Kate Damiral's blog

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.

I keep imagining all the conversations about climate change that the participants in our climate change project have made happen in recent weeks; conversations about the evidence, the trends and the implications for older people.

We need to utilise the full power of the voluntary and community sector to help people face up to the difficult issues that climate change presents, and to develop the right support for the transition we’ll need to undertake.

But is the sector ready to step up to the challenge, asks Dr Rebecca Edwards from the Third Sector Research Centre.

And off we go!  Here’s a round up of our first workshop held earlier this month.

People from eight different older people’s organisations took part in this session, including several Universities of the Third Age and others providing services and representing the interests of older Londoners.

We recently met with the three organisations who’ll be helping to steer our work on climate change with older people’s organisations.

As this part of our project will be focusing specifically on London, we’ve recruited two pan-London bodies, Age UK London and the Greater London Forum for Older People. Both have great links to grassroots work happening across the capital, reaching a broad range of older Londoners.

Last month we brought together for an initial meeting the group of experts who’ll be helping NCVO to shape our vulnerable people and climate change project. 

They explain here why they decided to get involved.

This is just a quick update to let you know that the doors are now open for organisations to join our climate change project.

Enjoying the summer sunshine? In my new job as Climate Change Officer here at NCVO, I’ve learnt we can look forward to plenty of hotter British summers in the future, with milder winters too. 

While this might sound rather nice, start to explore climate change trends a bit further and it isn’t at all good news.