Solas Festival
© VisitScotland / Luigi Di Pasquale
About The Green Team
We are an inclusive organisation with a focus on providing opportunities for children and young people from disadvantaged backgrounds who might not have the same opportunities as others to engage in the outdoors.
The organisation was formed in 1995 in response to the lack of voluntary opportunities available to young people as part of the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award.
Since the launch of the charity, the need to provide interaction with the great outdoors for young people continues to grow. A government paper 'The Natural Choice: securing the value of nature', published by DEFRA in 2011 showed that the likelihood of children visiting any greenspace at all has halved in a generation. We're committed to playing our part in addressing this issue by getting disadvantaged young people out into the great outdoors.
Crombie Country Park
© Visit Angus / Alan Richardson
Working with local corporations
The Green Team extends its work with young people to activities for corporate groups - providing enjoyable sessions in nature that can support teambuilding and enhance wellbeing whilst taking practical action to protect the local natural environment and fulfilling sustainability goals.
Days can be tailored to suit the needs of different groups by flexing the length of the session and selecting activities that provide the right balance of relaxing wellbeing activities and/or hard conservation graft. Income generated from these sessions is used to support our work with young people.
