About GenEarth
Our Mission
Our Mission is to equip the generation inheriting the climate crisis with the tools to build a future where people and nature can thrive together.
We aspire to work with schools in areas of high deprivation, ensuring the young people most disproportionately affected by the climate crisis have access to the education that builds the confidence, skills and agency to shape change in their communities and futures.
Our Approach
Most education teaches young people what to think. We teach them how.
The climate crisis is our entry point. But what we're really building are skills for life: critical thinking, systems awareness and agency. Skills young people need to make sense of a complex world that they carry with them long after they leave our programmes.
Our work is rooted in systems thinking. Young people are growing up in a world shaped by messy, interconnected crises. We help them make sense of these issues, because you cannot imagine alternatives without first understanding what got us here.
We do not tell young people what to think or how to respond. We build the capacity to think well and then give them the agency to lead.
Built with young people and teachers. Our youth board and community of teachers co-design and test every programme.
Collaboration is key to the way we work. We believe our programmes are richer when shaped by a diverse range of voices and perspectives and we recognise that the best solutions come from the people closest to the problems.
Our Theory of Change
Our programmes follow a simple but deliberate cycle: knowledge, skills, action, leadership.
Knowledge builds critical thinking. Critical thinking builds agency. Agency builds lasting change.
We start with honest, evidence-based content rooted in real-world contexts young people already recognise.
Facilitators guide reflection without promoting set opinions, young people then test ideas and form their own conclusions.
Workshops end not with fixed answers but open questions. What could you do? What does your response look like?
Every programme is curriculum-aligned, co-developed with teachers and expert partners, and continuously adapted based on feedback from the young people and educators we work with.
The Impact
The difference we’re making
We’re so proud of the change we’ve been able to effect with the wonderful young people we’ve worked with. We can wait to see what happens next!
42,000
Young people engaged
300 +
Schools engaged nationally
100%
Of teachers recommend our programmes
70%
Felt hopeful about their ability to make a difference
87%
Showed increased understanding of climate change
70%
Of students felt better equipped to think critically about the climate crisis
What are young people are saying?
“During the Climate Justice Workshop I learned that disabled people are often disproportionately affected during natural disasters, that women had to fight for 45 years to win the right to vote, and that the countries producing the most carbon emissions are often not the ones experiencing the worst impacts of climate change."
"I really enjoyed the Create Your Own Campaign activity because it was fun, interactive and gave us the chance to try things out on an issue we genuinely cared about, since we got to choose it ourselves."
"I loved how engaged everyone became during the workshop. At first, people were quite shy, but as the session progressed, more and more students began sharing their ideas and opinions. Hearing different perspectives helped me learn things from my peers that I hadn't considered before."
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Frequently Asked Questions
Have questions?
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We know that young people are not a blank slate when it comes to the climate crisis. Many arrive at our workshops already carrying worry, scepticism or a sense of helplessness. We do not ignore that. Our programmes are designed to meet young people wherever they are emotionally, without amplifying fear or pretending the problem is smaller than it is. The antidote to climate anxiety is not reassurance. It is knowledge, critical thinking and a genuine sense of agency. That is what we build.
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Systems thinking is the ability to see beyond individual issues and understand how they connect. Rather than presenting the climate crisis as a standalone problem with a fixed set of solutions, we help young people trace the structures and decisions behind it, how economic systems, political choices, social inequality and environmental breakdown shape and reinforce each other.
It is the difference between knowing what is happening and understanding why. We believe you cannot imagine alternatives without first understanding what got us here.
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We do not tell young people what to think or what to do. Our facilitators are trained to present multiple perspectives, acknowledge uncertainty and guide reflection without promoting set opinions. We use evidence based content and create space for debate, discussion and disagreement. Our goal is to build the capacity to think well, not to produce a particular set of conclusions.
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Our programmes use the climate crisis as an entry point to build something more fundamental: the critical thinking skills, systems awareness and agency that young people carry long after they leave our programmes.
We do not treat climate as a standalone issue. We explore how it connects to social justice, animal welfare, biodiversity and the systems shaping everyday life. And we do not design our programmes in isolation. Every workshop is co-created with expert partners, young people and teachers, and continuously adapted based on what is actually working.