EXTENDED DEADLINE – We’re back at Leeds Festival this year, to salvage good quality reusable camping equipment for local community organisations.

When? 29th August (11am-1pm) … save the date!
Where? Leeds Festival site (more info will be sent to organisations who applied before the event)

For the past years, our action helped organisations from all around the UK who really need camping equipment for their activities. We passed onto them thousands of tents, sleeping bags, roll mats and tonnes of camping items which are left behind at Leeds Festival; equipment which has often only been used for one weekend. Click here to read feedback from previous years.

Watch the video report from BBC LOOK NORTH:

We tried to make the process as easy as we could for you.

1. Express your interest as soon as possible to Raphael : raphael@everythingispossible.eu
2.Download the application and send it fully completed by Tuesday 22nd August. Click here to download the application form.
3.We’ll let you know if your application has been selected by the 23rd August.
4.One week before the collection date, we will send you all practical info you need to collect your equipment.
5.Our volunteers will pick the best camping gear for you after the festival.
6. If selected you will just have to come on Tuesday 29th August, between 11.00 and 13.00, with a big vehicle to pick up your order!
7. We will just charge £25 for the Salvage Package, which include a maximum of 5 tents (pop-up, 2men tents, or/and 1*4men tent max) ) and a few sleeping bags, mats, camping chairs, pairs of wellies to fill a builder bag! You can also order some extra tents (pop-up, 2 men tents, 4, 6-8 persons). Donation will help us to pay for meals for the volunteers who will be spending the day picking up your camping gear.

We will be joined by 30 young people passionate by recycling. They will have the mission to find for you the best camping equipment. We’ve got a rule: Each item we collect needs to be good quality. If it’s damaged, we don’t take it! But if you want you can also check the equipment in case something was missed: You can do so when you come to pick it up. If you are not satisfied with an item we will replace it with another.

Not convinced? Have a look at previous feedback. Click here.
*As all the equipment has been used at the festival, and our volunteers don’t have the time or equipment to properly clean it on site, we recommend you clean all equipment fully before use. It also depends on the weather conditions.

Tomorrow starts our Olympic Legacy Youth Exchange in Hungary. During five days participants from Brazil, Hungary and the United Kingdom will take part in activities during two major sport events: The European Youth Olympic Festival 2017 and the FINA World Aquatics Championships. Young participants will be actively involved in those events.

This Youth Exchange is organised by our partner Polgár Alapítvány.

Follow the event on our Facebook webpage or visit www.olympiclegacy.eu.

Our Olympic Legacy's #YouthExchange starts tomorrow. The participants from @acerbrasil have arrived! @EUErasmusPlus https://t.co/Eqrq3qyN9b pic.twitter.com/nf0zM6Gay7

— EverythingisPossible (@eispossible) July 23, 2017

A new exhibition about our Vocational Educational Training project has happened at Askham Bryan College. This time their trainees who went to Malta who shared their experience with other students.  In this exhibition they explain the activities they took part in, as well as what they’ve learnt personally and professionally.

Their project was hosted by the Tomasina Cat Sanctuary . This opportunity is part of Moving Feet Opening Minds, funded by the Erasmus+ project of the European Commission.

Zoom of this exhibition:

The European Commission support for the production of this publication does not constitute an endorsement of the contents which reflects the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

As promised before their Vocational Educational Training (VET) project in Aruba, trainees from Askham Bryan College (with support from Newton Rigg College) have organised an exhibition at their return in the UK. In this exhibition they explain the activities they took part in, as well as what they’ve learnt personally and professionally.

They’ve launched the exhibition on the 14th July with a presentation by the trainees themselves. On the picture you can see Meg explaining what she has learnt during the project. Everything is Possible director, Clair Brown was there for the opening.

The exhibition has been developed by Nicola McGarr, Bethany Backhouse, Katie Sharrock.

Their project was hosted by Aruba Donkey Sanctuary and Convet. This opportunity is part of Moving Feet Opening Minds, funded by the Erasmus+ project of the European Commission.

The European Commission support for the production of this publication does not constitute an endorsement of the contents which reflects the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

The European Commission support for the production of this publication does not constitute an endorsement of the contents which reflects the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

Back from their Vocational Educational Training (VET) project in Martinique, our young trainees from Wigan Warriors are holding an exhibition to share their experience with other students, teachers and visitors. In this exhibition they explain the activities they took part it as well as what they’ve learnt personally and professionally.
The exhibition has been developed by Evie Sheppard, Josh White, Megan Birchall, Declan Lannon and Dylan Brown.

Their project was hosted by Youth In The Town in Martinique. This opportunity is part of Moving Feet Opening Minds, funded by the Erasmus+ project of the European Commission.

The European Commission support for the production of this publication does not constitute an endorsement of the contents which reflects the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

The group from Askham Bryan College who is planning to go to Aruba for a Vocational Educational Training (VET) project, have organised a pre-exhibition to raise money for it. They will be in Aruba from the 9th to the 24th April.

They are also planning to produce an exhibition at the end of their project

The European Commission support for the production of this publication does not constitute an endorsement of the contents which reflects the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

Discover our new Vocational Educational Training (VET) comic book. Go Further Reach Higher is one of our latest VET project, that offer 90 young trainees with fewer opportunities the chance to develop professional and personal skills abroad.

Trainees were expected to undertake two week traineeships in either animal management studies or wood occupations. Trainees and staff working in the field of Animal Management were able to spend their placement in either the Netherlands or Malta and their training was based in a Donkey sanctuary, or a Cat Sanctuary with opportunities to undertake additional enrichment activities in an Ostrich Farm and/or a National Park.  For those staff and trainees undertaking studies or training in the field of wood occupation and carpentry, the placements offered were in Sweden or Portugal in one of three fields, in carpentry, in restoration, or in joinery, three distinct areas giving participants a different experience and different learning opportunities. Placements were tailored to the individual participants needs and include activities in one or more of these areas.

As part of their project, each of theme had to produce a comic page telling a bit more about their activities, what they have done and what they’ve learnt.
At the end we produced and printed the following comic book showcasing some of the comics and some of the results of the survey highlghting the impact that this project had on participants a few month after their return.

Thank you @eispossible for sending us your participant story brochure – a great example of dissemination materials! pic.twitter.com/zJOM3K94pR

— Erasmus+ UK (@erasmusplusUK) January 17, 2017

Project supported by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union.

In order to celebrate the end of our international project Suitcase Circus SCREAM and its achievement, Everything is Possible and our partners produced a book. It highlights some of the testimonies produced by the participants and what they have learnt thanks to the mobility project they took part in.

Suitcase Circus: SCREAM (Social Circus; recognising educational activity methodologies) has been developed by a partnership of organisations working in the field of Circus. Circus as an education field is unrecognised in many countries. Informal and non-formal education projects being delivered to young people with fewer opportunities through social circus are considered to be ‘youth activities’ with little recognition of the significant impact on young people’s personal development. Circus degree’s often referred to as ‘Clown Degree’s’ again do not recognise the magnitude of the training, fitness and ability young people undertaking such studies must develop to achieve this qualification which is arguably one of the hardest degrees to gain.

For this project we had three objectives in mind:

• The recognition of circus as a method of education.
• The synergy to be achieved by partners from different educational sectors co-operating together.
• Circus educators professional development to be achieved through international mobility.

Click here to learn more about Suitcase Circus SCREAM

Do you speak French, Dutch or Spanish?

Are you interested in volunteering to support young people in Yorkshire or the North West?

Everything is Possible is currently recruiting French, Spanish & Dutch speakers to support groups of young trainees to go on overseas study programmes. We are looking for volunteers to support their linguistic preparation and also to accompany some of the projects in Martinique, Spain and Aruba.

If you are interested please get in touch with Clair Brown on 01904348843 for further details or send a CV with the subject heading Language Volunteer to clair@everythingispossible.eu