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Wanted: young people to conserve Britain’s oceans (and get paid)

Gavin Haines — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 10:18:18 +0000

A social enterprise has launched in Britain to provide marine conservation jobs in deprived coastal communities

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Be a better ancestor: five ways to be good to future generations

Positive News — Fri, 18 Jun 2021 11:39:38 +0000

Here are five ways to act now to benefit those yet to be born

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Children’s comic competition celebrates ‘misunderstood’ spiders

Lucy Purdy — Fri, 21 May 2021 13:49:54 +0000

Spiders have a bad reputation that is undeserved. A comic book competition sought to address that

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How young people are tackling the climate crisis and five ways to help them

Peter Yeung — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 08:58:02 +0000

From restoring habitats to writing their own climate bill, young people are leading the way in tackling the climate crisis

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Woman who lost her mother at 20 launches network for bereaved young people

Gavin Haines — Thu, 28 Mar 2019 16:10:21 +0000

Beth Rowland lost her mum when she was 20. She now runs a support network to help other bereaved young people

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‘I feel very positive about my generation: it has become cool to care’

Lucy Purdy — Wed, 20 Feb 2019 14:22:01 +0000

Alice Aedy is a photographer and documentary maker who has become known for sharing images and stories of refugees via Instagram. “I feel very positive about my generation: it has become cool to care,” she says

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‘My generation isn’t perfect, but we’re conscientious and caring’

Lucy Purdy — Wed, 20 Feb 2019 11:30:38 +0000

Mursal Hedayat is founder of Chatterbox, an online language learning platform that trains and employs displaced people to teach their native languages. “Saying that people deserve to be cared for shouldn't be controversial,” she says

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‘Social entrepreneurs are fired up to tackle injustice’

Lucy Purdy — Tue, 19 Feb 2019 14:05:52 +0000

Josh Babarinde is founder of Cracked it, a London-based social enterprise smartphone repair service, staffed by young ex-offenders and youth at risk of offending. He sees social entrepreneurship as one of Gen Y’s most positive traits

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‘Expressing emotion is revolutionary, it can change the world’

Lucy Purdy — Mon, 18 Feb 2019 14:23:42 +0000

Marcus Pibworth runs Ministry of Change, a podcast and project that sees him travel the UK in his campervan, collecting and sharing stories around depression and anxiety

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‘My generation is confident and unafraid to speak out’

Lucy Purdy — Mon, 18 Feb 2019 12:02:19 +0000

Liv Little is founding editor-in-chief of gal-dem magazine, an online and print magazine written by women and non-binary people of colour. Embracing diversity means society is more likely to find solutions, she says

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