Climate, Environment & Sustainability
We’ve only one planet and these are the organisations striving to protect it
21 Horatio’s Garden
Nominated by Dominic West (below), actor
In 2010, 16-year-old Horatio Chapple volunteered in a spinal unit during his school holidays and realised there was nowhere for people recovering from surgery to go. He came up with the idea to create gardens for people to recuperate in, and the idea was unanimously welcomed by patients. Tragically, Chapple was killed by a polar bear on an expedition a year later before the idea got off the ground, so his parents set up the charity in his name. Today there are gardens across many of the UK’s most outstanding spinal injury centres, each designed by a different leading landscape designer.
West said: “They’re just about to start one in my home city of Sheffield. Its design won a prize at the Chelsea Flower Show.”
horatiosgarden.org.uk
22 Centric Lab
Centric Lab is a research laboratory that uses neuroscience, ecological research, social justice principles and geospatial data to understand how the places we live impact our health. They have worked with groups such as Breathe London Community Programme to visualise air pollution data. They run programmes to promote ecological health and peer-to-peer learning to create life-sustaining neighbourhoods. Their nominator wrote: “They claim their work is not groundbreaking nor are they leaders. I beg to differ, having worked with the guys as part of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation Pathfinders programme. Their work is spectacular and they certainly led me to think differently about our world and how we might bring more light to it.”
thecentriclab.com @TheCentricLab
23 Design Nature
Design Nature CIC is a Reading-based Social Enterprise which empowers young people, educators and organisations to imagine and create a sustainable planet. They have worked with thousands of young people through projects and programmes that combine design-led and action-based creativity. Their nominator wrote: “Design Nature’s work is highly relevant in modern-day Britain, where the pressing climate and biodiversity crisis calls for innovative solutions. In a world where young people face the impacts of the climate crisis, the organisation’s focus on empowering them to design positive futures aligns with the demands of sustainable business practice, making their work crucial for the
