These are climate and environmental groups covering Wanstead, Redbridge, East London and Essex that we know about. Let us know if we’ve missed important groups.
Community action
- Transition Towns include practical actions for the transition to a sustainable future free of fossil fuels, including gardening, food and community energy projects
- Green at Barts Health Email Website Campaigning for the Whipps Cross redevelopment to be carbon neutral, among other things.
- Leytonstone Climate Collective – new community group for June 2022
- St Johns Leytonstone hosts occasional family-friendly climate action days.
- Waltham Forest Climate Cafe is a dialogue space, meeting twice-monthly in Leytonstone.
- South Woodford Society
- Aldborough Hatch Defence Association campaigns for biodiversity in Redbridge.
- Barkingside 21, one of the original Local Agenda 21 organisations set up in the 1990s. Meets second Tuesday of the month (ex Aug, Dec) at Fullwell Cross Library, 10 am.
- Cleaner Greener Wanstead – dormant as of 2023
Transport
- Mums for Lungs Redbridge Info page
- London Cycling Campaign (LCC)
- Redbridge Cycling Campaign runs community rides for all and has a Climate Safe Streets plan for Redbridge
- Also Redbridge Cycle Sisters
- Stop Silvertown Tunnel campaign against huge new polluting road in East London
- HACAN East Residents under London City Airport (and Heathrow) flight paths
Other nearby climate action groups
- Fossil Free London – actively targeting fossil fuel and investor London HQs
- Epping Forest Climate Action (FB page)
- Extinction Rebellion Waltham Forest Extinction Rebellion (XR) has local groups in most London boroughs, but as of 2022 not Redbridge
- Extinction Rebellion Leytonstone (FB page)
- Fossil Free Newham incorporating Climate Action Newham Blog Twitter
- Stop Edmonton Incinerator
- Friends of the Earth (FoE) climate action groups
Conservation
- WREN Wildlife and conservation group
- London Wildlife Trust
- Redbridge/Vision volunteering
- Wild Wanstead (Facebook)
- Thames21 sometimes works on the Roding
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