The participants of our latest EVS project “Festival of Opportunity” just flew back to their country after helping local community organisations in the UK.

During two weeks they’ve helped keeping environmentally friendly two major festivals in the UK (including the Leeds Festival); encouraging festival goers to recycle, picking up what could be recycled; and finally encouraging people to donate to charities all the camping equipment they would not take back with them after the festivals.

This amazing project ended with a big salvage at Leeds Festival where our volunteers collected all the reusable tents, sleeping bags, mats and other camping equipments for some local community organisations. This year we supported organisation working with refugees, homeless people, community groups, scouts and even an organisation aiming at developing art.

For example the Sierra Leone Community in Sheffield (SLCS) explained us that the items collected will help them to organise day trips, camping and outdoor activities, in order to “improve the quality of life of Sierra Leoneans in Sheffield and to promote the well-being of its members”.

Please find below some of the feedback from the organisations we supported.

This project has been funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union.
 

Feedback from local community organisations

Need camping gear for a community organisation? @eispossible can help #Harrogate #Ripon #Knaresborough #Nidderdale https://t.co/rxT8J9ZO1d pic.twitter.com/jBy4tNGKcz

— Harrogate&Ripon CVS (@HARCVS) 7 août 2017

Thanks so much guys. Can’t wait to get it. We are all geared up and ready for tomorrow. Xxx

— Mary Black (@m_black63) 28 août 2017

Camping gear! @eispossible – All checked, cleaned and tested, now lovingly stored ready for use ! pic.twitter.com/n4aDs9U0Hq

— Harwes Farm CIC (@HarwesFarmCIC) 3 septembre 2017

Tents up!!! Can feel a camp out coming on!! Thanks again @eispossible pic.twitter.com/xDdYZ8hWfw

— Harwes Farm CIC (@HarwesFarmCIC) 2 septembre 2017

12 pairs of (small) wellies, 12 chairs, 7 tents, 13 sleeping bags, 20 mats and 16 lamps! Massive thanks to @eispossible for your hard work! pic.twitter.com/eNAKkaOOkG

— Harwes Farm CIC (@HarwesFarmCIC) 2 septembre 2017

Thanks @eispossible. Camping equipment came in very useful at the Diversity Festival over the weekend 🙂

— ROAR (@rotherhamroar) 13 septembre 2017

Other tweets

Some great pics of our international volunteers who will help salvaging quality camping equipment for local organisations! @erasmusplusUK pic.twitter.com/1j1ZQLIGz8

— EverythingisPossible (@eispossible) 20 août 2017

A big thank you to @LeedsCC_News who have very kindly lent us the litter-picking sticks to help keeping @OfficialRandL green this year! pic.twitter.com/Y46XluOLpf

— EverythingisPossible (@eispossible) 26 août 2017

Our @erasmusplusUK volunteers are working hard to keep @OfficialRandL green this year. #recycling #LeedsFestival #HappySalvageDay pic.twitter.com/c2fdAdjYV3

— EverythingisPossible (@eispossible) 26 août 2017

Our @erasmusplusUK volunteers are ready to salvage camping equipment for local community orgs. #HappySalvageDay! pic.twitter.com/nyZP9EsNNK

— EverythingisPossible (@eispossible) 28 août 2017

Our volunteers have already salvaged lots of sleeping bags and other equipment for your organisation, @m_black63! #HappySalvageDay pic.twitter.com/OQzGhuYuqD

— EverythingisPossible (@eispossible) 28 août 2017

We already salvaged lots of tents, sleeping bags and other camping equipment for you @HarwesFarmCIC pic.twitter.com/GOl8QBRQKT

— EverythingisPossible (@eispossible) 28 août 2017

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One year ago, young people from Brazil, Hungary and the UK gathered together in Rio for a youth exchange as part of the Olympic Games 2016 and our project Olympic Legacy.
To celebrate the 1st anniversary of this project we produced a video with all the highlights of this incredible week in Rio.

Here’s the video
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EXTENDED DEADLINE – We’re back at Leeds Festival this year, to salvage good quality reusable camping equipment for local community organisations.

When? 29th August (11am-1pm) … save the date!
Where? Leeds Festival site (more info will be sent to organisations who applied before the event)

For the past years, our action helped organisations from all around the UK who really need camping equipment for their activities. We passed onto them thousands of tents, sleeping bags, roll mats and tonnes of camping items which are left behind at Leeds Festival; equipment which has often only been used for one weekend. Click here to read feedback from previous years.

Watch the video report from BBC LOOK NORTH:

We tried to make the process as easy as we could for you.

1. Express your interest as soon as possible to Raphael : raphael@everythingispossible.eu
2.Download the application and send it fully completed by Tuesday 22nd August. Click here to download the application form.
3.We’ll let you know if your application has been selected by the 23rd August.
4.One week before the collection date, we will send you all practical info you need to collect your equipment.
5.Our volunteers will pick the best camping gear for you after the festival.
6. If selected you will just have to come on Tuesday 29th August, between 11.00 and 13.00, with a big vehicle to pick up your order!
7. We will just charge £25 for the Salvage Package, which include a maximum of 5 tents (pop-up, 2men tents, or/and 1*4men tent max) ) and a few sleeping bags, mats, camping chairs, pairs of wellies to fill a builder bag! You can also order some extra tents (pop-up, 2 men tents, 4, 6-8 persons). Donation will help us to pay for meals for the volunteers who will be spending the day picking up your camping gear.

We will be joined by 30 young people passionate by recycling. They will have the mission to find for you the best camping equipment. We’ve got a rule: Each item we collect needs to be good quality. If it’s damaged, we don’t take it! But if you want you can also check the equipment in case something was missed: You can do so when you come to pick it up. If you are not satisfied with an item we will replace it with another.

Not convinced? Have a look at previous feedback. Click here.
*As all the equipment has been used at the festival, and our volunteers don’t have the time or equipment to properly clean it on site, we recommend you clean all equipment fully before use. It also depends on the weather conditions.

Tomorrow starts our Olympic Legacy Youth Exchange in Hungary. During five days participants from Brazil, Hungary and the United Kingdom will take part in activities during two major sport events: The European Youth Olympic Festival 2017 and the FINA World Aquatics Championships. Young participants will be actively involved in those events.

This Youth Exchange is organised by our partner Polgár Alapítvány.

Follow the event on our Facebook webpage or visit www.olympiclegacy.eu.

Our Olympic Legacy's #YouthExchange starts tomorrow. The participants from @acerbrasil have arrived! @EUErasmusPlus https://t.co/Eqrq3qyN9b pic.twitter.com/nf0zM6Gay7

— EverythingisPossible (@eispossible) July 23, 2017

A new exhibition about our Vocational Educational Training project has happened at Askham Bryan College. This time their trainees who went to Malta who shared their experience with other students.  In this exhibition they explain the activities they took part in, as well as what they’ve learnt personally and professionally.

Their project was hosted by the Tomasina Cat Sanctuary . This opportunity is part of Moving Feet Opening Minds, funded by the Erasmus+ project of the European Commission.

Zoom of this exhibition:

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As promised before their Vocational Educational Training (VET) project in Aruba, trainees from Askham Bryan College (with support from Newton Rigg College) have organised an exhibition at their return in the UK. In this exhibition they explain the activities they took part in, as well as what they’ve learnt personally and professionally.

They’ve launched the exhibition on the 14th July with a presentation by the trainees themselves. On the picture you can see Meg explaining what she has learnt during the project. Everything is Possible director, Clair Brown was there for the opening.

The exhibition has been developed by Nicola McGarr, Bethany Backhouse, Katie Sharrock.

Their project was hosted by Aruba Donkey Sanctuary and Convet. This opportunity is part of Moving Feet Opening Minds, funded by the Erasmus+ project of the European Commission.

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Back from their Vocational Educational Training (VET) project in Martinique, our young trainees from Wigan Warriors are holding an exhibition to share their experience with other students, teachers and visitors. In this exhibition they explain the activities they took part it as well as what they’ve learnt personally and professionally.
The exhibition has been developed by Evie Sheppard, Josh White, Megan Birchall, Declan Lannon and Dylan Brown.

Their project was hosted by Youth In The Town in Martinique. This opportunity is part of Moving Feet Opening Minds, funded by the Erasmus+ project of the European Commission.

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The group from Askham Bryan College who is planning to go to Aruba for a Vocational Educational Training (VET) project, have organised a pre-exhibition to raise money for it. They will be in Aruba from the 9th to the 24th April.

They are also planning to produce an exhibition at the end of their project

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