Community action/Sheffield
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 Sheffield.
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| Location | Sheffield, United Kingdom |
| Coordinates | 53° 22' 50.39" N, 1° 28' 12.82" W |
News
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Co-ops looking to change the world, town by town, thenews.coop (Nov 03, 2025)
- New Sheffield ad ban shows how councils can act on harmful advertising, adfreecities.org.uk (Mar 19, 2024)
- 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
- 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
- Yorkshire enters drought after driest spring in 132 years, theguardian.com (Jun 12, 2025)
- The climate cafe where misery is 'empowering', BBC News (Jul 26, 2026)
- The UK birth, death, and rebirth of the local market, wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk (Jul 23, 2026)
- Across parties, across postcodes, ffcc.co.uk (Jul 17, 2026) — British people want government action on food
- 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
- Europe's heatwave linked to 1,300 deaths, WHO says, as Germany hits record 41.7C, BBC News (Jun 28, 2026)
- European heatwave is worst ever and impossible without climate crisis, scientists say, theguardian.com (Jun 26, 2026) — Study also finds high humidity means people in hundreds of cities are enduring their worst ever heat stress
- Conservationists urge caution over Bangladesh’s plan to plant 250 million trees, Abu Siddique, news.mongabay.com (Jul 20, 2026)
- The politics of heat, where “voters are greener than politicians, the media—even we ourselves—seem willing to admit” [The Break-Down], Daily Alternative (Jul 18, 2026)
- "What is flourishing? A life in many keys.” From Pavel Luksha's Protopia Futures, Daily Alternative (Jul 17, 2026)
Networks and sustainability initiatives
[edit | edit source]- Opus independents, not-for-profit social enterprise based in Sheffield. "We work with citizens, communities, neighbourhoods, business, voluntary groups, cities, campaigns, research institutions, infrastructure organisations and governments to address the entangled ecological, social, economic, political and cultural crisis we collectively face.", added 18:06, 18 July 2023 (UTC)
- Transition Sheffield - May 2016: Transition Sheffield has closed down but the websites have been archived
Each week 3 different short videos from across the UK or world.
Community action/Manchester, Community action/Essex, Community action/West Sussex / ...This week's featured Global videos / ... read more about Cosmolocalism
UK and international events
[edit | edit source]UK events
Jul 1 - 14, 2026 (Wed - Tue) — Community Energy Fortnight, communityenergyengland.org- Jul 02, 2026 (Thu) — Cycle to Work Day, cyclescheme.co.uk
- Jul 17 - Aug 9, 2026 (Fri - Sun) — Big Butterfly Count, bigbutterflycount.butterfly-conservation.org
- Jul 19 - 25, 2026 (Sun - Sat), The theme for 2026 is JOY — Community Centre Week, octopuscommunities.org.uk
- Jul 24 - Aug 2, 2026 (Fri - Sun) — Love Parks Week, Keep Britain Tidy
Global or international events
- July 2026 — Plastic Free July, plasticfreejuly.org
- 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
- 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
Sheffield video
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Community involvement
[edit | edit source]- Cooperation Sheffield, "The core of our strategy is People's Assemblies", added 22:00, 25 November 2025 (UTC)
- It's Our City Sheffield, added 10:44, 10 March 2020 (UTC)
Food activism
[edit | edit source]- ShefFood, Sheffield's food partnership. Cross sector partnership including community organisations. added 12:06, 5 October 2021 (UTC)
- Food Hall, food reclaimed, city centre
- Grow Sheffield
- Heeley City Farm
- Lower Walkley Community Group
- The Real Junk Food Project Sheffield, non-profit social enterprise saving food from being wasted and making it available to the people of Sheffield
- Sheffield Organic Growers, cluster of independent organic growers, based on a 12-acre site in Moss Valley on the edge of Sheffield
Community energy
[edit | edit source]Towards sustainable economies
[edit | edit source]Regather, trading cooperative based in the Little Sheffield
Community resources
[edit | edit source]Citizens data initiative
- Sheffield City Council Open Data, added 16:11, 23 April 2021 (UTC)
Arts, sport and culture
[edit | edit source]Sustainable transport activism
[edit | edit source]The Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation (S&SY) is a system of navigable inland waterways (canals and canalised rivers) in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. Chiefly based on the River Don, it runs for a length of 43 miles (69 km) and has 29 locks. It connects Sheffield, Rotherham, and Doncaster with the River Trent at Keadby and (via the New Junction Canal) the Aire and Calder Navigation. W
Wikipedia: Supertram (Sheffield)
Cycling activism
[edit | edit source]For cycling, although hilly, Sheffield is compact and has few major trunk roads. It is on the Trans-Pennine Trail, a National Cycle Network route running from West to East from Southport in Merseyside to Hornsea in the East Riding of Yorkshire and North to South from Leeds in West Yorkshire to Chesterfield in Derbyshire. There are many cycle routes going along country paths in the woods surrounding the city. W
Open spaces
[edit | edit source]Sixty-one per cent of Sheffield's entire area is green space, and a third of the city lies within the Peak District national park. There are more than 250 parks, woodlands and gardens in the city, which is estimated to contain around 4.5 million trees. W
Maps
- A Greenground Map of Sheffield, theoutdoorcity.co.uk, added 16:37, 23 July 2021 (UTC)
The Peace Gardens are an inner city square in Sheffield, England. The Gardens themselves front onto Sheffield's gothic town hall, not to be confused with Sheffield City Hall (a concert venue), or the Sheffield Old Town Hall.
News archive
[edit | edit source]- What are the neighbourhoods of Sheffield and why are they crucial to the city's emerging future? We're finding out, nowthenmagazine.com (Nov 23, 2023)
- Sheffield’s Opus Network is the very ideal of a CAN - making media, doing business and connecting to a planet of ideas, The Daily Alternative (Jul 13, 2023)
- An ordinary hope helping to power communities across Britain, ucl.ac.uk (May 23, 2023)
- Fringe Farming Report Reveals Green Recovery Potential, ShefFood (Mar 18, 2022)
"I wanted ordinary citizens to feel like they owned the chamber". A mindful review of ex-Mayor of Sheffield Magic Magid's The Art of Disruption, Mar 26, 2021...thealternative.org.uk
- Urban land could grow fruit and veg for 15 percent of the population...sheffield.ac.uk, Mar 17, 2020
- A new approach to Sheffield's street trees, Dec 13, 2018...@Sheffield Newsroom, Sheffield City Council
- Urban Agriculture in Little Sheffield, Mar 22, 2017...reconomy.org
Sheffield is on a quest to be the fairest city of them all – here's how it's doing, May 9, 2016...@ConversationUK
- Death of the high street? Rise of the DIY grassroots community venue... February 6, 2016...citygirl92blog.wordpress.com
- Sheffield: The beauty of small in a region getting bigger, December 10, 2015...sheffield.newstartmag.co.uk
- University of Sheffield Commits to Divest £39m From Fossil Fuels, November 30, 2015...blog.peopleandplanet.org
- Foundations for a fairer city, September 30, 2014...livingwithrats.blogspot.co.uk
- Hundreds Get On Their Bikes to Demand #Space4Cycling in Sheffield, May 20, 2014...Great Gas Beetle
News sources
- Now Then, a magazine for Sheffield. Independent, award-winning citizen journalism since 2008, added 18:08, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
About Sheffield
[edit | edit source]Past events
- Sheffield Environment Weeks
- Mar 27 - 28, 2019, Wed - Thu Feeling Good in a Green City festival
- Feb 16, 2017, The Platform - 'Sheffield Re-imagined 2017: A Manifesto for a Better Sheffield
- May 24 - 26, 2014, Sheffield Food Festival
Sheffield is a city and metropolitan borough in South Yorkshire, England. The population of the City of Sheffield is 584,853 (mid-2019 est.) Sheffield is the second-largest city in the Yorkshire and the Humber region and the third-largest English district by population. The metropolitan population of The city of Sheffield is 1,569,000.
The city is in the eastern foothills of the Pennines, and the valleys of the River Don and its four tributaries. W
| Authors | Phil Green |
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| Cite as | Philralph (2014–2025). "Community action/Sheffield". Appropedia. Retrieved July 29, 2026. |