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.
Article last updated 30 May 2025.
5.30pm — 8.30pm
Seven
EQ Building, 7th Floor
111 Victoria Street
Bristol BS1 6AX
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:
We are deighted to be able to confirm that expert guests from Oxfam, The Woodland Trust, ShareAction, We Have The POWER, Bridestones Rewilded and Somerset Wildlands will be joining us for this event.
Find out more about each organisation by clicking on the tiles below.
Ruth Mhlanga and Louise Ruggiero
Ruth Mhlanga and Louise Ruggiero
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.
Jules Acton and James Botton
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.
Louisa Hughes
Louisa Hughes
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:
Working with policy makers and regulators to drive the uptake of responsible investment across the UK and globally
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:
Working with policy makers and regulators to drive the uptake of responsible investment across the UK and globally
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.
Julia Davies
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:
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:
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.
Amy Shephard and Cath Baker
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.
Alasdair Cameron
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.
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.
You can register to attend the event by clicking on the button below and completing a short registration form, letting us know if you have any dietary requirements.
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