Community action/Wales

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 Wales. It's an introduction to local networks, groups, and events.

• Wales community resources is a separate page.

• Gower Power Cooperative
• The Green Valleys, Community Interest Company set up by community members in and around the Brecon Beacons National Park in 2009. see also: Video
• Powys Transition & Low Carbon Communities network
• Sustain Wales
• Sustainable Wales An all-Wales human-scale consultancy
• Transition Bro Gwaun, Pembrokeshire
• Transition Chepstow
• Transition Tywi Trawsnewid, Carmarthenshire
• Monmouthshire GreenWeb, network of environmentally concerned organizations in Monmouthshire, SE Wales.
• Lammas, Low Impact Initiative, (Ecovillage, South West Wales)
• Wales Environment Link
• Centre for Alternative Technology

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

The Zone Bridgend: Together We Can project

Authors: People's Health Trust

Date: 2021-06-04

UK events

UK community action events

Global or international events

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

• The People's Platform Future Generations Commissioner for Wales
• Co-production Wales
• Participation Cymru
• Wales Co-production group

Wales Co-operative Centre

E-inclusion Recycling - Recycle for Wales

• Blaenau Gwent Climate Assembly, March 2021
• Renew Wales, community-based action on climate change in Wales
• Help Wales reduce its Carbon Footprint

see separate article: Centre for Alternative Technology

Planning Aid Wales, ^W

From Ecological restoration Wales

This page is the beginnings of a portal for Wales community action in response to Ecological emergency.

Blue carbon, How seagrass is our ocean's wonder plant and their role in fighting climate change

Authors: Environmental Justice Foundation, Mar 15, 2021

Campaigns

• CALM Campaign Against the Levels Motorway, on facebook
• Campaign for the Protection of Rural Wales, charity in Wales that aims to secure the protection and enhancement of the country's landscapes and environment

Past events

• October 17, 2015, "Powys REconomics. (REthink! RElocalise! DEcarbonise!)" Eventbrite
• May 10 - 18, 2014, Clean Coasts Week, Keep Wales Tidy

From Wikipedia:Wales

Wales (Welsh: Cymru [ˈkəmrɨ] ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Located on the island of Great Britain, it is bordered by the Irish Sea to the north and west, England to the east, the Bristol Channel to the south, and the Celtic Sea to the south-west. As of 2021, it had a population of 3.2 million. It has a total area of 21,218 square kilometres (8,192 sq mi) and over 2,700 kilometres (1,680 mi) of coastline. It is largely mountainous with its higher peaks in the north and central areas, including Snowdon (Yr Wyddfa), its highest summit. The country lies within the north temperate zone and has a changeable, maritime climate. Its capital and largest city is Cardiff.

Cardiff - Swansea

• Community river action UK