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Green Light Trust

   
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www.greenlighttrust.org
nigel@greenlighttrust.org
t : 01284 - 830 829
Lawshall, Suffolk
England

Please contact Nigel Hughes

Artistic Director/s    Co-founders Nigel Hughes and Ric Edelmann
Administrator/s    Jane Andrews

Ways of Working  
Practices
storyteller, performer, director, environmentalist, Environmental Interpretation, practical environmental projects, children's drama, TIE
Audiences: children, young persons, community

Places
schools, community centres, local, international

Recent Themes
rainforests, community woodlands, environmental education, respect for nature

Vision  
Our aim is to reconnect people to nature through creative action.

Green Light Trust is pioneering a new kind of education that deepens people's respect for nature and encourages each individual to play their vital role in safeguarding the future.

In 1988, Richard Edmunds and Nigel Hughes went in search of virgin rainforest. They found it in Papua New Guinea's remote Hunstein Range - home to birds of paradise and a people living in harmony with nature. They learnt that the entire region was earmarked for industrial logging.

Pooling their backgrounds in biology and theatre they returned to Britain to found Green Light Trust. Drama, ecology and action are combined - and taken to schools, the community and overseas.

 
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Productions and Projects

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Bringing the Rainforest into Your School
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2000 and ongoing
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Green Light Trust has developed a highly successful programme, Bringing the Rainforest into your School which draws on personal adventure and accurate information.

Bringing the Rainforest into your School not only fires the imagination and brings students face to face with the real-life dilemmas for forest people but also helps them to play an active role in the environmental debate. All year groups are catered for and the cross-curricular programme is tailored to fit many National Curriculum Requirements. Special programmes are created for youth conferences.

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Forest for Our Children
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1993 and ongoing
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Green Light in the Community
Green Light Trust is increasing the amount of Suffolk woodland with its local initiative Forest for Our Children.

Linked with the rainforest of the Hunstein Range, Forest for Our Children is a powerful way for children and adults alike to learn through positive action. Pupils from local schools collect and plant acorns then later transplant their saplings and tend their own growing forest. Green Light offers storytelling and illustrated talks on Forest for Our Children and the Papua New Guinea Rainforest.

Green Light Overseas
Green Light's projects with the people of the Hunstein Range have included: two environmental dramas which toured by dugout canoe, visits by forest landowners to areas already logged and the publishing of a pre-school book depicting the forest's riches.

Today, the Hunstein Range is still standing. An environmental programme for schools has been developed which will benefit children through Papua New Guinea. Organisations in Malaysia, Singapore, and Sierra Leone have already requested environmental drama programmes.

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More About  
Green Light's headquarters and training centre, The Foundry, is a "deep-green" building, made of recycled timbers, lime plaster, hemp insulation grown locally, solar hot water, recycled rainwater, locally-produced biomass for heating, with all material and labour sourced within twenty miles, as much as possible. It won a prestigious RIBA Sustainability Award.

Green Light has also joined up to 10:10.

  Green Light Trust
www.greenlighttrust.org
nigel@greenlighttrust.org
t: 01284 - 830 829

The Foundry
Bury Road
Lawshall
IP29 4PJ
Suffolk
England

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