IVE

IVE closed, sadly, end July 2025.

♻️ 🥗 🚮 🌻 🪴 🍅 Badger Hill Primary School in York created their own vision for a as part of their .

Thanks to Mark Warner at Plate2Plate Compost and Cllr Jenny Kent for listening to the presentations.

IVE Associates, Pavla Beier & Jo Lee had a great time working with the group and were really impressed with the presentations in the whole school assembly.

♻️ Year 5 & 6 children were invited to the Department of Environment and Geography, University of York to present their sustainability ideas.

The pupils from Clifton Green Primary School in York have been undertaking a project, where they have been exploring creative, sustainable ways to benefit their school community.

Dr. Truzaar Dordi, Lecturer in Sustainability management at the University, invited the children for a trip to the campus, where they explored the department, York Campus and met lots of interesting people!

The day culminated with the children their ideas to a panel made up of representatives from the Department of Environment and Geography and members of York Cares, a charity supporting Carbon Reduction.

Presentations included ideas to conserve water; stop car idling in and around the school, during school drop off and educate local families at what they can do to to support UK birds and wildlife.

With thanks to the University of York team, especially Dr. Truzaar and Hannah and Caitlin from York Cares.

Funded by Ed De Nunzio
IVE Associate: Rachel Newman

🟠 opened the doors for young people from across West Yorkshire to engage and be inspired with everything offers.

We had:
🔸 Workshops with Kirsty Watson & Tony Mallett with Bow Robotics
🔸 Talks from Big Ian Donaghy, Peter Hutton & Justina Williams
🔸 Time at the Expo
.. exploring everything from F1 with Williams Sim Racing (a huge hit) to discussions about self defence and female empowerment with Blossom Training & Development and exploring what happens when virtual reality meets therapy with UKind Therapy CIC

🧡 Thank you to everyone who made our young people so welcome, inspired ideas and boosted confidence.

Young people were from:
🔸 Leeds: UTC Leeds
🔸 Bradford: Bradford-Renduchintala Enterprise Ecosystem & African Business Association
🔸 Calderdale: Project Challenge Orange Box
🔸 Kirklees: St John Fisher Catholic Voluntary Academy
🔸 Wakefield: New College Pontefract
Yorkshire Asian Business Association

🌎 ♻️ recognised Sarah Mumford for her Long-Term Contribution at . Our have supported over 1300 children and young people, since 2019. They combat eco-anxiety with agency, empowering young people to explore solutions to .

🟠 pre-conference workshops are underway.

have offered 120 tickets to young people from across West Yorkshire. A team from and are running workshops: preparing young people to get the most out of the opportunity, which will include
🔸workshops
🔸speaker talks
🔸 access to the expo.

Today we were in Calderdale with young people from in the inspirational Orange Box (perfect colours for Climb 🍊🤣)

🌱A great Sustainability Lab launch with Year 4&5 children at Badger Hill Primary school.

Imaginative ideas created in the egg challenge 🥚👏

Thank you to Chloe Scott from Carbon Reduction team for establishing the context for our project.

♻️ 🐟 Impactful pieces of art were created at The Sheffield College as part of ‘Big Green Week’.

🌎 IVE were delighted to run a 3 day for the Art students, exploring how to use art to promote climate awareness via interactive social action experiences.

👏 Congratulations to the students for creating such imaginative pieces, they certainly inspired reflection from the expert panel:

“I love this as an art piece, that you’ve brought it to me - my plate, my fish, my rubbish. Powerful and relevant.”

“This is powerful artwork, which really makes it personal - there’s no ‘away’ when we throw things. Very well thought out.”

Thanks to:
Judith Harry from Site Gallery and isabella carreras Claudia Lastra from Arts Catalyst for being expert speakers and part of the final panel discussions.

IVE associate: Sophie Hunter

The Sheffield College team: Jessica Rick Katie Marshall-Preece Matt Henley

Skills Builder Partnership: