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Building back stronger in the Amazon post-COVID

19 Aug , 2020 Our News

Building back stronger in the Amazon post-COVID

The impact of COVID-19 on the world has been unprecedented and the affect it has had on the lives of Plant Your Future’s subsistence farmers has been severe. Despite a military-enforced lockdown, the virus spread rapidly in the city of Iquitos in eastern Peru – home to the majority of our farmers and their families. Read More

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Winners of our Rainforest in a Box competition announced!

26 May , 2020 Our News

Winners of our Rainforest in a Box competition announced!

In April 2020 we launched our first ever Rainforest in a Box competition and we were overwhelmed with so many wonderful creations from children and young people across the World. Thank you to everyone who entered! Our Judges — Luis Campos Baca (a Professor from the National University of the Peruvian Amazon) Jane Taylor (a Geography Read More

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Poppy Lloyd, Combe CoE Primary School interviews Jenny

11 May , 2020 Our News

This week, Poppy Lloyd of the Combe CoE Primary School Green Club interviewed Jenny to find out more about climate change, Plant Your Future and the reasons why Jenny set the charity up. Using social distancing, the interview was filmed in an open air garage. You can watch the interview here! Great questions, Poppy!

Press Release: Plant Your Future launches ‘Rainforest in a Box’ competition

14 Apr , 2020 Our News

Press Release: Plant Your Future launches ‘Rainforest in a Box’ competition

Not-for-profit organisation Plant Your Future launches craft competition to help keep children busy during COVID-19 lockdown Plant Your Future launches ‘Rainforest in a Box’ competition  Not-for-profit organisation Plant Your Future launches competition to help keep children busy during COVID-19 lockdown Tuesday, 14th April 2020 – Plant Your Future, the Registered Charity that works with subsistence farmers to restore Read More

Jenny’s opinion in i-news

18 Jul , 2019 Our News

Head to i-news to read Jenny’s Opinion and find out why smallholder farmers are the answer to scaling up tree planting across the globe, and why a newly planted tree in the tropics will be much more effective in tackling climate change than its equivalent planted here in the UK. Read more on the i-news Read More

Jenny Henman quoted in Oxford Mail

9 Jul , 2019 Our News

Read Harrison Jones’ article on the Oxford Mail website to read Jenny’s response to the news that we need to plant more trees and how we need to look beyond the UK to warmer-climes where quicker gains can be made.