Gail Freeman

Remember this one. In five years, or ten, or twenty. When we're a weird, dirty, backward nation that still sets fire to stuff, and places like China and India start to ask us why.

Flipping the Script: Why Young People Shouldn’t Blame Themselves for Online Scams Ali Body, Global Action Plan’s Head of Insights, Impact and Research – and a parent herself -shares her reflections following recent conversations with young people impacted by online scams.

👩‍💻It's Safer Internet Day 👨‍💻
When young people fall for online scams the message they receive from institutions is clear: it’s not our concern, it’s your fault. But why aren’t tech platforms being held accountable for enabling scammers?

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Clean Air Night Did you know that lighting fires in our homes is the largest source of harmful small particle air pollution in the UK? If you didn’t, you’re not alone! Wood burning harms our health and the environmen...

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#CleanAirNight! 🌖
Want to get involved? Learn and share the facts about wood burning to protect your health and your family⬇️

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Agreed, just think it ironic given that Truss and co harp on about it but don’t like it when it’s aimed at them.

Huhumm, free speech?

🪵🔥Burning wood is the most polluting way to heat your home. Join this webinar on Monday 13th January with @globalactionplan.bsky.social to find out what we can do to protect public health. globalactionplan.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Watch our young Good Life Schools changemakers from Ysgol Maes y Gwendraeth in Carmarthenshire on BBC iPlayer 📺

This #BlackFriday we're proud to announce that our #GoodLifeSchools programme - challenging the relentless pressure on young people to consume - has officially launched in Wales.

The Department for Education's Curriculum and Assessment Review call for evidence closes tomorrow, 22nd November.

Parents, students and citizens can respond too (not just teachers).

Get your voice heard in shaping the curriculum of the future.

▶️ consult.education.gov.uk/curriculum-a...

Using log burners and open fires harms your health. Save the date for #CleanAirNight 2025 🔥
 
We launched Clean Air Night in 2024 to shine a light on the uncomfortable truth about wood burning. www.actionforcleanair.org.uk/campaigns/cl...

Calling Education Peeps:
EVENT: 6.30pm November 27th:
Climate on the Brink - with Prof. Kevin Anderson and @globalactionplan.bsky.social. In person at University of Derby.

Calling Education Peeps:
EVENT: 6.30pm November 27th:
Climate on the Brink - with Prof. Kevin Anderson and @globalactionplan.bsky.social. In person at University of Derby.

A collection of newspapers declaring that no lives were lost in the sinking of the Titanic.

In the Age of Misinformation, let's remember these headlines after the Titanic sank.

During wireless chatter, someone asked: "Are the Titanic passengers safe?” An answer came: "The ship is being towed to Halifax and everyone is ok." That 2nd transmission didnt refer to the Titanic, hence the error.

Pop will Eat Itself @ The Islington Academy 4.10.24

First day at secondary school. Teacher says ‘get your phones out of your bags, so you can take a picture of your new timetable’. One kid in the class has no phone. Not into teacher blaming but this sucks.

But there are more and more wood burners in neighbourhoods where people live

Super useful for us charity folks, thanks Gemma