Aileen Bright

Environmental Education Unit, An Taisce

An Taisce's Environmental Education Unit operates various national and international environmental, education and sustainability programmes throughout Ireland. The unit is the National Operator for all international environmental education programmes of FEE (Foundation for Environmental Education). These programmes include the Blue Flag Award for Beaches and Marinas, Green-Schools, Green Campus, Young Reporters for the Environment (YRE) and LEAF (Learning about Forests). The unit also operates a number of national programmes including the Clean Coasts programme, National Spring Clean (Ireland's largest anti-litter campaign), the Climate Ambassador Programme and Neat Streets. In addition, it is the national assessor for IBAL (Irish Business against Litter) ‘All-Ireland Anti-Litter League'. As well as a Director and a senior management team, the Unit has over 50 full-time staff members and 10 part-time and temporary staff. The Environmental Education Unit is based off Francis St, in Dublin 8, with staff located nationwide.