BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:33@footstepsbcf.org.uk DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210317T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210317T190000 DTSTAMP:20210324T101150Z URL:https://footstepsbcf.org.uk/events/empowering-youth-voice-in-a-climate -crisis/ SUMMARY:Empowering Youth Voice In A Climate Crisis DESCRIPTION:'Empowering Youth Voice In A Climate Crisis' is a 60 minute Zoo m conference for school students in Years 10 to 13.\n\nThis Zoom meeting i s hosted by Andrew Petrie and James Butler of King Edward's School Edgbast on\, Founders of the Midlands Schools Eco-Network\, and safeguarded by tea chers from the UK Schools Eco-Network\, in partnership with Footsteps - Fa iths for a Low Carbon Future.\n\nFor the Zoom link\, get permission from y our parents and then use your school email address to contact James Butler on jb@kes.org.uk\, ccing the teacher at your school in charge of your Eco or Sustainability group\, or your form teacher so that they know you're a ttending.  Only those students who have been emailed this link by jb@kes. org.uk will be allowed from the Waiting Room into the Zoom meeting.\n\nWe' ve invited three climate activists from the Midlands to help us understand how we can make our voices heard in the climate movement on a regional an d national level:\n\nBirmingham Councillor Lisa Trickett\, Fay Holland fro m Friends of the Earth and Kamran Shezad\, the Bahu Trust Sustainability l ead.\n\nStudents will hear about how to accelerate change through establis hed democratic channels\, and how to get our collective youth voice heard ahead of the UN Climate Change Conference in November.\n\nStudents will ha ve the opportunity to pose questions\, discuss the issues in breakout room s\, and hear recommendations on joining local and national climate groups. \n\nSafeguarding: All attendees will be aged 14 to 18\, and will have told their parents and teachers about the conference. Sign in to Zoom using on ly your first name or initials. Do not share your surname\, school name or contact details during the Zoom. We will ask you to keep your camera on t hroughout the conference wherever possible.\n\nSpeaker profiles\n\n\n\nKam ran Shezad\nBAHU Trust sustainability lead and member of the UK Government ’s Community and Young People engagement group chaired by COP26 Presiden t Alok Sharma\n\n\nCllr Lisa Trickett\nBirmingham City Councillor and Plac es in Common advisor to the Birmingham Route to Zero Taskforce\n\n\nFay Ho lland\nFriends of the Earth volunteer campaigner on climate change\, trans port\, air quality and nature.\n\n\n\n \;\n\nSchools Eco-Network Code of Conduct and Safeguarding reminders:\n\n     We respect others’ opi nions and their opportunities to contribute.\n     We keep ourselves an d others safe.\n     We all know the UK Schools Eco-Network Safeguardin g Policy in addition to our own regional network’s and school’s safegu arding policies.\n     We only use school email accounts to verify us a s school pupils and staff\, and to record emails. Staff use Bcc wherever p ossible for pupil email addresses. Pupils should Cc in a member of staff f rom their own school whenever contacting a member of staff at another scho ol.\n     We don’t share mobile contact details from staff to pupils or pupils to staff.\n     We have four or more in a Zoom breakout room with a staff member of the network present where possible.\n     We onl y have pupils in any Pupil-Only WhatsApp groups\, only invited via school email.\n     We understand that any interaction through social media ou tside of the organised Zoom calls is not the responsibility of any of the eco-networks.\n     We report anything potentially unsafe to a teacher from our own school.\n\n \;\n\nGuest speakers \n\nWe would appreciate you agreeing to some standard safeguarding.\n\nDon’t put any personal d etails in chat.\n\nDo not approach pupils after a meeting directly without going via school staff.\n\nAny email contact with pupils must Cc their te acher in.\n\nAny presentations must be age-appropriate. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://footstepsbcf.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2 021/03/msen.jpg CATEGORIES:Online,Students,Youth END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201025T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR