Kent community action
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 Kent. The majority of our information about this is collated via our place pages...Near you. Kent community resources and Ecological restoration Kent are separate articles.
News[edit | edit source]
West Peckham residents buy The Larkins historic pub, BBC News (Jan 04, 2025) - Charity preparing to take legal action against a government decision to permit a housing development in part of the Kent countryside, BBC News (Dec 20, 2024)
- The neighbourhood of East Malling, West Malling & Trottiscliffe, in the constituency of Maidstone and Malling, is one of the one in four neighbourhoods across England that breach multiple nature pollution thresholds, friendsoftheearth.uk (Sep 03, 2024) — New research by Friends of the Earth shows 1 in 4 neighbourhoods classify as nature pollution hotspots. Pollution hotspots are areas where air, water, noise and light pollution levels all exceed safe thresholds for wildlife. Friends of the Earth is calling for the right to a healthy environment to be enshrined in a new Environmental Rights Act. The law would empower communities to hold regulators and public bodies to account to reduce the multiple layers of pollution affecting their areas to better protect wildlife and people.
- The UK’s international commitments on climate and nature could soon become law – and better protect our environment, theconversation.com (Jan 22, 2025) — Climate and Nature Bill (CAN Bill), includes a climate and nature citizens’ assembly
- Warm spaces event giving out advice and goods, BBC News (Jan 22, 2025)
- Why improving social housing could be remarkably simple (and affordable), theconversation.com (Jan 17, 2025)
- Indigenous communities in the Philippines restore a mountain forest to prevent urban flooding, news.mongabay.com (Jan 20, 2025)
- The challenge now is deciding how to rebuild safely in areas destroyed by fire, Editorial, Los Angeles Times (Jan 19, 2025)
- Cheonggyecheon stream in Seoul has become an attraction – and helps with flood management, fighting air pollution and cooling the city, theguardian.com (Jan 17, 2025)
Events[edit | edit source]
Farmers markets
Networks and sustainability initiatives[edit | edit source]
- Alternative Estuary, promoting positive alternatives along the Thames Estuary, a number of community groups and projects listed both in Essex and Kent, added 13:11, 6 April 2021 (UTC)
- East Kent Transition
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Localism[edit | edit source]
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Community and voluntary action[edit | edit source]
Community Action South and East Kent has been working with and for the voluntary and community sector for over 20 years
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Climate action[edit | edit source]
Networks
- Kent Climate Action Coalition, added 15:55, 17 October 2021 (UTC)
- Low Carbon Kent, network of businesses tackling and adapting to climate change
- Extinction Rebellion Kent, public group on facebook
- Kent, Summary, Google Environmental Insights Explorer, added 15:23, 15 September 2020 (UTC)
References
CASwiki Topic overview: Climate action, UK context: Climate action UK, Cosmolocal connections: Climate news, UK Climate news
Sustainable transport activism[edit | edit source]
- Active travel fund schemes, kent.gov.uk, encouraging the residents of Kent to walk and cycle more, added 16:48, 25 August 2020 (UTC)
- Kent Connected, journey planner
- Kent Community Rail Partnership
Walking: Kent Ramblers - Recreational walks in Kent W, Footpaths in Kent (category) W
Waterways: Kent and East Sussex Canal Restoration Group - Wikipedia: Canals in Kent (category)
Resources: Setting up a communtiy transport scheme in Kent and Medway, kentruralnetwork.org.uk
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Cycling activism[edit | edit source]
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Community safety[edit | edit source]
Kent County Neighbourhood Watch Association - West Kent Watch
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Road safety[edit | edit source]
- Vision Zero: The Road Safety Strategy for Kent 2020 - 2026, kccconsultations.inconsult.uk, consultation closes at 23:59 on 15 March 2021
- KCC Kent Road Safety
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Ecological restoration[edit | edit source]
This page is the beginnings of a portal for Kent community action in response to Ecological emergency.
Social inclusion[edit | edit source]
- Kent Sheds, initiative looking to establish a number of (Men's) Shed projects across Kent, link checked 17:22, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
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About Kent[edit | edit source]
Campaigns
- Kent quarry extension is one of the biggest threats of the 21st century. Hermitage Quarry expansion plans: If approved, the loss could even surpass ancient woodland losses from the Lower Thames Crossing and HS2 schemes combined, woodlandtrust.org.uk, added 14:05, 9 August 2023 (UTC)
- Save Kent's Green Spaces, on facebook.com, Nonprofit organization, added 18:23, 5 December 2021 (UTC)
- ePetition:End Kent County Council's £350,000,000 investment in fossil fuels, democracy.kent.gov.uk
- No Fracking in East Kent on facebook
Past events
- August 25, 2014, Kent Festival of Bees, near Bridge, Canterbury
- May 17 - 18, 2014, West Kent Green Open Homes
Kent is a ceremonial county in South East England. It is bordered by Essex across the Thames Estuary to the north, the Strait of Dover to the south-east, East Sussex to the south-west, Surrey to the west, and Greater London to the north-west. The county town is Maidstone.
Near you[edit | edit source]
Ashford - Canterbury - Dartford - Dover - Folkestone and Hythe - Gravesham - Maidstone - Malling - Medway - Sevenoaks - Swale - Thanet - Tonbridge - Tunbridge Wells
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
