Photos by James Poole. Words by Sophie Lawson Think about one of your favourite places in nature. It could be a park, a beach, your favourite tree.  Take yourself there:  What do you see?  What can you hear?  What do you smell?  How do you feel when you’re there?  Take a moment to appreciate this place.  If it’s hard to imagine - let me tell you about mine. In my local park, there is a massive beech tree. She has weaving gnarly roots that create a perfect little shelf where I

Image by Pete Scullion. At Trash Free Trails, this probably isn’t the strangest thing you’ll see. But it does beg the question: why are we standing outside with marker pens anyway? Because our data doesn’t start in spreadsheets. It starts on the trail . At TFT, we’re lucky enough to have a community made up of magical types of people: those who love a good graph, and those who love being outside. Often, they are the same people. And while classrooms and powerpoints have thei

Image by Rich Baybutt. Words by Rach Coleman One of the things that drew me most to working at TFT was the organisational objective of obsolescence . Even in its nascent form 4.5 years ago when I joined the team, it still felt completely unique across the outdoor and environment sector. It's this idea that we are aiming to make ourselves redundant as an organisation - to get to a point where the 7 of us who sit behind desks and travel hundreds of miles about the country deli