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ClimateYouChange would like to thank Max Eckersley, Managing Editor at the Hackney Citizen and the newly launched Newham Citizen for approaching us for a full-page feature article about our organisation in their first print edition and accompanying online edition. Click the Newspaper article image below to open up the digital version on the Newham Citizen website in a new page >

ClimateYouChange, is celebrating its pilot community collaboration project to combat climate change with a special community event to showcase the workshops, and legacy infrastructure our group and local volunteers have created using People Powered Places funding from Newham Council.  Hosted at the Katherine Rd Community Centre, E7 8PN from 2pm to 4pm on Sunday, 14 Sep, the event will celebrate the many project elements that have been undertaken during 2024-25 including: Expe

We had a great second session of our climate change combating food growing workshops. Participants were super engaged and keen to learn. ​​​ We started off by giving everyone a tour of the food forest, explaining why low/zero external input, perennial food growing systems are needed and introduced workshop attendees to the different plants, including giving tastes of delicious hard-to-get foods being grown that they had not previously tried.  Workshop participants were then s

We now have both educational raised beds installed in the back garden of the Katherine Road Community Centre. They are constructed from larch wood, meaning that without treatment they would last around fifteen years. One of the raised beds has however been treated with a wood preservation technique called Shou Sugi Ban. (Ideally, if we had time we would have treated both.) Shou Sugi Ban involves flaming wood to char the surface, wick away water and close capillaries in the wo

As part of our Food Forest project for the Katherine Road Community Centre in E7, we have installed this sign today to formely titled the new 'Fair Share Food Forest'.   Funded by People Powered Places, the food forest is for anyone from the local community to get involved and help do some gardening in the food forest and gain their fair share of the food produced.   If you would like to be involved with the food forest project or interested in joining Climate You Change at a

Thank you to everyone who helped to pave the way for today’s visit with our MP, Sir Stephen Timms! Countless man (and woman) hours went into maintaining the site, further to our initial ground prep and planting days, including extending the site from its original boundary and installing the large rainwater harvesting system. Between us we have added new plants, weeded, removed litter, watered during hot spells and helped keep pests at bay. Fortunately, we will see less such w

We had a fantastic first session in our series of food growing workshops, teaching residents how they can help to combat climate change through growing food and providing plants for pollinators/beneficial insects. We ran this event not only for the autistic community, as part of WAAW, but for a wider audience to include people with special educational needs with or without autism, plus any carers for those with additional support needs. The workshop was tailored to attendees

We have just received the Green Champion Award at Newham Council’s Civic Awards, held in Stratford’s old town hall.   It was an honour being given the award, and the evening was a glamorous affair.   However, we did not lose our focus on why we were there and why the work to tackle the climate crisis is so urgently needed.   For us, the main benefit to the recognition from Newham Council is the increased awareness it brings to our work!   Below is an extract from the thank yo

Both events during the weekends of 15 th  & 22 nd June were really well received by residents. They were so much fun to run, owing in no small part to the fantastic engagement from members of our community who rolled up their sleeves and worked hard to make delicious meals, together with ClimateYouChange members and volunteers. There was such a lovely feeling of camaraderie!   We were lucky to be helped by CYC member, Mandy whose experience as a chef really helped make the fi