Partner organisations, people we work with, support or endorse
Aashray
Hyderabad-based NGO working for the rights of children on the streets.
Green Pea
Green Pea is a North London community arts and education organisation, using the power of art & social enterprise to rebuild and enhance community cohesion and promote friendship, health and good citizenship in and around Southgate.
Performers without Borders
PWB works towards giving disadvantaged children the opportunity to explore their potential, developing an individual's learning, creativity and team working skills through teaching performance skills. In 2007-2008 PWB is working in India with street children and will be working in Hyderabad with Down2Earth and Aashray.
Save The Trees
African Conservation NGO, campaigning against environmental degradation in Zimbabwe and across Africa.
Shiwiar People of the Ecuadorian Amazon Rainforest
The Shiwiar are an indigenous people of the Ecuadorian Amazon, they are working towards protecting their land from oil drilling, logging, and cattle ranching. They invite people to stay with them and provide guided expeditions through the Amazon.
Synergy
Synergy is an umbrella organisation that seeks to bring together a wide variety or organisations in the fields of cultural, environmental and development education to work together towards common goals, pooling expertise and resources to achieve a wider and deeper impact than they would otherwise in isolation. Seeking to create a common culture of environmental and social sustainability, Synergy harnesses the appeal of creative media to connect with audiences' emotions as well as their rational minds.
Environmental organisations - Information on ecology, conservation and relevant legislation
Biodiversity Convention
This site is the biodiversity convention, which explains what the convention is and how governments that have signed up to the convention are working towards biodiversity conservation.
Planet Save
Planet Save is an online independent environmental news site, providing international news on the environment and wildlife daily. Planet Save also support Rainforest Conservation.
Population Ecology
This webpage is purely for educational purposes, You will find it useful if you are going to do one of our biodiversity projects, as it will give you a background and understanding about basic ecological principles when doing an inventory on species and a species relationship with other species and the environment.
Red Data List
This site is the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species and provides taxonomic, conservation status and distribution information on taxa that have been globally evaluated using the IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria.
Save our World
Save our World acts to help protect and sustain the natural world through increasing awareness and caring for human beings and all other species, as well as inspiring and empowering people to change attitudes, habits and lifestyles - personally, locally, nationally and globally.
Sustainable Development
United Nations Website, information on Agenda 21 and sustainable development.
Campaigning organisations - Learn more about current campaigns and how you can help
Corporations Watch
This site is dedicated to bringing news on the activities of multi-national companies whose activities cause devastation to people or the environment.
People in Common
People in Common campaigns against SOCPA (Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005), but also aims to show creative, non-hierarchical democratic solutions. They hold picnics on the last Sunday of every month in Parliament Square.
Stop Climate Chaos
Stop Climate Chaos is a new, rapidly growing coalition. Find information about climate change and about Stop Climate Chaos' actions and events.
Tourism Concern
Tourism Concern's mission is to ensure that tourism always benefits local communities. They work with communities in destination countries to reduce social and environmental problems connected to tourism and with the out-going tourism industry in the UK to find ways of improving tourism so that local benefits are increased.
War On Want
A humanitarian organization campaigning for those developing countries that are suffering from the afflictions of war and poverty.
Other links - Interesting and informative websites related to volunteering, arts, education and sustainability
Ethiopian Art Centre UK
EACUK works to bring together the Ethiopian community under one umbrella, to integrate the community to the wider communities and participate in everyday society social activities in every level, politics and business through art.
Evan Ravitz
A photographer. This website is interesting reading for anyone interested in spending time in Latin America.
Gap Year Research
Gap Year Research is for anyone doing, or interested in research on the gap year & international volunteering. The site acts as hub for researchers to publish their work, make contact with one another and share what they are doing.
Ilham Sadellah
A North London artist who uses different techniques and mediums, and bright, heavy, and vibrant colours, on large canvases and postcard size
