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

• We need a UK movement for self-rule... and it's a more like a massive national play, with a cast of 70m [The Ecologist/Clare Farrell], Daily Alternative (Oct 14, 2026)
• The Space Time Continuum, Alternative Editorial (Sep 27, 2026) — Empty spaces will be put back into use, Andy Burnham said, turning them into "community hubs, health centres, shared workspaces, cafés and the local services that people actually want to see.”
• The Emergency: why communities must govern environmental resources, growingcommons.substack.com (Sep 15, 2026) — Childhood environmental lessons from a Stroud river keeper, Julian Jones

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UK community networks

• We need a UK movement for self-rule... and it's a more like a massive national play, with a cast of 70m [The Ecologist/Clare Farrell], Daily Alternative (Oct 14, 2026)
• The Space Time Continuum, Alternative Editorial (Sep 27, 2026) — Empty spaces will be put back into use, Andy Burnham said, turning them into "community hubs, health centres, shared workspaces, cafés and the local services that people actually want to see.”
• Power Shifting In Scotland, Alternative Editorial (Jan 11, 2026)

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Localism UK

• Volunteers became salmon, deer and earthworms. Then they set out to save their river, positive.news (Oct 19, 2026) — What does a polluted river feel like to a salmon? An unusual experiment is helping a Somerset community see its landscape through the eyes of wildlife – and plot a 30-year route to change it
• The Space Time Continuum, Alternative Editorial (Sep 27, 2026) — Empty spaces will be put back into use, Andy Burnham said, turning them into "community hubs, health centres, shared workspaces, cafés and the local services that people actually want to see.”
• "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)

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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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