Anglia Ruskin University

Our Anglia Ruskin Roots & Shoots Team cleans Cherry Hinton Brook in Cambridge twice a year working with Friends of Cherry Hinton Brook and the council who provides us with equipment.

Sainsbury’s down Snakey Path also offers free refreshments, as it tends to be around their area, which is the worst.

Volunteers with Roots & Shoots Cambridge have been as high as 15, which have made for fast work! Even on the most recent rainy day when there were less of us I was particularly proud of my members and their children who thoroughly enjoyed the use of their waterproof gear! Cherry Hinton Brook boasts a variety of Wildlife including resident Kingfishers and has been reported on BBC Cambridgeshire this year for discussion …

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Roots & Shoots in Cambridge run a project within Anglia Ruskin University. This year, we will fundraise for MONA.

MONA is a Sanctuary in Spain which conserves primates through rehabilitation, education and preservation of their habitats. We hope to travel to MONA, Spain Summer 2012 to volunteer and work with MONA in primate conservation. Our fundraising event involves selling warm fair trade soup and rolls during the colder months to students on the run for a good price. Proceeds of this will go to MONA.

We are fortunate enough to have captured the attentions of film students in Cambridge and Cam FM who have asked us to do an interview. We hope to advertise our fundraising event, gain more support and help …

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Common Fishing Policies
A group of us got together to review the current Eu Common fishing policies, and how we feel that it is failing. At the time it was to be reviewed in the Eu and they were requesting people who felt concerned to write in. Aspects of the policy were divided up between us and review, we came together to write the letter which was then sent in to be read.
Arran Trip
A joint field trip with the Chaplaincy; it takes place in early July, where we spend a week on the island of Arran. This year it rained, Sleeted and snowed but we still had a great time. Whilst on the island we spend many days on walks looking …

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Soup on the run – a weekly event carried out at uni selling soup to students and staff to raise money for for charity. Guests came to talk to customers from council about recycling, from carbon foot print to calculate their foot prints, and Tara from JGI about their work to name a few.
Visit to a landfill site – to look at excessive waste.
Movie evenings (environmental movies – e.g. An Inconvenient Truth) with discussions afterwards
Annual Arran island trip – Hiking, wildlife watching (red deer, seals, and red squirrels), and a trip to holy island and a chance to meditate with a Tibetan Buddhist monk.
Trip to Italy and Solovenija to a wildlife reserve – activities included dolomites in the alps, caves …

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Anglia Ruskin’s R&S group was set up in 2005 by Esperanza, Juan and Ngaio and worked closely with the University of Cambridge group. I was attracted to Roots & Shoots in 2006 when I started university to do my degree in Animal behaviour, ecology and conservation. I was looking to increase my knowledge and experience in the conservation field as well as making friends and doing something I enjoyed. My first love in life has and always will be animals and conservation. Being part of Roots & Shoots has enabled me to be part of a global phenomenon and to do practical hands on conservation work. …

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Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire joined Roots & Shoots: Mission Possible today.

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