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We are always getting up to lots of lovely things at Green Light Trust. Whether it’s in our woodlands, with our participants or fundraising, there’s always a story to tell.

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Welcome Gavin!

I am delighted to be joining Green Light Trust as CEO from 1st September, and I am incredibly excited about the journey ahead. Throughout my career I have been privileged to lead organisations dedicated to improving the lives of children and young people, helping to create places where they can grow in confidence, develop resilience and realise their […]

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A group sat round a campfire eating lunch.

Highlights of 2024

Join us as we reflect on the year and what’s to come for 2025.

Green Light Trust awarded vital funding

Green Light Trust awarded vital funding for essential woodland management.

Saffron Building Society presenting Green Light Trust with a cheque.

Saffron Building Society donates over £5k to Green Light Trust

Green Light Trust was delighted to be selected as the designated charity for 2024, receiving a generous donation of £5,816.

A fundraiser wearing a blue and green cycling jersey celebrating after completing a challenge.

Andrews fundraising story

Green Light Trust’s, Andrew completes the North Coast 500, cycling 500 miles around Scotland for 7 days.

Two people using a saw together to cut a log.

Students celebrate their achievements

At the end of the summer term, students on our post 16 Education pathway celebrated the success of achieving impressive personal targets over the year.

Volunteers pushing wheelbarrows on a woodland wellbeing day.

Videndum volunteering day

We welcomed employees from Vivendum Production Solutions for a day in the woods.

A Step by Step programme participant cooking over a campfire.

A day with Step by Step

SBS participants get involved in woodland activities, maintenance duties on site and have time and space to express themselves through various activities in a safe environment.

A Green Light Trtust staff member talks to Chris Packham.

GLT staff meet Chris Packham

EHCP staff ran a stall at the Suffolk Youth Climate Conference on July 3rd, including a fascinating visit from television personality and autism campaigner Chris Packham.

Three people in beekeeper suits.

A ‘hive’ of activity at Castan

Currently, eight members of staff are learning how to inspect our national and top bar hives, enabling more participants to experience our ‘Safe Place to Bee’ and visit the apiary at Castan.

The new woodland camp with parachute canopy overhead and seating being built from wood.

New children and young people’s camp

Now available to book at RSPB Strumpshaw Fen, our CYP courses begin September 2024.

A green Light Trust mini bus with the wheels stolen.

Generous supporters donate over £3k after GLT minibus wheels stolen

On the first weekend of July, all four wheels and tyres from one of our minibuses were sadly stolen, almost exactly three years since we were able to purchase it thanks to a fundraising appeal.

Staff and participants on a walk through the woodlands.

Annual Report 2023

Our successes are not just measured in numbers but in the transformative impact we have on individuals’ lives.