Earth Action North Devon: Explorers Create!
The Museum of Barnstaple and North Devon
When: 11 October 2025 to 22 November 2025
Where: Museum of Barnstaple and North Devon
Time: 10:00 - 16:30
Cost: Admission FREE
Suitable for: Family friendly
Exhibition launch event
Saturday 11 October, 2-4pm
FREE | All welcome
Earth Action North Devon is a local charity on a mission to protect and improve the environment through community-led action. Our new Community Gallery exhibition features creations from students of the charity’s pioneering Ocean Explorer Academy education programme.
Since 2022, the programme has taken local young people to stunning sites like Croyde beach, Lee Bay, Chapel Wood and Woolacombe Down, connecting them with nature in an immersive, fun and exploratory way. It’s a programme that aims to inspire and empower the next generation of change-makers.
Since the programme’s inception, students have explored everything from mindful sketching and species surveys, to making habitat boxes, dry stone walling, and even investigating the fast fashion industry.
Outraged at the huge amount of tent waste at local campsites, these creative explorers have produced fascinating upcycled items, including a model sailboat, an artists’ canvas, a dog coat, lanterns, bags and a kite!
Their creations, photographs and sketchbooks are full of passion. They have featured in the local press, and have helped students to leverage positive climate action in their homes, schools and communities.
We warmly invite you to come and take a deep dive into the powerful, passionate world of North Devon’s young environmental stewards.
For more information about Earth Action North Devon, visit northactionnorthdevon.org or follow the charity on social media @earthactionnorthdevon.
Exhibition Gallery
Image courtesy of Earth Action North Devon
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