Eco Around is a a community interest company based in London.
Covering topics such as climate change, sustainability, plastic pollution, recycling and food waste to name but a few, and giving everyday tips to reduce our environmental impact in a simple and effective way.
We hold eco workshops and events for companies, schools and families where they learn about the environment, current and future issues and how to make a positive change.
We also organise regular litter-pick walks and Climate Fresk workshops to bring our community together.
HIGHLIGHTS
We are carrying on with litter picking while establishing partnerships with Two Mindful Bees, mindfulness walks organisers and Green and Cleaner eco-hub, both operating in Bromley.
We co-hosted a mindful litter pick walk at Beckenham Place Park in April and we co-facilitated a couple of Climate Fresk at the Hub in January and July.
Ludo facilitated a couple of Climate Fresk workshops in schools and co-facilitated one for adults in a community set up.
In July we organised our first corporate litterpick for a team at Warner Bross Discover.
We had our first out of London litterpick walk in Hastings.
At the same time we started a fundraising to be able to purchase a few grabbers for our litter pick walks. We raised £60 and we purchased 4 foldable grabbers and a pair of gloves.
The monthly litterpick walks got more popular.
We supported our friend Shem by designing some fliers yo inspire creating a super wildflower highway to connect pollinators along the whole River Thames.
We hosted the first Climate Fresk Workhop in April, facilitated by our friend Marie, and Ludo and Jon became as well facilitators in September.
In December our friend Ellie facilitated a workshop about Social Entrepreneurship at Islington Climate Centre
During the lockdown when, the children were homeschooling, we hosted a series of online Eco Around Fun clubs involving quizzes, drawing and name guessing and some yoga poses at the end.
In summer we organised a plastic free picnic with an informal panel about fast fashion, sustainable diet, food waste and plastic-free options.
In November we started organising monthly litter pick walks across London.
We registered as a Community Interest Company.
On Saturday 8th February 2020 Eco Around held one of our fun eco workshops at Green STEM Fest at the University of Greenwich in Greenwich, London. We held workshops for children with their parents to re-grow vegetables from scraps and taught them about composting. All 5 sessions were fully booked on the day! Read our blog article to know more.
Across the year We supported Age UK Kensington & Chelsea by organising online quizzes and workshops for the elderly. This has been an extremely rewarding experience and we are planning to work again with them.
We organised monthly themed online quizzes and online vegan dinners.
We started our blog!
We joined with a group of friends a community tree planting in Walthamstow, organized by Friends Of Higham Hill Park in occasion of The Big Climate Fightback.
OUR TEAM
Friends Jon and Ludo started sharing their own environmental knowledge and habits with passion and enthusiasm with friends, family and acquaintances by starting a blog in summer 2019. Mainly focusing their efforts on what’s going on in the local area where they live: London. The following year we were joined by Ellie, Lina and Sigita who are all keen environmentalists.
JON
Jon teaches English as a foreign language in London for his own company Monty English. He is originally from the Midlands in England now based in north-west London in Willesden Green. He has worked as an English teacher in northern Italy, a brief time in Paris and for the last 9 years in London. Nowadays, he better understands the importance of looking after the planet and people’s global concerns about the environment. He trained as Climate Fresk facilitator.
JON’S ECO HABITS
He is making gradual changes to become more eco-friendly in his life and doing more research on the subject. Growing his own tomatoes and rocket on his balcony, for instance. He regularly uses his mini solar panel to charge his devices, getting a real buzz from doing his bit!
LUDO: Eco-Conscious Creative
Ludo is an independent Graphic and Web Designer, born and raised in Milan, Italy. She has been living in Brixton, south-west London, Dalston, east London and now she is based in Eltham, south-east. She facilitates corporate Plastic Fishing workshops for the charity Hubbub and she is a Climate Fresk facilitator. She supports children in learning coding and robotics as a tutor at Engineering Minds at after-school clubs in south-east London.
LUDO’S ECO HABITS
She consciously applies simple eco habits to her everyday life. For example buying products in bulk without any packaging, having mainly a plant-based diet or ditching single-use pads for periods. Also, using a solid shampoo bar or homemade toothpaste and using a bamboo toothbrush. The last ‘challenge’ she took on was to regrow vegetables from scraps.