Category: Celebrations

To help us celebrate the Field Studies Council’s 80th anniversary our Discovery Centre in Margam Park ran a competition offering two Welsh primary schools an exciting opportunity for their yr 4 or 5 to stay with us for a free two-night residential visit. To be in with a chance to win, all they needed to […]

Despite disruptions to education over the last year the Nature Friendly Schools project has worked with 90 schools, enabling 16,000 pupils to benefit from learning in nature, training 500 teachers in outdoor learning and supporting pupil’s mental health – and transforming 30 school grounds.

Click to read FSC’s first Impact Report which focusses on smaller, lesser known projects that the FSC is involved with.

Over the past 10 weeks FSC has thrown itself into the development and delivery of #FieldworkLive.

Many of FSC’s customers who cannot join us for their planned courses have taken the time to express concern for staff and support for FSC. It’s good to know that they plan to be back as soon as they can!

At FSC we want to mark the UN’s International Day of Women and Girls in Science on 11th February by sharing the stories of some of our female members of staff.

The professor encouraged teachers to push the ‘wonder’ of the outdoors while speaking at a recent FSC conference. Prof Stewart is a BBC presenter on science shows Men of Rock and How the Earth Made Us. He said that Environmental Science and Geography teachers need to “create a sense of ‘that’s cool’” about being outdoors, with less emphasis […]

144 young people, from 4 different groups have been supported through FSC Kids Fund in November, enabling them to enjoy an environmental education experience with FSC. FSC has contributed £7013 to support these students, thanks to donations it has received from donations and gifts to continue its environmental education work.

Staff at FSC Juniper Hall have also been cycling through the Surrey Hills to get to work eith an aim to keep fit, enjoy the countryside and to reduce the number of car journeys.

The winners and runners up of the National Biodiversity Network Awards for Wildlife Recording 2019 were announced at the Albert Hall, Nottingham during an evening ceremony on Wednesday 13th November 2019.

As you may know the marketing team have been working on redeveloping the FSC website and we are pleased to say that the new website will be going live on Monday evening / Tuesday.

Every year we welcome 15 young people as ‘Young Darwin Scholars’ on a specially created scholarship, for 16-17 year olds particularly motivated by the natural world. 2019 has seen a truly inspirational group come together from all across the UK, united by their dedication to igniting change in attitudes and their motivation to take charge of their futures.

Our charitable grants help young people from some of the more deprived areas of the UK to experience outdoor education.

A former FSC Blencathra Higher Education placement students has recently won an award from her University on her placement year.

FSC are pleased to announce that we have now been recognised for the quality and freshness of the meals we supply by achieving the Food for Life Served Here Bronze Award from the Soil Association.

We are thrilled to announce that our Chairman, Professor Des Thompson, has collected the CIEEM Medal, to commend his outstand achievements to natural conservation and upland ecology

Janine Maddison, Education Development Officer and Robyn Landy, Senior Tutor have received an Award for Excellence in Leading Geography by the Geographical Association.

FSC Blencathra has recently received a £1500 check from the Wainwright Society.

Congratulations to FSC Millport for being awarded a silver level Green Tourism Award.

Happy Birthday to FSC Slapton Ley on it’s 60th birthday today!