2021

Thank you very much to Varsha Patel, Janet and Kenn Vickers for inviting us to give a talk on climate change at the Dorset Road Community Garden in the Green Street neighbourhood. This is as part of a series of educational events that they are hosting as a council funded initiative. We gave a speech outlining the extreme nature of climate change already being experienced across the globe, showing the frequency and degree to which the related disasters are escalating. We the

After ClimateYouChange’s unsuccessful Newham Council Community Assembly funding application [See article: ' ClimateYouChange community funding bid for Green Infrastructure and Teaching project at Brampton Park ' ], ClimateYouChange contacted Anna Yusuf, the Community Neighbourhoods Senior Officer for East Ham, and suggested that Anna let them know of any alternative funding streams for our food gro wing suggestions at Brampton Park, building upon our original involvement in

ClimateYouChange and Green Street Working Group members, Shiraz, Lewis, Celia and Tariq have achieved success with two of the funding bid suggestions we put forward and developed with the other Working Group members and council officers for Community Assembly CIL voting. Successful projects: The projects in question received the highest number of residents’ votes out of the 15 projects put forward by residents, local community groups and the Green Street Working Group and are

Earlier this month we found out the results of the residents’ voting for the Newham Council Community Infrastructure funding pot that we applied for earlier in the Summer. [See blog post ' C limateYouChange community funding bid for Green Infrastructure and Teaching project at Brampton Park ' ].   Unfortunately, despite best efforts we were pipped to the post by projects tackling fly tipping, cleanliness, crime, ASB, an accessible toilet, old/damaged play equipment, and lack

Further to an invitation from Newham Council to speak at the Citizen’s Assembly on Greening the Borough we have given a speech and interacted with the assembly members with quick fire Q & A.   The event to which we contributed was held in partnership with the Democratic Society who were supporting the council in the assembly delivery. The aim was to provide a cross-section of Newham residents with the opportunity to give their thoughts and recommendations on borough-wide gree

Further to ClimateYouChange and Green Street Working Group members, Lewis, Shiraz, Tariq and Celia being involved in developing sustainability featured Working Group project proposals, Zakir Adam, Community Neighbourhood Manager for Green Street, has costed the Working Group CIL proposals and checked for any conflict of interest with the council services and infrastructure team. We are now happy to report that all of the projects were found to be deliverable, and on the 6 th

Last month at the East Ham Nature Reserve, we bumped into Anna Yusuf (the Community Neighbourhoods Senior Officer for East Ham) whilst she was running a council community activity. ClimateYouChange founder, Celia had already been working with Anna on the co-design for a new community garden at Brampton Park.   Anna asked whether ClimateYouChange were thinking about applying for the newly created Newham Council Community Infrastructure (CIL) funding pot * to support some of CY

Since meeting with the MP for East Ham, Stephen Timms at the beginning of the year, in late January we sent him a comprehensive document explaining our Greenway orchard planting proposal. We included information on tree cultivar selection, looking in detail at a host of different considerations important for long-term viability of the orchard, benefits to local people, biodiversity, ecological health, carbon drawdown and reduced food shipping miles. We also touched on agrofor

ClimateYouChange have been successful in co-designing further funding bids for Newham’s Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) * , after a fortuitous turn of events. *   CIL funding comes from a lev y payable by developers. This money must be spent on community infrastructure which directly benefits local people. Newham Mayor Rokhsana Fiaz is allocating CIL funds (£100k per neighbourhood area; £800k across the borough) to create, citizen-led projects to be voted on and chosen b

We have been contributing to the Brampton Park community meetings that started in October 2020, as part of the community engagement programme run by the East Ham Community Neighbourhood Team. 
The aim is to create a community garden and growing space that makes use of unused parkland. ClimateYouChange members have been working on how to effectively include climate change mitigatory and adaptation measures, plus environmental protections. These include using the project as an

This time last year, ClimateYouChange members met with Stephen Timms, MP for East Ham.   He suggested that our group decide on “one big idea” to propose to him as a project that we could explore together.   We were subsequently pulled in different directions with various projects, alongside the disruption of COVID.   One of our members, Jonathan (a committed vegan), suggested fruit tree planting as the ‘one big idea’, given the need for more plant-based food and less animal p