Community resources UK

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This article focuses on information specific to United Kingdom. Please see our Community resources page for a topic overview.

Community action projects[edit | edit source]

Climate emergency centres[edit | edit source]

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Climate emergency centres are about a coming together and building of relationships in a common space, sharing resources, skills and ideas to build community resilience and adaption to multiple social and environmental crises.

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Library of things[edit | edit source]

Networks[edit | edit source]

Community Matters, nationwide federation of community organizations

Community Media Association, UK membership association for community broadcasting. The CMA is a non-profit making organisation, supporting Community Radio, Television and community-based Internet projects. ^W

Community Land Trust Network

Seeds For Change, network of non-profit training and support co-operatives which help people organise for action and positive social change. "We concentrate on working with grassroots environmental and social justice activists to help increase their effectiveness in campaigning and bringing about lasting positive change." Briefings and guides are @nti-copyright. "Please feel free to copy, adapt and distribute them as long as the final work remains @nti-copyright."

Funding[edit | edit source]

• Community Ownership Fund, Policy paper, Mar 3^[3] From summer 2021 community groups will be able to bid for up to £250,000 matched-funding to help them buy or take over local community assets at risk of being lost, to run as community-owned businesses. The first bidding round for the Community Ownership Fund will open by June 2021.

Community Shares

Quotes[edit | edit source]

"One day soon, our high streets, parks, libraries, housing hubs, train stations, and cafes will become spaces for us to meet, repair, make, borrow, lend, grow, bake, reflect, care, and eat together." Rebecca Trevalyan FRSA^[4]

"Most people participate in their communities not as part of organised groups, but in doing acts of kindness" Professor Carolyn Kagan, Professor of Community Social Psychology at Manchester Metropolitan University.

Video[edit | edit source]

Other resources[edit | edit source]

• Common Libraries, Resources
• Community Assets, information from Locality
• Community-owned pubs: A quick guide to saving your local (PDF)
• Community Pubs Kit My Community
• My Community, see also: Video

News and comment[edit | edit source]

see separate article: Community resources UK news

Campaigns[edit | edit source]

• We’re Right Here

• Save a space in your local area, locality.org.uk

See also[edit | edit source]

• Community resources
• Commons UK
• Climate emergency centres
• Community and voluntary action UK
• Community involvement UK
• Food UK
• Housing and land UK community action resources
• Localism UK
• Reduce, reuse, repair and recycle UK
• Rural sustainability UK
• Sharing UK
• Social inclusion UK
• Sustainable livelihood UK
• Towards sustainable economies UK
• Urban sustainability UK

local information can be found, or shared, via our many UK location pages

External links[edit | edit source]

• Space Generators, "The establishment of empty buildings as inspirational community hubs for the benefit of people and planet." added 16:24, 20 August 2020 (UTC)
• Common Libraries, "Prototyping the Library of the Future - today..."
• Community Development Foundation
• Pub is The Hub
• somewhereto, programme which gives 16 to 25 year olds the support to access spaces they need, to do the things they love doing

• Shared Assets, Making Land Work

References[edit | edit source]