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Can we Unite for Warm Homes?
Our theme Warm Homes, Cool Planet is asking: how can we address the immediate energy crisis, while building a long-term response to the climate crisis? Birmingham Friends of the Earth (BFoE) are calling on the UK government to provide emergency support to keep people warm this winter, and make long-term changes to transform our energy…
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Warm Homes, Cool Planet
We’re pleased to announce that our new theme for spring 2023 is: Energy prices are rising rapidly and many people are in difficulty paying bills. We are addicted to fossil fuels for our energy, putting the power over our access to heating, lighting and cooking in the hands of a small number of corporations and…
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Safe & Sound?
We’re pleased to announce our new theme at Peace Hub, from now until the end of 2022: Safe & SoundHow can we create security for everyone? Traditionally we see security as safety from threats. So often at the Hub, when we’re suggesting actions to support each other, people react with a note of fear: “it…
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Keep taking action to Share our Common Wealth
After 12 days celebrating sport and our city, hosting athletes and teams from across the world, the Commonwealth Games closed last night. Our theme Sharing Common Wealth? continues until the end of August, so feel free to pop into town (now that it’s a bit less busy!) and say hello to us on Bull St.…
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Climate Justice & the Commonwealth
The UK has just experienced its hottest day on record, a stark reminder that climate change is already affecting our lives, and is set to get much worse without urgent action. But extreme weather like this doesn’t affect everyone equally. Whilst all of us struggled with the extreme temperatures on Monday and Tuesday, people on…
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New Climate Board Game designed by Young Brummies
Our current theme Live, Love, Learn is all about sustainable education – but how can we make complex issues around the climate accessible and understandable? Young people in Birmingham have been making their own contribution, working with researchers to develop a game that helps players learn about the role of the built environment in the…
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Keep Taking Action for Economic Equality
Our theme Think Global, Act Local, Get Equal is coming to an end, but there are still plenty of ways to take action: On 6th October, millions of families will lose the £20 Universal Credit lifeline – you can join Joseph Rowntree Foundation in calling to Keep the Lifeline. Keeping this £20 uplift is important,…
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Take Action for Climate & Economic Justice
It’s been great to support the Relay to COP26 as it passes through Birmingham this week. This November, world leaders are meeting in Glasgow for important climate negotiations called COP26. On Friday 11th June, a group led by Young Christian Climate Network (YCCN) began walking from the G7 summit of wealthy nations hosted in Cornwall,…
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Mental Health Awareness Week
10th-16th May is Mental Health Awareness Week – the theme for 2021 is connecting with nature. The week was created by the Mental Health Foundation (MHF) who describe it as “an opportunity for the whole of the UK to focus on achieving good mental health.” This past year has taken a toll on our mental…
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Make ‘the Commitment’ for a healthy planet
Join in with this simple action ahead of the West Midlands Mayoral Elections in May. Our friends at The Commitment work to put climate change and the natural world higher up the political agenda, by collecting Commitments from the public and taking them to politicians, giving those in power a mandate to act. Like Peace…