Who we are

We are a collaboration of campaigners, lawyers, planners, facilitators, writers and scientists who are fed up, angry and want to use our skills to do SOMETHING.

We are united by a shared commitment to tackle the Climate Emergency and ready to find a way to work with you to make change. 

We know we have to work at national level with law and policy-makers (which can often be very frustrating).  We also know that working with you, in your communities, is just as important. We want to arm you with knowledge, help amplify your voice, and make sure you are heard… in as creative a way as possible. 

We are WITH people and FOR people & the environment.

Say hello to our team….

Directors

  • Naomi Luhde-Thompson

    Naomi leads Rights Community Action. She is a creative and dedicated change-maker, who works to empower communities.

    Naomi heads up a programme for training communities on their right to be involved in environmental decision-making and is also Senior Lecturer at Oxford Brookes University, teaching on Sustainable Futures. She has led transformative campaigns on land use planning to prevent fossil fuel extraction and on legislative change to enshrine procedural rights and climate protections at UK level.

  • Hugh Ellis

    Hugh is an experienced planning campaigner and expert planner, with extensive experience of local government training.

    He is also Director of Policy at the Town & Country Planning Association (TCPA).

  • Julie Dixon

    Julie worked originally in community arts and theatre and now writes television drama. She aims to support our vision to make campaigning accessible to all.

  • Helen Rimmer

    Helen is a community environmental campaigner with experience supporting grassroots organising for environmental justice and climate action.

  • Jenny Lopez

    Jenny is an adviser on land governance and international development, with a focus on community tenure rights.

Associates

  • Laura Gyte

    Laura is a lawyer with extensive experience of working with communities and on climate legislation.

  • Alex Goodman

    Alex is barrister with extensive experience of advocating on behalf of communities and taking environmental cases.

  • Mairi Clare Rodgers

    MC has extensive experience of strategic communications and campaigning across a range of sectors and issues

  • Sawsan Bastawy

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