“We're delighted to get involved and provide real-time hotspot air pollution monitoring data to those most at risk on community main roads, to enable them to make informed decisions that could lower their air pollution exposure, reduce their risk of heart disease, cancer and respiratory illness and their children's risk of asthma and stunted lung growth. This will improve quality of life and life expectancy. We hope this program helps to ensure everyone has access to real-time information for their community road pollution hot spot, where on a day to day basis we have our highest air pollution exposure.”

“CCARA is excited to be involved in the Breathe London Community Programme. The Breathe London sensor will produce robust data on air quality in Beckenham, supporting us to improve public awareness and understanding about air quality issues.”

“We are keen to get involved with Breathe London to help Westbourne residents understand the impact that air pollution has on their lives and to help us all take action to reduce air pollution in our area.”

“The group are excited to be part of the project to deepen their understanding about pollution and the quality of our environment and learn what impact the green space we help care for makes on the data!”

“Havering Cyclists are the London Borough of Havering’s representatives for the London Cycling Campaign. We recently joined with Havering XR, Havering Friends of the Earth and Havering Quakers to form a Climate Coalition Group with a great interest in Havering’s Climate Change Strategy, as well as contributing to the newly formed Green Forum.”

"Our Sustainable Merton Citizen Science Project works collaboratively with the local community, dedicated volunteers and the local council to raise awareness of the importance of air quality, and to help monitor NO2 emissions through a network of NO2 diffusion tubes managed by volunteers. The Breathe London Node will collect continuous real-time data allowing us to monitor "hot-spot" areas allowing us to design and propose interventions to address issues in specific areas for the immediate benefit of the wider community. We aim to use the data to help raise awareness of air pollution, improve public knowledge, and share the data with our partners within the project and the wider community." 

“Together, R-Urban and LiC have been working together between our two sites for the last couple of years. With our collaborative work exploring themes of urban food growing, circular systems and localised biodiversity improvements, and having previously undertaken research projects linked to air quality, we’re excited to further explore and understand the conditions that we work within, as well as working on air quality improvements on our estate – with the quantitative data to back it up! Our programmes are largely delivered through free educational workshops with a wide range of local residents, and we look forward to introducing ideas and learnings from this to the sessions!”

“Measuring air quality in one of Islington's busiest spots will provide crucial information we will use in our campaigns and other actions to reduce air pollution in the borough.”

"Our community is in the invisible grip of air pollution. Every breath we take, which carries life, also bears a toxic burden of air pollution. By monitoring the air we all share, we can illuminate this burden on our community and provide ourselves with the opportunity to mitigate vulnerable residents' exposure to the carcinogenic particles and gases that permeate our air.”

“The Breathe London project has so far supported dozens of communities TO understand the air quality around them and given them the understanding needed to improve the air they are breathing. At Clean Air for Beck Square, we’re delighted to be joining this movement and to start learning the challenges our area faces. We hope to be able to use our findings to educate other residents to better protect themselves from toxic air but also to start advocating for more action from local government and businesses to tackle pollution. We want this to be the moment that we made the changes we needed to protect ourselves, each other and the next generation.”