Wanstead Climate Action

Who Are We?

We are Wanstead Climate Action, a friendly local group who came together in 2019 over shared concerns about the climate emergency. Through community and political outreach, protest and campaigning, we aim to improve awareness of the urgent need to reduce carbon emissions to zero and stop global heating. Please join us to help make positive change.

WCA Latest News

Wanstead Climate Action (WCA) supports the Great Homes Upgrade campaign to rapidly cut bills and emissions from home heating. In March 2022 we were outside the Treasury to hand in a letter calling for funds to retrofit over 4m homes by 2025, to be greener and warmer.
Please see our guide on how to take action

WCA member and founder of Redbridge Mums For Lungs Lydia has, as a result of a successful campaign, had this air pollution monitor installed in Elmhurst Gardens next to the playground & A406. From March it began transmitting real time data online at breathelondon.org.

It was wonderful to share ideas and tips and meet new friends at the Climate Picnic on 11 Sep. Workshops included community gardening and biodiversity, reuse and composting, air pollution & active travel, home energy, creating a hedgehog-friendly garden, letter-writing, origami animals and face-painting for kids. Thanks to everyone who came!

Climate Picnic, Christchurch Green, 11 September 2022

Dates coming up

Sun 18 Sep, 11-5, Wanstead Festival has been postponed to 2 Oct. We’re hoping we can still run a stall.

Mon 19 Sep, 7.30-9pm, The Larder. Wanstead Fringe: Talk by Dan Edelstyn ‘The role of art and film in social change’.

Wed 21 Sep. High St Ilford – street outreach on Great Homes Upgrade and everything else under the sun.

Sat 1 Oct onwards, Just Stop Oil start blockade of Parliament Square to demand no new oil or gas; Fri 14 Oct, Extinction Rebellion come to London (after bus tour 20 Sep – 13 Oct) to demand much the same thing.

Get involved in Redbridge

Redbridge council’s next Climate Action Forum (register via this link) is expected to be an in-person meeting in October 2022 with a one-year update on the Climate Action Plan. The forum is for any person or group (more groups here) in Redbridge with a passion for the environment, to collaborate and share ideas, opportunities and inspiration for community efforts to tackle the climate crisis.