- Mar 16, 2022
- 1 min
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WHO WE ARE
Our group brings together individuals with experience, on a personal, professional, academic or activist level, with the long-term, and often intergenerational impacts of synthetic pesticide exposure. We work closely with fellow campaigners as well as a network of allied groups with whom we meet regularly and who share intersecting interests in improving the environment in which we live.
Please contact us if you'd like to work with us either as an individual or organisation.
People: core team and advisors
Partner groups: our supporters and groups that we support
Related groups & organisations
PEOPLE
Core team
JULIA SHAW
I am involved in academic research, activism and advocacy work surrounding the impact of pesticides on human health, biodiversity and climate change. I set up Pesticide-Free Cambridge in 2018 having previously joined PAN-UK's Pesticide-Free Towns. This was further to more than 10 years of informal campaigning work in Cambridge surrounding both Local Authority and private use of herbicides and insecticides. In early 2020, I joined forces with Ben Greig who brings to the campaign his vital experience from On the Verge Cambridge.
BEN GREIG
I’ve always been passionate about nature but a few years ago decided to become more pro- active and actually do something to arrest the catastrophic decline in wildlife all around us. In summer 2019 I helped set up On the Verge Cambridge, a small voluntary group doing pollinator-friendly planting around the city. This also opened my eyes to horrific herbicide spraying on the city’s verges. I emailed PAN-UK about their Pesticide-Free Towns campaign in early 2020 and they put me in touch with Julia: we’ve been working together since.
Volunteers
In addition to members of partner environmental groups and networks, we also have a number of volunteers of all ages who work with us on a more informal basis, and who offer vital services such as helping out at events, distributing leaflets and posters, support with the website, taking photographs, and designing posters, post-cards and our beautiful Pesticide-Free Cambridge banner. You can see some of this wonderful artwork below, followed by some situ examples at various events discussed in our blog.
From our events blog
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