Birmingham Friends of the Earth invite you to celebrate our shared commitment to preserving forests at this lively outdoor event! Bring friends and family, get inspired, and pick up your copy of the Keep Forests, Don’t Deforest! booklet. Digbeth Community Garden is right next to the Warehouse, and is a model for what a faith community ‘garden’ eco-action project could look like.
- Tree Specialist Speakers: Get expert insights on how to protect our precious woodlands.
- Garden Volunteers: Learn from the people making this urban oasis thrive.
- Fun Activities: Enjoy a day of hands-on family-friendly crafts, and interactive sessions.
- Refreshments: Free hot and cold drinks and snacks.
Footsteps works closely with Birmingham Friends of the Earth (BFoE) as our aims are very much aligned. In fact, Footsteps is a Friends of the Earth ‘local action group’ with a memorandum of understanding with national FoE – we are the only faith based local action group.
Last year BFoE launched their Keep Forests, Don’t Deforest! project to shine a spotlight on the devastating impact of deforestation across the world, linking it to our broader Planet Over Profit campaign. The aim of the project is to raise awareness of the environmental harms and human rights abuses that can occur in supply chains. Over the autumn they asked members of the public to explore the theme of deforestation through the written word or artwork. They have collated the submissions into a booklet which they will be sending to decision makers as well as using to raise awareness of the issues.
The event is drop in with the speaker session running 11:30am-12:30pm. You don’t need to register to attend but we would find it useful to gauge numbers: