Environmental Campaigns

According to the Vegan Society, 42 per cent of UK vegans made the choice to go meat-and-dairy-free in 2018, showing how rapidly the movement is picking up in recent years. Whether we’re making a conscious effort to lower our red meat intake or we’re grabbing some compost bags and heading outside to grow our own […]

Did you know scientists estimate that by 2050 there will be more plastic than fish in the world’s oceans? About half of all plastic produced is for single-use or disposable items such as packaging.  Choose to refuse single-use plastic this July by signing up for the Plastic Free July challenge at www.plasticfreejuly.org. By bringing your own reusable shopping […]

The UK has a serious litter problem. Take a look around you – every village, town, city, beach and roadside is blighted with the lazy leftovers of our daily lives. Clean Up Britain had been wrestling hard with how to properly ignite the conversation about litter and the damage it does and has recently launched […]

Five years ago, ethical investments were all the rage in the UK. After all, not only did these options enable individuals to contribute towards the well-being of the environment, but the top-performing funds also rewarded investors with returns of between 40% and 50% in some instances. While these margins may have been squeezed during recent […]

Our oceans may look beautiful from the comfort of a beach resort, or from the images we see in glossy travel brochures.But they are far from clean. Over 5 trillion pieces of plastic currently pollute our oceans, killing over one million seabirds and more than 100,000 marine mammals every single year. The figures are shocking […]

Evergreen Insurance services are running a fabulous competition in which you can help your favourite wildlife charity win £1000. Visit Evergreen Insurance Services online or at The CountryFile show (3rd-6th August) and they will be delighted to provide you with a quote for your insurance needs as well as enabling you to nominate your charity for the […]

If you’re concerned about the problem of plastic pollution, the damage it is doing to our oceans and sea life and want to cut down on the plastic you use in your home then the plastic challenge could be for you. The Plastic Challenge takes place throughout June and is being run by the Marine Conservation Society UK. Visit their website […]

More than half of the world’s population lives in cities. Some of the urban jungles across the globe are suffocating in bouts of dense smog and extremely high levels of toxic air pollution. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), air pollution is now a greater threat to health than Ebola or HIV and 80% […]

Many people and organisations throw educational books away as they think once they are out of date they are unusable. But ‘Book Aid For Africa’ a registered charity takes new, unwanted and second hand text and reference books and distributes them to people in Africa. As long as the books are in good condition and published within the last 15 years they […]

Taking care of the environment has become a priority for many communities. You don’t need to have bad drinking water or skies filled with pollution to understand the consequences of being bad stewards of the earth. It isn’t necessary to donate large amounts of money or time to make the environment better. You don’t even […]