Community action/Yorkshire and the Humber

Community action has a lot to offer. See it, celebrate it and sample it. Through community we can do so much more than we think we can.

The gift of climate and ecological emergency is that we all get to work together. Ordinary citizens and community groups naturally share what they learn, and what they know of what helps. Everyone can help, everyone has something to offer, everyone is welcome. We all need to design, make and grow a better future for ourselves, our communities and our world. Together we CAN. Yes we CAN.

The aim of this page is to recognise, celebrate and encourage the self-empowerment of community agency networks (CANs) and community groups' activism across Yorkshire and the Humber. It's an introduction to local networks, groups, events, community resources and assets.

• Yorkshire and the Humber community climate action and ecological restoration is a separate page.

• Our Future, Grimsby celebrating its native resources, coming together as a community ready for the century's challenges. Our Future on youtube.com, added 10:18, 14 November 2024 (UTC)
• East Marsh United, community group from the East Marsh of Grimsby, dedicated to transforming where we live for the better. added 10:00, 9 July 2022 (UTC)
• Bradford Environmental Action Trust
• Green Futures, Grimsby
• Students for Sustainability, University of Huddersfield on facebook
• Bradford Community Environment Project
• Kirkbymoorside Environment Group
• Marsden & Slaithwaite Transition Towns
• Transition Richmond Yorkshire

UK events

UK community action events

Global or international events

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

• Kirklees Democracy Commission, "We're growing a stronger local", democracycommission.org.uk, link checked 17:15, 13 October 2022 (UTC)
• Heading Upstream Published, Major report outlining Barnsley's success in promoting social justice through citizen and community action, 2017, citizen-network.org, link checked 09:19, 8 February 2025 (UTC)

• Supporting community business in Yorkshire and the Humber, powertochange.org.uk, added 11:45, 13 November 2021 (UTC)
• Yorkshire Party, building a stronger Yorkshire in a fairer UK

Hambleton Community Action, Northallerton

• Community Allotment Growing Newsome
• Community orchard Growing Newsome
• Incredible Edible Todmorden (Community group)
• Todmorden's edible green route, on urbanpollinators.co.uk
• Incredible Edible Wakefield
• theshipleyfoodproject

• Yorkshire, landjustice.uk, added 10:25, 7 January 2022 (UTC)

For multiple deprivation in England, measured by the Indices of deprivation 2007, the most deprived council districts in the region are, in descending order – Kingston upon Hull (11th in England), Bradford (32nd), Doncaster (41st), Barnsley (43rd), North East Lincolnshire (49th), Sheffield (63rd), Wakefield (66th), Rotherham (68th), Kirklees (82nd), Leeds (85th), and Scarborough (97th). These areas are mostly represented by Labour MPs, with a few Conservative MPs representing parts of Leeds (with a Lib Dem MP) and North East Lincolnshire, and all of Scarborough. Apart from Scarborough, they are unitary authorities.

The least deprived districts are, in descending order – Harrogate, Hambleton, Richmondshire, Craven, and Selby – all in North Yorkshire. Like all of North Yorkshire, they are represented by Conservative MPs, aside from Selby which elected a Labour MP at the 2023 Selby and Ainsty by-election. At county level, the least deprived areas are, in descending order – North Yorkshire, York and the East Riding of Yorkshire which all have roughly the same level of deprivation, and lower than the majority of England, including Cheshire and Northamptonshire.

The region as a whole is one of the more deprived in England, measured by having far more Lower Layer Super Output Areas (LSOAs) in the 20% most deprived districts than the 20% least deprived districts.

Kingston upon Hull has the highest proportion of people not in education, employment or training NEETs in the region (and fairly high for the UK – 10.6%). This is another demographic extreme it shares with Knowsley in Merseyside.

In March 2011 the region had the third highest overall unemployment claimant count in England with 4.4%. For the region, Hull has the highest rate with 7.8% which is the highest for any English district; North East Lincolnshire is next with 6.4%, and Doncaster has 5.2%. Richmondshire has the lowest rate with 1.8% and Harrogate is next lowest with 1.9%. ^W

• Esk Valley Camphill Community, Live Together. Work Together. Grow Together. added 10:50, 27 August 2026 (UTC)

Citizens data initiative

Who Owns My Neighbourhood?, Kirklees land ownership data

• Long Lands Common, added 16:20, 3 August 2020 (UTC)

• Repair Cafe, The Tech, Holmfirth, holmfirthtech.co.uk

Past events

• May 5 Calder Bootstrap 2017, "a group of entrepreneurs, co-operators, activists and changemakers, looking to engage our community to co-create our next economy."

Campaigns

• Frack Free East Yorkshire, Coalition of Groups Opposed to Extreme Energy

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