About us

MISSION, VALUES & AIMS
MISSION, VALUES & AIMS

FODCAP is a growing partnership of local communities, businesses and organisations who want urgent and fair climate action. We work together to build a net-zero and climate resilient Forest of Dean.

To reach net-zero by 2030 we need to work together. We need to be fair, visionary and strategic.

FODCAP aims to connect, inspire and enable groups and organisations to take effective action on climate change. We do this by:

  1. Supporting groups, businesses and organisation within the Forest of Dean to work together.

  2. Connecting actors at different levels so information, contacts, and knowledge enable effective climate action.

  3. Connecting those working on climate within the  Forest of Dean with learnings, networks, and decision-makers outside the District.

  4. Involving a greater diversity of people, partners, and groups in climate work, including those not currently active on climate issues. 

If you want to help build a net-zero and climate resilient Forest of dean please join our growing partnership of group, businesses and organisation. 

FODCAP is governed by a steering group of representatives from the partnership. For information on the steering group please contact info@fodcap.org. 

You can learn more about FODCAP’s history and development in our Learnings From The Forest report. 

Diagram showing the interconnected roles in the Forest of Dean Climate Partnership, including councils, businesses, community groups, civic services, residents, and experts & campaigners, all linked through roots labeled administration, facilitation, analysis, expertise, communication, and secretariat, illustrating how FODCAP provides connections and strength like mycelium.

At the end of 2022 the charitable foundation, Thirty Percy worked with a ‘Holding The Space’ facilitator to learn more about the Forest of Dean Climate Action Partnership (FODCAP), which had become inactive during the pandemic.

We wanted to understand what would be needed to ‘re-start’ it. Facilitator, Anya Hyndside worked with Thirty Percy Staff member, Leah Treherne, meeting with groups, organisations and individuals active on climate work across the Forest, to explore what they needed to do good climate partnership work. In November 2023, FODCAP was re-started, with a well attended workshop.

Since then, with further Thirty Percy support, FODCAP has evolved, developing the partnership and some small projects. In September 2025, our first employees, Piers and Becky, were recruited to start the next stage of our journey.

Group of four smiling people in a meeting room around a table with laptops, coffee mugs, and papers.