Community action/Oxford

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 Oxford.

UK events

UK community action events

Global or international events

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

Cosmolocal discovery club

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

Future Rural Voices: perspectives on the countryside’s future

Authors: Campaign to Protect Rural England, 2.35 mins.

Date: 2026-05-07

Local Power, Lower Bills: Up the Energy!

Authors: Community Energy England, 1.38 mins.

Date: 2026-03-10

Tiree - This is Community Wealth Building

Authors: Scottish Community Alliance, 3.44 mins.

Date: 2025-11-18

Rural sustainability UK, Community energy UK, Community action/Argyll and Bute / ...This week's featured Global videos / ... read more about Cosmolocalism

• Abundance Oxford, not-for-profit community harvesting, redistributing & preserving group
• Cultivate Oxford
• Good Food Oxford
• Oxford Food Surplus Café

Cripley Meadow Allotment Association is managed by an annually elected committee. Oxford City Council lease the land to the association and devolve its management to the committee. Since 2004 over 160 plots have been cleared and put back into use. It is now a thriving site supporting over 200 members in growing local food and flowers.

Cripley Island Orchard has also been established. ^W

• SolidarityOxford, solidarityeconomy.coop, map of the city's solidarity economy oxford.solidarityeconomy.coop, added 20:44, 7 November 2021 (UTC)

• Makespace Oxford, "Truly affordable workspace in central Oxford"
• SHARE Oxford- A Library of Things

From Wikipedia:Wolvercote Common

Wolvercote Common is an area of grassed common land north of Port Meadow in Oxford, England.

The Wolvercote Commoners' Committee was established in 1929 to manage the common land and to preserve other amenities in the village. Along with Port Meadow and Wolvercote Green, Wolvercote Common has been a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) since 1955. In 1993, the Wolvercote Commoners' Committee resisted an attempt by Oxford City Council to take the common into its ownership.

• Oxford Citizens Assembly on Climate Change, oxford.gov.uk, held over two weekends in September and October 2019...oxford.gov.uk. Many videos on the website.

Among cities in England and Wales, Oxford has the second highest percentage of people cycling to work. ^W

From Wikipedia:Trap Grounds

The Trap Grounds (aka Trap Grounds Town Green) is a nature reserve in north Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, owned by Oxford City Council.

• The Friends of The Trap Grounds

• Cleaner, Greener Oxford, Oxford City Council campaign
• OxClean, Oxford Civic Society initiative dedicated to keeping Oxford clean and tidy
• Oxford Flood Network, making a citizen-built flood detection network in Oxford, based on river levels, groundwater and local knowledge.

Oxford is a very green city, with several parks and nature walks within the ring road, as well as several sites just outside the ring road. In total, 28 nature reserves exist within or just outside Oxford ring road. ^W

From Wikipedia:Oxford § Green belt

The city is at the centre of the Oxford Green Belt, which is an environmental and planning policy that regulates the rural space in Oxfordshire surrounding the city, aiming to prevent urban sprawl and minimise convergence with nearby settlements. The policy has been blamed for the large rise in house prices in Oxford, making it the least affordable city in the United Kingdom outside of London; some estate agents have called for brownfield land inside the green belt to be released for new housing.

Campaigns

Oxford University Fossil Free

Past events

• Jun 17 - 25, 2017 Oxford Green Week, previously known as Low Carbon Oxford Week
• June 14, 2014 Good Food Oxford Launch Fest

From Wikipedia:Oxford

Oxford ( ) is a cathedral city and non-metropolitan district in Oxfordshire, England, of which it is the county town.

The city is home to the University of Oxford, the oldest university in the English-speaking world; it has buildings in every style of English architecture since late Anglo-Saxon. Oxford's industries include motor manufacturing, education, publishing, science and information technologies. Founded in the eighth century, it was granted city status in 1542. The city is located at the confluence of the rivers Thames (known locally as the Isis) and Cherwell. It had a population of 166,034 in 2024. It lies 56 miles (90 km) north-west of London, 64 miles (103 km) south-east of Birmingham and 61 miles (98 km) north-east of Bristol.

See also

• Oxfordshire