Dear Antony, I have learnt through a colleague of your work on education and climate change through expeditions. May I take this opportunity to congratulate you on your innovative approach to education and to encourage you in your aime to inspire and educate children globally about climate change. I wish you well. Warmly and with a smile,
Vernor MuñozSpecial Rapporteur on the Right to EducationHuman Rights CouncilUnited Nations
It is with great pleasure to officially welcome Ashfords and Bishop Fleming as the first sponsors for my community interest company, Education Through Expeditions. Ashfords support with the start up of the company and Bishop Flemings help with the company accounts and payroll has been crucial with the day to day running of the company. Their continual support has been crucial to start up of the company.
This August, Antony Jinman, will lead a team of nine graduates to Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic; exploring the Auyuittuq National Park (The Land that Never Melts), the Penny Ice Cap and living with the Inuit People. The purpose is to help continue Antony’s school outreach work, heightening awareness within schools of issues facing the Polar Regions, especially climate change. Baffin Island Expedition 2010 proposal.pdf
I was selected as the UK’s only participant to the IPY teachers conference, to discuss ways of bringing polar science into the classroom. I joined 150 teachers and educators from around the world and 2,500 researchers and scientists for this week long conference in Oslo – Norway.
Receiving a Winston Churchill Memorial Trust’s medallion from Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cornwall at London Guildhall, for my school outreach project on Baffin Island. A project focusing on comparing the arctic summer and winter seasons, living with the Inuit, the animals that live there and how climate change is threatening the arctic environment.
I am delighted to have just found out that not only have I been nominateed for the Vice-Chancellor’s Social Entrepreneur Award but have also been shortlisted. I am very proud of this and want to say a huge thank you to everyone’s support and help over the past few years in making this happen. Really looking forward to the challenges of next few years.
Antony Jinman reached the North Pole on Earth Day on 22 April at 22.05 GMT. Antony and his team mates, Eric Larsen and Darcy St Laurent skied and snow shoed (and sometimes swam) over 500 miles from Cape Discovery to the North Pole for 51 days.
It is my pleasure and delight to unveil my next expedition following the success of my recent North Pole expedition. The International Scott Centenary Expedition 2012 aims to lead the United Kingdom and the rest of the world to celebrate the centenary of Captain Scott’s last expedition, commemorate the deaths of the Polar Party and to support the continuation of their work through the Scott Polar Research Institute.
“My aim is simple. It is to inspire and educate children globally about world climate change and to do so through my interactive expeditions and related school outreach work. My focus is primarily, but not exclusively, on the arctic regions, its Inuit people, its animals and landscape.”