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Who are we?
CDEC is a global learning charity. We work with schools and communities in and beyond Cumbria, inspiring, educating and enabling them to influence social and environmental justice in their world. Using a partnership approach, we deliver high-quality work for young people, with local and global reach.
“Cumbria as a beacon of global citizenship” is our vision – a place where young people, through their global learning experiences, become informed, responsible and active global citizens with a lifelong commitment to building a fairer and more sustainable world.
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Sustainability Leadership and Climate Action Plans
We are pleased to announce a new collaborative initiative to support schools in meeting their obligations under the DfE's sustainability and climate change strategy.
The strategy states: “By 2025, all education settings will have nominated a sustainability lead and put in place a climate action plan”. This includes early years settings, schools, multi-academy trusts, colleges, and universities. Sustainability leadership could be a group of people or an individual responsible for the development and implementation of a climate action plan.
A climate action plan is a detailed plan to enable your education setting, or trust, to progress or commence sustainability initiatives.
Cumbria Action for Sustainability (CAfS) and CDEC are working together to support Cumbrian schools to develop their initial 3 year Climate Action Plan. Working with school leaders, teachers, office and ancillary staff as well as pupils and the wider community, we are committed to enabling your school to identify and train your sustainability leads, develop Climate Action Plans and offer ongoing support, guidance and connection.
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We are celebrating our 40th Anniversary
It has been 40 years since CDEC first began supporting schools in Cumbria with Global Learning; a lot has happened both locally and globally since then. In the last 40 years, CDEC has worked with and supported (via membership and projects) between 70 and 100 schools annually. With your support, we’ve developed a range of great resources supporting global learning- from our book ‘Meet Zogg’ to our range of resource boxes, teaching aids and tools.
In the past 40 years we have developed areas of focus for our work, engaging us in thinking and acting from a justice perspective on: migration, climate and nature, fair trade, gender equity and health and wellbeing. These evolve and grow, depending on global events and local impacts.
Our celebrations will continue throughout the 2024-25 academic year - here are 3 ways you can get involved:
- Planting our Future - do you want to improve biodiversity on your school grounds by planting trees, flowers, shrubs, hedges or vegetables? We are looking for 40 schools to sign up and we’ll support with sourcing the plants and with the actual planting if needed
- 40 Activities - we will be sharing resources and activities for all key stages designed to engage your pupils in thinking about themselves as active global citizens - and they’ll be connected to CDEC’s “4 Cs” - Compassion, Collaboration, Citizenship and Critical thinking
- Podcast - tune in to hear a range of people - local and global - offering their insights into Global Learning. We would LOVE to feature you or your pupils on our podcast - celebrating the work you have done in your school on Global Learning
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As ever, we are so grateful and thankful for the enthusiasm and passion of our schools to support Cumbria’s young people as they become active, global citizens - passionate about making their future world a fairer, more sustainable one.
Laura Goad | CDEC Director
Virtual Voices in RE was a project CDEC and Cumbria SACRE ran with schools
The VVRE project helps young people in schools across Cumbria to virtually meet different ‘voices’ who are connected to Cumbria and have something to say about their personal and shared religion and worldview.
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Whether you are an individual, school or organisation that wishes to get the most out of our global learning and citizenship expertise, joining CDEC will open the doors to expert support and resources.
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By volunteering with us, fundraising for us, or working for us, you too can help shape the breadth of our influence within Cumbria’s communities, as well as with our national and international partners!
Through donating your time and expertise, whether as volunteers or through fundraising, you are helping Cumbria to continue to be a beacon of global citizenship.