Black Seeds Environmental Social Justice Network provides a platform for Global Majority environmentalists to socialise, gain support, seek opportunities, develop innovation, knowledge and expertise on environmental issues. We will grow ideas and ensure more representation within the environmental movement.
2020 brought renewed focus to challenges in environmental social justice and racial inequality.
The time is ripe for a supportive structure programme that ensures Bristol’s environmental sustainability movement is inclusive, representative and meets future challenges.
What we do: Unlocking the potential
Our programmes nurture a new generation of environmental leaders and enable them to flourish. We seek to meet the need for community engagement and representation.
We coordinate and showcase new talent and bridge the representation gap. We have tapped into a diverse wealth of highly skilled people working within the sector, and we have listened to community members and the next generation of leaders.
Our activities include: Training, Strategic consultancy, partnership management, Skills Development, Networking & Events, Information sharing & online seminars, Media opportunities, Talent Development, Research Assignments, Marketing and Communications, Community Engagement and Cohesion and developing regional, national and international links.
Black Seeds Network is led by Gnisha Bevan with Roger Griffith, MBE. Having successfully set up the Black & Green Programme in Bristol for Ujima Radio which ran for a decade, Roger now supports the Black Seeds Network. Gnisha Bevan, a consultant, educator and producer runs the programme on a daily basis.
Creating An Environmental Justice & Race Equality Network
Members of Bristol’s Global Majority communities have historically been under-served in local activism within the environmental sector. This is despite Bristol being European Capital (2015) and the home to many Global Majority environmental professionals.
We seek to redress this systematic imbalance and take positive steps to create a new legacy.
The programme is incubated within Roger’s social business at Creative Connex. Our team delivers strategic leadership, marketing materials, social media, partnerships, funding advice and support services for the programme. Gnisha provides programme oversight and leadership as well as engagement with a brand-new set of environmentalists from the Global Majority.
For further information please email
blackseedsenvironmentnetwork@gmail.com
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