The aim of righting historic wrongs in Jamaica, led Roddy Edwards to work with others from the community in founding the Walkerswood Food company as a partnership venture.

Bishop Michael Marshall, Assistant Bishop of London, opened the Greencoat Forum on 11 February by suggesting that the words "They had everything to live with, and nothing to live for" might be an epitaph for modern society.

Eighteen years after the Chernobyl disaster, millions of people are still suffering from its aftermath, a Belarusian scientist told a Greencoat Forum at the IofC centre in London in May.

One of the pioneers of BBC News Online, David Brewer, emphasised the critical role of strong, independent and sustainable news operations in emerging democracies, when he spoke at the IofC centre in London

Human relationships are as important as technical skills, says development agriculturist Paul Craig.

‘Disaster averted; opportunity missed’ was the way Geoffrey Lean, Environment Editor of the Independent on Sunday, summed up the Earth Summit on sustainable development in Johannesburg, when he spoke on ‘Outcomes of the Earth Summit’ at a Greencoat Forum at the IofC centre in London

Leading Muslim journalist Fuad Nahdi addresses a meeting at the IofC centre in London.

‘Our lives are not as connected as we want them to be in this age of globalisation,’ Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, the Uganda-born broadcaster and columnist for The Independent, tells an IofC meeting in London

Former London head teacher Hilary Belden applauds the use of the the word "enjoyment" in an official government education document.

Four activists from Hope in the Cities (HiC), a coalition aiming to improve community relations, presented the concept of ‘honest conversation’ dialogues, developed by HiC, at a Greencoat Forum held in London recently.