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The John Muir Award We are happy to be associated with the John Muir Trust who administer the John Muir Award. What is the John Muir Award? The John Muir Award is an environmental Award scheme focused on wild places. This could be any where from a mountaintop to a city garden. It encourages the discovery and conservation of wild places, in a spirit of fun, adventure and exploration. The Award is non-competitive, open to all and is the educational initiative of the John Muir Trust. There are three Levels of the John Muir Award, encouraging a progressive involvement. Discover Award: Is the introductory award requiring 4 days or equivalent to complete it. Explore Award: The intermediate award requiring 8 days or equivalent to complete it. Conserver Award: The advanced award requiring 20 days or equivalent to complete it. All levels of the Award are based on meeting the same four challenges of: Discover, Explore, Conserve, Share. Discover: Get out in a wild place. This could be your garden, a nearby park, a high mountain, or a local beach. This challenge is all about discovering your own wild place. Explore: Find out more about your wild place. Look at the plants and animals that live there, travel through it, or spend a night camping out and find out what it sounds like at night. Exploring is about getting to know and experience a place. Conserve: John Muir set up the world's first national park and was committed to ‘putting something back’ into wild places. So for this challenge you need to do something to help take responsibility for your wild place. You could be planting trees or plants, maintaining paths, minimising your impact or perhaps conducting a survey of the wildlife that lives there. It's your turn to look after your wild place. Share: A major part of the Award is to encourage people to value wild places. So throughout your Award we ask that you find ways to share what you are doing. This could be a group discussion around a campfire, a display at school or work, or maybe a contribution to a website. It could be artwork, information leaflets or taking other people out to enjoy the places you have discovered. This is the chance to share your experiences with others. Anyone can do the award. We work with a wide range of groups and individuals, including schools, families, youth groups, charities, disability groups, outdoor education centres, countryside ranger services and anyone else you care to think of. If you like to work or play in the outdoors then you could do the John Muir Award. Before we offered the award to our customers we wanted to complete the Discovery award ourselves, so in June the Beadle Family and friends signed up. Look at our experience and results on our John Muir page. Click here If you would like us to assist your group in taking part in the award please get in touch.
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