NOISE SOLUTION

In October 2024 Suffolk Shorts held a special screening The Suffolk Connection, to highlight a diverse range of directors, and themes.

World Land Trust’s Protecting the Ecuadorian Amazon appeal aims to raise £1.3 million to support NCE’s project delivery from 2024 to 2028. You can greatly increase your impact by donating during our Big Match Fortnight (02-16 October 2024), during which all donations will be doubled by some of our generous Major Giving supporters. DONATE

According to the International Energy Agency, 53% of the population of sub-Saharan Africa live without access to electricity. While household-scale off-grid solar products are an important tool for increasing electricity access, the growing volume of waste from these products poses significant environmental risks, such as lead pollution.

Noise Solution music mentor and producer Matt Hughes has been working with Ph4nt0mXR to create an original track as part of their sessions in the studio. Prior to working with Matt, this young person had only ever “tried to play the drums”, now he is releasing music on Spotify

Working with Wild Tomorrow videographer Chantelle Mezler, who shot all the original material in South Africa, to produce and edit videos to launch a new appeal by World Land Trust: Connecting Ukuwela. This is the story of Sisonke, the final piece in the tapestry of Ukuwela. Thanks to donations totalling £621,000 received as a result of this appeal, Wild Tomorrow will be able to purchase 148.5 ha of the 296 ha Sisonke Farm property to bridge the gap in the Greater Ukuwela Nature Reserve.

Strengthening Health Systems to Reduce Lead Exposure: Pure Earth’s 5-Phase Approach to Solving Lead Poisoning. Pure Earth’s 5-year project launched to help 5 countries to overcome key technical and clinical hurdles, and to implement effective national action to monitor and reduce lead poisoning risks.

SUFFOLK SHORTS - ONE DAY, 3 AWARD PROGRAMMES, 24 SHORT FILMS

In October Suffolks Shorts celebrated independent short films from around the world, and showcased East Anglian filmmakers at The Riverside in Woodbridge with sell out screenings and a Q&A with the local filmmakers, hosted by the programming team. We believe that short films are the future.

Green Light Trust staff work to support individuals who are sometimes in crisis. In this video a self-confessed ‘girly-girl’ who had previously avoided the outdoors volunteered to tell her story in the hope it would help others to come back from the brink. Working with the team, learning green woodwork and woodland conservation has brought her more benefits that she could ever have imagined.

It was a BIG YEAR for World Land Trust who expanded and protected threatened habitats in countries around the world. £586,250 was raised to fund the Madagascar: A Forest for the Future appeal. New trees were planted to restore Armenia's Caucasus Wildlife Refuge and Colombia's Forests of Mist appeal is over 90% of the way to reaching the £1 million target, helping to secure a future for the threatened cloud forests of Guanacas.

BIG MATCH FORTNIGHT 2023 - £1.5M

Colombia, a country with some of the largest cloud forest areas in Latin America, has only 10–20% of its original cloud forests remaining. This appeal allowed WLT partners to expand and protect the cloud forests of the Guanacas Reserve

BIG MATCH FORTNIGHT 2022 - £1.43M

The appeal successfully doubled the amount of land protected by the Anzu and Zúñac Reserves in Ecuador’s upper Río Pastaza watershed.

BIG MATCH FORTNIGHT 2021 - £1,37M

Guatemala’s Laguna Grande was World Land Trust’s most ambitious appeal in their 30 year history at the time.

Welcome to Green Light Trust with Participant Engagement Co-ordinator Della

“I can do this thing called life.” The story of one woman’s journey

Becoming a volunteer with Green Light Trust

Green Light Trust and The National Trust in Partnership

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY 2021 - CÍRCULO DE MUJERES

In Mexico Barro Aprobado is working with female potters to introduce lead free manufacturing methods through workshops, and supporting women in their communities by holding women’s circles. “Women’s circles are important because they help us identify with each other, share our concerns, pains and dreams, and decide together what we want for our future and how to make us stronger collectively.”

Brief - create a short video for IWD using footage shot by the women on their phones. Edited English and Spanish versions.

COMMUNITY GREENCARE

Funded by the Realising Ambitions East fund through Suffolk Community Foundation, this project is part of Green Light Trust’s Enablement Programme, aimed at further progressing participants who have attended other courses, helping them to take that next step towards employment, volunteering or formal training.

This video was produced by working with the participants, who kept a video diary about the project over the first three months.

PURE EARTH FIELD REPORT - BANGLADESH

In Bangladesh, it’s estimated that more than 60% of children have elevated blood lead levels, with the unsafe recycling of car batteries being a primary source. Lead not only causes permanent brain damage in more than 1/3 of the world’s children, but it damages fragile ecosystems, making polluted air more deadly, and finding their way into our food supply and household products.

Brief - develop a way to help Pure Earth representatives in the field to communicate how funds support their work.