Wecan
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In 2008, Rebecca co-founded WeCan an environmental group who worked to lobby the government in the run up to the Copenhagen Climate Conference in 2009. A consortium of women journalists, filmmakers and artists, the group focused on the 3rd runway at Heathrow and ran a high profile campaign of direct action events and press articles in The Guardian, The Evening Standard, The Telegraph, The Sunday Times and The Mail. They narrowly avoided getting arrested on a number of occasions that included a protest picnic at Heathrow, the storming of the House of Commons on the 100th anniversary of the suffragette’s charge on Parliament and inadvertently closing down the Ministry of Transport when they tried to deliver a paper plane to the Secretary of State for Environment and Transport, Geoff Hoon.
Wildflower Meadow and Natural Play Area
In 2007 Rebecca founded Friends of Turnham Green, a local community group who have worked ever since to renovate a neglected green park in west London. Friends of Turnham Green have successfully worked with Hounslow council and TfL to reduce the bus congestion from 500 buses to 180 a day. They also successfully lobbied to remove derelict buildings and in their place establish a natural play area for children together with a large wild flower meadow. Since then they have also undertaken a number of collaborations with Abundance London to establish more insect friendly planting. As a result, the park has received a Green Flag award every year since 2010, an award that recognises sites that are well managed by voluntary and community groups.
