The Netherlands
Welcome to The Netherlands!
Here the relay travels to an amazing Tiny Forest, Eco-Schools and different Green Key and Blue Flag sites. You can discover more about each of these fantastic highlights below. We also invite you to help carry the relay baton forward and run a stage!
Join relay runners in the Netherlands and celebrate climate action!
Throughout the 7,767km relay route we are visiting and celebrating some of the world’s most inspirational and groundbreaking climate action projects. Discover more about these projects below.
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Tiny Forest Sint-Janslyceum, 's-Hertogenbosch
Tiny Forests ® are densely packed native forests, that fit into the size of a tennis court. A Tiny forest is not just an pleasant spot for butterflies, birds, bees and small mammals; it is a great place for people too. Children learn about nature and it also serves as a meeting place for the local community. These dense, native woodlans are planted according to the Miyawaki method. IVN has planted over 160 Forests in public spaces in the Netherlands. One of them is ‘Het Bossche Bos’ near Het Sint-Janslyceum school in 's-Hertogenbosch.
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Tiny Forest Sint-Janslyceum, 's-Hertogenbosch
Tiny Forest is one of our ‘blockbuster programs’ that connects schoolchildren, teachers, local communities and nature. The success is that a Tiny Forest is a practical way to contribute to large themes like loss of biodiversity, climate change and adaptation.
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Running Out of Time is an annual climate relay that raises awareness, inspires action and celebrates great climate campaigns, projects and events across Britain.
The 2024 Relay launches 6th June at Ben Nevis before undertaking an extraordinary 2,436km journey through 50 cities and towns to Big Ben in Parliament Square, London on July 4th. Comprising 210 stages - and 80+ visits to climate & nature projects, sporting bodies & venues, schools, events and iconic locations - its set to be the most spectacular Climate Relay yet.
It features famous sporting venues; stunning natural sites, schools, universities, community projects, music, fashion and climate events. And a host of different and imaginative ways to move the baton which will be run, walked, cycled, swum, surfed, paddled, skied, para-glided and wake boarded along the way!
It should be fun, inspirational, and epic and we’d love you to join us! Please sign up now and help unite people, climate and nature!
The relay starts at Lochaber High School, Fort William, on Thursday 6th June and will finish at Big Ben on Thursday 4th July.
You must be over the age of 18 to sign-up to our relay and be able maintain an average pace of 7 minutes per kilometre for the duration of a stage.
If you are under the age of 18 and would like to run a stage, then please ask your parent/legal guardian to contact us at [email protected] and we will see if this can be accommodated.
We want the Relay to champion climate action and nature, to celebrate the fantastic work that’s already being done, to raise awareness, change minds and inspire action, and to gently but firmly keep the pressure on our governments, our employers, our places of learning and ourselves to take collective action.
We want it to be an event that links and unites, that demonstrates the support that exists for change, and that provides our partners with a platform to help achieve their goals and objectives.
We do this because we believe in a future that not only avoids the most disastrous impacts of climate change and biodiversity loss - indescribably important though that is - but that also takes us to a better place. One with sustainable, affordable energy, with clean air and clean water, with food for all, and a natural world that can be enjoyed by future generations.
We know we are only a tiny part of a global community that shares this vision but relays are what we do and we are determined to play our part.
National partner
IVN Nature Education
The mission of IVN is to connect people with nature. Our vision is to create a society that is connected to nature and that cities and villages are natural habitats for human beings and other species and contribute to social cohesion, health and creativity. Our programs create green & natural schools, green cities and natural healthcare. IVN has 150 employees and 100,000 volunteers who contribute to our mission.