The John Muir Award is an environmental award scheme focused on wild places. It encourages awareness and responsibility for the natural environment, in a spirit of fun, adventure and exploration.

Introducing the award at CEDA has been a fanastic way of getting people outdoors and being physically active in a variety of environments.

 Discover

This is the wild place (or places) on which you choose to focus your Award activity. This can be a garden, school grounds, a park or beach, a journey or destination, or any other wild place that’s local, national or international.

 Explore

Tune into a wild place, travel extensively through it, understand and appreciate more about it. Experience your wild place, enjoy it, become familiar with it…

 Conserve

This can be a practical conservation action that will leave it in better shape. It can involve supporting a relevant environmental issue, or minimising impact and integrating Outdoor Access principles.

 Share

The ability to ‘bring nature to life’ by sharing experiences of wild places can be extremely powerful and inspiring to an audience, but also beneficial to the participants. Throughout his life John Muir shared his experiences, feelings and vision for wild places with a wider audience.