We’re excited to be joined by Tony Kendle and Jane Stoneham in this session from 1-2.30pm BST on Wednesday 13th May 2026 to discuss the Sensory Trust’s exciting ‘Collective Climate Repair’ project.
Funded by the National Lottery Community Fund, ‘Collective Climate Repair’ is exploring how working with plants and natural systems can offer accessible opportunities to cool and calm the climate. Working with Edinburgh University, Trees for Cities, National Wildflower Centre, Scouse Flowerhouse and communities across the country, the project aims to develop, test and implement accessible water-based techniques to cool and calm the climate.
The project places equity and collective action at the heart of climate repair, focusing on three actions to break down key barriers that prevent people from engaging in climate repair:
Making the science understandable and accessible. The narrative around climate change is often complex with a tendency towards jargon and scientific terminology.
Creating climate information in alternative primary languages, including British Sign Language (BSL), braille and symbol communication methods.
Working in collaboration with people who are D/deaf, blind and partially sighted and neurodivergent to identify, demonstrate and implement practical interventions for climate change.
Jane Stoneham is Director of the Sensory Trust, an organisation championing the creation of accessible and engaging nature experiences. With a background in horticulture and landscape, Jane has led the development of this new work on inclusive climate action and biodiversity repair in collaboration with Tony Kendle. She regularly advises on inclusive and sensory design and develops national guidance, including the ‘Outdoor Accessibility Guidance’, the UK reference for improving outdoor accessibility. She was in the original team that developed the Eden Project, and has advised organisations including National Trust, Forestry England, Royal Parks and Natural Resources Wales.
Tony Kendle is working with the Sensory Trust to make natural climate solutions (including ‘slow water’) more accessible. After lecturing and researching landscape management at Reading University, and providing ecological restoration consultancy across the UK and overseas, Tony became one of the founding team of the Eden Project in Cornwall. His first responsibility was to lead the quarry restoration and to create 85000 tonnes of soil from quarry waste. Then, as Foundation Director, he played a central role in developing the exhibits and education programmes, cultivating direct experience in translating complex science issues into simple, engaging language. During the Covid-19 lockdowns, he also wrote a popular science book on garden ecology, called ‘A Wonder in the Garden: The World of Nature Just Outside Our Doors’.