Our Bay Our Future: Inspiring Action and Hope

On Friday 3rd July, we will once again gather to share resources, learn about new opportunities, meet like-minded folk and celebrate our collective achievements and growing community.

Join us for the Morecambe Bay Curriculum Annual Conference 2026 on Friday 3rd July in our biggest venue to date - the Great Hall at Lancaster University!

It will be an inspiring day focused on you, our brilliant community, and ways in which our place-based and environmental educational approach can empower young people to take Climate Action and care for where we live.

You’ll hear from both local and national experts and be the first to get your hands on hot off the press, free resources designed by local educators, MBC working groups and Lancaster University academics. There will also be interactive workshops on Nature and Health, Community and Place, and Future Skills and Green Jobs. You’ll hear the latest Eden Morecambe news! Join us and enjoy sharing ideas, resources, new opportunities, meeting like-minded folk, and celebrating our collective achievements and growing community.

What to expect:

• ‘What does effective climate action look like in 2026?’ keynote, from Mike Berners-Lee, world-leading sustainability expert and acclaimed author of ‘How Bad are Bananas?’, ' There is No Planet B' and 'A Climate of Truth'
• ‘Curriculum and Assessment Review’ panel, chaired by the Rt Hon Charles Clarke, feauturing Charlotte Bonner, CEO of the EAUC, Ruth Carter, Stakeholder Relationships Manager at Cambridge OCR and Juanita Shepherd, Strategic Policy Lead for Nature at the Department for Education
• Sharing of Morecambe Bay Curriculum Working Groups Projects, Resources and Campaigns, all designed by educators from around the Bay for all ages and Phases
• ‘Our Bay Our Future’ Launch, a new MBC programme that will provide free Climate Action opportunities for 5000 young people and practitioners around the Bay, supported by the National Lottery Climate Action Fund
• Launch of ‘Resources for our Bay: Our Future Coast’ a panel conversation focused on the 10 new educational ‘Our Future Coast’ resource packs, designed with teacher expertise and enhanced with cutting-edge Lancaster University research
• The latest exciting Eden Project Morecambe news, including updates on the installation of the award-winning ‘Bring me Sunshine’ garden
• Future Skills and Green Jobs, local market insights – Mehmood Mulla, Lancashire Skills & Employment Hub
• A choice of three interactive workshops:

1) Nature and Health, led by Natural England, featuring MBC Working Group Projects

2) Celebrating Morecambe Bay (Place and Community), led by Morecambe Bay Partnership, featuring ‘Local Legends’ and

3) Future skills and Green Jobs, led by Lancaster and Morecambe College featuring Another Way and a panel chaired by Danny Braithwaite, CEO and Principal of Lancaster & Morecambe college, that includes Rebecca Carroll – EDF, John Pye – Eden Project Morecambe, Pete Stephenson - Morecambe Bay Chowder and Tina Milner - Lancashire Careers Hub

• Stalls from our favourite friends; Another Way, Bioregional Bundles, Climate Ambassadors, Earnse Bay Beach School, Eden Project, Food Futures, Futureproof Cumbria, Lancaster University, Lancashire Wildlife Trust, Let’s Go Zero, Little Chatters, MBC Working Groups, Micro:bit, National Education Nature Parks, Natural England, Our Future Coast, Rewilding Roots, Royal Society, The Bay: A Blueprint for Recovery and University of Cumbria: Storytelling
• A delicious plant-based lunch!

MBC Conference Aims

The MBC Conference welcomes all teachers, educators and community practitioners from across the Bay. We foster a space for place-based, collaborative projects and curriculum to come to life!

• Hosting an inclusive, dedicated space for teachers to meet other partners involved in sustainability and place in the Bay, in order to join up thinking and create connections that will benefit teachers, pupils and our local area
• Inspiring teachers by benefiting from the latest CPD in sustainability, environment, health, green skills and community practice
• Helping teachers to embed sustainability and place into your practice by hosting deliberate conversations between Lancaster University, Lancaster and Morecambe College, University of Cumbria, Eden Project and friends of the MBC