Funding nature, accelerating community energy, reducing pollution, tackling inequality

julia davies

A true impact investor, lawyer, philanthropist and campaigner dedicating her time, skills and resources to restoring and protecting safe living conditions on earth. Julia works under the mantra We Have The POWER (Protect Our World – Educate Restore).

Julia’s mission is to catalyse practical action by:-

Investing in companies and organisations implementing solutions to problems jeopardising life on earth and helping us transition to a higher welfare, kinder and safer for all life on earth way of living
Providing loans to accelerate regeneration, including to wildlife and community groups acquiring land to restore to nature and people and to community energy companies.

Julia has a particular focus on the circular economy and is on a mission to turn down the tap on new through promoting reuse.

Julia is a founding member of Patriotic Millionaires UK – campaigning to address extreme wealth inequality and unfair under taxation of wealth. Julia’s wealth comes from co-founding Osprey Europe, European distributor of Osprey backpacks and bags. Julia’s motivation comes from a lifelong love of animals, nature and the outdoors, her skills and experience from working as a commercial lawyer for a range of national charities and her determination from a stubborn refusal to let the beautiful biodiversity of life on earth be greyed out without a fight.

tim stumpfF

An impact investor focusing on community energy, micro-finance, and helping to decarbonise the world in a just and sustainable manner.

Tim focuses on trying to bring about daily and immediate, even if incremental, positive change. In addition to his impact investing and philanthropy, Tim volunteers for food rescue and redistribution charities and, along with his partner, provides temporary housing for otherwise-unhoused asylum seekers.

Tim is on the board of Purple Shoots, Repowering Communities, National Energy Foundation, and FINCA UK, and is a member of Patriotic Millionaires UK

SUPPORTING

The Wildlife Trusts are a grassroots movement that believe we need nature and it needs us. There are 46 local Wildlife Trusts plus one national charity called the Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts that supports their overall work. More than 900,000 members and 39,000 volunteers work together with their Wildlife Trust to make their local area wilder and make nature part of life, for everyone. Every Wildlife Trust is an independent charity.

Julia works closely with The Wildlife Trusts on the Funding Nature project which you can read about here. Julia started the Funding Nature project working with Dorset Wildlife Trust and you can read about how it all started here.