Liverpool community action

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

• In a hardscrabble Liverpool location, a community "pantry" (not a food bank) feeds both bodies and souls, The Daily Alternative (May 11, 2022)

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Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. Its population in 2019 was approximately 498,042, making it the tenth-largest English district by population. Liverpool's metropolitan area is the fifth-largest in the UK with a population of 2.24 million. ^W

Networks and sustainability initiatives[edit | edit source]

• Transition Liverpool

Community resources[edit | edit source]

• 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)

• The Florrie, added 16:39, 14 March 2020 (UTC)
• Granby Four Streets Community Land Trust

Visions[edit | edit source]

Friends of The Flyover

Environment quality[edit | edit source]

• Mersey Rivers Trust, added 14:24, 28 April 2021 (UTC)

Arts, sport and culture[edit | edit source]

• Baltic Creative CIC, added 16:30, 12 September 2020 (UTC)
• The Hedge Arts Project, added 15:11, 22 May 2020 (UTC)

Open spaces[edit | edit source]

Liverpool Open and Green Spaces Community Interest Company: LOGS, added 15:08, 22 May 2020 (UTC)

Walton Hall Park Community, campaign to "help save OUR park" on change.org

Trees, woodland and forest[edit | edit source]

Discover The Mersey Forest

Community currencies activism[edit | edit source]

Liverpool Pound

Cycling activism[edit | edit source]

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

Food activism[edit | edit source]

• Manna Community Kitchen creating lasting and sustainable solutions to poverty, hunger and social injustice
• Rice Lane City Farm on facebook

Towards sustainable economies[edit | edit source]

• Our Land, The final report of the Liverpool City Region Land Commission, cles.org.uk, added 16:35, 6 July 2021 (UTC)

News and comment[edit | edit source]

2021

The new enclosure: how land commissions can lead the fight against urban land-grabs, Dec 9^[1]

2020

Steve Rotheram Launches England's First Land Commission Focused on Community Wealth Building, Sep 9^[2]

A City Reimagined, Bernadette McBride, May 18^[3]

2017

The Liverpool app that sidesteps the banks, Sep 14^[4]

Love your local? Liverpool joins cohort of community currencies, Feb 3^[5]

2016

Liverpool City Council to create community energy company, Nov 14^[6]

Homebaked: the cooperative bakery reviving Anfield, loaf by loaf, Nov 10^[7]

2014

Liverpool City Council unveils its "cycling revolution", but are its targets unambitious?^[8]

From derelict flyover to urban sky park,^[9]

2010

Roof garden opens at Liverpool University, February 26^[10]

External links[edit | edit source]

Liverpool ^W

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