Community action/Plymouth

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 Plymouth.

• The Village Hub, "providing opportunities that enable anyone in our community (the Electoral Wards of Stoke and Devonport) to connect through learning, signposting, cultural activities and having fun in a safe and caring environment." added 10:25, 15 November 2022 (UTC)
• Plymouth Octopus Project, cosmolocal CAN in action, combining local practicality and global perspective
• Hoe Neighbourhood Forum, added 15:17, 19 December 2020 (UTC)
• Environment Plymouth
• Sustainability with Plymouth University
• Transition Plymouth

Cosmolocal discovery club

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

Future Rural Voices: perspectives on the countryside’s future

Authors: Campaign to Protect Rural England, 2.35 mins.

Date: 2026-05-07

Local Power, Lower Bills: Up the Energy!

Authors: Community Energy England, 1.38 mins.

Date: 2026-03-10

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

Plymouth and South Devon Community Forest at Killerton

Authors: Plymouth and South Devon Community Forest, 2.10 mins.

Date: 2026-03-06

Growing With Nature Highlights

Authors: Green Minds Plymouth

Date: 2023-10-18

Seagrass restoration in Plymouth Sound, spring 2021

Authors: LIFE Recreation ReMEDIES

Date: 2021-07-14

Nudge: Community is Our Business

Authors: Power to Change, Jan 8, 2019

UK events

UK community action events

Global or international events

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

• Whitleigh Big Local, added 15:12, 19 December 2020 (UTC)

• All Ways Apples, community apple festival held in Devonport, Plymouth, in the Autumn of each year
• Diggin it! organic gardening project in Plymouth
• Food Plymouth, city-wide food partnership which works to support the aims of the Plymouth Food Charter and Sustainable Food City Plymouth Action Plan, promoting a vibrant and resilient local food economy for a more healthy and sustainable city...foodplymouth.org

Maps: Plymouth Good Food Map, foodplymouth.org, link not found

Past event

• June 10 -14, 2014, Plymouth Big Food Event, foodplymouth.org, link not found

Plymouth Energy Community, charity and a social enterprise, with a cooperative ethos. "We empower our community to create a fair, affordable, zero carbon energy system with local people at its heart." added 10:49, 12 November 2021 (UTC)

• Plymouth Social Enterprise Network, added 19:20, 19 December 2020 (UTC)

• Plymouth FabLab
• Borrow Don't Buy, 'library of things' in Plymouth

Citizens data initiative

• Plymouth City Council's open data website

• Fotonow CIC, Visual culture for social change
• Take a Part, arts project for Plymouth communities

• The Climate Hub, "flagship Climate Hub in the old Waterstones building (New George St) will be one of the first city centre Climate Hubs in the world." added 16:30, 4 August 2022 (UTC)

Plymouth is at the southern end of the 99-mile (159 km) long Devon Coast to Coast Cycle Route (National Cycle Route 27). The route runs mostly traffic free on off-road sections between Ilfracombe and Plymouth. The route uses former railway lines, though there are some stretches on public roads. ^W

• Nudge Community Builders, set up in 2017 by local people living in Stonehouse, Plymouth.

Parks, nature and green spaces, information from Plymouth City Council

Plymouth is home to 28 parks with an average size of 45,638 square metres (491,240 sq ft).[66] Its largest park is Central Park, with other sizeable green spaces including Victoria Park, Freedom Fields Park, Alexandra Park, Devonport Park and the Hoe. ^W

• River Keepers, information from bioregion.org.uk (South Devon / Plymouth)

News sources

• Posts in PLYMOUTH LAB, from The Daily Alternative, thealternative.org.uk/dailyalternative

Plymouth is a city situated on the south coast of Devon, England, approximately 37 miles (60 km) south-west of Exeter and 190 miles (310 km) west-south-west of London. Enclosing the city are the mouths of the river Plym and river Tamar, which are naturally incorporated into Plymouth Sound to form a boundary with Cornwall.

The city is home to 262,100 (mid-2019 est.) people, making it the 30th-most populous built-up area in the United Kingdom and the second-largest city in the South West, after Bristol. It is governed locally by Plymouth City Council and home to the University of Plymouth. It has ferry links to Brittany (Roscoff and St Malo) and to Spain (Santander). ^W

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