Action For Conservation

14/05/2026

Join us and help us transform the front garden at Brighton Youth Centre (BYC) into a vibrant space for people and nature! 🌿

You'll join local young people from Brighton leading this community gardening session! The afternoon will be filled with community planting, creativity and connection at the BYC's amazing new youth centre. Get stuck into gardening, take part in family-friendly art activities, and help us create a greener and more welcoming space for everyone to enjoy! 🪏

🎟️ Register on Eventbrite here: https://buff.ly/Zxe8KT1
🗓️ Tuesday 26th May 2026, 2-7 pm
❗️ Free, plus some refreshments will be provided

06/05/2026

The Action for Conservation Programmes Team (swipe across to meet them) recently collaborated with to learn all about the art of upcycling! 🪲🛠️

This hands-on training will help us to deliver even more exciting, practical workshops in schools, youth groups, and with our Ambassadors across England and Wales. 🌍

Harry from the Woodshop of Recycling Delights CIC delivered amazing specialist training focused on tool use and working with reclaimed timber. 🎉🪵🪑

From mastering drill techniques, using hand tools to breaking down pallets and transforming old wood into planters and benches, the session provided our team with the confidence and skills to support young people to get hands-on and creative in their communities. ☀️🔨

We can’t wait to take these skills out into communities and get more young people restoring nature, creating habitats, and learning by doing! 💪

28/04/2026

Meet Connor, aged 12 from London 🌿

He first joined the Action for Conservation (AFC) Summer Camps in 2025, spending time in nature, getting stuck into hands-on conservation activities, and making new, amazing friends. 🦇

What started out as a chance to spend time outdoors has become something more meaningful.⭐

Now an AFC Ambassador, Connor is taking positive action for nature alongside his peers and inspiring more young people to get involved. 🌿

📖 Read his blog to discover his story ➡️ https://www.actionforconservation.org/blog/inspired-by-nature-connors-story

There is just one day left to donate to our Time in Nature campaign. You'll be supporting more young people, like Connor, to step out into nature.

Donate ➡️ https://donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05WS00000AFR6zYAH?utm_campaign=a05WS00000AFR6zYAH-Facebook

25/04/2026

🎧️ We could talk about what nature means to young people. But it’s better to hear it from them. 🌿

Take a break and press play on this immersive soundscape where you can listen to their stories, you can find the full video on our YouTube channel ▶️ 🎶

You'll hear young people from our programmes share what nature means to them, reflecting on time spent in woodlands, near rivers, and on beaches.⭐

This April, you can help make more of this possible. Our Big Give campaign aims to raise £75,000 for vital programmes. From 22nd to 29th April, all donations will be doubled, meaning twice the impact for young people and nature.

Donate here via the link in bio! ⛓️

25/04/2026

🎧️ We could talk about what nature means to young people. But it’s better to hear it from them. 🌿

Press play on this immersive soundscape and listen in ▶️ 🎶
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iyfm3neSnWo

Young people from our programmes share what nature means to them, reflecting on time spent in woodlands, near rivers, and on beaches. ⭐

This April, you can help make more of this possible. Our Big Give campaign aims to raise £75,000 for vital programmes. From 22nd to 29th April, all donations will be doubled, meaning twice the impact for young people and nature.

Donate here ➡️ https://donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05WS00000AFR6zYAH?utm_campaign=a05WS00000AFR6zYAH-Facebook

Young People in Nature: A Reflective Soundscape

22/04/2026

Young people need time in nature. Time to be themselves, time to be free, time to act together. 🌿

Watch our film here ➡️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvuObnhS5So&t=6s

Action for Conservation works with young people across the UK to access, experience and restore nature alongside their peers. 🦋

Celebrate with us by supporting us to raise £75,000 to give 650+ young people over 30,000 hours outside in nature.

Donate here ➡️ https://donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05WS00000AFR6zYAH?utm_campaign=a05WS00000AFR6zYAH-Facebook

With 64% of young people experiencing eco-anxiety and many having limited access to nature, this campaign creates real pathways into action, connection and leadership.⭐️

Until 29 April, all donations through the Big Give are matched, so your support goes twice as far.

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21/04/2026

❄️ A throwback to the Penpont Project Winter Visit: Exploring, lambing, tree planting, interviewing and much more!

In February, the Youth Leadership Group (YLG) visited the site braving frosty, rainy and snowy weather! They got the chance to...

🐑 Spend time in the lambing sheds with Gareth, a farmer from Tirmawr Farm.
🌳 Join Penpont Project Manager, Forrest, in the new orchard planting ancient varieties of apple trees.
👋 Meet Youth Rangers, Alice and Luke, during the final week of their rangership & hear what the experience has been like.

🎨 Swipe across and see if you can spot Alice's illustrations nestled in some of the images 💚

To wrap the visit up the YLG spent time interviewing the project partners including the team at to learn how the initiative has impacted them and the land in the last five years.

Their next visit will be taking place in the coming weeks, fingers crossed for spring sunshine! 🌞



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❄️ Ymweliad Gaeaf y Prosiect Penpont: archwilio, wyna, plannu coed, cyfweliadau a llawer mwy!

Yn Chwefror, ymwelodd y Grŵp Arweinyddiaeth Ifanc (G*I) â’r safle, gan herio rhew, galw ac eira! Cawsant y cyfle i…

🐑 Dreulio amser yn y siediau wyna gyda Gareth, ffarmwr o Fferm Tirmawr.
🌳 Ymuno â Rheolwr y Prosiect Penpont, Forrest, yn y berllan newydd yn plannu mathau hynafol o goed afalau.
👋 Gwrdd â Ceidwaid Ifanc, Alice a Luke, yn ystod eu hwythnos olaf fel ceidwaid & clywed sut brofiad maent wedi cael.

🎨 Sgroliwch draw a gwelwch os allwch chi ddod o hyd i ddarluniau Alice wedi’u cuddio mewn rhai o’r lluniau 💚

I gloi’r ymweliad, treuliodd y G*I amser yn cyfweld â phartneriaid y prosiect gan gynnwys y tîm at i ddysgu sut mae’r fenter wedi eu heffeithio nhw a’r tir dros y pum mlynedd diwethaf.

Bydd eu hymweliad nesaf yn cymryd lle yn ystod yr wythnosau nesaf, bysedd wedi croesi am dywydd braf! 🌞

10/04/2026

This term 25, year 7 students from The Excelsior Academy in London have been exploring nature and the environment through our WildED programme, where nature-based learning takes centre stage 🐝

With AFC’s Programme Coordinator Chloe, students have been discovering habitats across their school grounds, identifying plant and animal species, and mapping what they find 🪶. Next up is an exciting action day!

🌿 Then, students will design and implement their own ideas to improve their school grounds for nature, their community, and themselves.

Find out more about WildED here ➡️ www.actionforconservation.org/schools

27/03/2026

The Easter break is the perfect time to apply for our FREE Summer Camps!

10/03/2026

Join our team! ⭐

🌳 Penpont Community Tree Nursery Coordinator
🗓️ Part-time
🚨 Application deadline: Sunday, 22 March 2026

This is an exciting opportunity for someone with horticultural knowledge and a passion for working with young people and communities to join our flagship nature restoration project, the Penpont Project, Wales. You'll contribute to the development and success of our new Community Tree Nursery at Penpont, maximising positive outcomes for young people and the environment.

More information: https://lnkd.in/eQB83WP5

This project is funded by The Woodland Investment Grant (TWIG) scheme. It is being delivered by The National Lottery Heritage Fund in partnership with the Welsh Government’s National Forest for Wales Programme.



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Ymunwch â'n tîm! ⭐

🌳 Cydlynydd Meithrinfa Goed Gymunedol Penpont
🗓️ Rhan-amser
🚨 Y dyddiad cau ar gyfer gwneud cais yw nos Sul 22 Mawrth 2026
am hanner nos.

Dyma gyfle cyffrous i rywun sydd â gwybodaeth arddwriaethol ac angerdd am weithio gyda phobl ifanc a chymunedau i ymuno â’n prosiect blaenllaw ar adfer byd natur ym Mhenpont, a chyfrannu at ddatblygiad a llwyddiant ein Meithrinfa Goed Gymunedol newydd, gan wella’r canlyniadau i bobl ifanc a’r amgylchedd.

https://lnkd.in/eQB83WP5

Ariennir y prosiect hwn gan gynllun y Grant Buddsoddi mewn Coetiroedd (TWIG). Mae'n cael ei ddarparu gan Gronfa Treftadaeth y Loteri Genedlaethol mewn partneriaeth a Llywodraeth Cymru a'u Rhaglen Coedwig Genedlaethol i Gymru.