2022

Back in late 2019 when ClimateYouChange was in its infancy, group members contributed to the group plan, whereupon priorities were finalised. One such priority and aim was to include children’s climate change education as part of the group offer. Owing to working on various projects this was not realised until now!   In July of this year, group Founder, Celia, met youth coordinator, Joseph, at a local event. She told him about the group’s work and invited him to join the grou

In December of 2021, we were emailed by the Principal Environmental Improvement Officer for Parks and Green Spaces in the London Borough of Newham, to let us know about the co-designing opportunities for an extensive, 112-acre green space redesign taking place in the south of the borough.   The draft Masterplan focuses on a number of parks, one of which includes a lake; a sports field, woodland, a green corridor linking urban areas and the site of a former community farm, in

We were approached in January of this year by the Renewal Programme and invited to work in partnership with them on an energy-saving initiative, as part of a wider project, entitled ‘Stay Warm in Newham’. We chose to be involved to increase our knowledge of measures we can all take to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions through decreased energy use. We were also interested in supporting the rollout of the Green Doctors programme within Newham, to help local people lower their

Towards the end of July we met with the Green Street Programme Manager, Clive Kershaw who is responsible for the development and delivery of the £5.3M Queens Market ‘Good Growth programme’, jointly funded by Newham Council and the Mayor of London.   This programme was set up by the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan. It is being implemented in Newham as a borough-wide initiative working on supporting economic development and community well-being. As part of this, significant funds h