Gallery: the Classroom and the Library
Our project manager in Kenya, Alex Katana is an absolute star! Despite the constraints of not having brilliant access to the Internet or electricity, he keeps us well apprised of what’s going on by sending lots of images and short videos through Whatsapp – thank goodness for these simple solutions. I thought you might like […]
Go Green! Change Your Energy Supplier to Ecotricity
If you want to reduce your carbon footprint, changing the way you power your home and business to a renewable source, is a great first step. Change to Ecotricity, Britain’s greenest energy company and two rather wonderful additional things will happen: a donation of up to £60 will be made to The Word Forest Organisation and for a limited time […]
Thoughts from our CEO: the new girl
It’s funny really, I’ve been dreaming of this day for so long and I’m struggling to believe it’s actually here. It’s my Day One as CEO and fundraiser for The Word Forest Organisation, a charity… a proper charity! My thoughts of turning the work my husband and I had done in Kenya as philanthropists, into […]
The Word Forest Organisation is a Charity!
Our CEO and Board of Trustees are quite simply bursting with joy – we have just been granted official charitable status! Our application went into the Charity Commission on the 8th December 2016 and following much correspondence between them and us as we thrashed out the all important wording, here we finally are. Our mission to […]
About Tracey West: Fundraiser for The Word Forest Organisation
This is the first in a series of short videos featuring the team & supporters of Word Forest Organisation. We kick off with our CEO and Fundraiser, Tracey West. Update on our charity status: we applied to become a charity on the 8th December 2016 and today, 7th April 2017 we have been registered as charity number […]
Spilling the Beans on #DroughtKe
The catastrophic drought currently holding Kenya in a terrifying grip, has pushed the country into a critical state. Countless crops have failed, coffee yields have decreased, the land is drying up and outlying communities who are entirely dependent upon their fields producing good harvests to keep themselves fed, are turning to one of the most self-destructive methods […]
Interview: The Queen of the Green Church, Isabelle Woodman
Our local eco-group, Turn Lyme Green, lines up some fabulous speakers and the one at our last meeting was no exception. Isabelle Woodman, fondly known as Izzy, lives here in Lyme Regis, she’s the daughter of the local Baptist Church Minister, Christopher Woodman and is currently studying Christian Rural and Environmental Studies. Her passion for […]
Ethical Consumer Report Shows Increase in Savvy Green Shoppers
According to the Ethical Consumer Markets Report 2016, compiled by Triodos Bank and Ethical Consumer, there are some seriously heartwarming, planet-friendly rising trends taking place in the way UK shoppers are deciding to spend their money. Bevis Watts, Managing Director at Triodos Bank UK states in his opening address that society continues to face a great many challenges, including climate change, global economic pressures and increasing inequality. […]
The United Nations: Positively Switched On
Following our recent interview with the new social media voice for the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, Wangechi Kiongo, we’ve been keeping an eye on her work! Today, she reported that the UNCCD have ramped up their game and created a new logo. It shows a human hand sitting at the root of sparse […]