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Queen's Gardens, Hull On the day of the graduation ceremony of the University of Hull, graduands in their academic gowns wait for the start of the ceremony, with their parents and friends. The ceremony takes place in the City Hall, the building with the dome down the street beyond the bus. Author: RichTea, 13 July 2009
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Location Hull, United Kingdom
Coordinates 53° 45' 44.59" N, 0° 19' 48.44" W

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 Hull.

Hull
Yorkshire and the Humber
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Earth
  • News Co-ops looking to change the world, town by town, thenews.coop (Nov 03, 2025)
  • News “‘Tell the truth’ didn’t just mean the facts of climate breakdown, it meant the heartbreaking truth of our own potential." Gully Bujak on Cooperation Hull, Daily Alternative (Aug 30, 2024)
  • News ‘Empowering and healing, people’s assemblies are the future of democracy’, positive.news (Aug 21, 2024)
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  • News West Yorkshire moor brought under community ownership, thenews.coop (Oct 30, 2025) — Bridestones Moor, near Todmorden, will be managed by a CIC led by local ecologists, naturalists and residents
  • News Campaign launched to buy waterfall beauty spot, BBC News (Jul 17, 2025) — Campaigners say the community is ready to take responsibility for the future of the ancient woodland and waterfall
  • News Yorkshire enters drought after driest spring in 132 years, theguardian.com (Jun 12, 2025)
  • News May and June heatwaves killed about 2,700 people in England and Wales, data suggests, theguardian.com (Jul 13, 2026) — Extreme heat led to 440 deaths a day during June peak, say scientists, with climate crisis ramping up temperatures
  • News MPs call on UK government to host televised emergency briefing on climate crisis, theguardian.com (Jul 10, 2026) — As UK swelters in another heatwave, 50-minute Chris Packham film outlines threats to security, economy and health
  • News Homes need more renewable energy tech – here’s how to make sure retrofits avoid creating e‑waste, theconversation.com (Jul 08, 2026)
  • News May and June heatwaves killed about 2,700 people in England and Wales, data suggests, theguardian.com (Jul 13, 2026) — Extreme heat led to 440 deaths a day during June peak, say scientists, with climate crisis ramping up temperatures
  • News Amsterdam, along with other major European cities, bans public adverts for meat and fossil fuels [BBC], Daily Alternative (May 22, 2026)
  • News How reindeer herds, nature and Sámi culture can thrive when forests are restored across northern Europe, theconversation.com (May 15, 2026)
  • News As food shocks spread, citizens are showing more leadership than governments, climatechangenews.com (Jul 03, 2026) — People support efforts to protect forests and curb industrial food production, the results of the latest Global Citizens’ Assembly show – but politicians have been slow to act
  • News Trapped by floods and fearing death in the heat: the Australians taking legal action over the climate crisis, theguardian.com (Jun 22, 2026)
  • News ‘The sea took everything away’: how Nigeria’s ‘Happy City’ is disappearing beneath the waves, theguardian.com (Jun 18, 2026)

UK and international events

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UK events

UK community action events

Global or international events

  • Event July 2026 — Plastic Free July, plasticfreejuly.org
  • Event Jul 04, 2026 (Sat) — International Day of Cooperatives (CoopsDay), 1st Saturday of July. The celebration aims to showcase co-operatives’ role in building ‘inclusive, resilient, and sustainable communities’, coopsday.coop
  • Event Jul 18, 2026 (Sat) — Mandela Day, global celebration 18 July annually, to honour the life and legacy of Nelson Mandela. A call to action for individuals, communities, and organisations to take time to reflect on Mandela's values and principles and to make a positive impact in their own communities, mandeladay.com

2021-2030, UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, International community action events

Networks, sustainability initiatives and community involvement

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Cosmolocal discovery club

Each week 3 different short videos from across the UK or world.

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Future Rural Voices: perspectives on the countryside’s future
Authors: Campaign to Protect Rural England, 2.35 mins.
Date: 2026-05-07
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Local Power, Lower Bills: Up the Energy!
Authors: Community Energy England, 1.38 mins.
Date: 2026-03-10
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Tiree - This is Community Wealth Building
Authors: Scottish Community Alliance, 3.44 mins.
Date: 2025-11-18

Rural sustainability UK, Community energy UK, Community action/Argyll and Bute / ...This week's featured Global videos / ... read more about Cosmolocalism

Hull video

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Who Hull Can Be - The Future of Cooperation Hull at The People’s Party II
Authors: Cooperation Hull
Date: 2024-08-23
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Town Anywhere
Authors: Town Anywhere
Date: 2024-02-24
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Cooperation Hull Episode 2 - Democracy and People's Assemblies
Authors: Cooperation Hull
Date: 2023-09-13
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Cooperation Hull - Pearson Park People's Assembly
Authors: Cooperation Hull, 3.39 mins.
Date: 2023-07-06
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GIROSCOPE mov
Authors: Giroscope
Date: 2021-09-08
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Goodwin Development Trust - a Community Led Homes success story
Authors: Community Led Homes
Date: 2019-12-10
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The city that rewards people who do good deeds
Authors: BBC Stories
Date: 2018-01-31
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Self-help Housing in the North of England
Authors: World Habitat
Date: 2016-02-29
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Restorative Practices in Hull: The First Restorative City
Authors: IIRP Graduate School
Date: 2012-09-25

Housing

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  • Giroscope, housing charity based in west Hull and pioneers in a movement within UK housing providers called Self-Help Housing, inspiring others and becoming more attractive as regards delivering sustainable regeneration, housing and employment.

Community resources

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Community currencies activism

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Hull Mutual Aid Network: This Mutual Aid Network aims to create a chain reaction that goes back into communities. It meshes a thriving timebank with 600 members and the Hull Coin initiative, the City of Culture's 2017 nomination, which is currently mobilizing 4,000 volunteers.
"When I started the TimeBank back in 2010, I saw it as the solution to everything," says Kate Macdonald. "I realized in time that it is 'one' solution and that to have a viable parallel economy, we need different options which have strengths to use in different circumstances. When I heard Stephanie speak about Mutual Aid Networks a couple of years ago, I realized this had been what I had been looking for. What is often missed is a mechanism to join things up." Shareable

Sustainable transport

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News archive

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  • News Meet the Climate Activists Who Moved Cross-Country to Build a New Civilisation, novaramedia.com (Oct 06, 2023)
  • News ‘Real’ public engagement must be prioritised for path to net zero to succeed, climateoutreach.org (Sep 05, 2023) — the UPPER Coalition Reports include examples of successful co-designing and collaboration with local citizens, including Camden Think & Do’s programme, Kendal’s Climate Jury, and initiatives in Hull and Hackney
  • News HullCoin: The social experiment that's rewarding good deeds, BBC News (Jan 30, 2018)
  • News The English City With Its Own Cryptocurrency: Q&A With the Founders of HullCoin, shareable.net (Oct 23, 2017)

About Hull

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Kingston upon Hull, or simply shortened to Hull, is a port city and unitary authority area in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It lies upon the River Hull at its confluence with the Humber Estuary, 25 miles (40 km) inland from the North Sea. It is a tightly bounded city which excludes the majority of its suburbs; with a population of 275,401 (2024), it is the fourth-largest city in the Yorkshire and the Humber region. The built-up area has a population of 436,300.

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Keywords Cities, UK cities, Visions
SDG SDG11 Sustainable cities and communities
Authors Phil Green
License CC-BY-SA-3.0
Language English (en)
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Created September 6, 2024 by Phil Green
Last edit January 8, 2026 by MetadescriptionsBot
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