Useful Links from Envision

	V www.wearev.com v is an independent charity championing youth volunteering in England. v exists to inspire a new generation of young volunteers (aged 16-25) in England and enable a lasting change in the quality, quantity and diversity of youth volunteering.
	Woodcraft Folk www.woodcraft.org.uk A movement for children and young people, open to everyone from birth to adult. We offer a place where children will grow in confidence, learn about the world and start to understand how to value our planet and each other.
	Citizenship Foundation www.citizenshipfoudnation.org.uk The Citizenship Foundation are an independent education and participation charity that aims to encourage and enable individuals to engage in democratic society. Founded in 1989, their work focuses in particular on developing young people's citizenship skills, knowledge and understanding of the law, democracy and public life.
	ACT www.teachingcitizenship.org.uk We are a membership organisation supporting teachers and schools in delivering Citizenship education. We connect teachers to regional and national networks, offering training, CPD, support and advice.
	Catch22 www.catch-22.org.uk A charity working with young people in England and Wales who find themselves in seemingly impossible situations.
	City Bridge Trust www.bridgehousegrants.org.uk The City Bridge Trust is the working name of the grant-making arm of Bridge House Estates and was set up in 1995. A cy-pres scheme, approved by the Charity Commission, enables them to use funds surplus to their bridge requirements to make grants for charitable activity.
	National Social Marketing Centre (NSMC) www.nsmcentre.org.uk (envision case study) Envision is one of a limited number of Environmental Action Fund case studies showcased by the National Social Marketing Centre (NSMC), a strategic partnership between the Department of Health in England and Consumer Focus. Envision’s methodology has been chosen for pioneering innovative approaches to influencing sustainable consumption behaviours of young people between 2005 and 2009.
	Big Lottery Fund www.biglotteryfund.org.uk Every year BIG gives out millions of pounds from the National Lottery to good causes. Our money goes to community groups and to projects that improve health, education and the environment.
	Wilderness Foundation www.wildernessfoundation.org.uk The Wilderness Foundation believes that leaders, the environment’s greatest allies, can be strengthened in mind, character and spirit by a wilderness experience. Such an experience can assist them to understand nature and orientate their personalities to the total environment.
	Do it www.do-it.org.uk do-it.org.uk was launched in 2001 with the first, and still the only, national database of volunteering opportunities in the UK. do-it.org.uk is part of the registered charity YouthNet, a non-profit-making organisation.
	NCB www.ncb.org.uk NCB is a charitable organisation that acts as an umbrella body for organisations working with children and young people in England & Northern Ireland. Through working in partnership, sharing knowledge, resources and services we have created a powerful, authoritative and influential voice to improve the lives of children and young people.
	Global Action Plan www.globalactionplan.org.uk Global Action Plan delivers tangible environmental, social and financial improvements by working practically and creatively with hundreds of thousands of people from all sections of society. In homes, the workplace, schools and the wider community we help to make the small changes that have a big impact on the things that matter.
	We are what we do www.wearewhatwedo.org We Are What We Do is a new kind of movement inspiring people to change the world one small action at a time. Their philosophy is simple: small actions x lots of people = big chang
	UK Youth www.ukyouth.org UK Youth is the leading national youth work charity supporting over 750,000 young people, helping them to raise their aspirations, realise their potential and have their achievements recognised via non-formal, accredited education programmes and activities.
	Groundwork www.groundwork.org.uk Groundwork supports communities in need, working with partners to help improve the quality of people’s lives, their prospects and potential and the places where they live, work and play. Their vision is of a society of sustainable communities which are vibrant, healthy and safe, which respect the local and global environment and where individuals and enterprise prosper.
	The Institute for Citizenship www.citizen.org.uk The Institute for Citizenship aims to promote informed, active citizenship and greater participation in democracy and society through a combination of community projects, research, education and discussion and debate.