Welcome to our arts, skills and education programme for children, young people and adults about sustainable one-planet living.

Our mission is to support children and young people to imagine, create and implement their shared future in an uncertain world. We are now also working with educators to empower young people in the classroom to understand the challenges the planet is facing and to take effective action.

During 2008-09 we designed and delivered two main programmes inspired by the 1000-year old eco-fable of The Lawsuit of the Animals against Humanity:

Ambassadors of the Earth: A storytelling, dialogue and action-based programme for Primary Schools that empowers children to be agents of change. In this programme children become reporters on and shapers of their environments and advocates of new steps towards low-carbon living.

The Animals’ Lawsuit Play created with Lister secondary school  in Newham, London, based on our key story of The Animals Lawsuit against Humanity. In October 2009 the cast and teachers travelled to New York to perform the play in schools there.

We are now (2010) moving into designing and offering courses in approaches to sustainability in the classroom for school teachers. With this expansion, the name of the company is changing to YES: Youth Education for Sustainability. There will be a new website in due course.

We are also developing programmes for teenagers:

Seventh-Generation Dialogue: A three-month supported research programme and a day of dialogue between young people aged 14 to 15 and Expert Witnesses on the many challenges facing humanity in the 21st century. This will form the basis of a published resource, and an ongoing programme that supports young people to shape their futures.

Eco-changers: A 2-week residential training programme in sustainability for young people between school and university. This will offer leadership skills for future change agents in partnership with Lucca Leadership Trust and Embercombe (Devon). More details will be available shortly.