Blog: Together for Good: How faith, community and cycling are coming together for Great Big Green Week
Great Big Green Week starts this weekend, and this year's theme - Together for Good - captures something we see in our coalition every day: that climate and nature action is at its best when people come together across communities, through shared values, from every walk of life.
Over the next two weeks, we'll be sharing stories from across The Climate Coalition - from grassroots community projects and faith-led action to national campaigns and policy work - showing the many different ways our members are bringing people together for good.
Muslim Charities Forum brings together Muslim-led charities and organisations working across humanitarian, development and community causes. Their commitment to climate action is grounded in the Islamic principle of khilafa, the stewardship of the earth.
Findings from their 2024 Climate Action Report show that this responsibility is widely shared across the sector. 90% of surveyed organisations said they care about the effects of climate change, with 73% strongly agreeing. 77% reported taking part in environmental projects, including sustainable food initiatives, climate education, global advocacy, tree planting, solar panel installations and community upcycling programmes. This reflects a sector where caring for the planet is understood as an essential part of caring for people.
Making the climate movement genuinely accessible
Image credit: Cycle Sisters
Cycle Sisters: making cycling accessible for Muslim women
One of the organisations Muslim Charities Forum are spotlighting this GBGW is Cycle Sisters. Cycle Sisters create safe, women-only cycling spaces for Muslim women, supporting them to become more active, more confident and more connected - while encouraging cycling as a sustainable, everyday form of transport. Their work recognises that the barriers to active travel aren't just practical; they're social, cultural and structural. By meeting women where they are, they make both the climate movement and the joy of cycling genuinely accessible.
This work goes beyond Great Big Green Week. From 29 June to 12 July, Cycle Sisters will run their annual Switch Your Journey campaign, supported by Muslim Aid - encouraging women to swap car or public transport journeys for cycling. It's behaviour change rooted in community, not guilt.
A deep sense of responsibility and stewardship
As MCF CEO Fadi Itani OBE puts it: "Climate change in 2026 remains one of the most urgent and defining challenges of our time. Across the UK, Muslim organisations and community groups are responding with determination and compassion - from delivering humanitarian aid in regions affected by climate disaster, to promoting sustainability within their communities. Their work reflects a deep sense of responsibility and stewardship."
It's a reminder that climate action doesn't belong to one movement or one kind of organisation. It happens in community halls and car parks, on bike rides and during Ramadan iftars, in every space where people gather around shared values and ask what they can do for the world they share.
Image credit: Cycle Sisters
More stories to come
MCF and Cycle Sisters are one part of a much bigger picture. Over the next two weeks, we'll be sharing more from our members - faith communities coming together across traditions, grassroots groups connecting local action to communities around the world, and much more. Follow along on our blog and social channels throughout Great Big Green Week.
Come Together For Good this June
Find a Great Big Green Week event near you, or share what your community is doing using #TogetherForGood and #GreatBigGreenWeek. Find an event near you.
Also, consider joining the Muslim Climate Forum (MCF), Cycle Sisters, and the rest of the Muslim Climate Action Group for their special community event for Great Big Green Week on Sunday, June 14th if you are in London or nearby!