Young Friends of the Earth Summer Camp
Inspired young people from across the UK came together to hold our first Young FoE summer camp. The location was beautiful – a secluded place in Mytholmroyd in Yorkshire at Jerusalem Farm.
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It was the first event organised in with Young FoE in the UK – and it felt like it was the start of something great. We arrived on the Friday and had a great curry cooked up by Rachel and sat drinking and getting to know each other, and had a jamming session on guitar and fiddle…
On the Saturday we started the sessions – and even the “ice-breakers” were really fun, where we had to get to know someone new and draw a picture of them – more fun than it sounds honest!
We wanted to do an action this weekend on Push Europe – a campaign to get Europe to commit to reductions in CO2 that the science says is needed to keep our planet safe from unstoppable global warming. So after learning about the campaign we talked about the One Penny campaign – a ingenious way to petition by getting huge numbers of people to send 1p as a bank transfer to your government with a message attached – and made banners and signs for the action the next day. Helena gave an interview on BBC radio, and you can still listen to this interview
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The next day we walked up onto the Ovenden Moor wind farm – which is a beautiful place. How anyone can describe wind farms as ugly is beyond me! On heather stewn moors with rolling hills they looked fantastic. We spent about 3 hours there – taking photos to make a stop motion video with the banners and signs spelling out different messages as we moved around. It took ages – and it was so cold and windy – standing around for that long was hard!
Image taken by Adela Nistora
We have a Young FoE session at the FoE local group conference, and hope to get more people involved in the group. After the camp it definitely felt like there was a desire from everyone to do more together. So watch this space, join up to Young FoE, and look out for updates on Push Europe and the One Penny campaign!!!
