Taleblazers Admin, behind the scenes!
With the heat of the summer holidays gently cooling, the start of the Autumn term began. The tasks and daily errands of my role as Business Manager varies so widely, but that’s all part of the fun. September is always a busy time for me, as the bookkeeper there’s a whole load of numbers to […]
Employment Opportunity: Alternative Education Tutor (Plymouth/SE Cornwall)
For more information about this post, please email James O’Connell, Provision Co-ordinator (Plymouth) at james@taleblazers.org.uk Taleblazers is a community interest company that seeks to improve people’s lives by connecting them with folklore, storytelling, nature and the great outdoors. We do this through school workshops, community projects, programmes for young people with special educational needs and […]
Planting trees at Earthworks
Planting Trees is something that you do for your great great grandchildren. It won’t be within your lifetime you see that tree reach maturity. In the right conditions and given time that tree could become colossal and why wouldn’t you gift that to future generations? Our woodland at Treacle Valley has a lot of ash trees and sadly these trees need to be felled. We had a handful of them taken […]
Treacle Valley’s Ukrainian Adventure!
This week we have welcomed a group of Ukrainian children to Treacle Valley for one of our infamous adventures! The children came to us on Monday and Tuesday for two days of outdoor activities. We built dens in the woods, swung around on hammocks and played loads of outdoor games including Swedish Kubb! The children […]
John Muir Award – volunteering at Treacle Valley
These are some of the activities we have participated in as part of our John Muir Award this year. Our sessions have had a profound impact on the woodland, encouraging wildlife and allowing more young people to safely access the wood.
Job Vacancy: Alternative Education Tutor
Job Title Alternative Education Tutor Job Description Alternative Education tutors support our young people by planning, delivering and evaluating 1-1 and small group sessions. The programmes we run incorporate activities such as art, gardening, science, environmental education, forest/beach school and bushcraft, with an outdoor element always at the heart of the programme. They are differentiated […]
Treacle Valley Adventures 2024
We are excited to announce that we will once again be running Treacle Valley Adventures during the school holidays! These immersive nature-focused camps have been really popular and give young people the opportunity to get outdoors, make new friends and have fun in the school holidays.
Loo With a View!
We’ve got a new toilet at Treacle Valley, some photos of the build process are here and you can also find out how our ‘loo with a view’ is helping families in Nepal.
Donations to Dartmoor Search and Rescue Team and John Muir Trust
We take our obligations as a not-for-profit Community Interest Company very seriously. Being a CIC means the directors of the company do not benefit personally from the success of the business; any profits that the company ultimately makes will benefit the wider community and, more specifically, the organisation named in our ‘asset lock’. In our […]
Introducing… the ACE Project!
We’re delighted to be able to announce a pilot project for families of children with SEND, which we will be running every Thursday morning from 18th January until 28th March 2024. We’ve called it the ACE Project because it brings together three things that we love at Taleblazers – art, craft and the environment. This […]