Useful Websites

 

Access to Farms is a partnership promoting farming and horticulture education through links with schools. They aim to make the arrangement of quality educational visits to farms and horticultural units easier.

The Biodynamic Agricultural Association (BDAA) exists in order to support, promote and develop the biodynamic approach to farming, gardening and forestry.

 Love British Food is the biggest national celebration of the diverse and delicious range of food that Britain produces. BTCV have a successful history of environmental conservation volunteering throughout the UK and around the world. They aim to create a better environment, and a sustainable future by inspiring people and improving places.

The British Meat Education Service is committed to being the most innovative, informative, and trustworthy industrial sponsor of food related education in Britain.

  

The British Deer Society is a charity promoting conservation in balance with the environment through a programme of education and research.

 The Trust is a registered charity devoted to countryside education in all it's varied forms, with the overall aim of promoting and operating courses, activities and facilities which enable children and adults to learn about, understand, and care for the countryside.

Europe's leading eco centre, the Centre for Alternative Energy in Southern Snowdonia offers solutions to some of the most serious challenges facing our country and the human race, including climate change, pollution and resource wasting.

Hampshire Country Learning

Countryside Foundation for Education, a national registered charity (327091), has provided access to outdoor learning opportunities for up to 20,000 school children every year through a series of countryside visits to farms and estates across the UK.

For information on all things dairy...

 

The educational work of the National Farmers’ Union and the Royal Agricultural Society of England merged in September 2001 to form FACE, the charity for Farming And Countryside Education.
The Field Studies Council is a pioneering educational charity committed to bringing environmental understanding to all.

This charity try to help communities identify the root causes of their environmental problems, find possible solutions, and have their voice heard by decision makers, to solve the pressures on England's environment.

 The GLOBE Programme is a practical environmental education project linking students and scientists in 109 countries. The programme encourages pupils to measure different aspects of their local environment and report their results over the Internet.

This website gives a chance to explore the grain chain from field to plate. You will find online games and activities for children from 3 years upwards and a host of really useful teaching information for primary and secondary schools.

The Forest Education Initiative aims to increase the understanding and appreciation, particularly among young people, of the environmental, social, and economic potential of trees, woodlands and forests and of the link between the tree and everyday life.

 The Hampshire Countryside Service protects and conserves the countryside heritage landscape, wildlife, and historic places, and to provide access for people to enjoy the Hampshire countryside.

 

The Hampshire Outdoor Education Service concerns itself with the health and safety of young people, and the promotion and development of all aspects of learning outdoors - from on the school grounds to adventurous activities and trips abroad.		  

Healthy Schools developed by the Department of Health and the Department for Education and Skills, providing health information for a range of audiences that relates to the National Curriculum and the National Healthy Schools Programme.

The Linking Environment and Farming organisation is a group of farmers, environmentalists, food and agricultural organisations, consumers, government and academics working together to do something positive for the farming industry.

The National Gamekeepers' Organisation Charitable Trust has been set up to shed light on the role of Britain's gamekeepers, and to ensure quality in the way the countryside is managed.

 The National Trust's motto 'for ever, for everyone', is embodied by their commitment to placing learning at the heart of everything we do...

The National Farmers' Union represents farmers and growers in England and Wales, promotes farming excellence, and supports it's members in profitable, sustainable business.

The UK's leading environmental charity promoting sustainable, organic farming and championing human health.

 The UK's leading college for the land based industries...

Think Food and Farming is a campaign to promote healthy living by giving young people direct experience of countryside, farming and food.

An award scheme promoting outdoor learning and environmental education for young people of all ages in Hampshire. Trailblazer is an exciting scheme for schools and other groups to help co-ordinate, support and develop their work.

 

The UK's top farming and countryside resource, UK Agriculture aims to educate the public in all aspects of the countryside, promote greater understanding of the role of agriculture, and conserve and protect for the benefit of the public and the countryside as a whole. 

 

 

 

 

 

Last Modified: 27/05/2010