Sign up to be an Air Quality Ambassador

Published: Thursday, January 25, 2024

  • Still spaces on a programme to work together to improve air quality. 
  • People needed to help with events, engagement, science and scrutiny. 
  • First meeting is on February 15. 

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Jamie Colclough (third from right) at the Clean Air Day information stall in Putney.

If you are interested in helping to clean up Wandsworth air, you could join the council’s Air Quality Ambassador’s programme.

The Ambassador’s programme will work in the following areas, so get in touch if you think you can help.

  • Citizens Science: Support residents and community groups that want to start to monitor and understand air quality in their areas.
  • Engagement and information: Share information so people can understand and relate to the issues.
  • Reaching out to vulnerable groups: Get information to the most vulnerable about the impact of air pollution and how this can be mitigated.
  • Events and campaigns: Join council events and perhaps organise your own with our support.
  • Idling: Identifying areas of concern for signage, banners and interventions.
  • Scrutiny of the Plan: Challenge and scrutinise our Air Quality Action Plan so that it is robust and we are help accountable for what’s in our control.
  • Keeping up to date: Help ensure the plan moves with the changes in technology and understanding of local air pollution.

Wandsworth published an ambitious Air Quality Action Plan in September 2023 that was based on the recommendations of the Wandsworth Citizen’s Assembly on Air Quality – a group of 50 randomly-chosen local people set up as part as part of the council’s commitment to use innovative ways to enable local people to set the tone and direction around responses to crucial borough-wide issues.

'Keep up the momentum'

Jamie Colclough, Air Quality Champion for Wandsworth, said the aim now is to ensure residents continue to have the opportunity to help shape and scrutinise the council’s approach to cleaning up the air and to get the support of local people in delivering key parts of the plan.

He said: “The Citizen’s Assembly was vital to our work of looking at the problem of poor air quality and coming up with solutions as a borough. Now we want to replicate that energy and enthusiasm and harness the knowledge and goodwill of local people to ensure we keep up the momentum.” 

If you are interested in getting involved, email togetheronclimatechange@wandsworth.gov.uk