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Partnerships

Outputs Target Total

To collaborate with partner organisations over the year 6 9*

*Plantlife Cymru, Healthy Schools, Size of Wales, Friends of the Earth, WWF Cymru, Repair
Café Wales, Benthyg, Dŵr Cymru, RSPB

We have strengthened our partnership with Repair Café Wales and Benthyg have both
Size of Wales, working together on our Carbon supported our educational messages by
Literacy accredited Climate Change training appearing in our pupil workshops and
sessions and on live pupil events. contributing to our newsletters. We have
supported Repair Café Wales by helping them
We have also continued our ongoing partnership to engage with Eco-Schools to organise running
with Dŵr Cymru delivering two well-attended a trial of a repair café in a school. If successful

pupil workshops this year. We are also we will support them expanding the scheme.
developing a new session for the summer term.
RSPB joined us for our pupil workshop in
We have helped Plantlife Cymru to develop January which was attended by 126 classes
their teacher training provision and delivered from 70 different schools. We plan to make this
a training session alongside their Dynamic an annual event.
Dunescape team. We also delivered a hugely
popular pupil workshop with them in the We have continued our good relationship
Summer based around their No Mow May with Healthy Schools, maintained via regional
campaign, which we are running again this year. interactions between local officers.

“Working with Eco-schools Wales has been We are an active member of the Natural
enormously beneficial for Plantlife. Their Resources Wales’ Ocean Literacy task force
experience, expertise and close working (run on behalf of the Wales Marine Action and
relationships with teachers has meant we have Advisory Group). We see Eco-Schools having a

been able to deliver successful educational fundamentally important role in developing an
sessions to pupils across Wales bringing action plan to build ocean literacy in Wales. We
positive outcomes to both schools and have instigated a potential collaboration with
Plantlife.” Bangor University as a consequence of this
group.

- Helen Bradley, Project Manager, Plantlife
Cymru We are an active partner in the Sustainable
Clothing and Textiles Cymru (SCTC) network,
which is coordinated by Friends of the Earth.
SCTC set out the case for a Wales-wide roll out
of uniform swap shops in a report published
We worked with WWF Cymru, and the Wales this year. The report launched at a special event
Youth Climate Ambassadors, and Literature hosted by Cynffig Comprehensive School, an
Wales to run the Wales Climate and Nature Eco-School in Bridgend, which has been running
Youth Festival. a successful uniform swap shop since 2019. You
can read the full report here.

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