PROJECT
Everyone’s Environment
Building a future where everyone’s voice shapes environmental action. This collaborative project is funded by The National Lottery Community Fund.
Project Overview
Everyone’s Environment is building ambitious collaborations across communities, local areas, and sectors to ensure social justice and community voice are central to environmental action.
Through the Everyone’s Environment Local and Voices project strands, the Race Equality Foundation is leading the work on empowering Black, Asian, and minoritised ethnic communities to make sure they share the benefit of a greener future without carrying all the costs.
We’re proud to be working in partnership with Disability Rights UK, Turn2Us, NPC, and our delivery partners Media Trust and Hope for the Future.
Join the Voices: Help shape climate action in your community
Applications for the Voices Champions Programme are now closed.
We were recruiting 20 Voices Champions , people passionate about growing their confidence, building new skills, and helping shape decisions about climate and the environment.
If you’re interested in future opportunities, you can register your interest here or contact Lee@racefound.org.uk
Thank you to everyone who applied and helped spread the word.
Everyone’s Environment: Voices
Everyone’s Environment: Voices is designed to support to Black, Asian and minoritised ethnic individuals whose experiences are missing from environmental debates, but who are ready to change that.
The programme amplifies the voices of communities disproportionately affected by climate change and nature loss, helping them shape the public and media debate, and tell their own stories on their own terms.
Participants will co-create the programme, gaining practical training in storytelling, media engagement, and policy advocacy. By joining, participants become part of a growing network of champions working together to ensure community voices are heard and shape the public conversation.
If you think you have experience that is not currently reflected in environmental debates, you could receive support as part of Everyone’s Environment: Voices.
Everyone’s Environment: Local
Everyone’s Environment: Local is currently supporting Greater Manchester-based organisations who work with people facing financial insecurity, Disabled people, or Black, Asian, and minoritised ethnic communities.
This programme helps local organisations take action on environmental issues affecting their communities. It centres people’s lived experiences allowing participation without requiring environmental expertise. The programme will be co-designed, foster collaboration, support joint action, and offer training, funding, and tailored support to help people with lived experience influence environmental policy.
If you are a grassroots organisation working with people facing financial insecurity, Disabled people or ethnic minority communities, you could receive hands-on support as part of Everyone’s Environment: Local.
Thanks to National Lottery players, Everyone’s Environment: Local & Voices has received funding until March 2028 from The National Lottery Community Fund, the largest community funder in the UK.
The National Lottery Community Fund supports communities across the UK to take action on climate change and involve more people in climate action. This forms part of one of the funder’s four key missions in its 2030 strategy, ‘It starts with community’ – supporting communities to be environmentally sustainable.
