Charity/NGO

Ghost Forest

I’m planning to visit Ghost Forest in Trafalgar Square, London on Monday. It’s an ‘original and ambitious art installation’ by Angela Palmer that visually expresses the connection between deforestation and climate change. The project itself involves a series of 10 rainforest tree stumps with roots still attached, which have been transported from Ghana and rearranged […]

FTBC on the QT

I’m going to FTBC on the QT this Wednesday, following a quick call from my good friend Olly Knowles (who’s now at Momentum). Fashion Targets Breast Cancer do some great promotions and events that help make the condition more relevant and visible to younger people. This session on Wednesday is a celebration of what’s been […]

The story of Gabura, launching tomorrow

From tomorrow, you’ll able to watch ‘From Daily Life to Disaster’ – an interactive online documentary about the impact of climate change on a small village on Bangladesh – via oxfam.org.uk. Viewers can choose which stories they find most interesting, watch them and watch it a number of times from different perspectives. ‘Gabura’ contains extraordinary […]

Berlin, Berlin…

I’ve been in Berlin for the past two days for the Global Online Giving Marketplaces annual meet-up. I’d been invited to come and talk about ‘all things digital’, focused mainly on my work with G20Voice, Global Cool and WCAFI, as well as suggesting ways to interact better with a younger digital generation. Last night I […]