We are coming up to celebrating our 10th anniversary here at Roots & Shoots. Where did the time go? And how far we have come. It’s not been an easy road. We’ve had our challenges with resources, funding, political roadblocks, global issues and environmental obstacles. It brings to mind one of my favourite poets, Robert […]
Dear Roots & Shoots Members, Farewell to 2014 already – where did it go? Time is really speeding up here and there never seems to be enough hours in the day anymore – or is it that our lives have just become too hectic and demanding? We have another fun packed Christmas edition in store […]
Dear R&S Members, Welcome to Summer – finally! And have we got a fun packed edition in store for you. It has been yet another busy period for all our members, not to mention us here at HQ. The Roots & Shoots awards were an outstanding success and for the first time featured a […]
Dear Roots & Shoots Members, Happy Festive Season – jingle bells, snowflakes, christmas carols, mince pies and celebrations. Over the years, Christmas has changed a great deal. I find now that we really live in a commercial, fast moving and stressful world – in part due to the developments in technology which has made life much […]
Dear Roots & Shoots Members, It has been yet another exciting six months here at the Roots & Shoots headquarters. We are extremely proud that one of our Roots & Shoots groups from Queen Elizabeth II High School won the prestigious Observer Ethical Green Champion Award – see inside for details of their amazing ‘Grow your own […]
Dear Roots & Shoots Members, I can’t believe it is the end of the year. Where did 2012 go? Does anyone know? Time seems to be going faster as the years go on which raises a very important question. What kind of legacy do you want to leave behind? Anne Campbell, an English politician, once said ‘to […]
Dear Roots & Shoots Members, Things have been moving so fast at Roots & Shoots. We now stand at 1285 schools – the last time I was writing this we had not yet reached our first 1000! We have also managed to raise almost 15,000 for the programme thanks to a donation from the Belgian […]
Dear Roots & Shoots Members, Happy New Year! I have to admit that January and February are my least favourite calendar months – cold, dark and a bit miserable. But hope is here, Spring is on the way and given how quickly time passes will be here before we know it. To celebrate spring, this […]
Dear Roots & Shoots Members, At the end of last year we had a huge uplift in the number of new schools joining Roots & Shoots. We have grown from 74 to over 270 schools taking part in the programme – an amazing result in such a short period of time! This is very exciting […]
Dear Roots & Shoots Members, Welcome to Autumn. What an exciting year this has been for us! We now have 79 schools signed up to the Roots & Shoots programme with more schools joining us every day. We have seen some interesting developments. In July we had an invitation to visit No 10 Downing Street […]
