Letters and drawings from children describing how climate change is impacting their lives will be exhibited in Southall next week as campaigners push for tougher UK climate laws.
Letters from the Global South, running at the Dominion Centre from 22 to 27 September 2025 during Ealing Climate Week, gathers accounts from communities already experiencing the effects of extreme weather and environmental destruction. The exhibition has toured churches, mosques, universities and community centres across the UK, and was previously shown at West Ealing Library in February 2025. It is now being brought to Southall by Ealing Friends of the Earth (EFoE).
The project was created by campaign groups Zero Hour and Muslims Declare to highlight the proposed Climate and Nature Bill, which seeks to make the UK’s international climate and biodiversity commitments legally binding.
A Zero Hour spokesman said: “We asked children, parents, teachers and climate campaigners around the world to tell us how the climate and nature crisis is affecting their lives. We received handwritten letters, emails, photos and drawings from children and adults living in countries and communities experiencing the very real impacts of climate change and environmental destruction.”
Campaigners say the event comes at a critical moment. An EFoE spokesman commented: “The message could not be more timely given the government’s recent decision to expand aviation – one of the major sources of the emissions that are trashing the environment, and yet benefits only a small minority of the world’s population, eighty percent of whom have never been in a plane.”
After Southall, the exhibition is expected to tour further venues across the borough.
