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The Three Graces seen from Maritime Museum Port of Liverpool Building, Cunard Building & Royal Liver Building, seen looking across Canning Half-tide Dock from Maritime Museum. August 2005. Attribution: John Robertson
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Location Liverpool, England
Coordinates 53° 24' 25.92" N, 2° 59' 30.05" W

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 Liverpool.

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North West England
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  • News WL Meets: Lucy Antal, on a mission to bring fresh food to the UK’s “food deserts”, wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk (Feb 09, 2026)
  • News “We live in a mere shadow of the world we could have”. Dil Green—building commons by means of housing and local trading, in Stroud and Liverpool—has a pathway, Daily Alternative (Nov 03, 2024)
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  • News Why Andy Burnham is right to want for‑profit firms out of social care, theconversation.com (Jul 30, 2026)
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  • News Europe's heatwave linked to 1,300 deaths, WHO says, as Germany hits record 41.7C, BBC News (Jun 28, 2026)
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UK and international events

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UK events

  • Event Aug 10 - 16, 2026 (Mon - Sun) — National Allotments Week, 2026 theme is “Grow to Learn.”, thenas.org.uk

UK community action events

Global or international events

  • Event Aug 09, 2026 (Sun) — International Day of the World's Indigenous People, observed on 9 August each year to raise awareness and protect the rights of the world's indigenous population, un.org
  • Event Aug 12, 2026 (Wed) — International Youth Day, awareness day designated by the United Nations taking place on Aug 12 each year, un.org

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

Networks and sustainability initiatives

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CDC videos

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Cosmolocal discovery club

Each week 3 different short videos from across the UK or world.

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Poem about Manchester: 'This is the Place' - BBC News
Authors: BBC News, 4.50 mins.
Date: 2017-05-24
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This Colchester cohousing project will change how you think about community living
Authors: BBC Gardeners' World Magazine, 11.00 mins.
Date: 2026-06-20
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40 white storks now on Knepp estate in West Sussex BBC South Today Evening News 08/07/2024
Authors: autonomous weaponised drones, 2.00 mins.
Date: 2024-07-09

Community action/Manchester, Community action/Essex, Community action/West Sussex / ...This week's featured Global videos / ... read more about Cosmolocalism

Liverpool video

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What's working well when it comes to food in Liverpool?
Authors: Food, Farming and Countryside Commission, 3.57 mins.
Date: 2026-03-04
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Grow Speke: More Than A Garden
Authors: Groundwork in Cheshire, Lancashire and Merseyside, 2.12 mins.
Date: 2025-06-13
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Community Food Spaces
Authors: Feeding Liverpool, 2.08 mins.
Date: 2024-05-23
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What is The Florrie? - 2016 Promo Video
Authors: The Florrie, May 17, 2018
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Homebaked: the cooperative bakery reviving Anfield, loaf by loaf
Authors: Hazel Sheffield, November 10, 2016
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How The Mersey Forest creates a healthier Liverpool
Authors: themerseyforest, Aug 29, 2012

Food activism

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  • Feeding Liverpool, "the city of Liverpool’s food alliance, connecting and equipping people and organisations to work towards good food for all." Feeding Liverpool on youtube.com added 14:42, 14 October 2024 (UTC)
  • Manna Community Kitchen creating lasting and sustainable solutions to poverty, hunger and social injustice
  • Rice Lane City Farm on facebook

Land activism

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  • Our Land, The final report of the Liverpool City Region Land Commission, cles.org.uk, added 16:35, 6 July 2021 (UTC)
  • Homebaked Community Land Trust, on the boundary of Everton and Anfield, just opposite Liverpool Football Club, a growing group of local residents who have been working together since 2012 to shape the place where we live and work in community ownership. added 15:58, 12 February 2021 (UTC)
  • Granby Four Streets Community Land Trust

Towards sustainable economies

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Community resources

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Visions

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Friends of The Flyover

Arts, sport and culture

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Community currencies activism

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Liverpool Pound

Cycling activism

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Critical Mass bicycle rides in Liverpool

In May 2014, the CityBike hire scheme was launched in the city. The scheme provides access to over 1,000 bikes stationed at over 140 docking stations across the city. National Cycle Route 56, National Cycle Route 62 and National Cycle Route 810 run through Liverpool. W

Environment quality

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Open spaces

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Trees, woodland and forest

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News archive

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The new enclosure: how land commissions can lead the fight against urban land-grabs, Dec 9, 2017...theconversation.com

  • Steve Rotheram Launches England's First Land Commission Focused on Community Wealth Building, Sep 9, 2020...liverpoolcityregion-ca.gov.uk
  • A City Reimagined, Bernadette McBride, May 18, 2020..transitionliverpool.org
  • The Liverpool app that sidesteps the banks, Sep 14, 2017...BBC News</ref>
  • Love your local? Liverpool joins cohort of community currencies, Feb 3, 2017...The Guardian

Liverpool City Council to create community energy company, Nov 14, 2016...utilityweek.co.uk

  • Homebaked: the cooperative bakery reviving Anfield, loaf by loaf, Nov 10, 2016...thelongandshort.org
  • Liverpool City Council unveils its "cycling revolution", but are its targets unambitious? 2014...road.cc
  • From derelict flyover to urban sky park, European Green capital, May, 2014.
  • Roof garden opens at Liverpool University, February 26, 2010...BBC news

About Liverpool

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Liverpool is a port city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. It is situated on the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary, near the Irish Sea, 178 miles (286 km) north-west of London. It had an estimated population of 508,961 in 2024. The city is within the larger Liverpool City Region, a combined authority area with a population of over 1.5 million.

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Keywords Cities, UK cities, Visions UK
SDG SDG11 Sustainable cities and communities
Authors Phil Green
License CC-BY-SA-3.0
Language English (en)
Related 0 subpages, 3 pages link here
Redirects Liverpool, Liverpool community action
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Created June 11, 2014 by Phil Green
Last edit March 4, 2026 by Phil Green
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