Volunteer Educators for environmental charity

What will you be doing?

East London Waterworks Park is a charity that has raised £2m towards buying land from the Department for Education to transform the 14-acre Thames Water Depot on Lea Bridge Road on the border of Waltham Forest and Hackney, into a new biodiverse park with natural swimming ponds, forest schools and community spaces.    We are looking for educator and facilitator volunteers to participate in our community-led working group, who are collaborating with schools, universities and youth groups that help the design of the park.    Examples of projects are: 

collaborating on nature walk activities for schools supporting university students interviewing teachers creating lesson plans to co-design the park. 

  Schools, universities and youth groups we've collaborated with include:

Buxton School, Leytonstone Kingsmead School, Enfield  UCL  Royal College of Art University of Westminster  Project Zero Voyage Youth  Loyola University Chicago  Vanderbilt University Nashville. 

  We're looking for people to lead on these projects and facilitate the direction of the learning working group.   The Learning Circle currently meets monthly on a Wednesday evening at 8pm for an hour on Google Meet and spends voluntary time outside of the meeting completing agreed tasks remotely.

What are we looking for?

You should be an experienced teacher, educational consultant, forest school leader, training and development specialist, learning designer, facilitator or any other kind of role creating learning projects, programmes and experiences. Our roles are quite flexible. We hope that people bring radical imagination, peace with nature, and courageous inclusiveness to the role. 

What difference will you make?

Your support will help young people and learners improve their environmental knowledge of design and research as well as contributing to our community-owned park. This will in turn provide a sense of stewardship over the land once the park is created and student's ideas have been built into the park.    Creating learning projects with educational institutions will also help our charity with the strategy to buy the land through showing the value of our environmental education programme before we create the park.