Donate and help to complete Newham's first local community 'food forest' !

At ClimateYouChange, we have been working hard to increase understanding of the climate crisis within our communities, through direct, grass roots action and involvement with our local council.

Earlier this year we were given the Green Champion Award, as part of Newham Councils Civic Awards.​​​ 

Our work revolves around expressing the urgency of our global situation and highlighting the vanishingly small window of opportunity within which we have to act, alongside involving local people in climate change mitigatory measures. We use both education and legacy infrastructure to achieve this.

Through our work on the Fair Share Food Forest, based at the Katherine Road Community Centre, we have been teaching local people how they can reduce their green house gas emissions and become better custodians of the Earth using a 'closed loop' perennial food growing system.

We are educating residents on both the how and the why, explaining the myriad benefits for the natural World, enhancing bio-diversity, increasing numbers of pollinators and beneficial insects, decreasing pests, reducing loss of topsoil, alongside improved soil health.  

We have run the project using Newham Council allotted funding from their People Powered Places initiative, starting by preparing the site in early 2024. We have already planted a number of fruit bushes, support species plants, food growing understory plants and perennial vegetables. We however require extra plants to complete the planting plan; especially at one end of the site.

So, we have set up a Crowdfunder page to help us raise the £1,000 we need to ​complete this community perennial, 'food forest', including final planting and accessibility infrastructure. 

Please give what you can and use your networks to share the climateyouchange.org website with others.

Crowdfunder page