News and Events

Rob Larter on The changing West Antarctic Ice Sheet and its implications for East Anglia

  • Posted on: 22 April 2025
  • By: Susan
Dr Rob Larter in the Antarctic

We were pleased to host Rob Larter on May 21st 2025, who spoke about how the West Antarctic Ice Sheet change is the largest source of uncertainty in future sea-level rise predictions and how accelerating sea-level rise impacts coastal erosion and the risk of coastal flooding events around East Anglia.  A copy of Rob's slides can be found here. He highlighted how a relatively small rise in sea level has a disproportionate effect on the recurrence interval of extreme high wate

Cam River Rights Festival

  • Posted on: 27 March 2025
  • By: Susan
Banner at Friends of the Cam Dedication of River Rights Festival
Banner at Friends of the Cam Dedication of River Rights Festival
River Dress

On Midsummer's Eve, Saturday 21st June, Friends of the Cam held its 5th River Rights Festival at which we rededicated the rights of the river. This is needed now more than ever, as threats to our rivers, biodiversity, and communities multiply.

Challenging the Cambridge Growth Company

  • Posted on: 27 March 2025
  • By: Susan
Cambridge Station Square featured in The Guardian illustrating poor design

The Federation of Cambridge Residents' Associations (FeCRA) hosted Peter Freeman, Chair of the Government’s new ‘Cambridge Growth Company’, to explain what his vision for the growth of Cambridge means for its infrastructure, water and housing, and this was an opportunity for us to question him directly.  Friends of the Cam challenged the appropriateness of growth in our dry, increasingly hot, and water stressed region, which is also threatened by flooding from sea level rise.

Challenging the Fixed Bus Way through Coton Orchard

  • Posted on: 14 January 2025
  • By: Susan

Friends of the Cam submitted an objection to the plan to build a fixed dedicated bus route from Cambridge (Grange Road) to Cambourne, via Coton, destroying a traditional orchard of national importance in the process. The Department of Transport have now announced a Public Inquiry, and Friends of the Cam have registered as an interested party and will be making our objection. The reasons for this objection are set out below.

March for Clean Water, Sunday 3rd November

  • Posted on: 11 September 2024
  • By: Susan
Join the march for clean water on October 26

Friends of the Cam is a member of the coalition organising The March for Clean Water. We joined other groups from Cambridge and across the country on Sunday November 3rd to demand clean, plentiful and healthy water in our rivers and seas for all species, including humans, and to end the profit driven pollution which drives water companies. 

Latest action demanding that Anglian Water stops polluting our rivers

  • Posted on: 11 September 2024
  • By: Susan

⁨⁩On Friday 13 September, Friends of the Cam and XR staged an action against Anglian Water dumping sewage in local rivers, prompting the water company to state they had heard the message “loud and clear”. This was followed on the 14th by an afternoon of outreach and family fun on Jesus Green, demanding that Anglian Water #ActNow to stop polluting our rivers.

A Meeting of Rivers

  • Posted on: 6 August 2024
  • By: Susan

Friends of the Cam is one of four groups working on the “Meeting of Rivers” programme. Its inaugural workshop was co-hosted by the Friends of the Cam on the 19th and 20th of September at St Lukes Church, Cambridge. A report was published in the Cambridge Independent here.

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