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ENVIRONMENTAL FUNDERS NETWORK:
AUTUMN LUNCH – 11th October 2011
‘Local and global’
KINDLY HOSTED BY THE CITY BRIDGE TRUST
City Guildhall, Gresham Street, EC2V
Andy Atkins, Executive Director, Friends of the Earth
Shlomo Dowen, National Co-ordinator, UK Without Incineration
Andy has been Executive Director of Friends of the Earth since 2009. He was previously Policy and
Campaigns Director at development charity Tearfund where he oversaw the establishment of policy
and campaigns work as a core focus for the organisation. He initiated Tearfund's work on climate
change and championed climate change as a poverty issue among UK development NGOs. He was a
key organiser and spokesperson for the Make Poverty History campaign, and a Board member of the
Stop Climate Chaos coalition. Andy has also worked for the Chile Committee for Human Rights,
CAFOD's Working in Partnership Programme and as Latin America Desk Officer at the Catholic
Institute of International Relations (now Progressio).
Shlomo Dowen has been the National Coordinator of the United Kingdom Without Incineration
Network (UKWIN) since April 2008. Shlomo holds a post-graduate qualification in Environmental
Decision Making (with Systems Thinking) from the Open University. Along with his wife Lorraine and
their son Joshua, Shlomo is a partner in Only Solutions LLP – a holistic business consultancy that
focuses on adult learning, active citizenship, and community development. Shlomo was instrumental in
twice preventing the construction of a waste incinerator in Sherwood Forest, and his successes inspired
him to support other communities facing similar proposals.
The event will begin at 12 noon. The agenda is as follows:
12.00pm – 12.30pm
Arrivals. Sandwich lunch.
12.30pm – 12.45 pm Andy Atkins. Friends of the Earth is a national NGO with over 200 local
groups in the UK and more than 70 partners worldwide.
12:45pm – 1.00pm
Shlomo Dowen. Over 80 local waste campaigns are members of UK WIN.
1.00pm – 1.40pm
Questions and discussion on the points raised by our speakers.
1.40pm onwards
Dessert, coffee, and further conversation with other EFN members.
2.30pm
Close
Copies of the new EFN report, Funding Locally, Thinking Globally, will be available at the event. This
short booklet includes six case studies of local grants which in different ways make a contribution to
addressing wider environmental issues.
P.T.O for directions.
Nearest underground stations to the Guildhall are
Moorgate, Bank, Mansion House and St. Paul’s
Please use the Art Gallery entrance to the Guildhall, marked as ‘F’ on the map below.