Mount Edgcumbe, Plymouth
Ramblings
BBC
4.5 • 768 Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2017
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Clare Balding joins some of the members of START - Students and Refugees Together, to explore some of the beautiful countryside in easy access of Plymouth. START is a small charity that works with refugees in the city by putting them together with student volunteers to help them become self-reliant and active contributors to their local community. Walks are an important part of the organisation, encouraging refugees to get to know the city and some of the countryside that surrounds it as well as being a way to make friends and practise their English. Clare talks to social worker, Avril Bellinger, who initiated the scheme, about the benefits walking has bought to the group and to the students and refugees who have built such a bond. Producer Lucy Lunt.
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| 0:44.9 | of ramblings. It's a crisp winter's day. Any morning mist has lifted. The frost has melted |
| 0:53.6 | and I'm in Plymouth right on the the edge of Devon, about to cross Plymouth sand, so technically going into Cornwall, and we're hopping on a ferry with about 30 other people, because I'm joining a group called Start, who work with newly arrived refugees to help them explore the local area. |
| 1:11.6 | Morning, thank you very much to help them explore the local area. |
| 1:14.6 | And one of the ways in which they do that is to walk with them. |
| 1:18.6 | So this little ferry, Blue and White Ferry, Kremel Ferry, is going to take us across the water. |
| 1:23.6 | One of the joys of using transport to get somewhere to start a walk is that everyone |
| 1:28.6 | is gathered together and you'll hear from the laughter that they've already started bonding. |
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