Lottery awards £1.5m to refurbish Village Halls across Northumberland, Cumbria and Durham
Rural communities in Northumberland, Cumbria and Durham have been awarded £1.5 million by The National Lottery Community Fund, the largest funder of community activity in the UK, to improve Village Halls and similar community spaces, making sure they are fit for a sustainable future.
NEECCo launches counting carbon project
On a mission to help the North East become England’s Greenest Region, the North East England Climate Coalition (NEECCo) has today launched a pilot project to count the carbon stocks and flows across the region in a bid to better understand and tackle climate change.
Counting Carbon in North East England
As part of NEECCo’s mission to make the North East England’s Greenest Region, our Land Use Planning Group have been looking at ways we can effectively count carbon across the region, searching for the evidence required to tackle the climate crisis.
North East Just Transitions Workshop
What does the term ‘just transition’ mean for the North East? Join a workshop to help define what a just transition looks like within public, private and third sector organisations and how we can work together to achieve a Net Zero just transition.
North East VCSE Sector has an Important Role to Play in Addressing Food Waste
North East organisations came together this week to establish the impact of food waste on the environment, and how voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) organisations in the region can be part of the solutions.
Genee takes action to help create a Net Zero North East & Cumbria
Become Green Together has officially launched and is open for applications from community organisations, charities and social enterprise organisations in the North East and Cumbria.
Thousands of Northumberland homes take part in waste collection trial
Under the new responsibilities of the Environment Bill, thousands of households in Northumberland are taking part in a new initiative to collect food waste from the kerbside.
A UK-first project to protect the North’s natural world
In a UK first, Northern England has developed a consortium of leading environmental organisations, Nature North, to protect our ‘beautiful and fragile’ natural world.
Groundwork Installs World’s First High Tide Floating Ecosystem at Newcastle Quayside
Through its flagship Revitalising our Estuaries programme; community and environmental charity Groundwork NE & Cumbria has spearheaded the development of a first of its kind ‘floating nature island’ to be installed on Newcastle Quayside in July.
Posted: 7 February 2023 by Amy Coates
Why is sustainability important for the VCSE sector?
In this blog, Jo Holmes, Managing Director of Genee explains how Investors in the Environment is a perfect scheme for the VCSE sector to better understand their environmental impacts and approach to sustainability and how she is delivering the scheme Going Green Together.