UK environmental links

Best Foot Forward
The Future Centre, 115 Magdalen Road, Oxford OX4 1RQ
T: 01865 250818 mail@bestfootforward.com
Provides information on environmental impact measured in terms of ‘footprinting’.

Black Environment Network
1st Floor, 60 High Street, Llanberis, Wales LL55 4EU T: 01286 870715
Membership organisation that focuses on encouraging ethnic community groups in the UK to be more involved in environmentally sustainable issues and projects. Produces newsletters and hosts a bimonthly networking conference.

Capacity Global
The Menier Gallery, 51-53 Southwark St London SE1 1RU T: 020 3117 0102 info@capacity.org.uk
Capacity’s objective is to deliver pioneering projects, research, policy and creative solutions that promote social equality and a healthy environment.

Climate Change Speaker Network
Nationwide network with speakers available to give climate change talks to schools, community groups, societies, faith groups, councils, etc.

Climate Concern UK
UK-based campaign group, specifically focussed on spreading the word to the general public to recognise the human-induced climate change problem and to encourage reductions in energy consumption.

CLOUT (Community Lobby Opposing Unheathy Tips)
Hilltop, Boothorpe, Blackfordby, Swadlincote, Derbyshire DE11 8BJ
T: 01283 222059 Andy.Symons@origin-it.com
Umbrella group for landfill action campaigns. Main objectives are to lobby government and act as a resource and central information centre for landfill action groups.

Commonground
Gold Hill House, 21 High Street, Shaftesbury, Dorset SP7 8JE T: +44 (0)1747 850820
Works to encourage people to value and enjoy their own familiar surrounding. Works with communities on parish maps. Reproduced parish maps can be bought from their offices. Produces publications and books.

Communities Appeal for Respect for the Environment (CARE)
Rose Cottage, Dolydd Road, Cefn Mawr, Wrexham LL14 3NH
T: 01978 820819 care@hinter.freeserve.co.uk
CARE is a voluntary environmental, grassroots organisation. Exists to empower others. Produces a Bi-monthly newsletter on environment, pollution and health. Membership organisation.

Communities Opposed To Environmental Pollution (COTEP)
618 Derby Road, Chesterfield, Derbyshire S42 6LZ T: 01246 233854
Pressure group working with communities that have had health problems due to their environment. Expertise in community hearings and legal action.

Don'tDumpThat
Helps people reduce the amount of perfectly useful but otherwise unwanted household items going into landfill sites. By registering in a local Don'tDumpThat forum, you can post items you no longer want so that other Don'tDumpThat members who do want them, can take them off your hands.

Dove (Defenders of the Ouse Valley and Estuary)
Campaign group objecting to East Sussex and Brighton & Hove Councils' proposed incincerator for Newhaven. Promotes recycling and waste reduction. Contact DOVE here

Eco-logic Books
A small, ethical company that specialises in books that provide practical solutions to environmental problems.

Elm Farm Research Centre
Hamstead Marshall, Nr Newbury, Berkshire RG20 0HR T: 01488 658298 elmfarm@efrc.com
Aims to change agricultural practice and policy to bring about a greater uptake of organic farming as a way of contributing towards sustainability in farming and land use.

Environment and Heritage Services, Environmental Protection (Northern Ireland)
Calvert House, 23 Castle Place, Belfast BT1 1FY T: 01232 254 754
Responsibilities to protect or enhance the environment in the line with sustainable development policy.

Environmental Law Foundation
16 Baldwins Gardens, London EC1N 7RJ Tel: 020 7404 1030 info@elflaw.org
ELF is a UK based national charity and provides legal assistance to individuals and community groups with environmental problems.

Envocare
T: 020 8398 2333 brenda@envocare.co.uk
A wide ranging, environmental, information site which identifies and abstracts hundreds of relevant resources. It also presents many detailed, factual, reference sections and numerous high quality photographs.

Fair Trade Foundation
Room 204, 16 Baldwin's Gardens, London EC1N 7RJ
T: 020 7405 5942 mail@fairtrade.org.uk

free2take
Free to use, non-profit website for advertising and claiming reusable items, helping to keep items out of landfill. Based in Belfast.

Friends of the Earth Scotland
2 Newhaven road, Edinburgh EH6 5QG T: 0131 554 9977 enquiries@foe-scotland.org.uk
Campaigns in Scotland on renewable energy, better public transport, cleaner rivers and beaches, opencast mining and freedom of information. of waste and traffic, and the eradication of fuel poverty. FoE local groups actively campaign to improve the environment in their own backyard, as well as joining in with campaigns nationally and internationally.

Friends of the Earth UK
26-28 Underwood Street, London N1 7JQ T: 020 7 566 1555
Membership organisation concerned with a wide spectrum of environment and health issues. Campaigns on endocrine disrupting chemicals. Produce guides on landfill sites and incinerators. Hosts a very good interactive internet site on the chemical release industry.

Global Action Plan
Head Office, 8 Fulwood Place, London WC1V 6HG
T: 020 7405 5633 all@globalactionplan.org.uk
Global Action Plan is the practical environmental charity that helps people to make positive changes at home, at work, at school and in the wider community.

GreenNet
33 Islington High Street, London N1 9LH,
T: (UK) 0845 0554011 (int'l) +44 (0)20 7713 1941 info@gn.apc.org
GreenNet is a not for profit collective, dedicated to supporting and promoting groups and individuals working for peace, human rights and the environment through the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs). Offers support and training whilst fulfilling its mission to provide low cost, effective communication. Lots of useful links.

Greenpeace
Canonbury Villias, Islington, London N1 2PN
T: 020 7 865 8100 or T: 0800 269 956 info@uk.greenpeace.org
Environmental pressure organisation working on issues to do with sustaining the worlds natural environment. A membership organisation that produces briefings, newsletters and press releases.

Green Seniors
Environmental action. Age no limit. Green Seniors was created to allow people of all ages - particularly those who are of an age when they have both the time, and the personal motivation - to work together in large and small groups and networks, and make the planet a better place for everyone and everything in the future.
joyce@greenseniors.org (USA, Canada and general enquiries)
keith@greenseniors.org (UK, worldwide and technical enquiries)

Lincolnshire Against Cancer
Maureen Dennis, School House, School House Lane, Old Leake, New Boston, Lincolnshire PE22 9NJ
T: 01205 870 887
Actively campaigns about environmental links with cancer especially in Lincolnshire. Conducting a Community Cancer Survey in Lincolnshire.

London Hazards Centre
Interchange Studios, Hampstead Town Hall, 213 Haverstock Hill, London NW3 4QP
T: 020 7794 5999 mail@lhc.org.uk
A resource centre and membership organisation for Londoners fighting health and safety hazards in their workplace and community. Provides free information, advice and training on all aspects of workplace and community health and safety. Information on issues such as asbestos, pesticide use, toxic chemicals and contaminated sites. Able to carry out inspections of sites. Produces a quarterly newsletter. Telephone advice line is open most working hours.

Low Impact Living Initiative
Redfield Community, Buckingham Road, Winslow, Bucks MK18 3LZ
T: 01296 714184 lili@lowimpact.org
Low-Impact Living Initiative (LILI) is dedicated to helping protect the global environment by promoting sustainable alternatives to various aspects of everyday life. Contact us to find out more about our installations, courses, presentations and manuals.

Make Poverty History
C/O BOND, Regent's Wharf, 8 All Saint's Street, London N1 9RL
Campaign to end world poverty.

National Household Hazardous Waste Forum
74 Kirkgate, Leeds, West Yorkshire LS52 7DJ T: 0113 246 7584 swap@geo2.poptel.org.uk
Informs on waste disposal and exposure to hazardous waste.

New Internationalist Magazine
NI reports on issues of world poverty and inequality; focuses attention on the unjust relationship between the powerful and the powerless in both rich and poor nations and debates and campaigns for the radical changes necessary if the basic material and spiritual needs of all are to be met.

Ooze Magazine
25 Colingsmead, Eldene, Swindon, Wiltshire SN3 3TH T: 0870 3330106/7 help@oozemagazine.co.uk
Magazine striving to tackle all issues from rainforests to bushmeat, slavery to green babies, pet food to vivisection.

People and Planet
51 Union Street, Oxford OX4 1JP T: 01865 245678 people@peopleandplanet.org
People & Planet is the largest student network in Britain campaigning to alleviate world poverty, defend human rights and protect the environment.

Pesticides Action Network
Development House, 56-64 Leonard St, London EC2A 4JX T: 020 7065 0905 admin@pan-uk.org
Charity concerned with health and environmental problems caused by contaminates and pesticides. Provides information, fact-sheets, comprehensive newsletter, consultancy services and briefings about all aspects of pesticides and their use.

Road Block
PO Box 164, Totnes, TQ9 5WX T: 01803 847649 office@roadblock.org.uk
Alliance against roadbuilding.

Shared Energy
An umbrella group for activity around climate change and energy descent. Shared Energy aims to help people make the big changes in their lives that are needed to respond to climate change and the coming of peak oil - the point at which oil demand outstrips remaining world supplies.

Soil Association
South Plaza, Marlborough Street, Bristol BS1 3NX T: 0117 929 0661 info@soilassociation.org
Charity researching, promoting and campaigning on organic food and farming. A membership organisation that produces a magazine, a book catalogue and a directory called 'Where to buy organic food' cost £5 inc p&p.

Stakeholder Forum for a Sustainable Future
3 Bloomsbury Place, London, WC1A 2QL T: +44 (0)207 580 6912
An international multi-stakeholder organisation working on sustainable development; supporting the increased involvement of stakeholders in international and national governance processes. The organisation played a key role in the preparations for and follow-up to the World Summit on Sustainable Development. It is the lead organisation in the development and facilitating of multi-stakeholder processes for sustainable development.

Sustain (The Alliance for Better Food and Farming)
94 White Lion Street, London N1 9PF T: 0171 837 1228 sustain@sustainweb.org
Sustain advocate food and agriculture policies and practices that enhance the health and welfare of people and animals, improve the working and living environment, promote equity and enrich society and culture. Represents around 100 national public interest organisations working at international, national, regional and local level.

Sustainable Scotland
T: 01324 639542 info@sustainable-scotland.com
An environmental information website dedicated to Scotland.

The Woodland Trust
The Woodland Trust is the UK's leading conservation charity dedicated to the protection of our native woodland heritage. You can recycle your Christmas cards with the woodland Trust.

WWF
Panda House, Weyside Park, Cattelshall Lane, Godalming, Surrey GU7 1XR T: 01483 426444
Campaigns to stop the degradation of the natural environment and to build a future in which people live in harmony with nature. International membership organisation produces reports, briefings and newsletters.

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