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 [...]
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.
Field Notes: Young people and nature
Sandwood Conservation officer Lynn Munro reports on a fun community engagement programme in this John Muir Trust news item (21 Dec 2023) . This involved working with local partners to engage young people in wild places and the John Muir Award. Read about how young students from the age or [...]
Highland Field Notes: Young people and nature
The John Muir Trust news page shares this report by Sandwood Conservation officer Lynn Munro. Lynn describes a fun community engagement programme working with local partners to engage young people from Kinlochbervie Primary School in wild places and the John Muir Award.
John Muir Award redesign and education update
The John Muir Trust have shared progress made on John Muir Award redesign principles. These include: Increasing support for people to protect wild places. Greater focus on nature connection. Closer collaborative links between Award Providers and participants, and the John Muir Trust. The link also shares how you can get [...]
John Muir Award impact on Scotland’s education
The John Muir Trust has shared news of its annual report summarising John Muir Award activity taking place with schools in Scotland (22 September 2023). This includes the following statistics: 384 schools involved in delivering the John Muir Award in Scotland (up 3% on 2021-22) 14,530 Awards achieved by pupils [...]
JMA – Award redesign
The John Muir Trust have put out an invitation to help them redesign the John Muir Award for people and wild places. The Award aims to help people towards a life-long passion to experience, enjoy, protect and repair wild places. Can you help to enhance how progression in these experiences [...]
John Muir Award: Action in Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park
Stories and resources to support Award groups in helping tackle the nature and climate crises within the National Park.
