[BNS_members] Giving Tuesday

[Caroline Beddoe]

Dear all,

Today is Giving Tuesday, a global day of giving. It is a time when many 
groups may be asking for your support, and we recognize that there are 
so many ways to give, be it gratitude, energy, volunteer time, financial 
support, or more. As we continue our commitment to nature connection, 
education, and conservation, we are seeking your support with two 
specific programs this year - two ways to give! If you have the capacity 
to give financially, we are so grateful. Thank you for your support in 
many ways.

1) Flying Squirrel Adventures Bursary Fund

_Give the gift of nature play & learning. Help BNS (through our Flying 
Squirrel Adventures programming) make nature time accessible to more 
children & youth in the Valley. Our programs are offered on a 
pay-what-you-can basis to ensure that nature-time is widely accessible. 
We also address transportation barriers and support seasonal gear needs 
as much as possible._

In our 2021-22 season we provided over $8000 in bursaries and served 
over 1500 participants. You can help us grow our reach with a donation 
today! Donate here and indicate you are supporting our bursary program: 
https://www.canadahelps.org/en/charities/blomidon-naturalists-society/campaign/give-the-gift-of-nature-time/

Outdoor play in nature is an essential part of children's healthy 
development supporting their physical, emotional and mental well-being. 
Time in nature instills comfort in and a connection to nature that can 
lay a foundation for a life-long love for the natural world. Nature time 
is fundamental to individual, societal and planetary well-being. And 
yet, children are spending less time outside than ever before. Flying 
Squirrel Adventures was created to reverse this troubling trend.

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2) Climate Circles

This Giving Tuesday, you can help the BNS in leading and convening local 
climate action projects through Climate Circles. Climate Circles is a 
facilitated meeting space where anyone feeling worried about climate 
change and wanting to take action with others can meet regularly to 
define and carry out local action projects to protect our natural world, 
strengthen our communities, and inspire change. When we turn our worry 
into action together, we create our own hope and our own good news. 
Easier said than done of course!

And that's why Climate Circles facilitators are there to help us all 
build our action confidence and competence by setting a positive, 
encouraging and self-reflective tone, helping groups carve off do-able 
projects, providing tools and techniques to work through group process 
challenges, helping to connect people to local existing projects and 
providing relevant training opportunities to help individuals, groups 
and projects stay on track. Please donate at our crowdfunding page with 
our partner, the Small Change Fund, to help us get this project 
launched. The next $1000 donated will be matched! 
https://smallchangefund.ca/project/climate-circles-weekly-action-meetings-to-sustain-grassroots-climate-work/

  [2]

We had our first Climate Circles meeting last night and it was so great 
to connect, listen, express our ideas, and collaborate on this project 
together. We are hopeful for where it will lead us as a community keen 
to foster nature connection and protection, and inspirational 
environmental leadership.

With gratitude,

Caroline

on behalf of Flying Squirrel Adventures and the Climate Circles project

-- 
Caroline Beddoe
  She/her
  613-619-1098
  Program Coordinator
  Blomidon Naturalists Society
  Wolfville, Nova Scotia

_ Blomidon Naturalists Society activities take place in Mi'kma'ki, the 
traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi'kmaq People. We 
acknowledge that we have a responsibility to honour and learn about 
their histories and current cultures and to actively work in support of 
reconciliation. We are committed to fostering respectful and sustainable 
relationships with the Indigenous Peoples of this land, with all other 
organisms, with the land and with the water._

Links:
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[1] 
https://www.canadahelps.org/en/charities/blomidon-naturalists-society/campaign/give-the-gift-of-nature-time/
[2] 
https://smallchangefund.ca/project/climate-circles-weekly-action-meetings-to-sustain-grassroots-climate-work/
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