Little Green Change

Steve Harris - 28/10/2025 - BBC Sounds Trusted local news, information and advice, and great music with Steve at breakfast.

Don't worry if you missed our founder Clare discussing our rejection of funding from South West Water on BBC Radio Solent, you can listen here (time points 1:08:21-1:15:26): www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... .
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Thank you for showing your support @georgemcgavin.bsky.social and reposting the news about our recent South West Water funding rejection.

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We'll be on BBC Radio Solent Dorset on Tuesday 28th October 2025 at 7:50am AND 8:00am discussing our decision to turn down funding from South West Water. Tune in here: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Our Director, Clare, will be speaking to Alun Newman on BBC Dorset Radio Solent, and to Steve Harris on his Dorset Breakfast show on BBC Radio Solent, at 7:50am & 8:00am tomorrow (Tue 28th October 2025) about Little Green Change's decision to reject funding from South West Water. bbc.in/SolentDorset

Protesting at Surfers Against Sewage's annual summer Paddle Out Protest in Lyme Regis. @sascampaigns.bsky.social

We greatly enjoyed attending the West Dorset Careers Fair on Wednesday 22nd October 2025. We talked to around 100 students across 4 schools (The Sir John Colfox Academy, Woodroffe School, Mountjoy School, and Beaminster School) about the wide range of environmental career paths available to them.

We've refused funding from South West Water because they continue to prioritise shareholder dividends over the health of our waterways and oceans. It's a scandal and one that the government aren't doing enough to tackle.

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It is vital for the financial stability of Little Green Change to work with environmentally conscious companies & funding bodies, who are vital in allowing us to continue & extend our important environmental work across schools & communities, but we are not willing to participate in green washing.

Our recent Little Green Change kids' Halloween clothes swap event at Bridport Library was a huge success. In just 3 hours, we had 22 children aged 1-10 years across 18 families that benefitted by taking preloved items. Thanks to our event funder Bridport Town Council.

There are only 4 days to go until our kids' Halloween clothes swap event on Saturday 18th October 2025 at Bridport Library. Here are a few of the free items that will be available.
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🌍 We're delighted to be working with a wide range of primary and secondary schools as part of our Biodiversity in Schools Project (South-West England), our Climate Resilient Schools Project (West Dorset), and our environmental education Schools Programme (UK wide). littlegreenchange.com

Our October 2025 newsletter is now available to read online.
This, and a selection of our previous newsletters, can be viewed on our website: littlegreenchange.com/news/ .

Our Climate Resilient Schools Project provides a free site visit, climate change assembly, child-friendly school audit, & climate change action support enabling ground improvements for state-funded schools in west Dorset, thanks to funding from Dorset Council.
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We are super excited about our annual Children's Christmas Give and Take event at Woodmead Halls in Lyme Regis, Dorset, on Sunday 30th November 2025, funded by Lyme Regis Town Council. Free, pre-loved, kids' clothing, toys and books. Find out more on our website:
littlegreenchange.com/give-take

We're overjoyed to have scooped gold in the Green/Eco Award category at the Lyme Business Awards, sponsored by Lyme Regis Town Council. It means so much to us to have the support & recognition of our community. littlegreenchange.com

We are delighted to have won an International Green Apple Environment Award 2025 for our Biodiversity in Schools project, which delivers school biodiversity assemblies & eco improvements on state-funded school grounds. This award places us among the world’s leading environmental champions.

Earlier in the year, we noticed wasps making a nest in one of our garden shrubs. The season is over now, so they've vacated it. We are now using it to educate the kids we work with about how it was made using chewed and shredded wood, which they mix with saliva to create a papier mache-like material

We're excited to be partnering with Bridport Library (run by Dorset Council) and Bridport Town Council to run a Kids' Halloween Clothes Swap Event on Saturday 18th October 2025 at Bridport Library from 10am-1pm. This event is open to all. Help the planet and your wallet by choosing pre-loved.

We're delighted to be teaming up with Bridport Town Council to deliver eco actions in Bridport, Dorset in 2025 & 2026. These include a Kids' Halloween clothes swap event on Saturday 18th October at Bridport Library, & secondary-aged work experience opportunities. littlegreenchange.com/supporters/

We’ve loved delivering our free #Biodiversity in Schools #assemblies & #nature improvements this week across #schools in #Devon, including at Blackawton Primary School (pictured). A huge thank you to them and to our amazing funder, The Norman Family Charitable Trust.
littlegreenchange.com/assemblies

We're delighted to introduce the latest member of the Little Green Change team, Andrea Campion, our new Fundraising Manager.

It's great to have her onboard. Read more about her, and the other wonderful members of our team, on our website: littlegreenchange.com/about-andrea/

We had a great time at Ideas Fest yesterday celebrating exciting new businesses like Little Green Change, & our 2025 South West UK StartUp Award for Green StartUp of the Year. It was wonderful one of our corporate supporters, For People and Places, was able to attend with us, too.

We're delighted to be One To Watch category finalist at the Social Enterprise UK Awards 2025. What an incredible achievement, especially given our limited income. Thanks to all our schools, colleagues, partners & supporters for helping to make our activities and actions so impactful.

Read our Sept 2025 newsletter online: littlegreenchange.com/news/. Featuring our new Climate Resilient Schools project funded by Dorset Council, our activity sheets created for The Town Mill, our work with Chickerell Town Council, & making it to the finals of 2 awards (results in Sept & Oct).

We'd like to give a huge thank you to Dorset Council for funding our new Little Green Change Climate Resilient Schools project in West Dorset from September 2025. Find out more about our free assembly, school audit and support available on our website: littlegreenchange.com/climate-resilient-schools

We were delighted to be a part of Chickerell Town Council's recent community engagement event. 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 🌱🐝 Events like this are a great way of engaging children & young people, & encouraging them to support nature including important pollinators like bees, butterflies, moths & beetles.

It's wonderful to be shortlisted for the Green/Eco category at the Lyme Regis Business Awards 2025 as we're embedded into the community, & we're proud of our work with organisations incl Lyme Regis Town Council, The Woodroffe School, The Town Mill, Lyme Regis Library & more.

We were at The Town Mill in Lyme Regis, Dorset today to celebrate the launch of the environmental education worksheets we've created with them, helping kids to learn about the traditional techniques they use to make flour, and their renewable energy technology. littlegreenchange.com/corporate-pa...