Innovative youth climate advocacy
A collaboration with Greenpeace offering secondary school students creative tools to develop resilience to eco-anxiety and take meaningful climate action at their school.
2023 – 2025 (continuing with Mod)
About the project
From climate anxiety to agency
The Playful Activism Toolbox is an interactive, school-based project designed to help young people build resilience to eco-anxiety and take meaningful climate action in their communities. Developed in collaboration with Greenpeace, the project supports students to explore climate justice, strengthen their sense of agency, and create their own Playful Activism over eight structured sessions that offer creative tools and games.
Coney first prototyped the project (then called The Climate Agency Box) in 2023/24 and developed it through multiple iterations with teachers, designers, and students in Tower Hamlets. In partnership with Greenpeace, we then further developed and shaped it into a robust, accessible experience that saw a second pilot in early 2025, reaching 52 new students across 2 schools.
Feedback from teachers and students has been incredibly encouraging:
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78% of students reported increased knowledge of the climate crisis
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78% felt more empowered to make change
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75% would recommend the Toolbox to their peers
Inside the Toolbox
Hear from Toby Peach (project director) and teachers as they reflect on the journey of developing the Toolbox—what it means to bring playful activism into the classroom, and the impact it’s had on young people taking climate action in their school environments.
Related blogs
From climate anxiety to climate agency
Coney Associate Director Toby Peach unpacks the programme we’ve been developing for young people with international climate activists Greenpeace.
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Creative Climate Coalitions: Playful Activism at UCL
Associate Director Toby Peach writes on his time spent exploring Playful Activism with staff and students at University College London.
Read moreCredits
Project Lead Toby Peach
Producer Eliza Cass
Lead writer Mel Frances
Additional writing Toby Peach
Voice actor Rebekah Murrell
Sound design Rubie Green
Box design Kirsty Harris
Programmer Suzannah Hurst
Graphic design Jessica Sanders
Education consultant Anne Langford
Anti-racism consultant Malakaï Sargeant
School artists Maryam Shaharuddin & Toby Peach
With special thanks to Hannah Davey, Sandra Ata, Darcy Williams, Global Learning London, Ross Hunter, Conor O’Malley, Afsana Begum, Rebecca Barker, Jacob Collier and Greta Kilmanaite.
The 2025 pilot was supported by Shaftesbury Young Peoples’ Trust and the Tower Hamlets Council Carbon Reduction Scheme.