Vision
Delivering equal access to nature to the hugely under-represented VME demographic.
Mission
Entice VME communities to engage with their natural environment in order to better reflect the ethnic diversity of the UK in nature.
Our Values
What really matters to us: Caring for nature and caring for diversity. We are welcoming to all. Caring and compassionate.
What Black2Nature does
We arrange nature camps for VME children and teenagers, conferences on how the environmental sector (nature, nature conservation, environmental, environmental educators, environmental media and wildlife/environmental film-making) can become ethnically diverse and engage VME people and other talks and events as well as campaigning to the environmental sector and promoting our aims through use fo media and social media..
Friday – Sunday July 2020
I have been running camps for teenagers on the Somerset Levels since 2016. I have had around 250 teenagers attend since then and each one has gone home having had an amazing time, got connected with nature and made new friends.
Grants
Free places are available to those young people from an area of deprivation or who are VME. Camp Avalon recognises that there are almost no young birders from VME backgrounds and so hope that these grants will encourage disadvantaged young people to be able to attend. All equipment needed will also be loaned for the weekend.
Black2Nature
Thank you to Paddington Farm and the many people who have supported Black2Nature and these camps and to Chew Valley Ringing Station and the birders who have offered their time in order to pass on their knowledge to young birders.
