Kate Damiral's blog

It’s Climate Week and on Tuesday - very appropriately - NCVO held a cross-sectoral roundtable on climate change and vulnerability.

Last week we brought together participants of NCVO’s vulnerable people and climate change project for a final workshop.

My Mum, a widow living alone, was 76 years old in 2007 when the floods hit Hull. Initially we thought she had been lucky because even though her street was badly flooded there was no visible water in her house.

It had rained for days and days! When the floods began, the streets turned into rivers: many people were in total shock, although we all knew Hull was at risk as a low-lying city.

Risks of flooding, heatwaves and lost connections with family and friends in other parts of the world were top of the list of issues for our second climate change project workshop for black and minority ethnic (BME) organisations in Greater Manchester on 20 June.

The latest cohort of organisations to join our climate change project got off to a flying start last week. Twenty BME organisations working across Greater Manchester met up last Tuesday at Bridge 5 Mill for the first of three workshops to explore how climate change could affect the people they support and the

Here at NCVO, we’re getting ready to celebrate Climate Week which runs 12th-18th March.

We’ve now started work with our second cohort of organisations taking part in our vulnerable people and climate change project.