Together for Good: how faith, nature, health and community came together for good across The Climate Coalition

One week: hundreds of stories

Great Big Green Week 2026 is over - but the stories keep coming. Recently, we shared the story of Muslim Charities Forum and Cycle Sisters, and how faith and community are woven through climate and nature action in ways that don't always make the headlines. But that was one thread of a much bigger picture. Across our coalition of over 130 member organisations, Together for Good took a different shape in every community, every tradition, every corner of the UK. Here is more of what it looked like.

Faith in action

Faith communities showed up for Great Big Green Week in force. Faith for the Climate brought people of all traditions together to share wisdom and practical action across Britain and beyond. Green Christian equipped churches to screen the People's Emergency Briefing, giving congregations a space to hear the latest evidence on climate change and loss of nature, and how we can respond together. And Islamic Relief - building on the Interfaith Eco Iftar they hosted during Ramadan, which brought people of different faiths to a shared table to reflect on their responsibility to protect the earth - used the week to build momentum for Muslim Climate Action Week this July. Meanwhile, Muslim Charities Forum used GBGW to spotlight Cycle Sisters, who 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.

Different traditions, one conviction: that caring for the planet is inseparable from caring for people. CAFOD, in partnership with Christian Aid, Oxfam and Send My Friend to School, brought young people's Get Creative for Climate Justice artwork into school assemblies across the UK throughout the week, sharing it with communities, local decision-makers and MPs.

Image: Cycle Sisters' community bike rides; Credit: Cycle Sisters

The next generation

Young people were at the heart of this year's week. Young Climate Warriors' Ambassadors delivered over 100 sessions in schools across the UK this academic year, inspiring the next generation to take action. InterClimate Network helped more than 10,000 young people add their voice to climate action campaigns through conferences with local leaders and initiatives in their own secondary schools. And Protect Our Winters UK's Changemakers programme gave young people the knowledge, confidence and community they needed to lead - breaking down the barriers that keep too many diverse, passionate voices from getting involved.

Image: Young Climate Warriors' Climate Assemblies; Credit: Young Climate Warriors

Nature, land and place

Some of the most powerful Together for Good stories were rooted in specific places. The Barn Owl Trust's Lennon Legacy Project has spent over 20 years transforming 26 acres of intensively grazed pasture into a thriving haven for nature - and last year, a pair of wild barn owls returned to raise a brood. The Woodland Trust's Trees For All campaign planted trees where they were needed most, tackling the unequal distribution of tree cover across the UK. CPRE's On the Edge campaign invited people across England to share their favourite local countryside, helping build what they believe is the first national picture of the landscapes on the edge of our towns and cities. And in Kingston upon Thames, Transition Town Kingston used the week to launch the next phase of their WildWays project, writing to local councillors and MPs to back a greener, wilder, better-connected Kingston for wildlife and people alike.

Image: Children planting trees as part of the Woodland Trust's Trees for All campaign; Credit: Woodland Trust / Phillip Formby / WTML

Communities organising

This is what Together for Good looked like at grassroots level. In Berkhamsted, EcoBerko founder John Bell describes an eco-community that has grown organically - one where "when a new opportunity arises, a bunch of hands go up and a team forms. This is new." In Winchester, WinACC's WeCAN project has spent five years building 17 local groups reaching 51,000 people, supporting communities to identify what matters most to them and act on it together. Mothers CAN has put 80 mums through their six-week Anxiety to Action course, turning concern into genuine community organising capacity. Larger Us trained people in Yorkshire and South Wales to have climate conversations with anyone, anywhere - from plumbers to nurses, eyebrow technicians to window cleaners. And Carbon Copy rolled out their action guide From Footprint to Changeprint, helping communities collaborate more effectively on climate and nature where they live.

Image: SCCAN launch their NOW manifesto; Image credit Hollie Jacques

In Scotland, SCCAN - the network of over 1,200 community climate groups - launched their NOW Manifesto during the week: a document built from the ground up with communities across Scotland, setting out a bold vision for community-owned energy, local food systems and free public transport. Stop Climate Chaos Scotland, meanwhile, celebrated what becomes possible when organisations work together - raising a louder, more unified voice for climate justice than any one group could manage alone.

Health, repair and the bigger picture

The UK Health Alliance on Climate Change marked ten years of bringing together 56 member organisations representing over 1.2 million healthcare professionals - a decade of empowering health workers to make the case for stronger climate action and pushing decision-makers to implement policies that protect public health. Possible's Fixing Factories - five neighbourhood repair hubs across London - fixed broken appliances for free, trained 900 people a year in repair skills, and reached communities where a quarter of the people they serve are unwaged. Practical, hopeful and rooted in everyday life: exactly what this week was for.

The National Trust's Nature = Future campaign reached a landmark during the week, with close to 50,000 letters sent to MPs and the Secretary of State on protections for nature - over 99% of MPs across England, Wales and Northern Ireland hearing from constituents who care. WWF brought the wonders of the ocean into classrooms with a live lesson featuring Steve Backshall, and invited families into nature through their Feel-Good Forest Trails. And the Climate Majority Project continued the work of connecting the broad, mainstream majority of people who want a safer, more resilient future - showing just how many different communities, traditions and causes are part of this shared moment.

 
Image: WWF's Feel-Good Forest Trails; Image credit: WWF

What comes next

What stands out, looking back across all of this, is not just the breadth - it's the depth. These organisations are not showing up for a single week and moving on. They are building something: local networks, community skills, communities rooted in faith, long-term relationships between people and the places they love. Great Big Green Week gave all of that a moment to be visible together. The work continues.

We'll keep sharing stories from organisers and communities in the weeks ahead. And if you're ready to build something that lasts beyond this week - to take what happened in June and turn it into something that grows through the year and arrives at Great Big Green Week 2027 stronger than ever - find out more about our Build. Grow. Lead. organiser programme. It offers six months of support, skills and community - with fellow organisers from across the UK - starting 28 July.