"Adventure + Inclusivity In The Outdoors" ft. Dwayne Fields
Lizzie Carr talks to fellow adventurer and naturalist Dwayne Fields. Dwayne is the first black Briton to have walked to the magnetic North Pole, he was awarded the City of London’s highest honour of The Freedom of the City of London for his work with young people to engage them with the countryside. In this episode Dwayne discusses how he developed his love for nature and the outdoors into a career, moving from Jamaica to the UK as a young boy and feeling like he needed to hide his true self in order to fit in with his peers and stay safe in inner city London where during his teens he was the victim of both knife and gun crime. Dwayne also opens up about the recent Countryfile episode where he described the UK outdoors as not being as welcoming an environment to people of colour. His comments sparked a National race conversation and gained Countryfile its largest number of complaints in its history on the BBC. Dwayne is currently fundraising and planning an expedition to take under-privileged youngsters to Antarctica through his #WeTwo Foundation with fellow adventurer Phoebe Smith. (Find out more at teamwetwo.com and you can donate here: https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/wetwo) https://www.teamwetwo.com https://www.dwayne-fields.com Follow Dwayne: Instagram.com/dwaynefields; twitter.com/dwaynefields