Arts, sport and culture UK news

• The English restaurant turning hospitality on its head, positive.news (May 27, 2026) — At a pay-as-you-can restaurant in Stroud, radical hospitality and good food are bringing strangers together
• Back to the Song: Cultural Repair in a Time of Ecological Crisis [Mairi McFadyean/Hopeful Futures], Daily Alternative (Mar 18, 2026)
• “The BBC as a Public Service Co-operative” - one proposal among many in the Alternative Green Paper, for the broadcaster’s Royal Charter Review [Media Reform Coalition], Daily Alternative (Mar 05, 2026)
• Can wild swimming unite communities against single-use plastics?, positive.news (Feb 14, 2026)
• Pubs are far more valuable to society than the tax they pay, theconversation.com (Jan 28, 2026)
• Coherence Is Not Consensus, Alternative Editorial (Jan 25, 2026)
• Citizens’ Assembly to invest £100,000 in West’s culture, westofengland-ca.gov.uk (Jan 16, 2026)
• Council offering free use of leisure centre hall, BBC News (Jan 04, 2026)

• How solar panels saved this local community leisure centre, goodenergy.co.uk (Dec 19, 2025)
• Test of faith: Reviving religion in the age of climate breakdown [Rupert Read], Daily Alternative (Nov 27, 2025)
• Beth Mead: ‘If we don’t adapt to climate change, football becomes a privilege, not a right‘, theguardian.com (Nov 19, 2025)
• PINF Forum explores the future of independent local news, thenews.coop (Nov 04, 2025) — Media co-ops Salamander News, Bristol Cable and organiser Leicester Gazette were among those looking for ways forward
• ‘Enforced veganism’: Ofcom lets GB News flout accuracy rules, say climate campaigners, theguardian.com (Oct 25, 2025) — Exclusive: Regulator has received 1,221 complaints about UK broadcasters since 2020 but found no breaches of its code
• Taiwan Film Festival in Scotland—"connecting inward truths with outward visions, creating a vibrant shared space for reflection and inspiration”, Daily Alternative (Oct 21, 2025)
• Glasgow’s Citizens Theatre reopens: what its seven-year transformation reveals about the future of historic venues, theconversation.com (Aug 22, 2025)
• Enlisting hearts and minds to save Somerset’s last eels, positive.news (Aug 18, 2025)
• Stampede in Soho: puppet animals on an epic trek bring wonder and warning to London streets, theguardian.com (Jun 28, 2025)
• Gillingham's historic lido, the only riverside saltwater tidal swimming pool in England open for summer after £250k refurb, BBC News (May 24, 2025)
• The report "Our Mutual Friend" shows how The BBC could genuinely be owned by we, the citizens, Daily Alternative (May 19, 2025)
• Artist Cath Carver spreads soft power everywhere in her London area, Daily Alternative (Apr 07, 2025)

• "Our Future" is Grimsby celebrating its native resources, coming together as a community ready for the century's challenges, Daily Alternative (Nov 07, 2024)

• Our 24-hour climate comic explores what a sustainable future could look like, theconversation.com (Sep 20, 2024)

• SPRING: “We radically re-imagine the piano in today’s throw away culture”. Edinburgh’s Pianodrome is the essence of a circular economy, Daily Alternative (Aug 28, 2024)
• Arts and crafts give greater life satisfaction than work, survey suggests, theguardian.com (Aug 16, 2024)

• Women’s football holds immense potential as a lever for climate action, Amy James-Turner, theguardian.com (Jun 11, 2024)
• How artistic organisations can express their role in helping the survival of biodiverse and human life on this troubled planet, Daily Alternative (Jun 05, 2024)
• Making an exhibition of yourself: the gallery where anyone can add to the walls, positive.news (Jun 04, 2024)

• ‘This May Day is a Celebration of Work and Innovation’, Dave Proudlove, thestokemodel.com (May 01, 2024)

• Five ways community is at the heart of Brighton Festival, positive.news (Apr 24, 2024)

• ‘No drilling! No drilling!’: climate choir sings truth to power in Palace of Westminster, theguardian.com (Mar 07, 2024)
• She moved me’: the UK dancers inspired by India’s 112-year-old environmentalist, theguardian.com (Mar 03, 2024)

• ‘A powerful message through song’: the UK’s Climate Choir Movement is growing, theguardian.com (Feb 07, 2024)
• Green Football Weekend: Newark & Sherwood United - the vegan non-league club doing things differently, bbc.co.uk (Feb 03, 2024)
• Green Football Weekend: how to make a Premier League club truly ‘sustainable’, theconversation.com (Feb 01, 2024)

• ‘It reaches deep inside people’: the climate choirs singing for the planet, positive.news (Dec 06, 2023)
• Sport England tells its sports: funding will depend on fighting climate crisis, theguardian.com (Oct 11, 2023)
• Berlin spends nearly €1 billion on public arts & spaces for the city (twice as much as for all of England), The Daily Alternative (Jul 25, 2023)
• The African choirs tackling loneliness in England’s care homes, positive.news (Apr 26, 2023)
• “Be fearless. You are just as entitled as anyone to have the life you want.” The Arts Emergency Manifesto should rouse more than just artists, The Daily Alternative (Jan 05, 2023)

• How the women’s Euros 2022 beat the sceptics to breathe new life into football, The Daily Alternative (Jul 25, 2022)

• UK arts' leading figures join call for green recovery from coronavirus crisis.^[1] Jun 22, 2020
• Royal Shakespeare Company to end BP sponsorship deal..^[2] Oct 2, 2019.
• Royal Shakespeare Company threatened with boycott over BP sponsor.^[3] Sep 26, 2019.
• Some highlights from the latest manifesto of The Movement for Cultural Democracy, Jan 8, 2019...^[4]

References

"The mission is to remind people what they have in them already": Common Wealth are making movements from theatre, Sep 3, 2018...^[1]

• Arts and culture sector realises 'intrinsic' value of sustainability, Nov 25, 2016...^[2]
• Introducing… The Cantignorus Chorus! 2013...^[3]
• Idle thoughts^[4] ; Idling benches and the Sheffield Riddle Trail,^[5] 2006.

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