Category: FSC Head Office

Mark Castle is sending weekly messages to all staff via email. Catch up with the latest message and any previous ones in the PDF’s below.

We have been given an updated 20% off discount code to share with FSC staff members to use on ‘Outdoor and Cycle Concepts’ sites.

We are looking forward to launching a new financial support scheme to support learners to access to high quality outdoor learning in 2021. Click through to find out more.

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!

Thank you to Education collegaues who attended the two training webinars for the Mindset to Achieve and Revision new courses. For anyone who would like to listen back, recordings are linked to in this blog post.

Serving as a Trustee on the RSB Council is one of the best ways to help influence how the Royal Society of Biology delivers its charitable aims and works in partnership with the FSC . This year there is one vacancy open to representatives of RSB Council Member Organisations at the Full Member level. MOs […]

As announced by the CEO prior to Christmas, FSC is kicking off its new 5 year strategy this year and with it comes a programme of transformational changes. If you missed the announcement you can see it here. The programme consists of those changes we want to make to drive us forwards as an organisation. […]

This Christmas FSC Head Office colleagues have been supporting the work of Shrewsbury Food Bank by collecting items using a Reverse Advent Calendar.

The fourth quarterly Education webinar took place on Tuesday 29th October. For those staff who were unable to join or wish to revisit it, a recording is available in this blog post.

What’s FSC doing about the Climate Emergency? The simple answer is that we are doing lots. The new strategy has sustainability at its heart, and we need to practice what we teach. The food we serve has a big carbon footprint, so making changes will pay a big part in reducing FSC’s environmental impact.

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.

The ‘how-to’ videos which can be found on the ArcGIS Online website have exceeded 10,000 views this month!

With summer in full swing and the holiday season upon us, The Board of Trustees wanted to take this opportunity to update staff on a number of matters.

FSC have part-exchanged our existing fleet of minibuses with Castle Minibus for a small fleet of Ford minibuses which will be maintained and inspected by Castle and partners, BT Fleet Solutions.

Following the board of trustees meeting yesterday on Thursday 4th July, the trustees have unanimously declared a climate emergency and set out the organisation’s ambitions to hit significant carbon reduction targets by early next year.

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

At the start of June FSC Kids Fund considered 7 applications. All the requests were strong but three stood out and fit FSC’s aspiration to inspire everyone to be curious, caring and passionate about our environment. Read on to find out which applications were successful.

Nature Friendly Schools (NFS) project is an exciting new £6.4m government funded research project. FSC is a partner in the project, along with The Wildlife Trusts, Young Minds, Groundwork and The Sensory Trust.