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Children of Felix Road Adventure Playground tackle big issues in podcast series
With honesty, humour and some straight talking, young people in Easton confront big issues affecting the planet in The Freedom Kids Podcast.
Made by children who play at Felix Road Adventure Playground, the series is designed for people in their own age group of five to 13-year-olds but is really essential listening for everyone.
Now into series two, the podcast focuses on climate change, with episodes covering key topics such as air quality, waste and recycling, food, energy, and the animal kingdom.
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By tackling big questions, the stars of the podcast provide an insight into how they see the world, what matters to them and what should be done to create a better future.
In the most recent episode on the animal world, children are asked: “What would you tell the people who were destroying your planet?”
One person’s response is: “I would say please stop that. If you won’t, I will have to tell the cops on you because that animal is a very …. beautiful animal and I don’t want you to be breaking it and extinct it.”
Another states: “Stop destroying the environment because humans are taking over the world and the animals need somewhere to live too.”
By tackling big questions, the stars of the podcast provide an insight into how they see the world
Created with support from playworker and artist Araceli Cabrera Caceres, the creative producer and originator of the project, the podcast series is designed to give power to the voices of children.
“Freedom [Kids Podcast] because everyone is free to do what they want and be themselves. It’s inclusive without any limits to it, it’s free. Everyone needs to speak up and be free,” says one young person about the podcast.
Series two of the podcast, funded by the National Lottery’s Climate Action Fund as part of Eastside Community Trust’s Community Climate Action project, has just come to an end. Funding has now been secured for a third series.
Freedom Kids Podcast is “inclusive without any limits to it, it’s free”
The five-minute-long episodes are made by children for children
Funding has been secured for a third series of Freedom Kids Podcast
All photos: Eastside Community Trust
Read more: The programme supporting young people to be the change they want to see
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