Everyone’s Environment
Communities shaping decisions about the climate, nature, and our futures. This collaborative project is funded by The National Lottery Community Fund.
Everyone’s Environment is an alliance of more than 80 social purpose and environmental organisations championing community voices and life experiences. Together with communities experiencing inequalities, we are changing who is included in decisions about the climate, nature, and our futures.
Race Equality Foundation leads the alliance’s 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 with NPC, who enables the programme, in partnership with Disability Rights UK, Turn2Us, and our delivery partners Media Trust and Hope for the Future.
Voices
Everyone’s Environment supports communities to shape decisions about climate and nature through our national, local, individual (Voices program), and leaders work.
Everyone’s Environment: Voices aims to amplify the voices of communities most affected by climate change and nature loss, helping them shape the narrative by telling their own stories. It provides practical training in storytelling, media engagement, and policy advocacy. By joining, participants become part of a growing network of champions working together to get community voices heard and shape the public conversation.
Recruitment will open in late Spring.
Local
Everyone’s Environment: Local is a programme designed to equip local organisations to take action on environmental issues affecting their communities. The programme fosters collaboration, supports joint action, and offers training, funding, and tailored support to help people with lived experience influence environmental policy.
The programme is currently supporting community organisations in Greater Manchester.
Funding
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.
In case of any enquiries, please contact the Project Lead, Lee Lockhart.
Further Reading
Climate Justice, Financial Security, and Racial Equality: Why a Just Transition Must Work for Everyone
Kenya Lamb, Turn2us; Lee Lockhart, Race Equality Foundation Caring about the climate often feels like a luxury. When you are [...]
Disability, race, and the climate crisis
Lee Lockhart, Race Equality Foundation; Polly Mahon, Disability Rights UKIt is popular to describe the climate and nature crisis as [...]
The violence of climate inaction: why racial equity must be central
Within days of the new year, Oxfam research revealed that the world’s wealthiest 1 per cent had already exhausted their [...]
