Our mission
We work to drive the necessary changes to halt the dual climate and biodiversity crisis. Failure is not an option.
No one can tackle this crisis alone and no one must be left behind. This is why our raft of initiatives ensure there is something for everyone.
We want as many people as possible to take steps to make the changes we desperately need to fight the climate crisis.
After all, if the 8 billion people on the planet all made one small change this, alongside bigger global changes, is a positive start to stabilising the fragile environment we love so dearly and need to sustain life on earth.
The time for talking is over, today we need to act.
Meet the team
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Sharon Lashley
MANAGING DIRECTOR
Sharon is an environmental practitioner with over 30 years of experience working with businesses, communities and schools to improve their green credentials. As an environmentalist and renewable energy project manager, Sharon’s background and experience spans many areas, including managing environmental management systems, training businesses in waste management and leading in mobilising climate action through projects. She also has a passion for rewilding and conservation and has been involved in projects such as Red Squirrel surveys, helping to protect Little Tern nesting colonies, Black Poplar Tree planting projects and conservation volunteering for ecosystem restoration projects.
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Jennifer Clair Robson
CONTENT DIRECTOR
Jen is our Content Director. She has built her career in a variety of roles working with charities, corporates and start-ups devising creative concepts that influences and engages target audiences. Jen’s background working on climate change began 15 years ago and involves creating meaningful content and campaigns to make our world better. She also has a Masters in PR where she examined how communications is used when changing behaviours.
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Phil Macari
ECOLOGY AND COMMUNITY REWILDING DIRECTOR
Phil is an Ecologist, Nature Conservation and Rewilding Practitioner, Earth Educator, Forest School Leader and Bushcrafter. Phil has been dedicated to facilitating, educating, and inspiring all sorts of folk in, and with, nature for his whole career. This means he knows and advocates for experiences where people can join with nature, to provide the means to understand ourselves more deeply, while healing and supporting the regeneration of nature itself: a reciprocal benefit through engaging one’s Head, Heart and Hands.
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Julie Harrison
STEM and EDUCATION ASSOCIATE
Julie is passionate about educating schools about plastics and the impact of these on the environment. With 10 years’ working in the education, engineering, climate change, and science field, Julie has in-depth expertise in collaboration and successfully bring together consultants and organisations to work for a common purpose.
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Nigel Stansbie
CLIMATE ACTION NORTH ASSOCIATE
A vet and an educator, Nigel has developed a wealth of knowledge over the years. The natural world is his passion, and he spends as much time as possible walking and wildlife watching in the North East of England and Scotland. Nigel supports Climate Action North’s work rewilding and restoring our natural landscape and biodiversity.
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Barbara Keating
CLIMATE ACTION NORTH ASSOCIATE
An artist, film-maker, and beekeeper she educates and enthuses people about bees. Barbara also makes art works and runs large-scale public engagement events about bees for Tyne and Wear Museums. Her latest work, Bees Banquet, was piloted at GNM Hancock, and followed a bee colony over the course of a year in an urban location
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Georgina Fuller
CLIMATE ACTION NORTH ASSOCIATE
With a career in Hydrography and project management in the offshore sector, Georgina has a deeper understanding of the marine world than most. Her passion for the Ocean has driven her to create The Sea We See, organise beach and general litter picks, introduce a Motion 4 The Ocean at Town Council level, encourage local businesses to reduce or eliminate single use plastics, and support beach education through seaside rangers.
Seeking to share her knowledge and experience, Georgina has spent much of the last four years connecting with other tendrils of conservation and rewilding, to learn more about our fragile environment, and identify ways to mobilise communities in the search for greater understanding and sustainable solutions to the problems we all face.