Wen - Women's Environmental Network

Who we are

We're Wen, the Women's Environmental Network. We work on issues that connect gender, health, equality and the environment.  We collaborate with grassroots organisations and groups, helping to platform marginalised voices calling for environmental and social change. 

We are working to bring about systemic change, to end the exploitation of women and the natural world and to create a world where women and other marginalised communities, and the planet can thrive. 

It's a tall order, but we know we can get there. We are doing this by working on national campaigns as well as at a community level. We work across a wide range of environmental issues, including building resilient and sustainable local food systems, food growing, nature-based wellbeing sessions in women’s refuges, our Environmenstrual and Green Baby campaigns and our work on a UK Feminist Green New Deal. All our projects and campaigns work towards feminist climate justice. 

Our vision: We are building a world where women, communities and the planet thrive. We are doing this by working collaboratively to create alternatives to oppressive systems, to end the exploitation of women and the natural world

Here's what we focus on:

• Putting gender and equality at the heart of a green economy 

• Building movements for sustainable, community-led systems food systems

• Informing and enabling access to safe, healthy, sustainable ways of living 

• Improving women's and gender-variant people's lives and health through a deeper connection to nature  

• Nurturing new leaders and amplifying women's and gender-variant people's voices for environmental and social change

Equality, diversity and inclusion policy

We particularly encourage applications from People of Colour/ People of the Global Majority,  LGBTQI+ people, people with disabilities, and those who identify as working-class/ from low-income backgrounds or who have done so in the past. This is because these groups are currently underrepresented in the environmental sector. Where two or more candidates are judged to be of equal merit, priority may be given to a candidate who belongs to a group less represented at Wen. 

Wen is committed to anti-racism and inclusive intersectional feminism which acknowledges how race, class and sexuality intersect with gender in our day-to-day lives. Wen is open to all genders and is actively working towards being a trans-inclusive organisation.