Wild Foraging for Food – Part 1

Thursday 6 June saw our first visit to Harehope Quarry near Frosterley, with Bruce from Wild North Discovery. The plan was for a group of 15 women from the Angelou Centre, Newcastle to visit to quarry to find out about wild foraging, which wild foods were on our...

Black Women’s Leadership Programme – Day 4

After our Blanchlands walk, this was followed up with a classroom based training lesson so we could complete some of our paperwork ; the Delegate Evidence Record.  Each participant throughout the training, has to up keep a record of their learning and development of...

Black Women’s Leadership Programme – Day 3

    We went walking. We got into the minibus, drive over a mile south and ended up at Blanchlands. There we met with out tutor John, and proceeding to get lost upon the moors. We didn’t really get lost. This walking expedition aimed to test our map reading...

GirlTrek

[wpvideo jVPNqD9V] I’ve been a fan of GirlTrek for years now, always getting excited when I receive an email from them detailing what exciting and groundbreaking things they are doing  to support Black Women.  I’ve even reached out to them about starting a U.K. based...

Black Women’s Leadership Programme – Day 2

The first weekend of training for the Lowland Expedition Leadership qualification came to an end with another day of training for the women at Newburn Activity Centre. The day shone bright, but we couldn’t enjoy it, as we were stuck inside all day working out the...

Black Women’s Leadership Programme – Day 1

  The first weekend for the Lowland Expedition Leadership, Level 3 training kicked off this weekend, 18-19 May 2019. We piled into the car at Newcastle Central Station, while Natalie cycled, to Newburn Activity Centre to meet our trainer, John from North East...