{"id":53751,"key":"Community_action/Tower_Hamlets","title":"Community action/Tower Hamlets","latest":{"id":1274463,"timestamp":"2026-09-16T16:53:04Z"},"content_model":"wikitext","license":{"url":"https://www.appropedia.org/Appropedia:Copyrights","title":"CC-BY-SA-4.0"},"source":"[[File:Mudchute Park and Farm1.jpg|thumb]]\n\n{{Community action map\n| location = Tower Hamlets, London\n| coordinates = 51° 30' 29.23\" N, 0° 4' 34.40\" W\n}}\n\nThe [[CASwiki places|aim of this page]] is to recognise, celebrate and encourage the self-empowerment of community agency networks ([[Citizens Action Network handbook|CANs]]) and community groups' activism for [[Climate action|climate]], [[Ecological restoration|environment]] and many other [[CASwiki topics|sustainability topics]] across Tower Hamlets.\n\n== News ==\n\n{{Tabs\n| tab1 = London\n| tab2 = UK\n| tab3 = Europe\n| tab4 = Earth\n| content1 = {{News card|location=London|limit=3}}\n\n| content2 = {{News card|location=UK|limit=3}}\n| content3 = {{News card|location=Europe|limit=3}}\n| content4 = {{News card|location=Earth|limit=3}}\n}}\n\n== UK and international events ==\n\n{{UK and international events}}\n\n== Tower Hamlets video ==\n\n<div class=\"grid\">\n\n{{Video\n| GAD3R1xovD4\n| title = RenewEL - Renew East London\n| authors = ImpactSOS, ''2.02 mins.''\n| date = 2025-10-17\n}}\n\n{{Video\n| -VzwlCwnvNo\n| title = Saving the Bees, Teaching the Future about Sustainability, George Green’s School\n| authors = ImpactSOS, ''3.11 mins.''\n| date = 2025-04-26\n}}\n\n{{Video\n| video = jnWtzmQxrNE\n| title = St Margaret's House \"Hub\" Trailer\n| authors = St Margaret's House, Aug 12, 2021\n}}\n\n{{Video|K_O20WHmpoc}}\n\n</div>\n\n== Community involvement ==\n\nSince 2014, the council has embraced a policy of decentralisation by establishing neighbourhood forums. In 2014, the East Shoreditch Neighbourhood Planning Forum was set up which was followed in 2016 with the designation of a Limehouse Community Forum, an Isle of Dogs Neighbourhood Planning Forum, and a Spitalfields Neighbourhood Planning Forum. {{W|London Borough of Tower Hamlets|Politics}}\n\n== Community and voluntary action ==\n\nVolunteer Centre Tower Hamlets helps residents find volunteering work and provides support to organisations involving students volunteers. {{W|London_Borough_of_Tower_Hamlets#Education}}\n\n== Food activism ==\n\n{{Wikipedia excerpt|Mudchute Park and Farm|paragraphs=1}}\n\n* [https://www.mudchute.org/ Mudchute Park and Farm], Isle of Dogs\n\n{{Wikipedia excerpt|Stepney City Farm|paragraphs=1}}\n\nThe farm runs workshops in rural crafts through its resident artisans; blacksmith, woodworker and potter. In 2011, the farm created an 800 square metre community garden and added low-cost growing boxes for community use.\n\nIn May 2013 a cafe and shop selling farm-reared meat and eggs as well as vegetables grown on-site was opened. It is open to the public six days a week. There is a Farmers' Market every Saturday. It is the home of The Green Wood Guild, a green wood and traditional woodworking craft workshop run by Barn the Spoon.\n\n* [http://stepneycityfarm.org/ Stepney city farm]\n\n== Fairer, kinder ==\n\n* [https://www.towerhamlets.gov.uk/lgnl/community_and_living/fairness_commission.aspx The Tower Hamlets Fairness Commission]\n\n== Social inclusion ==\n\nThe End Child Poverty coalition published that Tower Hamlets has the highest proportion of children in poverty of any local authority in the UK at 49% (and as high as 54.5% in the Bethnal Green South ward). {{W|London_Borough_of_Tower_Hamlets#Economy}}\n\n== Community resources ==\n\n{{Wikipedia excerpt|St. Margaret's House}}\n\n* [https://www.stmargaretshouse.org.uk/ St. Margaret's House]\n* [https://www.commonhouse.org.uk/ the common house], space for radical politics and culture in London, ''link checked 16:54, 15 October 2021 (UTC)''\n\n{{Wikipedia excerpt|Institute for Community Studies}}\n\n{{Wikipedia excerpt|Institute for Community Studies|Renaming and Relaunch}}\n\n== Arts, sport and culture ==\n\n[https://www.goodgym.org/ The Good Gym], run for good\n\n== Reduce, reuse, repair and recycle ==\n\n[http://web.archive.org/web/20150702225102/http://www.towerhamlets.gov.uk:80/lgsl/501-550/522_a-z_recycling_guide.aspx A-Z recycling guide], information from Tower Hamlets Council\n\n== Climate action ==\n\n* Zero Emissions Network, [https://www.zeroemissionsnetwork.com/ zeroemissionsnetwork.com], \"multiple award-winning air quality business liaison initiative... helps businesses and more recently, residents in London's City Fringe area save money, reduce emissions and improve local air quality.\", ''added 15:25, 11 March 2022 (UTC)''\n\n== Sustainable transport activism ==\n\nTower Hamlets Borough Council operates a walking bus service for school pupils on agreed routes with some running every school day while and others once or twice a week depending on the number of adult volunteers involved. {{W|London_Borough_of_Tower_Hamlets#Transport}}\n\nThe Regent's Canal enters the borough from [[Hackney]] to meet the River Thames at Limehouse Basin. A stretch of the Hertford Union Canal leads from the Regent's canal, at a basin in the north of Mile End to join the River Lea at Old Ford. A further canal, Limehouse Cut, London's oldest, leads from locks at Bromley-by-Bow to Limehouse Basin. Most of the canal tow-paths are open to both pedestrians and cyclists. {{W|London Borough of Tower Hamlets#Geography}}\n\nLea Valley Walk {{W|Lea Valley Walk}}\n\n== Cycling ==\n\nNational Cycle Route 1 {{W|National Cycle Route 1}}\n\n== Open spaces ==\n\n{{Wikipedia excerpt|London Borough of Tower Hamlets|Parks in Tower Hamlets|paragraphs=1}}\n\n[http://web.archive.org/web/20141109144914/http://www.towerhamlets.gov.uk:80/lgsl/451-500/461_parks/mile_end_park/green_bridge.aspx The Green Bridge], information from Tower Hamlets Council\n\n== News archive ==\n\n{{Card|text='''2010'''\n\n* Braham Street Park opens in Aldgate, a new breathing space close to the City, March 19, 2010...[https://www.london.gov.uk/media/mayor-press-releases/2010/03/mayor-unveils-new-park-in-heart-of-city london.gov.uk]}}\n\n== About Tower Hamlets ==\n\n{{Wikipedia excerpt|London Borough of Tower Hamlets|paragraphs=2}}\n\nA 2017 study by Trust for London and New Policy Institute, found that Tower Hamlets has the highest rate of poverty, child poverty, unemployment, and pay inequality of any London borough. However, it has the lowest gap for educational outcomes at secondary level.\n\n{{CASwiki UK footer}}\n\n{{Page data\n| keywords = London borough\n| description = Appropedia highlights how Tower Hamlets supports climate goals and social equity through local action and resource-sharing.\n}}\n\n[[Category:London]]\n[[Category:London UK]]"}