by Finn Logue, Camden New Journal, 5 February 2026
It began with an idea to bring the community together to find solutions to the climate crisis together, a group of local activists responding to a Camden Council call for ideas. This was the start of Think & Do Camden and six years later, it is still going strong as a standalone nonprofit organisation, working with diverse communities in council housing estates across Camden and neighbouring areas.
This year, the group has announced the next stage of their journey: Think & Do London, in which they plan to expand into new areas of the city and “transform London, one community at a time”.
Ned Collier, the head of business development, said that while each of the group’s different projects explored varying themes, their work always related back to the central “twin pillars” of social justice and climate justice. Mr Collier said: “There’s overlapping, they’re so deeply intertwined. We find that for our audience, which is largely communities from the global majority, there’s inequality of opportunity, and that often stems from barriers to entering the green industry and green spaces. So we’re looking to address that, with projects like our Energy Savers’ Club, which will give people opportunities to save money on their energy bills and learn about retrofit, renewable energy and heat pumps, all working to address the cost of living crisis.”
Another example, Think & Do’s Sharing Spaces project, uses communal spaces such as libraries to run climate-based workshops, build connections and exchange knowledge and ideas.
Think & Do regularly door-knock and hold meetings with different communities, for example, the Bengali community in Somers Town. Mr Collier added that they have built trust with them to the point that they function as a conduit between the council and community. Mr Collier said: “Achieving funding is much more competitive nowadays. We’re all vying for the same pot. The environmental perception within business has shifted as well and there is less of a focus on that sort of funding. “We want these things to continue for as long as possible. So if the funding stops, then if you don’t find the right people who are willing to take it on then that’s hard.”
Long-term sustainability is a core part of Think and Do’s ethos. Over the past six years, they’ve planted 380 trees across Camden estates and counting. One of the group’s biggest successes, Mr Collier said, is the commitment to planting trees across estates in urban areas to bring colour and biodiversity. They represent everything that the group are about: sustainability, permanence and a visual, demonstrable show of change.
The group’s new website will be launched in the coming weeks, but you can find information on their services online.
