Engaging global youth*
in nature-based activities

This text and audiovisual resource offer ten tips from the Tree of Hope Youth Research Group to make nature-based activities more inclusive for ‘global youth’.

Ten tips from the Tree of Hope Youth Research Group

How can we make nature-based activities more inclusive for ‘global youth’?

Spending time in nature has many benefits for young people with migrant backgrounds. In particular, it can support mental and physical health and wellbeing and foster a sense of belonging to local places and communities.  Global youth are often eager to participate in nature-based initiatives – such as outdoor leisure activities and environmental initiatives – both to have fun and to make a difference. Yet nature-based activities are not always welcoming and accessible for these young people. 

Drawing on our three-year collaboration as part of the UKRI-funded Voices of the Future project, the Tree of Hope Youth Research Group offers ten tips to support organisations to meaningfully engage global youth in nature-based activities. 

*‘Global youth’ refers to young people with migrant and refugee-backgrounds. It is the preferred collective identification of the Tree of Hope Youth Research Group. It is an explicit rejection of the bureaucratic and stigmatised labels of ‘asylum seeker’ and ‘unaccompanied minor’ that mediate these young people’s rights and reception in the UK.

For further information, please contact Caitlin Nunn: c.nunn@mmu.ac.uk.