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

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

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

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