Community action/Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

• Stroud community action...separate article
• GloucesterCan is an initiative of Gloucester Community Building Collective, an independent organisation that seeks to proliferate community driven change across the city. added 13:18, 14 March 2021 (UTC)
• Sustainable Thornbury
• Vision 21, promoting a sustainable future for Gloucestershire
• Transition Cam & Dursley
• Transition Town Cheltenham

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

UK events

UK community action events

Global or international events

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

How you can help create a community nature reserve in South Gloucestershire

Authors: South Gloucestershire Council

Date: 2023-05-31

Common Connections: Lesson Hedgerow

Authors: South Gloucestershire Council, 2.16 mins

Date: 2022-12-15

A short film about Down to Earth Cooperative

Authors: Philip Booth, 5.01 mins.

Date: 2012-06-30

GLOSS FM is local radio for Thornbury and District, offering free local infomertials on-air for local not-for profit community initiatives

Cheltenham Connect

• Down to Earth Stroud, support local and organic food growing and run several community projects across Gloucestershire. Community Interest Company. added 10:23, 8 April 2025 (UTC)
• The Long Table, added 16:50, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

• BATCOM, Brimscombe & Thrupp Community Composters, co-operative and Community Benefit Society,added 14:54, 25 January 2025 (UTC)
• Thornbury Give n Take on mythornbury.co.uk

Fair Shares, community time banks

• Climate and nature emergency community groups in South Gloucestershire, map and information from beta.southglos.gov.uk (South Gloucestershire Council), added 08:33, 28 January 2025 (UTC)
• Planet Cheltenham on twitter, hub space for people living in the town to explore ways in which to tackle climate change, fight social inequality and re-imagine a better future. added 13:27, 11 October 2021 (UTC)
• GlosCAN, Gloucestershire Climate Action Network

Cotswold Canals Trust, (Wikipedia): registered charity that aims to protect and restore the Stroudwater Navigation and the Thames and Severn Canal.

Gloucestershire Bike Project

Friends of the Wilderness Centre, Forest of Dean

• Common Connections, 4 year project to restore, improve and connect green spaces along the border of South Gloucestershire and East Bristol to benefit both nature and people. Project includes Avon Wildlife Trust, The Conservation Volunteers, Buglife, West of England Nature Partnership, town and parish councils and friends groups, and is a partnership project between South Gloucestershire Council and the West of England Combined Authority. added 08:42, 28 January 2025 (UTC)
• Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust
• Stroud Valleys Project

Campaigns

Frack off our Forest on facebook

Past events

• Oct 1 - 8, 2016, Stroud Valleys Showcase
• June 27 - 28, 2015, Edible Open Gardens
• September 20 - 21, 2014, Cheltenham Green Doors
• September 20, 2014, Greener Gloucestershire Festival 2014

From Wikipedia:Gloucestershire

Gloucestershire ( GLOST-ər-shər, -⁠sheer; abbreviated Glos.) is a ceremonial county in South West England. It is bordered by Herefordshire to the north-west, Worcestershire to the north, Warwickshire to the north-east, Oxfordshire to the east, Wiltshire to the south, Bristol and Somerset to the south-west, and the Welsh county of Monmouthshire to the west. The largest settlement is the city of Gloucester.

The county is predominantly rural, with an area of 3,150 square kilometres (1,220 sq mi), and an estimated population of 975,712 in 2024. Gloucester is in the north-centre of the county, and the spa town of Cheltenham is immediately to the east. Other towns include Tewkesbury in the north, Cirencester in the east, Stroud in the centre, and Yate in the south. The far south of the county, including Filton and Kingswood, is densely populated and forms part of the Bristol built-up area. For local government purposes Gloucestershire comprises a non-metropolitan county, with six districts, and the unitary authority area of South Gloucestershire. South Gloucestershire Council is a member of the West of England Combined Authority.

Gloucestershire is bisected by the River Severn, which enters the county near Tewkesbury and forms a wide valley down its centre before broadening into a large tidal estuary. The east of the county contains the majority of the Cotswolds, and the uplands in the west are part of the Forest of Dean and the Wye Valley. All three areas have been designated national landscapes.

Stroud community action

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