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Education Land Trust Annual Review 2019

Community cohesion

and volunteering

“ Green Angels has helped
How Green Angels helped Gawain me deal with my social

anxiety and has helped me
Gawain is one of Green Angels younger feel much more positive and
volunteers and after struggling with alcohol
and drugs in his teenage years attended our open to new opportunities.”
Environmental Education training course and now
regularly volunteers.
Gawain explains the impact Green Angels has something outdoors. Green Angels was the first
had on his life:“I was looking for volunteering and only one I could find in the area. It was what
(opportunities) because I’m not in work. I’ve been I was looking for, and as far as I could tell, it was
diagnosed with autism which makes it harder to the only one I could actually get to.
get a job for the long-term, so volunteering is what “I hadn’t been going out and Green Angels has
I was looking for, particularly outdoors. helped me deal with my social anxiety and has
“I’m not very good at being sat inside or on the helped me feel much more positive and open to
computer, so I was fairly confident it had to be new opportunities.”

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