#BristolEVS

#BRISTOLEVS JULY

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AN EVS VOLUNTEER REVIEW

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NEWSWe had a wonderful time in Bristol, but what’s on the horizon for the 30 EVS volunteers? How has our ex-perience influenced what we want to do next? →P2

60 days ago, thirty young people from across Europe were traveling towards Bristol, with different expectations, mentalities, dreams and aspirations. They were met with enthusiasm and the sense of fun the city is charac-terised by. Today we are a family of Change Agents that keeps on growing!

LIFESTYLEBristol receives the official title of Fun Capital of Eu-rope from representatives of Poland, Greece, Roma-nia, Spain, Italy and Belgium. We have proof! →P4

BUSINESSWitness the diversity of this project by readying about what organisations we’ve been working for. Achieve-ments in sustainable architecture & media →P6

IT’S TIME TO GO...

Change Agents brought us together, made us feel safe, welcomed and con-fident in our roles here.

Then, our host families came along and taught us how diverse and wonderful the English household really is. Our host organisations took us in and gave us the responsibility we wanted to take on – working towards making Bristol an even more sustainable city, one day at a time!

Today we have you all here for the first time and we’d like to thank each and every one of you who made this happen. Here you can see the journey we’ve been through – for Bristol, for a strong local community, helping out in every way we could – and having so much fun along the way!

We are leaving, but taking with us great lessons, valuable friendships and priceless memories. From now on we’ll always be Change Agents, looking to apply everything we’ve learnt and pass on Bristol’s legacy as European Green Capital 2015!

“CHANGE AGENTS BROUGHT US TOGETHER,

MADE US FEEL WELCOMED AND CONFIDENT”by Andreea Dumitrache

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Now we’d like to open a window into our future: where are we going and how has this experience influenced our decisions? We’re a diverse bunch and you’ll find us all across Europe (and beyond).

Jaime was inspired by working at Better by Bike and wants to promote cycling in his city in Spain through a similar scheme.

Ana is going to Italy more confident in her language ability, looking to get an English language certificate. She had such a great time in Bristol she’s thinking of coming back and getting a job in the environmental field.

Julia is moving to Barcelona, starting an Ecology and Ecological Restora-tion MA which could lead her to great places around the world.

Konstantina is going to Germany to

A WINDOW INTO OUR FUTURE

teach in a primary school for a year on a new EVS project. She will use the skills she’s developed at Young Bristol to teach children environmental values.

Andreea is returning to Bristol after a short holiday and looking forward to continue helping out through com-municating sustainability through ra-dio, social media and across digital platforms. Being a Bristol EVS vol-unteer has opened her eyes to new possibilities and the city’s passion to environmentalism has won her over.

Gerardo is going back home full of energy and passion for sustainable design – which he’ll use in his up-coming projects as an enthusiastic young architect.

Eire will keep on studying to become an environmental teacher, keeping an eye out on volunteering opportu-nities related to the sustainability.

Veronika will finish her last year studying Sustainable Cities & Policy, and continue working as a sustain-ability coordinator at her university. She’ll put in practice the new per-spective she’s gained into economic sustainability and alternative eco-nomics on an urban scale.

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THUR 2 JULYVisit to the Lab Space, where

the EVS Volunteers had the

opportunity of learning more

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FRI 3 JULYChouette Films filmed several

organitations - Feed Bristol,

Arthur Sherlaw and volun-

teers as Ana and Gerardo.

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was even more important for me dur-ing my period in Bristol:

When I arrived in the city I was suf-fering for a personal crisis and it was difficult but beautiful at the same time to re-discover myself, re-learn how much is possible to love life with all its stories, faces, destinies; like the destinies of 30 young volunteers, now interconnected in space and time and part of my personal pursuit of resilience and memories.

“Resilience” is a powerful word, a lesson from nature; in ecology it is often associated with another one, “resistance”:

“Both resistance and resilience cause an ecosystem to remain rela-tively unchanged when confronted with a disturbance, but in the case of resistance no internal re-organisation and successional change is needed.

RESILIENCE – A LESSON FROM NATURE THAT INSPIRES MY LIFE

In contrast, resilience implies that the system is internally re-organising, perhaps through a mosaic of patches that are at different stages of re-as-sembly”.

This word teaches us how to manage crisis, not only thinking about what we can do to avoid change and to remain exactly the same (resistance) but also how to transform our ener-gies and skills into something that, in a deeply and not visible way, can change us, coming back to life.

The term “resilience” is used today not only in Ecology, but also in differ-ent fields as Community organising and psychology.

This lesson from sustainability means a lot for me; in my job – I work as a facilitator and community organ-iser – and in my personal life and it

I always need to listen to myself and stay connected with both, my personal and professional side; re-silience, even this time, taught to me how recollect all the pieces, not changing but transforming myself, using all that I already have, just em-powering my energy and my poten-tial, even more deeply.

Bristol is the sign of a resilient renais-sance and I never end to say thanks for that big chance to not just give up but keep listening to myself, using empathy as a medium.

So please, don’t forget to always think about your personal and emo-tional skills development, even when you are at work; your life could be better!

“BRISTOL IS THE SIGN OF A RESILIENT

RENAISSANCE AND I NEVER END TO SAY

THANKS FOR THAT BIG CHANCE”

by Francesca Cinus


Summer Solstice in Stonehenge

there’s no sugar to be found around, Dragos developed his skills at a re-ally good rate. To date, he covered events like Festival of Nature and Harbour Festival, but also turned up in Lawrence Weston and Easton communities which leads us to the conclusion that he really has long term plans here.

He was that busy that we struggled to get a quote from him for the in-troductory paragraph. The only mo-ment we could have a word was at night time, when his host family usu-ally switches off the internet router to stop the child in the house staying up too late. Despite not having a job aligned at the moment of the con-versation, he is really optimistic and determined to use this placement to step confidently into the job market.

We wish him all the best and prom-ise our readers that we will keep them updated too.

ownership energy co-operatives or from disadvantaged communities to inspirational talks by the famous Sat-ish Kumar on “Soil, soul and society”.

One worrying fact is the network of people and the list of new contacts Dragos has now in the area. Start-ing with the induction week where he was initiated by Change Agents UK and The Schumacher Institute in the art of surviving in Bristol as an European volunteer when you’re being offered strange milky tea and

As a short-term Bristolian, while on an EVS programme, now Dragos says that he is determined to stay here and enjoy the atmosphere long term. We think it’s only because he wants to enjoy the great views during the hot air balloon festival, so only time can prove us wrong.

One of Dragos’s tasks during his placement was to help during fes-tivals and events across the area, offering advice to people on energy matters and getting them to sign a pledge on energy saving. However, he has been seen playing with so-lar bugs, building his own solar panel and riding bikes for significant amounts of time, therefore his time here might not be fully justified…but

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“TO LIVE IN BRISTOL YOU NEED AT LEAST

TWO PARALLEL LIVES, IT’S THAT BUSY AND

FULL OF GREAT EVENTS. AT ANY ONE TIME,

YOU REALLY WANT TO BE IN AT LEAST TWO DIFFERENT PLACES!”

who are we to judge this?

During our investigation covering these two months, we also received constant notifications from our read-ers that Dragos was in the Bristol Centre area on a number of late nights, as part of a numerous gang of people – all talking different lan-guages. Some counted up to 30 in-dividuals one night, numbers which have been confirmed by our investi-gations. However, we assign the fact they were talking so many different languages due to the amount of al-cohol consumed by our reporters, as the date when we received the infor-mation coincided with the Harbour festival.

The reporter following Dragos’s steps during his time here has also some better news. He has been seen at-tending conferences and debates on sustainability, energy and community engagement issues. His interests varied from wind farms to shared

Bristol isn’t only European Green Capital, it’s also the capital of fun! We’ve enjoyed our free time here and took part in many of the greatest events the city (and the country) has to offer.

FUN IN BRISTOL

Volunteering at St Werburgh’s Farm Fair

Feed Bristol Tour and starting of the trip to somewhere with free beer! Everyone enjoying a song around the campfire at a BBQ

by Dragos Hrituleac


Different places where tourists hit their heads in Cambridge

Anyone who comes to Bristol needs a day out in At-Bristol and with our interest in sustainability, we couldn’t miss one of the best examples of promoting, implementing and en-gagement in the city. Organised by our own Francesca, who worked for At-Bristol for her two months place-ment, we explored hundreds of hands on exhibitions, got dressed up as bees, milked a cow and faced off in competitions.

Thank you, At-Bristol for your sus-tainability talk! We got plenty of ideas

@ATBRISTOL VISIT

to get home with. Your solar panels are amazing and having the only parking lot in Bristol where you can charge your electric car is quite an achievement! The planetarium visit was inspiring and seeing the differ-ence pollution makes to our sky is striking! When we come back in the future, we want to see more stars on Bristol’s sky!

On July 12th, I went to Cambridge to visit my best friend, who works there as a research assistant. I found Cambridge to be small, expensive and nice, very traditional, full of an-cient and beautiful colleges. The typical pastime seems to be punting on the river Cam. Another pastime is watching tourists who fall into the water or hit their heads against the bridges while punting on the Cam.

ANA IN CAMBRIDGE

Jaime, Ilie and Arthur – Busy bees!

Ilie connecting with nature – practicing his cow milking skillsJaime and Irene in competition to see who’s the most fit

by Andreea Dumitrache

ship. It would be brilliant to have more people scrutinising what is around us and questioning what they could do to contrib-ute to change – that is the lesson I took from watching the documentary “Mer-chants of doubts”, shown as part of the Big Green Week.

To top my time with CSE, last week I had the chance to meet some EU delegates from the cities competing for the title of European Green Capital 2017. Although I didn’t encounter the Essen (Germany) representatives who took the title, I still

I would like to invite you to join me on a short journey through my first weeks here, acting as a Change Agent for the Euro-pean Green Capital 2015 – this is a big movement taking place across the city, which I am glad to be a part of. Based at the Centre for Sustainable Energy, my role as an Energy Champion is to help Bristol communities by enabling them to act on saving energy at home.

It’s a hands-on approach that involves en-gaging people and making them aware of efforts to build a more energy efficient city. These efforts were strengthened by the connections made when Bristol Energy Network formed, and it’s this flourishing network that I’d like to contribute the most

DRAGOS - FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF BRISTOL2015

during my two month placement.

If you were around for the Festival of Na-ture, there is a chance we have already met. It was a great pleasure to see that people – especially children – are recep-tive and willing to learn about energy sav-ing when presented with an interactive environment. When they got pedalling on our electricity-generating bike the LEDs were lit up in no time. The kids had to pedal twice as hard to power a fluores-cent bulb, and so saw in a tangible way that our choices in the DIY store can save electricity, and ultimately, money. Environ-mentalists of all kinds created this really family-friendly festival, giving children the opportunity to explore the natural world – most parents had been asked lots of questions by the time they got home.

Debates and talks are another two things adding flavour to this city. “The Big Green & Black Debate” and “Our Energy Future – The road not (yet) taken” generated some great conversation on community energy, diversity, equal rights and citizen-

managed to find a lot about what simi-larities and differences there are between other cities and Bristol (but I have a feel-ing Bristol is more fun!).

To sum up, it has been a busy period, full of action, which I really hope will take me one step closer to a career in the envi-ronmental sector. Bristol is inspiring, so if you haven’t made it to the Green Capital this year, you should definitely come over soon and see it blossoming through the summer.

Dragos playing with his solar panel


water point in the centre of Bristol. Now this historical element is neglected, cov-ered by graffiti and dirt, so what I’m do-ing is working on in its interpretation and bringing back to the people a part of their history and also designing some new ele-ments like new illumination that will pre-vent further vandalism.

Finally, I’ve also collaborated with the Schumacher Institute, on a project called “House in a sustainable system”, which will stand as the bases for hous-ing developments in the future and solve the current problems of affordability, ac-cessibility, bad isolation and high energy consumption of buildings. The dwellings will be built in a rural area and it is going to be like a longhouse, as if it was a rural structure so it would have a low impact in the landscape and for rural communities.

I am very satisfied with this experience and I feel very happy and grateful that I have been selected to come to Bristol as

My name is Gerardo, coming from Spain, I am 24 years old and I have finished Architecture studies three months ago. I decided to be a volunteer for Bristol Green Capital because it is a great op-portunity for me to be part of such an important event where a lot of organisa-tions are working for a more sustainable future. I also want to learn from all these initiatives and use my acquired knowl-edge and skills to gain experience in an international environment. So during my volunteering I have been involved with three different organisations.

The first one is Bristol Fish Project, a community-supported organisation which is developing an urban aquaponic farming

GERARDO AND HIS ORGANISATIONS

system for the city. It is based on a closed loop where the fish with their waste feed the plants, which are floating in the wa-ter and at the same time they filter and clean the water back to the fish. Because of the novelty of these food production techniques, the project is still under de-velopment and before I started working with them they had done a small system to research. They have acquired recently a warehouse to start the project on a bigger scale and I am helping them with the distribution and layout of the interior, translating their visions and drawings into real plans and also suggesting new ideas to make the space attractive and modern for the workers and visitors.

The second organisation is The Church-es Conservation Trust which looks after a lot of churches all over the country that are no longer in use, does research and interpretation of the history and gives them another use for the community. With them I am doing a project for St John’s on the Wall fountain, part of the medieval conduit system which used to be the only

volunteer for the European Green Capi-tal. I think I am making the most of this experience, I feel I’ve contributed to the local community and I’m developing new skills, learning a lot of new things. I have also met a lot of new people from differ-ent countries but with the same interests and aspirations as me and we are shar-ing this adventure together. There are a lot of things going on in Bristol, a lot of places to go, beautiful locations, wonder-ful cities and amazing landscapes nearby. I encourage everyone to live such an en-riching experience that will develop you in many aspects.

The Schumacher Institute Sketch

I’m working at Plaster, a PR/marketing agency settled in the Tobacco Factory for the first project mentioned whereas I’m carrying out the other work at the Create Centre. Both are interesting and inspira-tional working environments full of active and friendly people.

As a former graphic and media student the tasks I am assigned are fit enough as I’m editing video footage, pictures, de-signing layouts though at the same time I’m also being introduced to social media and events promotion which is something pretty new for me. I’m doing research and

looking for ideas or proposing my own ones as well.

Working in several different places some-times means you can’t dedicate the right amount of time to projects and not focus-ing too much on the details as desired as it’s often a race against the clock. But above all it means keeping all the projects balanced at the same time and thinking flexibly, assessing priorities, making ar-rangements, scheduling meetings.

This is very challenging and I think it’s one of the aspects I developed the most, besides of course improving my language skills.

I may not say the same about my techni-cal knowledge, but that’s absolutely not what I was looking for mainly from this experience, I was looking for new sparks, to make contacts, be inspired and collect new ideas, even if not strictly related to

During my stay in Bristol I’ve spent my working time on three different projects: Let’s Walk Bedminster, whose aim is engaging the neighbourhood to walk around the area through walking paths, making them better and safer, Litterarti, an art collective organising events and workshops with sculptures made out of lit-ter to raise wastage awareness and One Day–Day One Resilience, which through a mobile little “dome”stall with recording equipment brought all around Bristol is capturing a considerable amount of foot-age showing the desires and the worries of people asking and answering ques-tions about future and sustainability.

DARIO - A PARTY BUS IS COMING AND EVERYBODY’S DANCING

my field of expertise.

I now have new ideas to bring back to my city to develop and adapt to local con-texts, be it community engagement, sus-tainable projects, urban improvements, events promotion and so on and I believe to have found all of this both in my place-ments and out of them.

And now, close to the end of the Bristol EVS Programme I can say I’m very sat-isfied to have taken part of it for a lot of precious moments I enjoyed here and hopefully for the ones still coming in the left days, confident that I will make good use of such opportunity in the very near future.

Plaster office


important thing that I have learnt it is that hard work always has incredible results, especially when you see them in the “real world”, materialised in posters or flyers that will help spread the Babbasa mes-sage.

I have also collaborated with Chouette Films, a really fun organisation that has also been part of the BristolEVS Volun-teer Programme and that have filmed our volunteering experience in Bristol.

It is amazing how your life can change in a short period of time. Since I finished In-dustrial Design a year ago, my vision and knowledge of the world and myself has changed dramatically. If I looked back at that time, I would not imagine living this experience in such an amazing city as Bristol. Therefore, I am really grateful that I had the courage to apply and to be part of it.

During these 2 months of the BristolEVS Volunteering Programme I have been working with Babbasa, a Bristol-based social enterprise with a vision of a world where all young people feel empowered to realise their employment and enter-prise aspirations, irrespective of their

CARMEN - A BIG SUM OF SMALL DIFFERENCES

nationality, location, ethnicity, gender, race, sexuality or faith. Babbasa seeks to achieve this by aspiring and educating young people from disadvantaged areas, through innovative projects and services.

My role in this organisation was creat-ing different elements of graphic design, like posters, flyers and a brochure, which reflect the different services and projects that Babbasa offers.

Applying my knowledge and making my own tiny contribution to this wonderful project has made gain new skills and knowledge.

I have learnt that it is really important to organise your tasks by order of prefer-ence, that the communication between the different departments of the organisa-tion must be fluent in order to be efficient and that challenges are always fun. But, without a shadow of a doubt, the most

Being out of the office, fighting against time and unexpected situations, learn-ing a lot about film making and having the opportunity to see where some of the volunteers work was an amazing ex-perience that took me out of my comfort zone. Filming this programme and some organisations, it has given me the oppor-tunity to compare the other volunteers’ experiences to mine. These two months as an EVS volunteer have had a deep impact on me, as an individual and as a member of the community. Thanks to this programme I have learnt that things can be changed and I know it because I have seen it in Bristol2015.

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Carmen working on a poster

The Schumacher Institute Sketch

my colleagues, from the family I’m living with and of course from the organisation I’m volunteering for. I’ve studied environ-mental sciences and I’ve worked in the past with children, so this is a huge and great opportunity for me to get everything together through this environmental edu-cation project.

I would recommend this experience to others with no doubt. The best part of me being a #BristolEVS is that I have the chance to start, share and finish this ex-perience with other 30 people from differ-ent countries and backgrounds, and that’s something truly great.

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I’m Julia, a recent Environmental Science graduate from Spain. About two months ago I was told that I finally had the oppor-tunity to come to Bristol as a Volunteer as-sisting the Education Department of the Avon Gorge and the Downs Wildlife Project, since then I have enjoyed every moment here!

The first week I worked getting everything ready for the Bristol Festival of Nature. From the second week onwards I’ve been assisting the Biodiversity Education Of-ficers preparing all the activities that the project is doing during these months: walks, talks, courses, family events and children’s activities. Apart from preparing I have also the great opportunity to partici-pate in all of them, help with small expla-nations to children and learn a lot about the nature of the Downs. During this EVS the most that I’m doing is learning, from

JULIA

Julia – BristolEVS Volunteer

their ideas and promises to be greener this year. Later on the year, we are going to exhibit the puzzle, so that people can see and remember their promises.

I would definitely recommend this expe-rience to others, because I feel that you can learn a lot about the English culture, working environment and habits by living here and interacting with the local com-munity. I am really happy that I met so many nice people of various nationalities and that is the best thing that happened to me by being a #BristolEVS.

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I started my EVS experience two months ago with high hopes and eagerness to learn. I’ve been working with Young Bris-tol, a youth charity which runs creative projects to different parts of Bristol, in lo-cal communities.

My role in the creative team has been great – we’ve run an awareness cam-paign, taking part in festivals and events in the city, inviting people to think of small changes they can do in their everyday lives to be more environmentally friendly.We have also cut some wooden puzzle pieces and painted them green. Each piece corresponds to a different area of Bristol and all of them form a big circle (Green Capital’s logo). So, every time we participate in an event in Bristol, we take the correspondent puzzle piece for the area and young people, draw on them

KONSTATINA

Konstantina at Young Bristol

Francesca and his husband


achieve some real goal; but I am trying to achieve the most SMART goal as pos-sible, co- designing with At-Bristol staff, project partners and other community leaders, two different strategies, two short term (with visible benefits already in the short term, like a social media plan and a face to face strategy ) and one me-dium- long term (with visible benefits in the long term, that including participatory moments).

So we have 6 + 1 weeks to start building a community, co- creating a participatory

I am working in At-Bristol, famous Sci-ence Museum in the city center (it is an educational charity), full of life and inter-action: a beautiful environment with a prepared and kind staff that is supporting me during my stay.

I work in At-Bristol to coordinate a community engagement project: rais-ing awareness and building networks between At-Bristol Science Centre, its green partner’s organisations and its neighborhood communities. The goals of the project are to raise awareness of food growing and production, increase food education and community cohesion and help people learn about growing food, give them access to delicious fresh products and make them happy through gardening.

Community engagement is a long term process, so it will be really difficult to

I am Francesca, I am 27 years old and I am from a rural part of Sardinia, in Italy. I have finished my main studies – but I think that learning is a lifelong process – and I am a facilitator, community or-ganizer, local development expert, com-munication manager, events planner and Social Innovation expert. For me learning is all about experiences, to put together a powerful, strong, coloured network of personal skills and people. The Bris-tol EVS Volunteering Programme with Change Agents UK is giving me the great opportunity to continue to grow, knowing “coloured networks” that will help me to develop myself more and more.

FRANCESCA-ALL THE COLOURS OF A NEW CHALLANGE

event, to co- planning common, simple and replicable actions (the plus one week it will be all about evaluation and work for have a legacy to share with At-Bristol and all participants); it will be a challenge, but I am here to empower myself, challenging myself and go out from my comfort zone: so no matter how difficult it would be to emerge and do something good even if not in my first and second language, no matter if in community engagement is all about building trust and passion using communication, I am here to do the best I can, using all my coloured skills network.

Francesca at At-Bristol office

that I like to work with wood.

I have already used these new skills in the placement at the University of the West of England, helping the university beekeeper to build a new super. I am also assisting the environmental technicians in an entomological survey, and the ground manager in the university community veg-etable garden.

I feel that I’m really taking advantage of this experience, that is making me call many of my beliefs into question, offering me new perspectives on the world.

In my free time, I had lots of fun in Bristol! It’s such a young city with lots of events happening all the time and its cycle friend-ly roads led me to great adventures. I en-joyed the bike trails, through the woods and visiting Bath!

.Volunteering for Better by Bike has been a great experience! I have met people who helped me a lot and were so under-standing when it came to the language barrier between us.

I got to explore the city by bike and take part in cycling events, promoting bike-ability in this amazing city! Working with lots of people – from shops, teams, schools and promoting events to encour-age bike usage was rewarding and excit-ing. I worked to create a new magazine about mountain bikes and tips and tricks to make cycling even more fun! I also got to bike a lot – duh! I gathered data on mountain bike routes near Bristol and gave feedback which helped improve and add details to current cycling maps.

JAIME AT BETTER BY BIKE

Jaime at the office

People’s Republic of Stokes Croft promotes the development of the Stokes Croft area, providing benefits to the com-munity and seeking to influence the direc-tion in which the area develops. My job included updating our website and social media accounts, in addition to helping out in maintenance work. For example, I ventured into the unknown by painting a wall and restoring graffiti works. It was fascinating to experience and feel like a street artist! But above all I am involved in the Green Fringe 2015, the PRSC’s re-sponse to the Green Capital 2015. There are many ongoing projects related to sus-tainability and environment.

Bristol Wood Recycling Project is both exciting and challenging: with the collec-tion and the up-grading of the wood, in fact, it has the dual purpose of helping the environment by transforming waste into a new resource, and of helping people who volunteer there to gain skills useful to find a job. I’m learning about the process of wood recycling, And indeed, I have found

In my EVS experience, I’ve volunteered for three organisations: People’s Republic of Stokes Croft, Bristol Wood Recycling Project and the University of the West of England.

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Ana with a snakeKonstantina at Young Bristol

Francesca and his husband


This has been a great learning experi-ence, from being able to put in practice my technical skills and my academic knowledge, to being part of wonderful events where I’ve met representatives of different organisations working towards a more inclusive, diverse and sustainable community. I’ve definitely improved my ability to prioritise and work under pres-sure and found out it’s a pleasure to do so when you care about the content you’re creating.

The best part of my experience has surely been seeing how the people of

Bristol work together, support and learn from each other, creating networks of op-portunity. Being part of different events around the city, I’ve began to see familiar faces everywhere and that shows me that organisations aren’t afraid of listening to what others have to say about their work and are open to suggestions to improve their work and form long term collabora-tions. I believe this principle which brought us, the #BristolEVS volunteers, here is the same one which made Bristol Green Capital 2015.

Working in an organisation where your help is always welcomed and appreci-ated has truly been a rewarding experi-ence. My work varies from day to day and sometimes from hour to hour, in an en-vironment where immediacy, but also ac-curacy are crucial. I act as a producer for one of our shows, coming up with ideas for new content, finding guests and do-ing background research. I also help out with marketing and advertising, compiling audience research and targeting advertis-ers. If you tune in on Thursday mornings, you’ll hear me and an amazing team on What the papers say, telling you all about the most interesting news of the week.

As a recent journalism graduate and sustainability enthusiast, the opportunity to work for Ujima Radio as part of the #BristolEVS Volunteering Programme couldn’t have been a better fit. I immedi-ately accepted the challenge and started on this exciting new part of my life which is definitely proving to be one of the best decisions I’ve ever made.

When I finished university I didn’t think I would have the time or resources to volunteer for a community radio station, but this programme provided me with the support I needed to make it happen.

Ujima Radio is run by volunteers and they’ve shown me that when you have passion for what you’re doing, you find the time to put the effort in and make it happen.

ANDREEA

Young journalists in the Ujima 98fm office

Andreea at Ujima Radio Andreea teaching work experience students how to edit sound


PEOPLE WHO CARE ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT

...AND CIDER

#BRISTOL EVS

W E A T H E R F O R E C A S T


If you look at the Bristol sky, a ques-tion will come up in your mind.

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it is Superman.

Hold on, we are in England, not the USA, so I don’t believe that Super-man has enough energy to cross the Atlantic Ocean. Therefore, the right answer is … (drum rolls) … A BIRD!!!

The sky of Bristol is full of seagulls, a “wonderful” seabird that is not scared of stealing your small sandwich that you got with your pocket money at the local independent shop.

Seagulls are well-known for being really dangerous and dirty, having a diet based on the leftovers that drunk people didn’t eat the night before.

IT’S TIME TO TACKLE THE GULL PROBLEM

Who has never felt scared of receiv-ing a seagull “present” while is sitting in Millennium Square?

Or even worse, who has never been attacked by one of these wonder-ful creatures when it’s closed to its chick?

Seagulls are not afraid of anything and Veronika doesn’t fear them ei-ther. Good for her!!!

We’ve escaped the heatwaves in our country and enjoyed the lovely weather of Bristol (except for the thunderstorms, light showers, heavy showers, rain that just came out of no where, every Sunday that was cloudy).

Now the forecast for us is looking up, with great tempera-tures in Spain, Italy, Greece, Romania and Belgium.

We shall leave you to a gloomier Bristol than we’ve had:

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3. The best EVS organiser in the world

4. Every weekend we’ve been here, we’ve had a ...

5. What we definitely want to take home from England

7. The second Director of Fun

9. Not Kyle

Across

5. Our network for life

6. Delicious and gigantic English treats

8. Our communication guru

9. Magic potion that everyone British drinks (with milk, for some unknown reason)

10. Arthur’s way of getting us to show up at any event he wanted

11. Torture in front of the camera while lots of people watch

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CONTRIBUTORS: JAIME AYORA, DARIO BUSINI, FRANCESCA CINUS, GERARDO FERREYRO DRAGOS HRITULEAC, KONSTANTINA KONNA, GRACIELA MEDINA, ANNA RETTORE CHANGE AGENTS UK @CHANGEAGENTSUK

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