Home-grown: A roadmap to resilient fruit and vegetable production in England. A collaboration, 360 report published by The Soil Association, Sustain and The Wildlife Trusts, wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk (Jul 03, 2024) — the report outlines seven steps to restore resilience to the horticulture sector
What are the embryonic initiatives that quickly and radically transform society? Maybe ours will be gardens, suggests Greg Frey, Daily Alternative (Jun 06, 2024)
Public backs move to green home heating but more government support is needed, research shows, theconversation.com (May 02, 2024) — "...in Liverpool, strong local identity and a feeling of solidarity led most participants to prefer a locally-owned system to private provision."
Events[edit | edit source]
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Resources[edit | edit source]
Organisations working with communities[edit | edit source]
- Power to Change, independent charitable trust that supports and develops community businesses in England, "Our mission is to strengthen community businesses to tackle some of society's biggest challenges at a local level, including the three biggest challenges of our time: climate change, digital transformation and social inequalities." added 15:21, 3 October 2020 (UTC)
- What is community business? powertochange.org.uk
Funding[edit | edit source]
How to's[edit | edit source]
- How-to-do-a-Local-Economic-Blueprint, reconomy.org
Maps[edit | edit source]
- Community business map on powertochange.org.uk, added 20:36, 8 November 2021 (UTC)
- DCLG Community Rights
Research[edit | edit source]
- Community Power, newlocal.org.uk, added 09:21, 14 January 2022 (UTC)
Video[edit | edit source]
Other resources[edit | edit source]
- Action packs from Local United
- Buxton Economic Resilience Study, Executive Summary, January 2015
- Community Shares "refers to the sale of shares in enterprises serving a community purpose. This type of investment has been used to finance shops, pubs, community buildings, renewable energy initiatives, local food schemes, along with a host of other community based ventures."
- Building a Good Local Economy
- Exploring Community Resilience, Author: Nick Wilding, Carnegie UK Trust, ISBN: 0-900259-82-5, Year: 2011
- Localism, Policy information from Gov.uk
- A plain English guide to the Localism Act, gov.uk
- My Community, 12 community support organizations combine their knowledge and skills so that you can access support and advice in one place, updated 16:04, 6 June 2020 (UTC)
- Neighbourhood Planning Roadmap
- Neighbourhood Ideas Exchange Toolkit, September 16, 2013, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
- What Needs to be Done: The Manifesto for Local Economies cles.org.uk
Campaigns[edit | edit source]
- Opposing supermarket developments and promoting local shops in the UK
- Local Works Campaigning to implement the Sustainable Communities Act
See also[edit | edit source]
- Community energy UK
- Community involvement UK
- Ethical consumerism UK
- Food UK
- Neighbourhood Planning
- Reduce, reuse, repair and recycle UK
- Rural sustainability UK
- Towards sustainable economies UK
- Urban sustainability UK
local information can be found, or shared, via our many UK location pages
External links
- Local Trust, "Trusting Local People", added 16:12, 26 May 2020 (UTC)
- Community Savings Bank Association, exists to rebuild a network of independent, local banks in the UK, owned by and answerable to their customers.
- Local United, diffusing practical initiatives in response to climate change and peak oil. Membership association of existing and aspiring social entrepreneurs.
- Civic Systems Lab, Seeding a local civic economy in the UK and around the world 00
- Make Works, factory finders, on a mission to make local manufacturing accessible and inspiring. Think of it like a public library. An open resource that lets you discover the relevant skilled people, places, tools and materials that allow you to manufacture, make or repair in your local area.
- REconomy Project, part of the Transition Network
- Totally Locally Ltd
- Civic Manifesto: Localism for Real, Civic Voice W
- Common Ground, United Kingdom charity and lobby group. Common Ground aims to promote "local distinctiveness" W