News Aggregator/UK community networks

Stay updated with the latest UK news on a range of topics connected with community networks and relationships.

Community involvement UK

• MPs call on UK government to host televised emergency briefing on climate crisis, theguardian.com (Jul 10, 2026) — As UK swelters in another heatwave, 50-minute Chris Packham film outlines threats to security, economy and health
• ‘Literally growing the future’: volunteers help save Scottish rainforest by collecting 11m seeds, theguardian.com (Jun 29, 2026) — Teams painstakingly combed endangered Atlantic habitat over several years, helping to grow 8m native trees
• Rights of Nature movement grows, with the Wye and Ouse subject to new protection charters, wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk (Jun 18, 2026) — Nature sits at the heart of several new sets of rights and charters; it’s even headlining a festival this summer. Is the way that we view and value Nature within our political and cultural frameworks at a turning point? asks Hannah Marsh

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UK community networks

• Power Shifting In Scotland, Alternative Editorial (Jan 11, 2026)
• Building a Connected Scotland, scottishcommunityalliance.org.uk (Oct 30, 2025) — Why Local Hubs Matter
• Launch of a new political project from the Alternative Global— SPRING, Alternative Editorial (Mar 01, 2024)

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Localism UK

• "Could a little noticed Bill passed in Holyrood this spring transform Scotland into a prosperous and powerfully local country?" [Lesley Riddoch Podcast], Daily Alternative (Jun 18, 2026)
• The English restaurant turning hospitality on its head, positive.news (May 27, 2026) — At a pay-as-you-can restaurant in Stroud, radical hospitality and good food are bringing strangers together
• UCL President: Universities must show they bring benefits to everyone, locally and nationally, theconversation.com (Dec 17, 2025)

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Community and voluntary action UK

• I was in despair about the environmental crisis. Then I volunteered to clean up my local park, Sam Pyrah, theguardian.com (Jan 13, 2025)
• ‘It’s unbelievable the difference a path has made’: how volunteers are building a cycle network a yard at a time, theguardian.com (May 16, 2024)
• ‘This May Day is a Celebration of Work and Innovation’, Dave Proudlove, thestokemodel.com (May 01, 2024)

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