Community action/Tonbridge

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 Tonbridge.

• Tonbridge and Malling Friends of the Earth on facebook

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

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• Tonbridge Food Swap

• Donate Tonbridge Vouchers, Tonbridge Town Team, added 15:14, 3 October 2020 (UTC)
• Poverty Map from the Church Urban Fund. (Enter location then zoom out to see whole and neighbouring parishes)

In 2014 the Angel Community Garden was created to eliminate eyesores in the area, and encourage bees which are declining. The garden was put along the edge of Sainsbury's car park. It was formed in collaboration with Tonbridge Friends of the Earth and Tonbridge & Malling Borough Council. The project also received some support from some local shopkeepers and residents. ^W

Citizens data initiative

• Thriving Places Index, Tonbridge and Malling, 2020 summary scores, thrivingplacesindex.org added 17:53, 19 March 2020 (UTC)
• Automatic search suggestions for TheyWorkForYou, FixMyStreet, and WriteToThem, when you enter your postcode on www.mysociety.org. eg mysociety.org
• Census data 2011, use drill down menus for ward and Census Output Areas
• Search all grants, Tonbridge and Malling, The National Lottery Community Fund

• Right to Know, Learn about the systemic and environmental trends that could be impacting your health. right-to-know.org, enter your postcode for local results, added 10:26, 18 January 2022 (UTC)

• Tonbridge Freegle

• Tonbridge Climate Strikes on facebook
• Near-you: Tonbridge and Malling, takeclimateaction.uk, Friends of the Earth sourced data, added 09:43, 15 October 2021 (UTC)
• Place-Based Carbon Calculator, "Why we built a Place-Based Carbon Calculator", Aug 25...climate.leeds.ac.uk Very helpful graphics for communities to... "know why footprints vary and what we can do about it", "use the map to zoom to your area of interest" eg local communities in Malling, Philralph (talk) 14:24, 2 September 2021 (UTC)
• Extinction Rebellion Tonbridge and Malling closed group on facebook
• Setting Climate Committments for Tonbridge and Malling, Quantifying the implications of the United Nations Paris Agreement for Tonbridge and Malling, Feb 2020 carbonbudget.manchester.ac.uk
• Opportunities to reduce energy use, stimulate economy, cut bills & reduce running costs of buildings, transport & industry thereby creating a happier, healthier, more prosperous place, & tackling climate change. pcancities.org.uk

References

• climateemergency.uk

• Journey planner, kentconnected.org

• Tonbridge Bicycle Users Group, public group on facebook, added 16:24, 25 September 2020 (UTC)

Pedestrian Action for Tonbridge High Street (PATHS) on facebook

• Tonbridge and Malling Community Safety Partnership
• e-watch.co Tonbridge and Malling

Tonbridge Litter Catchers, on facebook

From Wikipedia:Haysden Country Park

Haysden Country Park is a 64-hectare (160-acre) country park and Local Nature Reserve on the outskirts of Tonbridge in Kent. It is owned by Tonbridge and Malling Borough Council, the Highways Agency, Network Rail and the Environment Agency, and managed by the council.

Campaigns

• Keep River Lawn Green on facebook.com

Environmental concerns

Parts of Tonbridge are at risk of flooding and a significant flooding event occurred in December 2013. The Environment Agency introduced a 320-metre long flood defence running parallel to the River Medway, along Avebury Avenue, in 2015, as a response to the flooding seen in 2013. Despite these measures, significant flooding occurred again in December 2019. ^W

From Wikipedia:Tonbridge

Tonbridge ( TUN-brij) (historic spelling Tunbridge) is a market town in Kent, England, on the River Medway, 4 miles (6 km) north of Royal Tunbridge Wells, 12 miles (19 km) south west of Maidstone and 29 miles (47 km) south east of London. In the administrative borough of Tonbridge and Malling, it had an estimated population of 41,293 in 2019.

Maidstone - Malling community action - Sevenoaks community action - Tunbridge Wells

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See also

• Towards a more democratic and climate friendly way of meeting housing need across England
• London and South East England
• Saving water in South East England