Local social and environmental heroes celebrated in the Bristol 17 Campaign An inspiring range of local heroes are being celebrated in a campaign to encourage more people to take positive action to help tackle poverty, inequality and climate change.
A series of 17 short videos, one for each of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (Global Goals), are being released from Tuesday 6th July. Each one highlights a Bristol hero – from a range of wards and spectrums of society – who is doing something inspiring to help reach that Goal. Each hero was nominated by a community group in Bristol who offer plenty of ways for us all to engage with that Goal to bring positive change where we are, being part of community-based action to help reach global goals. The videos will be released one per week across social media platforms and on the new Global Goals Centre website as a countdown to the major climate conference, COP-26, being held in Glasgow (1st-12th November).
The aim is to engage a wider audience with the climate and inequality agendas and show the relevance of these issues to our city and our daily lives. Nick Ballard from ACORN is the hero for our first Goal - No Poverty, and was nominated by Eastside Community Trust, who said “ACORN’s campaigns tackle both the causes and effects of poverty. Nick has grown ACORN into a national force to be reckoned with, championing issues that make a real difference. He is a real local hero”.
Global Goals Centre, a Bristol-based education charity using creative ways to inspire a fairer, greener future, has worked in partnership with 17 local community organisations, Bristol 24/7 Better Bristol and creative agency Tusko, to create the Bristol 17 campaign, which is supported by Bristol City Council Climate Hub. The #Bristol17 campaign will include many easy and affordable ways to get involved in local projects that make a real difference locally and globally.
All our heroes agreed that it is by people working together that we will bring a greener, fairer future for all. In the words of Peninah Achieng-Kindberg , our hero for Goal 10 Reduced Inequalities, nominated by African Voices Forum "Everyone needs to take action in whatever way they can".