornwall is famous for its incredible coastline, and our surrounding seas are just as magnificent. From the weird and wonderful creatures in our rockpools 🦀 to megafauna like basking sharks 😲, we are doing all we can to protect the wildlife in our waters. Today, on #WorldOceanDay 🌊 , why not find out more about all we're doing and how you can get involved. From volunteering to making good seafood choices, everyone can help make a difference. For more info go to https://buff.ly/3KA3BBq
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The Farming & Wildlife Advisory Group have produced an animation to introduce the Integrated Local Delivery framework. ➡ Integrated Local Delivery (ILD) is a proven approach to tackling climate change at a local level. This film introduces the Integrated Local Delivery framework and the key role of the facilitator who brings all the local stakeholders together to scope risks and opportunities at a landscape level. The framework gives the facilitator the tools they need to connect locally relevant government, charitable, corporate and environmental organisations to work together in support. Find this tool and others for creating community dialogue: https://lnkd.in/eZ4-kY_Y #communityengagement #naturepositive #environmentalimpact
The Integrated Local Delivery framework
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#WildActionWeek encourages people to go into nature and take action – no matter how big or small. Whether you want to join in as an individual, family or group, or as a school or business, The John Muir Trust invites as many people as possible to participate. To learn more about Wild Action Week, and the ten ways to get involved, go to https://ow.ly/xOfA50PWsCp
It’s Wild Action Week, and we’re inviting you to help us raise awareness of the importance of getting out in nature – from reducing your carbon footprint to volunteering, litter picking, building wildlife houses, or sharing your favourite wild space, you can get involved. Wild Action Week encourages people to go into nature and take action – no matter how big or small. Whether you want to join in as an individual, family or group, or as a school or business, The John Muir Trust invites as many people as possible to participate. To learn more about Wild Action Week, and the ten ways to get involved, go to https://ow.ly/xOfA50PWsCp It’s amazing what we can achieve when we work together. Get involved, and if you can, text WILD to 70560 to donate £5 to the Wild Action Fund. Join us over on Facebook or Instagram to take part in our competition! 🌿
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Volunteers Week 2024 🫶🏼 This week is National Volunteers Week -time for us to celebrate the amazing contribution people make to the community. 🙌🏽 Volunteering was a gift to me after I moved abroad. It is something embedded in Western societies: it is made a lot more accessible and possible than it was in Hungary (maybe just life struggle was too draining, or I was too young and didn't care to do it? not sure). Either way, volunteering became a big part of my life since 2015. A few great experiences I had, just in case you need ideas: - Sundays in Durrell Zoo: I truly miss being surrounded by animals🐻, cleaning up their areas💩, food prep, or manning butterfly house 🦋 - Bat monitoring: I fell in love with bats big time while in Jersey, so recording their sounds and monitoring bats was a great experience 🦇 -Water testing in Citizen Science Program in Jersey: shocking but hugely important results... Let's not even mention water quality and sewage spillage going on in UK (disgrace)💩 - Sussex Wildlife Trust: I enjoy the HIT squad days clearing hedges, wood chopping, planting native wildflowers or litter picking🚯 - Brighton Permaculture Trust: orchard planting in hail and gale force wind wasn't on my list but I did enjoy it nevertheless! 🍎🌳 - Parkrun: the thing is I am NOT a runner, just tackling a beginners-course, but I either join as marshal (cheering) or tail-walker.🏃🏽♂️➡️ - I try and join lot of beach cleans organised by Leave No Trace, Marine Conservation Society, the Sussex Dolphin Project (their boat trips are fab by the way, if you haven't been yet!) 🐬 I know a lot of people who help other charities, support wonderful initiatives and are doing great things. Huge thank you to all of those who dedicate time and effort to volunteer!👏🏼 Share your volunteering experiences- maybe someone else is just looking for inspiration. Volunteering actually helped me hugely when I struggled with my mental health: so can highly recommend it as a remedy. It gives purpose, perspective, and it is a joyful focus time. 🫂 #volunteersweek #volunteering #mentalhealth #mentalhealthawareness
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Bees are essential for the health of people and the planet. Honey has medicinal properties and the role of bees as pollinators makes them vital for our earth's entire eco and food system. We need these buzzy little creatures for survival, but their existence is being threatened. 1 in 4 bee species is at risk for extinction. To Celebrate National Honey Bee Day, we're donating 10% of all our proceeds on August 19th to The Bee Conservancy. The Bee Conservancy is a nonprofit org dedicated to protecting bees, safeguarding the environment, and securing food justice through community-based education, research, habitat creation and advocacy. But that's not all. To help generate more money for The Bee Conservancy, August 18th - 20th, when you buy any 375ml bottle of oil or vinegar, you get a FREE 60ml bottle of Honey Ginger Balsamic Vinegar with code: 23WENEEDBEES. #bees #honey #ginger #balsamic #conservation #oliveoil #nationalhoneybeeday #honeybee #honeybees #vinegar
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Act Today, Save Tomorrow. Do you believe that, given the choice between a bright future requiring a bit of effort or an effortless oblivion, you could choose to do the work? What if all it took was 1 act of kindness? An act of kindness uplifts the recipient and inspires every witness to it, setting off a chain reaction of goodwill across the community. Maybe your contribution is holding the door for a complete stranger who then feels inspired to do something kind themselves. In a world obsessed with gaining influence, this is the oldest form of influence there is and it is sorely needed. Here's some wonderful organisations you could join me in supporting if you are feeling that you might like to do something to celebrate Earth Day: 1. Help pollinators and familiarise yourself with your local honey producers and support them (especially if you like honey!), you can find who does what here. https://www.bbka.org.uk/ thanks to the wonderful work of the British Beekeepers Association - BBKA - Bees are still sleepy this time of year but apiaries often have plenty of stockpiles they can offer. 🐝 2. Reducing pollution in our environment is a task we can all contribute to, in big or small ways. If you spot a stray piece of rubbish near a bin while you’re out and about, why not pick it up? If you want to help an organisation that is aiming to change behaviour permanently by spotlighting the problem daily and offering creative solutions, then help Keep Britain Tidy https://lnkd.in/eV2HeAcc 🚮 3. Support your local wildlife trusts. If you want to go somewhere for a beautiful walk and to inspire yourself, or your family, then The Wildlife Trusts have locations all over the country that badly need our support. As a special bonus if you're more able to donate money than time, then there's a Green Match Fund Appeal this week only: https://lnkd.in/eufMxKAh 🦊 Never doubt the value of your support, any amount is enough. Hold the door. #dothework #earthday
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