A recent article by Lin Taylor from the  Thomson Reuters Foundation highlights a recent trend to enable greater acess to outdoor spaces and the issues associated with this. Our Managing Director Maxwell Ayamba has contributed to this article – you can read more here.

Our Managing Director Maxwell Ayamba will be giving a speach at the Houses of Parliment on Wednesday. Hosted by Natural England, the Parliamentary event will take place at the Palace of Westminster, London on Wednesday 23rd March 2022.

The event entitled ‘Building partnerships for people and places – An integrated approach to Nature recovery’, details how the natural environment can help the Government meet its net zero goals and ‘levelling up’ agenda.

Watch our videos of participants from the health group Thalassaemia South Yorkshire reflect on what they learned during a medicinal plant workshop. The workshop was led in part by a trained herbalist from Derbyshire. Hosted by Sheffield Environmental Movement, this environmental engagment workshop was supported by the Green Recovery Challenge Fund.

Launched in 2015, Thalassaemia South Yorkshire ‘is a unique needs lead voluntarly services which is confidential and culturally sensitive in its approach to all members of the community.’

Feedback and participation from our key groups has been fantastic! Thank you to our funders for making these activities possible.

The Green Recovery Challenge Fund supports nature projects across England. The fund has been developed by Defra, Natural England, the Forestry Commission, and the Environment Agency in partnership with The National Lottery Heritage Fund.

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Announcing that Ms Joanna Lumley OBE Is Now Dame Joanna Lumley DBE, FRGS.

Its been over a year since Dame Joanna Lumley became a Patron of SEM. We are delighted that she is now Dame Joanna Lumley OBE, FRGS. This high honor is in recognition of all the good work that Dame Lumley has previously done and continues to do – including her support of our charity.

Dame Joanna Lumleys official title is ‘Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire’ (DBE).

Thank you for your patronage and congratulations from us all at SEM!