Olwyn was delighted to host a very special fundraiser during Chelsea Flower Show Week entitled We Grow - with the amazing (and absolutely fabulous!) Lynne Franks - a pioneer in PR and philanthropy. Lynne with support from Olwyn, was launching a new initiative called We Grow encouraging women to get into their gardens and their communities to grow not only their own food (as this is the year of the Woman Farmer!) as well as their local networks to help support and empower each other. We welcomed guests to the amazing Roof Gardens to hear Lynne in conversation with Georgie Newbery and Lulu Urquhart. A fabulous morning of togetherness and community.

Olwyn Foundation are proud to announce a new collaboration with photographer Amelia Troubridge. A new show of work, funded by Olwyn Foundation, will go on show in central London from 22-25 January. Entitled LAND CAMP.

In April 2025 Amelia photographed the 21^st Free Land Camp, where 8,000 Indigenous leaders and people gathered in Brasília alongside community organizers. The largest mobilisation of Indigenous people in the world, organised by the Articulation of Indigenous peoples of Brazil (APIB). Seminars, debates, music, and culture all served as a platform to connect and empower the many indigenous voices that still struggle to survive and preserve their territories. This year’s four-day event amplified the call of the Indigenous movement. 

Amelia says, “Traditions are passed down from one generation to another. I wanted the work to show the women of Land Camp who are embracing modern ways. Social media has connected their voices. Focused on creation, protection, balance.”

The indigenous leaders of Brazil are unified in their demands for land rights, sovereignty, and territorial governance, as the most effective strategies to defend the rainforest and our global climate. Working alongside Anmiga (The National Articulation of Indigenous Women Warriors of Ancestry), in this body of powerful new work, comprising eighteen photographs, Amelia has captured the women of the Land Camp, in association with Olwyn Foundation.

Samantha Rowe-Beddoe says, “as a charity that supports women and girls, working with Amelia Troubridge, a female photographer that operates at the epicentre of our fluctuating cultural and political world, aligns very closely with Olwyn’s core aims, connecting women with women. This important new work highlights the role of the women of LAND CAMP.  Women and girls around the world are the most negatively affected by climate change, whether through increasing child marriage rates, general displacement, poverty and scarcity of resources and increased sexual violence  - environmentalism is always a women’s issue.”