Nik Elvy

Artist | Master of Tiny Adventures | Outdoor Cook
Frilufstliv | Access | Folklore | Community
💚poverty proofing the outdoors
🌱outdoor blogger & speaker
🐺adhd

[Nik Elvy @ElvyCurious]

Outdoor Poverty Paradox
(my work, research and lived experience made visual)
#inclusion #diversity #outdoors #OutdoorEducation #OutdoorLearning #poverty #CostOfLivingCrisis

[Nik Elvy @ElvyCurious]

@SlowWaysUK Sounds exciting! Would love to hear more.

[Nik Elvy @ElvyCurious]

@EdadventuresM @Al_Humphreys Thanks 😁

[Nik Elvy @ElvyCurious]

@Al_Humphreys Yes sounds great! Any more details? Deadline?

[Nik Elvy @ElvyCurious]

@anitakntweets @IOLOutdoorProfs Important conversation. I was told I shouldn’t be working in the outdoors as I should get a proper job that would better feed my family! The perception that outdoors = Leisure for the privileged is hard to break

[Joanie Willett @JoanieWillett]

For anyone with an interest in cycling in Cornwall, this is a must for thinking/talking through about how we can make cycling better, safer, and more accessible.
https://t.co/JuqrRjbNcL

[Nik Elvy @ElvyCurious]

@ParisGm1 @JennyAThatcher Yes. This is true of this article. More people having conversations about access &disability outdoors. There are brilliant role models representing disability outdoors. This article was specific to economic exclusion &poverty outdoors-a rare conversation &few role models

[Nik Elvy @ElvyCurious]

@Defo_not_Dave @JennyAThatcher Sometimes living rurally reduces your access to walking routes.This is the opposite of what most people believe about the “countryside”.There can be less common land & you can be surrounded by private agricultural land that you have no access to. Rural transport links don’t help

[Anne James Creative Female @AnneFemale]

@ElvyCurious @JennyAThatcher My dad was born in the east-end of London in the 1920s and got taken into the country by some sort of ‘ragged schoolchild’ charity. Those charities have gone but so has the welfare state and full employment - going into the country is impossible for those in poverty.

[Nik Elvy @ElvyCurious]

@JennyAThatcher @raddledoldtart @larslalars There are kids who live in Cornwall who have never been to the beach

[Nik Elvy @ElvyCurious]

@ESDale77 @TheNMMC Brilliant!

[Guz Khan 🥶 @GuzKhanOfficial]

I’m not trying to be a wimp, but what is going to take a long time to heal in my heart personally is the videos of parents with their kids screaming “Pakis out!” In the streets of England and Ireland.

2024…what a disgrace man.

[Nik Elvy @ElvyCurious]

FANCY A CAMP OUT WITH US?!
A mini Adventure for you and your family in Bodmin.
Message me to let me know you want to join us so I can book you a place and buy enough food for everyone.
Some camping kit available to borrow.
Limited places.

[Noticing Nature: the British microseason project @Naturalcalendar]

Disappointing to see racism and xenophobia in prominent birders' tweets, so let's clap back and highlight the brilliant work of Flock Together, who are doing such a great job of challenging the underrepresentation of the black community in ornithology!

https://t.co/vfCzkovomp

[Nik Elvy @ElvyCurious]

@TheEllieBaker I am in need of replenishment, yes! X

[Nik Elvy @ElvyCurious]

@TheEllieBaker I need me one of these! X

[Nik Elvy @ElvyCurious]

There are lots of layers to the work we do, most of it is never seen. I am so grateful that Ali has found a way to describe her relationship to the world & hopefully now feels she belongs outdoors, on adventures & in nature.
https://t.co/5zrgsTt8Z5

[Joseph Rowntree Foundation @jrf_uk]

More people are in material deprivation compared to before the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new @TheIFS analysis funded by JRF.

This means more people are struggling to heat their homes, keep up with their bills or went without a range of other items and services 🔽 (1/4)

[Nik Elvy @ElvyCurious]

@anitakntweets @WWTworldwide 100%