Woodcraft Folk Falkirk
Young People
We want to buy camping equipment, subsidise trips and train volunteers to enable all children and volunteers to participate in our group.
About this cause
Woodcraft Folk is an educational movement for children, rooted in co-operative values and principles. Our groups transform lives by developing children's self confidence and awareness of the wider world through games, arts and crafts activities, outdoor adventures, cooperative activities and discussions about big ideas. Camping and residential trips provide an opportunity to put our values into practice. Our inclusive approach means that a higher than average proportion of members have additional needs, and we subsidise costs for those in need. This bid is to ensure we can provide more opportunities for our members to take part in residential trips by supplying equipment, to subsidise the cost of these trips for our members on low incomes and to do outreach work to attract new members.
How this cause brings people in the community together
Volunteers gain valuable experience and a sense of community, which improves confidence, wellbeing and employability. The wider community will benefit through our social action activities. We will soon be taking on a plot on Falkirk High Street where we will be growing fruit and herbs, which anyone will be free to pick. We also plan to engage local refugee families.