Green Beacons
National Parks throughout the United Kingdom are inspiring future generations to embrace incredible landscape and connect with nature.
Green Beacons is all about training and supporting National Parks apprentices, employees, partners and volunteers to be youth leaders: inspirational figures that can help young people fall in love with being outdoors.
Green Beacons for the future
Skilled Volunteers
Training as a skilled volunteer in National Parks can be life-enhancing and life-changing, as these volunteers explain.
Giving Teachers Confidence
Green Beacons is inspiring teachers to integrate outdoor learning and nature connectedness into the national curriculum. Read more about their experience.
John Muir Award
Working to the John Muir Award framework to explore, discover, care and share, participants learn how to look after wild places and get the most out of them. Read more about some of their experiences.
‘Just seeing the children experience the fort, rather than reading about it or looking at it on screen, was everything.’
Interested?
Volunteer
Find information and direct links to National Parks volunteer pages and current vacancies.
Find Your National Park
Learn about the 15 UK National Parks and what makes them unique, you can find your nearest National Park on our UK map view.
Get in touch
If you are a teacher or outdoor educator interested in training opportunities you can find direct contacts for National Park educational teams.
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Green Shoots
Green Shoots supports activities, learning and outreach programmes that connect children and young people to nature and the outdoors.
Green Leaders
Green Leaders supports young people to find their voice as champions of the Green Economy and conservation.
Generation Green
Through work-based career entry, training, volunteering, residential programmes, outdoor and online learning experiences, Generation Green has created more than 100,000 opportunities for young people to connect with nature.
