Helping young people understand biodiversity and the role of fungi in the environment, encouraging cross-curricular links between Arts, Science, English, Music and History, and celebrating all who take part!

Inspired by fungi

With fungi capturing our attention and making increasing appearances in television, film, art, and music, now is the perfect time to celebrate these amazing organisms, essential to life on Earth! Fungi Connect aims to encourage young people up to age 18 to become inspired by the fungi around them, and to create their own pieces of work all about the Kingdom Fungi.

In 2024 nine schools, youth groups, forest schools and home-schoolers below got involved and sent us their fungus-inspired work! Click on the blue boxes below to see what each team produced. There is some amazing artwork, creative writing, photography, music, an animation, a clay model and a crocheted mushroom; we are delighted to see young people being inspired by fungi in this way.

Framlingham Fabulous Fungi

Badger Forest School

Adelaide Heath Academy

Art Agaric

Burgess Hill Girls

Biology@Kingsley

Spore-tacular Halliford

Tewkesbury Turkey Tails

Woodland Warriors

Supported by Summerfield Books

Summerfield Books supply new, rare and out-of-print books on mycology, botany, forestry and natural history. They have a fantastic selection of mycology/fungi titles, and the top performing 5 schools/groups will each receive £25 vouchers to spend on their website.