Young People Trust for the environment is a charity founded in 1982, located in the South-Est of United Kingdom.
The mission of this charity is to promote an environmental education for kids and to develop and awareness of the environment problems: such as disappearing wildlife, the pollution of soil, air and water, the destruction of rainforests and wetlands, the spread of desert region sand the misuse of the oceans; and the need for sustainability.
YPTE organises Environmental Discovery courses for young people aged 8-13 years old, designed to be educational, enjoyable, busy and challenging. These courses organized by YPTE’s tutor can have a real and deep-rooted impact on children’s attitudes, interest and awareness. The YPTE environmental discovery courses are mainly located in Dorset and Somerset ( South of United Kingdom),
using residential centers, a variety of habitats. These courses are running now since 28 years, having a lot of success in environmental teaching programmes.YPTE staff believe that YPTE activites will help to show the next generation of adults that it is possible to minimise our impact on the environment without having to live with significant compromises to lifestyle. In this way, we hope to achieve long-term change.
Moreover YPTE is organising events every year, such as Total Green school awards.
Total Green school awards is a competition between United kingdom’s schools which aim to assit and encourage environmental education for young people aged 5-11. This is an opportunity for school to create an environmental activity, where children with the help of teachers and staffs have to design a project, studing energy, fossil fuel and alternative technologies. Each schools project are then evaluated by YPTE, which will select the winner.
Future plans
Young Poeple Trust for the Envirnment charity has in plan to create their own residential environmental centre for their Environmental Discovery Courses. “It will be built in harmony with its setting, using ecologically sound techniques and showing the young people who stay there a more environmentally-friendly way of living.”
http://www.ypte.org.uk/
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