OWL Scotland January 2025 Bulletin out now!
This edition includes information on courses in early 2025, updates from local OWL groups, OWL Scotland, and a focus on the Scottish Junior Forester Award and information on finding out about careers paths into forestry. Download the full bulletin from the OWL Scotland Website.
NBN Awards for Wildlife Recording 2025
The 2025 NBN Awards are now open for nominations! Nominating someone for an Award couldn’t be easier – just answer three or four simple questions. The seven Award categories were hugely popular in 2024, so who will you nominate this year? Categories include NBN Young Person’s Award 2025 (open to individuals [...]
Junior Rangers win national award
The Cairngorms National Park junior ranger project has won the Youth Action Award at RSPB Scotland’s Nature of Scotland Awards 2024. Read more in this news post shared here (3 December 2024). The junior ranger project is a free programme of outdoor learning and volunteering for young people aged between [...]
QMU wins Inspiring Learning Places Award at Learning Places Scotland 2024!
Congratulations to Patrick Boxall (Lecturer in Education) and the Queen Margaret University team, winning the category for 'Inspiring Learning Places at the Learning Places Scotland Awards. This was the only nature-based project to win, and the QMU Wee Forest was a key part of the nomination.
John Muir Award to be relaunched March 2025
The John Muir Trust have provided an update on the John Muir Award relaunch. To achieve a John Muir Award, each participant must: Complete the Four Challenges: Discover, Explore, Conserve and Share Spend at least 25 hours on their activities Have an active involvement in decision making and planning of [...]
First school in Scotland achieves OPAL Award!
Play Scotland report that Udston Primary School, in South Lanarkshire, were the first school in Scotland to complete its journey through the OPAL Programme. Watch the video where members of the senior leadership team speak about the impacts of OPAL while viewers see many of the new play activities developed [...]
John Muir Award update
Read about the series of workshops that are helping to shape the new-look Award - due for a relaunch next spring.
Clyde Climate Forest initiative shortlisted for RSPB Nature of Scotland Award
The Clyde Climate Forest initiative, which launched in June 2021 with a headline target of planting 18 million trees in the next decade across Glasgow City Region, has been shortlisted in the Nature and Climate Action category at RSPB Scotland’s prestigious Nature of Scotland Awards. Read more here.
