Community action/Sheffield
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 Sheffield.
News
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Co-ops looking to change the world, town by town, thenews.coop (Nov 03, 2025)
- New Sheffield ad ban shows how councils can act on harmful advertising, adfreecities.org.uk (Mar 19, 2024)
- What if we stopped treating social care like a service? A small village community in Yorkshire showed me another way, theconversation.com (Aug 20, 2026)
- West Yorkshire moor brought under community ownership, thenews.coop (Oct 30, 2025) — Bridestones Moor, near Todmorden, will be managed by a CIC led by local ecologists, naturalists and residents
- Campaign launched to buy waterfall beauty spot, BBC News (Jul 17, 2025) — Campaigners say the community is ready to take responsibility for the future of the ancient woodland and waterfall
- Growth is not the same as public value, ffcc.co.uk (Sep 07, 2026) — FFCC Chief Exec Sue Pritchard on what kind of economic choices build the country we want to live in
- Plans for major overhaul of councils halted, BBC News (Sep 07, 2026)
- Sardines are having a moment but could this humble fish turn the tide for the UK’s local fisheries?, wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk (Sep 03, 2026) — Can the UK learn from Iberian traditions and turn its booming love for tinned sardines into a lasting win for coastal communities?
- Reclaiming the streets: the architects clawing back Europe’s car-centric spaces, theguardian.com (Sep 09, 2026) — The European Prize for Urban Public Space’s shortlist highlights projects helping people cope with climate crisis
- We’re the mayors of Paris, Milan and Phoenix. The heat crisis has us all facing the same question, Emmanuel Grégoire, Giuseppe Sala and Kate Gallego, theguardian.com (Sep 07, 2026) — Our three cities are learning from each other about how to protect residents. These climate policies are also public health measures
- European farmers face ‘unprecedented crisis’ after successive heatwaves, theguardian.com (Aug 17, 2026)
- Climate solutions most likely to reach ‘positive tipping points’ revealed by scientists, theguardian.com (Sep 10, 2026) — Global shift towards clean electricity could trigger ‘cascade’ of progress, helping reduce air pollution, cut waste and revive oceans
- Reclaiming the streets: the architects clawing back Europe’s car-centric spaces, theguardian.com (Sep 09, 2026) — The European Prize for Urban Public Space’s shortlist highlights projects helping people cope with climate crisis
- We’re the mayors of Paris, Milan and Phoenix. The heat crisis has us all facing the same question, Emmanuel Grégoire, Giuseppe Sala and Kate Gallego, theguardian.com (Sep 07, 2026) — Our three cities are learning from each other about how to protect residents. These climate policies are also public health measures
Networks and sustainability initiatives
[edit | edit source]- Opus independents, not-for-profit social enterprise based in Sheffield. "We work with citizens, communities, neighbourhoods, business, voluntary groups, cities, campaigns, research institutions, infrastructure organisations and governments to address the entangled ecological, social, economic, political and cultural crisis we collectively face.", added 18:06, 18 July 2023 (UTC)
- Transition Sheffield - May 2016: Transition Sheffield has closed down but the websites have been archived
Each week 3 different short videos from across the UK or world.
Community action/Moray, Rewilding Scotland, Community action/Wiltshire / ...This week's featured Global videos / ... read more about Cosmolocalism
UK and international events
[edit | edit source]UK events
Sep 7 - 11, 2026 (Mon-Fri) — Zero Waste Week, zerowasteweek.co.uk- Sep 11 - 20, 2026 (Fri-Sun) — Heritage Open Days, celebrating our fantastic history and culture. Your chance to see hidden places and try out new experiences – all of which are FREE to explore, heritageopendays.org.uk
- Sep 18 - 27, 2026 (Fri-Sun) — Great British Beach Clean, mcsuk.org
Global or international events
- Sep 15, 2026 (Tue) — Free Money Day, Global invitation for people to explore, in a liberating and fun way, what it might be like if our relationship to money was a little different. Sep 15, annually, freemoneyday.org
- Sep 18, 2026 (Fri) — Park(ing) day, global, public, participatory project where people across the world temporarily repurpose curbside parking spaces and convert them into public parks and social spaces to advocate for safer, greener, and more equitable streets for people, myparkingday.org
- Sep 21-27, 2026 (Mon-Sun) — Global Week Of Action For Peace And Climate Justice, climatemilitarism.org
- Sep 21, 2026 (Mon) — International Day of Peace, Globally shared date, Sep 21 each year for all humanity to commit to Peace above all differences and to contribute to building a Culture of Peace, internationaldayofpeace.org
2021-2030, UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, International community action events
Sheffield video
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Community involvement
[edit | edit source]- Cooperation Sheffield, "The core of our strategy is People's Assemblies", added 22:00, 25 November 2025 (UTC)
- It's Our City Sheffield, added 10:44, 10 March 2020 (UTC)
Food activism
[edit | edit source]- ShefFood, Sheffield's food partnership. Cross sector partnership including community organisations. added 12:06, 5 October 2021 (UTC)
- Food Hall, food reclaimed, city centre
- Grow Sheffield
- Heeley City Farm
- Lower Walkley Community Group
- The Real Junk Food Project Sheffield, non-profit social enterprise saving food from being wasted and making it available to the people of Sheffield
- Sheffield Organic Growers, cluster of independent organic growers, based on a 12-acre site in Moss Valley on the edge of Sheffield
Community energy
[edit | edit source]Towards sustainable economies
[edit | edit source]Regather, trading cooperative based in the Little Sheffield
Community resources
[edit | edit source]Citizens data initiative
- Sheffield City Council Open Data, added 16:11, 23 April 2021 (UTC)
Arts, sport and culture
[edit | edit source]Sustainable transport activism
[edit | edit source]The Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation (S&SY) is a system of navigable inland waterways (canals and canalised rivers) in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. Chiefly based on the River Don, it runs for a length of 43 miles (69 km) and has 29 locks. It connects Sheffield, Rotherham, and Doncaster with the River Trent at Keadby and (via the New Junction Canal) the Aire and Calder Navigation. W
Wikipedia: Supertram (Sheffield)
Cycling activism
[edit | edit source]For cycling, although hilly, Sheffield is compact and has few major trunk roads. It is on the Trans-Pennine Trail, a National Cycle Network route running from West to East from Southport in Merseyside to Hornsea in the East Riding of Yorkshire and North to South from Leeds in West Yorkshire to Chesterfield in Derbyshire. There are many cycle routes going along country paths in the woods surrounding the city. W
Open spaces
[edit | edit source]Sixty-one per cent of Sheffield's entire area is green space, and a third of the city lies within the Peak District national park. There are more than 250 parks, woodlands and gardens in the city, which is estimated to contain around 4.5 million trees. W
Maps
- A Greenground Map of Sheffield, theoutdoorcity.co.uk, added 16:37, 23 July 2021 (UTC)
The Peace Gardens are an inner city square in Sheffield, England. The Gardens themselves front onto Sheffield's gothic town hall, not to be confused with Sheffield City Hall (a concert venue), or the Sheffield Old Town Hall.
News archive
[edit | edit source]- What are the neighbourhoods of Sheffield and why are they crucial to the city's emerging future? We're finding out, nowthenmagazine.com (Nov 23, 2023)
- Sheffield’s Opus Network is the very ideal of a CAN - making media, doing business and connecting to a planet of ideas, The Daily Alternative (Jul 13, 2023)
- An ordinary hope helping to power communities across Britain, ucl.ac.uk (May 23, 2023)
- Fringe Farming Report Reveals Green Recovery Potential, ShefFood (Mar 18, 2022)
"I wanted ordinary citizens to feel like they owned the chamber". A mindful review of ex-Mayor of Sheffield Magic Magid's The Art of Disruption, Mar 26, 2021...thealternative.org.uk
- Urban land could grow fruit and veg for 15 percent of the population...sheffield.ac.uk, Mar 17, 2020
- A new approach to Sheffield's street trees, Dec 13, 2018...@Sheffield Newsroom, Sheffield City Council
- Urban Agriculture in Little Sheffield, Mar 22, 2017...reconomy.org
Sheffield is on a quest to be the fairest city of them all – here's how it's doing, May 9, 2016...@ConversationUK
- Death of the high street? Rise of the DIY grassroots community venue... February 6, 2016...citygirl92blog.wordpress.com
- Sheffield: The beauty of small in a region getting bigger, December 10, 2015...sheffield.newstartmag.co.uk
- University of Sheffield Commits to Divest £39m From Fossil Fuels, November 30, 2015...blog.peopleandplanet.org
- Foundations for a fairer city, September 30, 2014...livingwithrats.blogspot.co.uk
- Hundreds Get On Their Bikes to Demand #Space4Cycling in Sheffield, May 20, 2014...Great Gas Beetle
News sources
- Now Then, a magazine for Sheffield. Independent, award-winning citizen journalism since 2008, added 18:08, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
About Sheffield
[edit | edit source]Past events
- Sheffield Environment Weeks
- Mar 27 - 28, 2019, Wed - Thu Feeling Good in a Green City festival
- Feb 16, 2017, The Platform - 'Sheffield Re-imagined 2017: A Manifesto for a Better Sheffield
- May 24 - 26, 2014, Sheffield Food Festival
Sheffield is a city and metropolitan borough in South Yorkshire, England. The population of the City of Sheffield is 584,853 (mid-2019 est.) Sheffield is the second-largest city in the Yorkshire and the Humber region and the third-largest English district by population. The metropolitan population of The city of Sheffield is 1,569,000.
The city is in the eastern foothills of the Pennines, and the valleys of the River Don and its four tributaries. W
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