1% Women's Environmental Network - 'Cultivating the Future' project

WEN are based in the inner city London borough of Tower Hamlets, where over 58 per cent of the population is from non-white British ethnic groups. Working with disadvantaged and Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) women the organisation provides practical support and advice on growing food and on composting, bringing together the issues of local food and waste prevention. One group supported in this way is the Coriander Club, where a Sylheti speaking support worker provides practical skills in horticulture. Free training in numeracy, literacy, English and healthy cooking are also offered.

WEN has also developed a national network of food growing groups and local food initiatives, and now supports a network of over 50 growing groups in cities such as London, Bradford, Birmingham, Portsmouth and Sheffield.

Women's Environmental Network puts groups in touch with one another and arranges exchange visits. Lynette Patterson of Guyana Link is pictured here with pumpkins on a visit to Coriander Club, Spitalfields City Farm

Some of the projects we support

4% Tree Aid - is the UK’s only forestry-based development agency, helping villagers in some of the poorest countries in the world plant new trees.

4% - Permaculture Institute of El Salvador, Central America - founded by small farmers who wanted to stop the progress of destruction to their environment and way of life

1% - Chorlton Green Festival - is a not-for-profit festival that celebrates all things Green

1% - Abundance Manchester - local community project that harvests fruit and veg.

1% - Climate Camp - equips participants in the skills and knowledge needed to take action against climate change.

View some of the other projects we've supported