So, how did we create change in 2024?

We migrated all of our programmes over to Mighty Networks - that means our 3 skills-based trainings and our Becoming a Force of Nature programme now live on an accessible, free, self-paced platform, which will allow us to reach even more young people in 2025 and beyond.

• We host over 100 hours of free resources, trainings, and content on the platform. 

• There are 635 engaged and active young people in our community and it’s rapidly growing.

• Our community are from all sorts of backgrounds, spanning 75 countries and a diversity of interests and expertise, such as biodiversity preservation, environmental justice, food security, climate refugees, and education.

• In 2024, we ran 12 community calls on a range of topics to meet our community’s diverse interests.

184 young people graduated from Becoming a Force of Nature - a 3-part programme that helps young people (16-35) uncover their skills, passions and focus as aspiring change-makers.

This year, for the first time, we ran Becoming a Force of Nature across two timezones, with help from four trained facilitators - Jake Causely, Pimpicha Sullivan Tailyour, Anais Magliocco and Raquel Frescia.

We also updated our longest standing flagship offering, the Anxiety to Agency workshop, to reflect our growth, learnings and increasingly diverse audience in the Force of Nature community.

Our entire programme was ran through our new digital community platform on Mighty Networks.

78 young people signed-up to our training pathways and started Facilitator, Speaker and Consultant Training in 2025. They will join our existing pool of 155 training pathway graduates from over 52 countries. 

Our partner Resilient 40, a multidisciplinary network of African and diaspora young professional climate action leaders, has served over 800,000 people through volunteer-run climate cafés. Since 2022, they’ve run a total of 846 cafés in 38 African countries.

In the run-up to COP27, Force of Nature supported Resilient 40 to start their own climate café initiative during their first Africa Climate Justice Caravan. The climate café initiative was widely adopted by the 1,000+ youth organisations the caravan brought together.

The climate cafés have provided climate and mental health information to help build individual and community resilience to climate change and its impacts.

We ran 3 CPD sessions to up-skill educators so they can support and empower young people to lean into their emotions around the climate crisis and take action.

In the 2-hour session, teachers and educators learn:

• How to facilitate difficult conversations with young people about the climate crisis

• Understand the reasons young people feel disempowered to take action

• About the intersection of climate change and mental health to help them safeguard and support the young people in their life.

Connecting Climate Minds is a Wellcome-funded year-long research project on climate and mental health, spanning the 7 SDG Regions of the Globe, that led to - for the first time ever - mental health being mentioned in the UNFCCC Health Programme at COP28.  

We co-led the Lived Experience Working group, in close collaboration with the Climate Mental Health Network in the United States and SustyVibes in Nigeria. 

In March 2024, Sacha Wright, our research and curriculum coordinator met the working group in Barbados to present their research findings, hear from people with lived experience of climate change and discuss how to disseminate the outputs. The research featured in the Guardian, the Lancet, and Nature journals.

Connecting Climate Minds convened 803 dialogue participants in 89 countries, gathered over 1000 survey responses, to produce 382 priority research themes for climate and mental health research and action globally. 

This year we launched a Youth Advisory Board (YAB) and hosted our first session in October. The YAB offers a platform for young voices to be heard, ensuring their perspectives and ideas are incorporated into our strategies and projects. We also hope it will foster leadership skills and provide exposure to governance structures and processes for the people involved. 

Thank you to our brilliant advisory board members:

• Samia Dumbuya (UK)

• Fred Marule (Uganda)

• Jaiden Corfield (UK)

• Daphne Frias (USA)

• Mitzi Jonelle Tan (The Philippines)

• Jasmine Isa Qureshi (UK)

• Clover Hogan, Chair (UK)

Pressure to be the ‘perfect activist’ is often voiced as a barrier to action, a source of eco-anxiety and a common cause of burnout. So, we wanted to explore what causes these barriers and what activism could look like if it was more open, honest and human.

In ‘Confessions of a Climate Activist’ - Season 3 of the Force of Nature podcast - Clover spoke to 13 activists, including Tori Tsui, Isaias Hernandez and Christiana Figueres, about burnout, getting cancelled and the ethical compromises of making money.

The podcast has been downloaded 5,137 times in 96 countries.

Listen to the full season here.

We showed up at key climate events to learn from our peers and highlight our work. These included:

• Generation Hope, an annual programme at the Natural History Museum in London created in partnership with young people, for young people. Force of Nature is part of the advisory board which shapes the event.

• ChangeNow 2024 in Paris, where Force of Nature community members hosted a climate café.

• New York Climate Week, where we hosted a Dinner & Decompression event with The Resilience Project and LUSH which offered a welcoming space and free food for youth activists.

• Blue Earth Summit, where we were nominated as a Partner Organisation, exhibited our work and pitched to potential funders.

In the past year, we’ve welcomed new folks into our team who have brought new ideas, perspectives, and lived experiences. We can’t wait to continue to grow with them in the future. Thanks to:

Nadia Moussaoui, community coordinator
Hannah Sharp, head of fundraising
Amritan Singh Walia, operations director
Alejandra Cala, lead graphic and motion designer

We also said goodbye to Clover Hogan, our founder, and wished her well as she stepped away from her executive director duties to embark on new adventures. We’re thankful that she’ll continue to chair our new Youth Advisory Board (more on that later).

We found new and unique leadership, courage and guidance in Kat Hamilton, who stepped into the executive director role, bringing in a new phase of how Force of Nature is governed.

Meet the full team here.

We are deeply committed to creating an environment where our team feels supported, valued, and empowered.

At the end of 2024, the team met up in the beautiful countryside of the North of England. We shared stories, walked in the hills, played games and volunteered at PIER community allotments. We also worked on team strategy, project planning and our collective vision of the future. Everyone cooked, cleaned and contributed to keeping a safe and comfortable space for our meet.

It was a special experience, and resulted in us all feeling better aligned on our goals and values. We also had a lot of fun.

As well as the team retreat we:

• Continued enjoying our 4-day work week (no condensed hours and no loss of salary).

• Ran two Wellbeing Weeks where the whole team had paid time off to explore and promote their wellbeing in ways that worked for them, with a small budget to facilitate activities.

Our commitment to wellbeing is exemplified by this exceptional feedback from our team:

• 100% would strongly recommend working at Force of Nature to their peers.

• 100% feel represented and valued within the organisation.

• 100% feel that they are able to express their opinions without judgment.