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Engagement in Action — Bristol event, 17 June

Join us and our Rathbones colleagues in Bristol for drinks, food and exciting conversations featuring experts from across three key sustainability areas: Climate, Nature and Human rights.

17 June 2025

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Article last updated 18 June 2025.

Tuesday 17 June 2025

5.30pm — 8.30pm

Seven
EQ Building, 7th Floor
111 Victoria Street
Bristol BS1 6AX

About this event

This special event is an opportunity to hear from and speak to the Greenbank and Rathbones team along with expert guests about the work they are doing across three key sustainability themes for 2025, Climate, Nature and Human rights. 

The event will include:

  • A short welcome address from David Cox, Head of Greenbank
    Looking back: 21 years of advocating for positive change
  • An introduction from Sophie Lawrence, Stewardship and Engagement Lead at Greenbank
    Looking forward: The power of engagement and launch of our 2024-25 Engagement Review
  • Three 'thematic zones' to meet and speak to experts on the important work they are doing to create positive change across the three key themes of Climate, Nature or Human rights
  • Networking on our lovely Bristol terrace
  • All drinks and food provided
  • Sustainable giveaways

We are delighted to confirm that expert guests from Oxfam, The Woodland Trust, ShareAction, We Have The POWER, Bridestones Rewilded, Somerset Wildlands, Tir Natur, Bristol Climate & Nature Partnership and the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH)  will be joining us for this event. 

Find out more about each organisation by clicking on the tiles below.

Oxfam

Louise Ruggiero and Thrusie Maurseth-Cahill

Oxfam

Louise Ruggiero and Thrusie Maurseth-Cahill

About Oxfam

Oxfam is a global community of people who believe in a kinder, and radically better world, where everyone has the power to thrive not just survive. It works to overcome poverty by fighting the injustices and inequalities that fuel it.

It acts a partner to communities around the world tackling poverty, believing that when people come together, powerful change can happen. Just some of the many campaigns they work on include safe, clean water for all, food for all, tackling climate change, women and gender justice, and responding to emergencies. 

Oxfam also recognises that companies have a significant role to play in the fight against poverty and inequality. Where possible, it collaborates with business recognising that a vibrant, thriving, accountable and responsible private sector can be a powerful force for good. Oxfam pushes for robust standards and legislation to tackle bad practice in business and calls upon companies to take action to respect human rights and the planet, in line with international standards and commitments, and collaborate on programs to ensure women and marginalised communities in global supply chains can access their rights and thrive.

About Oxfam

Oxfam is a global community of people who believe in a kinder, and radically better world, where everyone has the power to thrive not just survive. It works to overcome poverty by fighting the injustices and inequalities that fuel it.

It acts a partner to communities around the world tackling poverty, believing that when people come together, powerful change can happen. Just some of the many campaigns they work on include safe, clean water for all, food for all, tackling climate change, women and gender justice, and responding to emergencies. 

Oxfam also recognises that companies have a significant role to play in the fight against poverty and inequality. Where possible, it collaborates with business recognising that a vibrant, thriving, accountable and responsible private sector can be a powerful force for good. Oxfam pushes for robust standards and legislation to tackle bad practice in business and calls upon companies to take action to respect human rights and the planet, in line with international standards and commitments, and collaborate on programs to ensure women and marginalised communities in global supply chains can access their rights and thrive.

The Woodland Trust

Jules Acton and James Botton

The Woodland Trust

Jules Acton and James Botton

About The Woodland Trust

The Woodland Trust is the UK’s largest woodland conservation charity. Their vision is a world where woods and trees thrive for people and nature. 

The Woodland Trust fights to protect woods and trees, preventing the loss of irreplaceable habitat, nature and carbon stores for a healthier future for everyone. It aims to restore nature by bringing damaged ancient woods back to life and restoring irreplaceable ecosystems to improve landscape resilience so that both nature and people can thrive.  

The Woodland Trust has an ambitious vision which focuses on the role that trees and woods play in tackling the threats of climate change and nature loss, delivered through three main goals goals to protect, restore and create the UK's woodland.

About The Woodland Trust

The Woodland Trust is the UK’s largest woodland conservation charity. Their vision is a world where woods and trees thrive for people and nature. 

The Woodland Trust fights to protect woods and trees, preventing the loss of irreplaceable habitat, nature and carbon stores for a healthier future for everyone. It aims to restore nature by bringing damaged ancient woods back to life and restoring irreplaceable ecosystems to improve landscape resilience so that both nature and people can thrive.  

The Woodland Trust has an ambitious vision which focuses on the role that trees and woods play in tackling the threats of climate change and nature loss, delivered through three main goals goals to protect, restore and create the UK's woodland.

ShareAction

Louisa Hughes and Hannah Picton

ShareAction

Louisa Hughes and Hannah Picton

About ShareAction

ShareAction is a UK charity that is building a movement for responsible investment among savers and investors and shaping public policy, harnessing the power of investment to build a world where the financial system serves our planet and its people. ShareAction works across the biggest environmental and social issues we face today including tackling climate change, protecting our natural world, increasing good work and improving people’s health. 

It works to define the highest standards for responsible investment and to drive change until these standards are adopted worldwide. In doing so, we aim to harness the power of the financial system to tackle the biggest environmental and social challenges we face.

ShareAction work by:

  • Unlocking the power of investors
    Benchmarking and engaging with investors to harness the power of investment for social and environmental progress
  • Reforming the rules

Working with policy makers and regulators to drive the uptake of responsible investment across the UK and globally

  • Building a movement

Educating and empowering individuals on how they can use their money to build the future they want.

Greenbank have been collaborating with ShareAction on a number of different environmental and social issues since 2010.

About ShareAction

ShareAction is a UK charity that is building a movement for responsible investment among savers and investors and shaping public policy, harnessing the power of investment to build a world where the financial system serves our planet and its people. ShareAction works across the biggest environmental and social issues we face today including tackling climate change, protecting our natural world, increasing good work and improving people’s health. 

It works to define the highest standards for responsible investment and to drive change until these standards are adopted worldwide. In doing so, we aim to harness the power of the financial system to tackle the biggest environmental and social challenges we face.

ShareAction work by:

  • Unlocking the power of investors
    Benchmarking and engaging with investors to harness the power of investment for social and environmental progress
  • Reforming the rules

Working with policy makers and regulators to drive the uptake of responsible investment across the UK and globally

  • Building a movement

Educating and empowering individuals on how they can use their money to build the future they want.

Greenbank have been collaborating with ShareAction on a number of different environmental and social issues since 2010.

We Have The POWER

Julia Davies

We Have The POWER

Julia Davies

About We Have The POWER

We have the POWER (Protect Our World – Educate Restore) is the motto under which Julia Davies and friends help catalyse transformative change through regenerative finance, true impact investing, modern philanthropy, storytelling and campaigning.

Julia is a true impact investor, lawyer, philanthropist and campaigner dedicating her time, skills and resources to restoring and protecting safe living conditions on earth. 

Julia’s mission is to catalyse practical action by:

  • investing in companies and organisations implementing solutions to problems jeopardising life on earth and helping the transition to a higher welfare, kinder and safer for all life on earth way of living
  • providing bridging loans to accelerate regeneration, including to wildlife and community groups acquiring land to restore to nature and people and to community energy companies.

Julia has a particular focus on the circular economy and is on a mission to turn down the tap on new through promoting reuse. She is a founding member of Patriotic Millionaires UK – campaigning to address extreme wealth inequality and unfairness under taxation of wealth.

About We Have The POWER

We have the POWER (Protect Our World – Educate Restore) is the motto under which Julia Davies and friends help catalyse transformative change through regenerative finance, true impact investing, modern philanthropy, storytelling and campaigning.

Julia is a true impact investor, lawyer, philanthropist and campaigner dedicating her time, skills and resources to restoring and protecting safe living conditions on earth. 

Julia’s mission is to catalyse practical action by:

  • investing in companies and organisations implementing solutions to problems jeopardising life on earth and helping the transition to a higher welfare, kinder and safer for all life on earth way of living
  • providing bridging loans to accelerate regeneration, including to wildlife and community groups acquiring land to restore to nature and people and to community energy companies.

Julia has a particular focus on the circular economy and is on a mission to turn down the tap on new through promoting reuse. She is a founding member of Patriotic Millionaires UK – campaigning to address extreme wealth inequality and unfairness under taxation of wealth.

Bridestones Rewilded

Amy Shephard and Cath Baker

Bridestones Rewilded

Amy Shephard and Cath Baker

About Bridestones Rewilded

Bridestones Rewilded is a not-for-profit Community Interest Company with a vision to restore Bridestones Moor in North Yorkshire for nature and people by prioritising conservation, nature-based education and community engagement. 

They are a group of naturalists, ecologists and members of the local community with diverse backgrounds, skills and experiences, united by a love for nature and passionate about ensuring as many people from all walks of life can enjoy and benefit from nature just as they do.

The team work to enhance biodiversity, so once again Bridestones will teem with wildlife and provide opportunities for all to become closer to nature, through nature-based educational activities and volunteering opportunities. 

About Bridestones Rewilded

Bridestones Rewilded is a not-for-profit Community Interest Company with a vision to restore Bridestones Moor in North Yorkshire for nature and people by prioritising conservation, nature-based education and community engagement. 

They are a group of naturalists, ecologists and members of the local community with diverse backgrounds, skills and experiences, united by a love for nature and passionate about ensuring as many people from all walks of life can enjoy and benefit from nature just as they do.

The team work to enhance biodiversity, so once again Bridestones will teem with wildlife and provide opportunities for all to become closer to nature, through nature-based educational activities and volunteering opportunities. 

Somerset Wildlands

Alasdair Cameron

Somerset Wildlands

Alasdair Cameron

About Somerset Wildlands

Somerset Wildlands is a charity aimed at restoring the lost wildlife and wildness of the Somerset Levels, with a goal of creating a wilder, better future.

The Somerset Levels were once a vast wild wetland. From pelicans to lynx, beavers to sturgeons, it would have teemed with wildlife. Somerset Wildlands aims to restore some of that lost life and wildness through a process of rewilding. They are building up ‘wild stepping stones’ in the landscape, each of which will be managed as little as possible to allow rich nature-led habitats to develop. 

As they work to rewild parts of the Levels they also seek ways to reconnect people with nature – through practical activities like nature surveys, volunteer activities, school excursions or small-scale reintroductions.

About Somerset Wildlands

Somerset Wildlands is a charity aimed at restoring the lost wildlife and wildness of the Somerset Levels, with a goal of creating a wilder, better future.

The Somerset Levels were once a vast wild wetland. From pelicans to lynx, beavers to sturgeons, it would have teemed with wildlife. Somerset Wildlands aims to restore some of that lost life and wildness through a process of rewilding. They are building up ‘wild stepping stones’ in the landscape, each of which will be managed as little as possible to allow rich nature-led habitats to develop. 

As they work to rewild parts of the Levels they also seek ways to reconnect people with nature – through practical activities like nature surveys, volunteer activities, school excursions or small-scale reintroductions.

Tir Natur

Katherine Jones and Tasha Reilly

Tir Natur

Katherine Jones and Tasha Reilly

About Tir Natur

Tir Natur (pronounced “Tier-Nat-ir,” meaning Nature’s Land) is Wales’ only charity solely dedicated to rewilding - and is the country’s leading voice for bold, nature-led restoration.

We now have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to purchase over 1,500 acres of upland - the largest proposed rewilding site in Wales - and restore it to a thriving, self-sustaining ecosystem. The land is no longer viable for conventional farming and has been deemed unsuitable for commercial forestry. This area has rivers, peat bogs, and ancient trees - a rich foundation for rewilding at scale.

Here, keystone herbivores will roam freely, shaping the land and creating the conditions for biodiversity to return. Our vision is not only ecological, but deeply cultural: one of wildlife flourishing alongside vibrant rural communities, with ancient breeds, old knowledge, and modern conservation working together. This is gobaith i natur - hope for nature.
 

About Tir Natur

Tir Natur (pronounced “Tier-Nat-ir,” meaning Nature’s Land) is Wales’ only charity solely dedicated to rewilding - and is the country’s leading voice for bold, nature-led restoration.

We now have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to purchase over 1,500 acres of upland - the largest proposed rewilding site in Wales - and restore it to a thriving, self-sustaining ecosystem. The land is no longer viable for conventional farming and has been deemed unsuitable for commercial forestry. This area has rivers, peat bogs, and ancient trees - a rich foundation for rewilding at scale.

Here, keystone herbivores will roam freely, shaping the land and creating the conditions for biodiversity to return. Our vision is not only ecological, but deeply cultural: one of wildlife flourishing alongside vibrant rural communities, with ancient breeds, old knowledge, and modern conservation working together. This is gobaith i natur - hope for nature.
 

Bristol Climate & Nature Partnership

Lizzi Testani

Bristol Climate & Nature Partnership

Lizzi Testani

About Bristol Climate & Nature Partnership

Bristol Climate & Nature Partnership is a place-based climate and nature action network, catalysing action towards a zero carbon, socially just Bristol where all our communities and nature thrives.

About Bristol Climate & Nature Partnership

Bristol Climate & Nature Partnership is a place-based climate and nature action network, catalysing action towards a zero carbon, socially just Bristol where all our communities and nature thrives.

UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

Charlie Stratford

UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

Charlie Stratford

About UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology 

UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) is a leading independent research institute dedicated to understanding and transforming how we interact with the natural world. With over 600 researchers, they tackle the urgent environmental challenges of our time, such as climate change, pollution, and biodiversity loss.

About UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology 

UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) is a leading independent research institute dedicated to understanding and transforming how we interact with the natural world. With over 600 researchers, they tackle the urgent environmental challenges of our time, such as climate change, pollution, and biodiversity loss.

Who should attend?

This event is for individuals, charity trustees and advisers in the Bristol area who are interested in hearing more about the three key sustainability themes Climate, Nature and Human rights, which have been underpinning our engagement work in 2025.

You may be an existing client or contact of Greenbank or Rathbones, or you may be interested in sustainable investment and want to know more about how engagement can be used as a powerful tool to advocate for positive change. 

How do I register?

Registration for this event is now closed. 

Who should I contact if I have any questions?

If you have any queries about this event, please contact us by emailing marketing@greenbankinvestments.com 

Can't attend this event, but interested in finding out more about Greenbank's engagement activities? You can read our Engagement Review 2024-25 here, or sign up to our newsletter below to receive monthly news and insights from us. You can unsubscribe at any time. 

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