Southwark community action

Campaigns

Save Southwark Woods

@savingsouthwark

FossilFreeSouthwark on twitter

Initiatives by topic

Communities online

Bellenden Residents' Group - Peckham Residents' Network

Community and voluntary action

Community Action Southwark, umbrella organisation (or Council for Voluntary Service) for the voluntary and community sector in Southwark - Peckham Voluntary Sector Forum

Community involvement

Commonplace Peckham Rye - Peckham Rye CoDesign - People's Republic of Southwark - Pocket Places Peckham

Cycling activism

Community Cycleworks, not for profit organisation that runs build-a-bike courses, bikefix, and road and mountain biking rideouts, for young people in the London Borough of Southwark and beyond - Southwark Cyclists

Food activism

Glengall Wharf Garden - Surrey Docks Farm - Walworth Garden Farm

Open spaces

Friends of Goose Green - Friends of Peckham Rye Park - Parks and open spaces on southwark.gov.uk - Peckham Coal Line, Grass roots initiative to create an urban park using disused space between Queens Road Peckham and Rye Lane. - Wikipedia: Southwark parks and open spaces, Bankside Open Spaces Trust

Sustainable transport activism

Southwark Living Streets

Trees, woodland and forest

Elephant and Castle Urban Forest - Video: Elephant and Castle Urban Forest, September 2011

News and comment

2017

Borough Market to phase out plastic bottle sales with free fountains, Aug 23 ^[1]

2016

Fossil Free Southwark: Our Story, Dec 14 ^[2]

Southwark pension fund to shed fossil fuel investments, Dec 14 ^[3]

2015

Why comparisons with the Highline are a double-edged sword... September 12 ^[4]

2014

The planning points 4, February 1 ^[5]

2010

London Development Agency to provide £4 million to the Bankside Urban Forest - a programme of works to improve public space in the Bankside area from the riverside to the Elephant & Castle, ^[6] March 10

2009

Clinton praise for London project, ^[7] May 19

Resources

• Coin Street Community Builders, development trust and social enterprise which seeks to make London's South Bank a better place in which to live, to work, to visit and to study. ^W
• Southwark Circle, membership organization

Maps

Heart of the Elephant and Castle Urban Forest Map, Maps, open data and activism on the Heygate estate, Tom Chance's blog, April 19, 2011

Visions

Peckham Vision

Interwiki links

Wikipedia: Southwark, Spike Surplus Scheme

External links

• Peckham Society, amenity society
• Peckham and Nunhead area action plan on southwark.gov.uk
• Regeneration on southwark.gov.uk

References