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Past events listing
Step Forward 4 Summer!
Between 30 June 2008 and 11 August 2008, in Coventry
The Agents4Change campaign is gearing up for summer and we are excited about the prospects for fun with the kids.
You can get involved in all sorts of ways - from supporting a trip to assisting with craft/sport activities over the holidays - its up to you! So far we have opportunities at Willenhall Nursery, Three Templars Primary, Hope Centre, Kids in Paradise, and Potters Green Wraparound.
Other opportunitoies include:
- Coventry Transport Museum – can you support with craft activities at the museum over the summer holidays. Let me know today!
- Coventry Sports Foundation – various sport/workshop opportunities. There is potential for you to lead a session on athletics or football, support young people with in a badminton lesson, you get the idea … Keep fit and have fun sports volunteering. Register today to get CRB checks sorted in time for summer fun! Contact natalie.wint@bbc.co.uk to get involved.
Posted on 30 June 2008 12:12:05 by Balnek Sangra
Nature 'reserved' (no way!)
Between 30 June 2008 and 31 July 2008, in Coventry
Are you interested in getting out into nature and helping preserve it? Get involved today.
Warwickshire Wildlife Trust have all sorts of volunteering opportunities - from practical conservation (cutting down trees, cutting grass, putting up fences etc.) to community work and environmental education for children and adults - every day is different!
Contact natalie.wint@bbc.co.uk to get involved.
Posted on 30 June 2008 12:14:05 by Balnek Sangra
Pedal Power
Between 28 June 2008 and 29 June 2008, in Birmingham
The NSPCC hosted two Big Bike Ride events this June. The first was in Coventry's Coombe Country Park on Saturday 28th June. The routes took cyclists around the beautiful grounds of the parkor on the cycle paths through the Warwickshire countryside.
The second event took place in Cannock Chase on Sunday 29th June.
Agents4Change volunteers helped out with the event.
Posted on 20 June 2008 17:11:48 by Kat Pearson
Students go for zero waste
Between 14 June 2008 and 21 June 2008, in Manchester
Students at Manchester's Metropolitan University worked together during Recycling Week to create 'Zero Waste'.
As the end of term approached Agent4Change Toral Shah worked with the Environmental Sustainability Manager from the University to run a pilot programme at Cambridge Halls which houses 700 students.
'Zero Waste' was set up to get students in Halls of Residences to donate their recyclable/reusable items to charity rather than put them in the bin and send them to landfill.
The event was a great success. The volunteers managed to sort through and donate over 140 bags and boxes of donated materials to charities such as Salvation Army, Mustard Tree, Age Concern and Emerge Recycling – who kindly provided transport throughout the event.
Students from other halls made the effort to come bring their stuff as well and staff asked the volunteers to stay for longer. Environmental Manager, John Hindley, was so delighted at the results that he wants to continue the project next year and in the future.
Adie Mormech, a volunteer from People and Planet, said, 'We managed to save so many useful items like clothing, electronics and food that would’ve normally gone into a big hole on the ground which is what’s happening in universities in all over England.'
Agents4Change co-ordinator, Toral Shah, said 'Young The whole week as been an eye-opener for everyone involved as all the materials would have gone to waste instead it is now helping those in need.'
Posted on 30 June 2008 11:01:34 by Becky Taplin
Recycled skyline
Between 07 June 2008 and 07 June 2008, in Liverpool
Volunteers held a 'recycled art' workshop at the World Museum in Liverpool to raise awareness during Recycling Week in June.
Volunteers were involved in trying to recreate the Liverpool skyline using materials people normally throw away. As this project was open to the public as well, volunteers were also involved in staffing the public space. Around 10 young volunteers helped out over the course of the day, and a number of members of the public, particularly children, created their own pieces of art.
Posted on 30 June 2008 10:50:44 by Jon Dean
Improving our habits
Between 02 June 2008 and 07 June 2008, in Coventry
Re-educating people about their habits played an important part of Coventry's Agent4Change campaign as part of recycling week.
Natalie Wint, Agent4Change volunteer, recruited 15 other young people to research ideas on how to improve their recycling habits. They then broadcast them on BBC Radio Coventry and Warwickshire.
The young volunteers came up with 15 facts to present to the listeners in the form of short radio trails or adverts. The young people were educating themselves and others and the trails were broadcast after the travel news every 20 minutes on World Environment Day.
Natalie also attended a Green Classroom event (2008 and Beyond) at the beautiful Coombe Park in Warwickshire. This was an educational event organised by Coventry City Council, Rugby Borough Council, North Warwickshire Borough Council and Action 21 (Warwick district) on World Environment Day to increase understanding of sustainable development amongst young people and to encourage them to actively care for the environment.
Posted on 30 June 2008 11:29:57 by Balnek Sangra
Leeds and York in Recycling Makeover
Between 02 June 2008 and 07 June 2008, in Leeds
Agents4Change in Leeds and York have joined together to take part in Recycling Week.
Emily Cook in York and Louise Rigg in Leeds (pictured) decided to raise awareness of recycling issues by decorating bottle and paper banks to encourage people in Yorkshire to dispose of their waste responsibly.
Posted on 30 June 2008 10:03:46 by Gemma Cross
Band raises awareness of recycling
Between 02 June 2008 and 07 June 2008, in Liverpool
Recycling was given a new twist in Liverpool with people being shown how to make instruments out of recycled materials.
Urban Strawberry Lunch is a local band which took to playing instruments made out of recycled materials (old pipes, barrels etc) after their 'normal' instruments had been destroyed in a fire.
They regularly hold workshops, and are involved with various community groups. Since taking over St Luke's bombed-out church in Liverpool they have introduced their recycling and conservation project in a creative way.
They have worked with Youth Offender groups to create planters made from old plastic barrels, and regularly play host to artists and performers who work with a 'green theme'. Their story was played over two studio features on BBC Radio Merseyside.
Posted on 30 June 2008 11:39:57 by Jon Dean
Tesco bags spread the message
Between 02 June 2008 and 07 June 2008, in Gloucester
As part of Recycling Week Gloucester's Agent4Change Mike McBride handed out recycling bags for free at his local Tesco store.
He and his volunteers also gave people information about recycling and volunteering opportunities. Hundreds of people took away information and many signed up for further recycling volunteering in the future.
Posted on 30 June 2008 10:56:59 by Michael McBride
Kill All Rubbish!
Between 02 June 2008 and 07 June 2008, in Leeds
As part of Recycling Week heavy metal band Kill All Enemies collected their rubbish for a week and opened it up to Agents4Change scrutiny!
Leeds metal sensation Kill All Enemies volunteered to try recycling. Armed with rubber gloves and strict instructions from Agent4Change Louise Rigg they were told to try recycling.
After washing all food from packaging they were instructed to save everything. When the week was over they collected all their rubbish together to assess how much of their waste could be recycled.
Kill All Enemies were shocked to realise what they had gone through. Of all the rubbish they collected over 90% of it could be recycledrtons.
Just one more thing we can recycle was the theme of this year's Recycle Week aiming to get everyone to make an effort to recycle something they usually wouldn't.
Band member Matt Thomas said: 'I have only recycled at primary school once. I have never tried it at home but it's easier than I thought and seeing how much rubbish we can produce and how much can be recycled is an eye opener. If we can do this, then everyone else can try it too.'
All the rubbish collected was then taken to a recycling centre, separated and put into the correct colour coded banks and bins. To find out more about recycling in your area and where to find your nearest recycling centre, visit your local council website.
Posted on 30 June 2008 10:00:12 by Gemma Cross
A new look at recycling
Between 02 June 2008 and 07 June 2008, in Truro
Recycling Week at BBC Radio Cornwall was led by Zak Stanley's Agents4Change Student Household Challenge, where a house full of young people was encouraged to reduce the amount of waste they send to landfill.
This was launched on the breakfast show on Monday 2nd June and followed up over the week, both on air and online. The students cut down their rubbish from 3 bin bags to just half a bag.
The campaign included a 50-minute studio discussion on the BBC Radio Cornwall lunchtime phone-in programme with a Waste Management Officer.
The students also held a three-day workshop at the Royal Cornwall Show in the BBC marquee, encouraging more students to reduce waste and recycle more. Gail Porter was interviewed on the Tuesday of the campaign, and successfully managed to persuade the cynical presenter who currently doesn’t recycle to mend his ways. Read more at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cornwall/content/articles/2008/06/03/people_recyclingstudents_feature.shtml
Posted on 30 June 2008 09:55:43 by Zak Stanley
New Clothes from Old
Between 02 June 2008 and 07 June 2008, in Brighton
Recycling got a makeover in Brighton with a Recycled Fashion Show at Sussex University this June.
Agent4Change tom Lennard worked with the Sussex University Environment Society to put on a Recycled Fashion Show. Clothes made from recycled fabrics and other materials were designed and modelled by a team of volunteers.
60 people came to watch this awareness raising event.
Posted on 30 June 2008 10:44:56 by Marco Kor
Help a Heart
Between 01 June 2008 and 30 June 2008, in Birmingham
Agents4Change volunteers helped the British Heart Foundation collect funds for their annual Help a Heart Fundraising Campaign.
Volunteers spared a couple of hours to help collect at various supermarkets in Birmingham (Maypole, Acocks Green, Northfield, Solihull, Small Heath, Castle Vale, Selly Oak, Kings Heath and Great Barr).
The British Heart Foundation (BHF) invests in pioneering heart research that helps to save lives. Heart disease touches us all and chances are it has already affected you, your family or friends.
Posted on 20 June 2008 17:09:50 by Kat Pearson
Cornwall has gone potty for recycling!
Between 01 June 2008 and 01 June 2008, in Truro
A mass of volunteers in Cornwall joined Agent4Change Zak Stanley and took part in activities for Recycling Week at the Royal Cornwall Show.
They got involved in making homes for solitary bees using bamboo (bee-chelor pads) and planting wildflowers and vegetables in recycled yogurt pots and loo rolls to plant at home or for a local school. There were volunteers on hand to talk about environmental issues and give useful tips on recycling.
Two volunteers, Matt and Jen, who had just spent the week reducing their waste from three bags to one, were around to discuss their experiences. They held a workshop at the show disusing the difficulties of reducing waste and shopping more conscientiously.
People were really engaged and agreed to volunteer and do more at home with their own recycling and to talk to friends and family and encourage them to recycle.
Cornwall Agent, Zak Stanley said: 'One thing we discovered from talking with volunteers is that behind almost everyone that recycles, there is someone there encouraging them to do so. We hope that this event has helped to spread the message and got more households recycling.'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIWKrqGzgW0
Posted on 02 July 2008 20:23:54 by Zak Stanley
