Community action/Bath
The aim of this page is to recognise, celebrate and encourage the self-empowerment of community agency networks (CANs) and community groups' activism for climate, environment and many other sustainability topics across Bath.
News
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New national forest to see 20m trees planted, BBC News (Mar 21, 2025)
- New climate emergency network launched to link schools across B&NES, Dec 23, 2019...@BathEcho
Citizens’ Assembly to invest £100,000 in West’s culture, westofengland-ca.gov.uk (Jan 16, 2026)
‘We found 23,000 worms!’ The soil project bringing life back to the land, positive.news (Oct 22, 2025)
Mussel power: how an offshore shellfish farm is boosting marine life, theconversation.com (Jun 06, 2025)
WL Meets: Zoe Gilbertson who is refashioning textiles from the ground up, wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk (May 13, 2026) — Nick Easen meets designer Zoe Gilbertson who wants to revive the UK textile sector, with sustainability woven in from the start
‘A share in the delight’: the people investing in the UK’s first community-owned solar battery, theguardian.com (May 08, 2026) — Oxfordshire’s Ray Valley Solar already generates clean energy for 7,000 homes, and is now crowdfunding storage to marry daylight with evening demand
Fixing social care: Report highlights potential of co-op model in the UK, thenews.coop (May 08, 2026) — Commissioned by Co-operatives UK and Cwmpas, the study found co-ops provide ‘fairer, better quality, community-rooted care’
Rewilding giants: captive elephants rehomed in Europe’s first sanctuary, theguardian.com (May 07, 2026)
Sail-power offers passengers new crossing between England and France, reuters.com (Apr 28, 2026)
Europe needs affordable, low‑carbon homes – here’s how Barcelona is reimagining its housing system, theconversation.com (Apr 08, 2026)
How one Kenyan community is building a new future on reclaimed ground, globalvoices.org (May 14, 2026)
Data Centres Need a Social License to Operate, demnext.substack.com (May 13, 2026) — How lessons from citizens' assemblies are highly relevant for the future of AI infrastructure and data centres, Another Democratic Future and Claudia Chwalisz
Argentina’s co-operativas escolares: A case study in co-op education, thenews.coop (May 12, 2026) — In 1946, national legislation formally established the teaching of co-operativism and the creation of school co-operatives
Networks and sustainability initiatives
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[edit | edit source]UK events
May 2026 — National Walking Month, livingstreets.org.uk
May 4 - 10, 2026 (Mon - Sun) — National Hedgerow Week, hedgelink.org.uk
May 11 - 17, 2026 (Mon - Sun) — Mental Health Awareness Week, mentalhealth.org.uk
Global or international events
May 1 - 3, 2026 (Fri - Sun) first weekend of May every year — Jane's Walk, How to Lead a Jane's Walk, Video, janeswalk.org
May 3 - 9, 2026 (Sun - Sat) — International Compost Awareness Week, compostfoundation.org
May 03, 2026 (Sun) — International dawn chorus day, first Sunday of May, wildlifetrusts.org
May 9 and Oct 10, 2026 — World Migratory Bird Day, worldmigratorybirdday.org
May 20, 2026 (Wed) — World Bee Day, May 20 each year, fao.org
May 21, 2026 (Thu) — Outdoor Classroom Day, celebrating and inspiring outdoor learning and play, outdoorclassroomday.com
May 22, 2026 (Fri) — International Day for Biological Diversity, May 22 every year, cbd.int
2021-2030, UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, International community action events
CDC video
[edit | edit source]Each week 3 different short videos from across the UK or world.
Rural sustainability UK, Community energy UK, Community action/Argyll and Bute / ...This week's featured Global videos / ... read more about Cosmolocalism
Bath video
[edit | edit source]Community involvement
[edit | edit source]Bath: Hacked, joint council/community initiative bringing bright people and quality data together to do useful things for the community.
Community and voluntary action
[edit | edit source]Volunteer Centre Bath & North East Somerset
Food activism
[edit | edit source]- Keynsham Community Veg Plot in the Park on facebook.com, added 22:24, 15 March 2026 (UTC)
- Alice Park Community Garden, Larkhall
- Food group, Transition Bath
Community energy
[edit | edit source]Community resources
[edit | edit source]Citizens data initiative
Reduce, reuse, repair and recycle
[edit | edit source]- Share and Repair, small, but fast-growing charity in Bath and North East Somerset. "Our aim is to help local people and communities reduce carbon, waste and landfill to improve the environment we live in and save money. In doing so we reduce pollution and increase the eco-environment to a more sustainable life." added 20:50, 27 May 2024 (UTC)
Sustainable transport activism
[edit | edit source]The city is connected to Bristol and the sea by the River Avon, navigable via locks by small boats. The Kennet and Avon Canal links it to the River Kennet at Newbury, and from there to Reading on the River Thames. W
Cycling activism
[edit | edit source]Bath is on National Cycle Route 4, with one of Britain's first cycleways, the Bristol & Bath Railway Path, to the west, and an eastern route toward London on the canal towpath. W
Open spaces
[edit | edit source]The city has several public parks. W
The Avon Green Belt, also known as the Bristol and Bath Green Belt (or Bath and Bristol Green Belt), is a non-statutory green belt environmental and planning policy that regulates urban expansion and development in the countryside surrounding the cities of Bristol and Bath in the South West region of England. It covers areas in Bristol, South Gloucestershire, the county of Somerset which include the council areas of North Somerset, Bath and North East Somerset and Somerset, and Wiltshire. Essentially, the function of the green belt is to limit urban sprawl and maintain the open character of areas around the Bristol and Bath built up areas, and nearby towns and villages. The policy is implemented by local planning authorities on the basis of guidance from central government.
Trees, woodland and forest
[edit | edit source]- Chew Valley Plants Trees, "Co-ordinating the activity of tree planting in Chew Valley to build an ecological and social commonwealth for current and future generations", added 17:02, 16 August 2021 (UTC)
About Bath
[edit | edit source]Past events
- Nov 3, 2016 - Bath Soup Project
- September 27 - 28, 2014, Bath Green Homes, community project organised by Transition Bath, Bath Preservation Trust, and Bath & North East Somerset Council.
- September 14, 2014, Bath Home Improvement Fair
Bath (RP: , locally [ba(ː)θ]) is a city in Somerset, England, known for and named after its Roman-built baths. At the 2021 census, the population was 94,080. Bath is in the valley of the River Avon, 97 miles (156 km) west of London and 11 miles (18 km) southeast of Bristol. The city became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1987, and was later added to the transnational World Heritage Site known as the "Great Spa Towns of Europe" in 2021. Bath is also the largest city and settlement in Somerset.
Near you
[edit | edit source]See also
- Topic overview: Networks, Community involvement, Community and voluntary action, Sustainable transport activism, Cycling activism, Open spaces activism, Trees, woodland and forest
- UK context: Networks UK, Community involvement UK, Community and voluntary action UK, Sustainable transport activism UK, Cycling activism UK, Open spaces activism UK, Trees, woodland and forest UK
- Topic overview: Food activism, Community energy, Visions, Reduce, reuse, repair and recycle, Citizens data initiative
- UK context: Food activism UK, Community energy UK, Visions UK, Reduce, reuse, repair and recycle UK, Citizens data initiative UK
| Authors | Phil Green |
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| License | CC-BY-SA-3.0 |
| Cite as | Philralph (2014–2026). "Community action/Bath". Appropedia. Retrieved May 30, 2026. |







