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TOC Youth Ambassador Programme and New Volunteering Opportunities
TOC Youth Ambassador Programme and New Volunteering Opportunities This summer, we’re opening up two important ways to get more involved with TOC: our Youth Ambassador Programme for 2026 to 2027, and a new round of online and in-person volunteering roles. The Youth Ambassador Programme is for committed volunteers, primarily aged 18 to 30, who want…
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Professional Headshots With a Purpose: TOC Fundraising at the University of Manchester
Professional Headshots With a Purpose: TOC Fundraising at the University of Manchester TOC returned to the University of Manchester this year with a different kind of session: a professional headshot day, offering students and staff polished portrait photography while raising funds for our work with young people. The idea was simple. TOC’s team already has…
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From Pilot to Scale: What TOC Learned Through Active Futures
From Pilot to Scale: What TOC Learned Through Active Futures Between March and May, TOC took part in a series of online training sessions, peer-learning calls and impact-planning workshops as part of Active Futures, focused on one central question: how do we move from delivering brilliant individual sessions to building a genuinely sustainable programme? For…
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Listening First: Young People Co-design the Future of Nature Vibes
Listening First: Young People Co-design the Future of Nature Vibes At the end of March, we ran a dedicated Nature Vibes co-design and feedback session, built entirely around listening to the young people the programme is for. The session opened with a welcome and icebreaker before moving into structured discussion: what activities participants enjoyed most,…
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Creative Photography Sessions With Redwood and Newbridge Young People
Creative Photography Sessions With Redwood and Newbridge Young People March brought two school and college photography sessions, first with young people from Redwood School and shortly after with students at Newbridge College, each bringing their own energy to a morning behind the camera. For many participants at both sessions, this was their first time using…
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TOC Delivers Outdoor Photography Training for University of Manchester Students
TOC Delivers Outdoor Photography Training for University of Manchester Students In March, TOC partnered with the University of Manchester to deliver an outdoor photography training session for students, bringing our usual youth-focused teaching style to a university audience for the first time. The session covered the fundamentals we teach in every TOC programme: how to…
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A North Wales Photography Adventure Away From Home
A North Wales Photography Adventure Away From Home In Spring 2026, TOC took a group of young people to North Wales for an outdoor photography residential, delivered through UK Youth’s Adventures Away from Home programme and supported by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS). Adventures Away from Home exists to give young people…
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Young People Shape Nature Vibes Through Photography and Drone Activities
Young People Shape Nature Vibes Through Photography and Drone Activities Our first Nature Vibes session under the Active Futures partnership brought together outdoor photography, drone experiences and a proper co-design workshop, and the results told us more than we expected. Young people spent the morning outdoors with cameras, getting to grips with framing a shot,…
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TOC Joins UK Youth’s Active Futures Programme
TOC Joins UK Youth’s Active Futures Programme We’re excited to share that The Outdoor Collaborative has been selected to take part in UK Youth’s Active Futures programme, delivered in partnership with Sport England and The Young Foundation. Active Futures exists to help youth organisations like ours build more inclusive, effective models of outdoor and sporting…