2025-12-31-accounts

Young Climate Warriors

Annual Report January 2025 – December 2025 Charity Reg No: 1192440 Registered address: Fishers, Shepherds Green, Henley-on-Thames, OXON RG9 4QL www.youngclimatewarriors.org

Our Charity Objectives according to our Constitution:

(A) to advance the education of children and young people in subjects relating to global environmental change and ways to prevent or reduce the impacts of climate change; and (B) to promote, for the public benefit, the conservation, protection and improvement of the physical and natural environment, in particular but not exclusively, by providing children and young people with information and instruction about global environmental change and encouraging them to find ways to prevent or reduce the impacts of climate change.

Financial Review:

In 2025 YCW’s income was £61,622 raised from grant income, fundraising events and donations. Expenditure for 2025 was £62,108 including cash funds brought forward from prior years, this results in YCW holding £21,605 cash funds at year end 2025. YCW holds £15,000 reserves in line with the reserves policy.

Reference and administrative details:

Registered address: Fishers, Shepherds Green, Henley-on-Thames, OXON RG9 4QL Community Bank account held with Barclays Independent Examiner: Chris Tyler

Structure, governance and management:

Structure: The Young Climate Warriors charity was incorporated as a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) on the 24 March 2020. Governance: The charity is governed by its Constitution dated 24 March 2020.

Young Climate Warriors Trustees:

Katrina Judge (appointed 24 March 2020) Nicole Finnan (appointed 29 October 2022) Tom Wilson (appointed 27 January 2024 – resigned 13 Sept 2025) Sarah Austin (appointed 24 June 2023) Mark Fisher (appointed 24 June 2023) Sam Mead (appointed 24 June 2023) Sam O’Reilly (appointed 13 Sept 2025) The Young Climate Warriors charity is managed by a board of trustees who are legally responsible for the charity's overall direction and ensuring it operates within its charitable purposes. They meet at least 4 times a year.

Our Vision:

• To inspire a nationwide team of thousands of ‘young climate warriors’, doing the same challenges, in the same week – a virtual team.

• For every child in the UK to feel empowered to reflect, discuss and choose their own informed path of action in relation to climate change.

• To provide Climate Change related resources to teachers reaching children in all UK Primary Schools.

• For every family in the UK to be practicing carbon-cutting actions and making sustainable living choices.

Our Goals:

• 1) To increase children’s awareness and understanding of climate change - to inspire learning, increase knowledge and understanding, encourage values-led discussion and cultivate cross-curricular thinking.

• 2) To inspire behavioural change by positive messaging and a ‘that’s doable’ mindset. Encourage awareness of the impact on climate change of daily activities, alongside normalising carbon-emissions cutting actions. ‘Little by little, a little becomes a lot’.

• 3) To encourage an appreciation and respect for nature and a shared responsibility for our planet and the values of social justice, inspiring empathy for others.

Our ethos:

• Promoting a ‘stubborn optimistic’ outlook to help counter eco-anxiety.

• Taking positive action today to protect what we love.

• Being involved enables children to feel they can take small actions to help make a difference.

• Joining wider national campaigns can show the power of public action, and that much of society cares about the same things.

• Encouraging school, class and family conversations, and action, about climate change and related topics helps to shape new ‘social norms’.

Our activities:

Young Climate Warriors (YCW) supports schools and communities in advancing climate

literacy and inspiring children and young people to choose to take climate action. To date we have built a network of over 600 teachers across the UK and our programmes have reached over 25,000 children. We have four programmes:

Ambassador-led Climate Assemblies : interactive in-person assemblies, shared by our team of Ambassadors based across the UK. Kindling sustainable-living conversations and promoting climate action and providing an opportunity for climate-conscious young people (mainly 1825yrs) to directly share their concern and passion with younger children: ‘the youth of today, inspiring the youth of tomorrow’. We share our ‘climate explainer’ movie and our ‘sustainable living’ game facilitates discussion about planet-positive choices.

Climate Change Club in a Box : 13 downloadable ready-to-go ‘eco-club’, classroom or small group sessions with detailed teachers notes, and packed with interactive activities. These positive resources put climate change in context, promote curiosity and critical thinking, and widening the lens on global climate issues, encouraging responsible citizenship and building skills in climate oracy. In Autumn ’25 we launched an ‘eco-emotions’ session (produced in association with Dr Louise Edgington, Climate Minds Coalition Steering Group member).

Weekly Children’s Challenges : weekly sustainable-living, carbon-busting challenges to be undertaken at home or in a local park, providing a carbon literacy bridge from school out into the community. Our '3 little actions award' encourages school participation with certificates and badges. Challenges include ‘a pattern-hunting adventure in nature’, ‘bye bye buy’, ‘a bitesize challenge awaits’, ‘bathroom water blitz’, ‘summertime choices: plastics and nurdles’ … ‘bee-ing curious’.

Duke of Edinburgh Award Climate Change Skills Programme : as a DofE Award Approved Activity Provider our 3-month programme of 12 weekly challenges, supported by personalised weekly engagement and feedback. Challenges invite wider discussion and debate, accompanied by an opportunity for individual response, creativity and consideration. Wider discussion examples include: the circular economy; the role of environmental footprints, and the use of art-forms as a means of climate communication. This programme enables young people to build their portfolio of ‘green skills’, invaluable for both future living and future careers, empowering ‘the ordinary citizens driving extraordinary change and showing the way to a climate-smarter world’ (UN).

Overview of 2025:

• Jan – March – new joiners to the team: Schools Manager, Fundraising Manager, Outreach Advisor, DofE manager.

• April – Earth Day – Re-launch of 12 ‘Climate Change Club in a Box’ sessions.

• May – YCW filming of 2 Climate Change assemblies, and ‘3 Little Action’ celebration assembly.

• June – YCW resources vetted and available on Sustainability Support for Schools

• June – 1[st] YCW newsletter – ‘a few little snippets’

• Oct – Mental Health Day – ‘Eco-emotions’ Climate Change Club in a Box session launched (supported by Dr Edgington (Climate Minds Coalition))

• Oct – Celebration Event – 5 years of YCW as a charity

• Oct – Aviva crowdfunder

• Nov – 1[st] Youth Panel event

• Nov – 2[nd] Impact Report produced

• Dec – Big Give fundraising campaign

Engaging with schools, families and young people

• Schools – Weekly ‘schools pack’ email – 151 educators signed up in 2025, of whom 81% were primary schools, building our network to 687 teachers, at end 2025.

• Schools - Climate Change Club in a Box - Requested by 126 teachers in 2025. 3 small group CCC in a Box sessions shared by Ambassadors.

• Schools – Assemblies – 59 assemblies held in 2025, sharing the topic of climate change with over 10,855 children.

• Schools – ‘3 Little Actions’ - 4 schools ran the 2 Little Actions award – in London, Cumbria, Leeds and Eastbourne.

• Children – 432 children’s emails received and replied to - telling us ‘challenge completed’. 113 certificates awarded to children, including 64 certificates sent as part of 3-challenge award. Over 150 photos sent in by children were shared on our YCW gallery.

• Young people – Duke of Edinburgh Award scheme. 70 completed 3 months of challenges.

• Young people – 59 active YCW Ambassadors at year end, 23 of whom have shared assemblies to date.

• Youth Panel – With the aim of both gaining insights from young people into our work and to help them develop skills and feel part of a movement for change. Six young people, from our DofE cohort, attended our first online meeting in November 2025, we focused on looking at attitudes to nature connectedness. Further sessions will be held in 2026.

‘Getting us out there’

• YCW weblink/resources shared by complementary organisations : In 2025 our CCC in a Box resources were added to the Sustainability Support for Education platform. Our resources continue to be shared at Transform our World (Global Action Plan), Global Dimension (Reboot the future), Let’s Go Zero, Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme and Curiosity Connections.

• Supporting systemic change: In 2025 we signed the National Emergency Briefing Open Letter calling for a televised emergency briefing.

• Building ‘partnerships’ : In 2025 we attended the Festival of Education, and The Climate Coalition Annual meeting, the National Climate Education Action Plan meetings (University of Reading) and monthly Let’s Go Zero coalition meetings.

• Volunteering bureaux : In 2025 we continued to share our Ambassador recruitment opportunities with over 350 university organisations at over 90 universities. We’re registered on 80 volunteering hubs and advertise on 27 university volunteering platforms.

• Website and Social media: Primarily facebook and Instagram with weekly posts, and a growing presence on LinkedIn.

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