Green Vision has had a great year, with a whole plethora of successful projects including guerilla gardening across Bath, which won Bath an award for outstanding youth contribution from the judges of ‘Britain in Bloom’, two ‘People’s Kitchen’ events, serving soup made from donated food that would otherwise have been thrown away for free and co-organising the 2011 Bath Youth Climate Summit, attended by students from ten schools across the city.
Green Vision is now looking to expand and become self-sufficient. So far our journey has been kindly supported by Resource Futures with funding from Think Global (DFID), B&NES council and various individuals and local businesses. We are a self organising youth movement which means that we focus on delivering projects that inspire us as individuals and as a group. As part of our development, we are now looking to set up as an independent not-for-profit organisation.
As such we are looking to recruit trustees of all ages who can support our growth and self-organisation. The roles we are looking for are volunteer roles for individuals over the age of 18. These individuals will join a trustee board consisting of members of Green Vision and fellow adult trustees.
Our aims for the future include:
- Continuing to organise an annual Youth Summit for schools across B&NES
- Creating a dedicated space for young people to explore, create, organise and act within Bath
- Running a monthly cycle powered cinema
- Creating more projects that inspire sustainable lifestyles and communities
- Creating small green enterprises for young people to manage with support (one idea is selling smoothies produced using bicycle power)
- Providing training and workshops for young people, adults and schools
The names roles we need to fill are Chair, Treasurer and Fundraiser. The people filling these roles would be facilitating young people to lead the group through mentoring and technical guidance.
We would like a serious commitment of three to five years from people who live locally. Applicants can be as involved as they wish with a minimum commitment of eight meetings per year alongside support and mentoring when requested. Young communities can be transient and face various pressures from exams and life. These roles are needed to ensure that the vision of the organisation is maintained. They will support the group to discover what they are passionate about and design and deliver projects that help them explore this. Applicants should be aware that this would remain a youth led arrangement with the Trustee roles essentially being roles of advice, guidance and support.
Green Vision is in the process of writing a constitution to better outline the vision, purpose and structure of the group. This document is a working draft, but may help you understand our vision for Green Vision in the future. If you wish to have a read, click here (pdf).
If you are at all interested in getting involved and would like more detailed role descriptions please contact us on becky@greenvisionmovement.org or jamie@greenvisionmovement.org.
