Gloucestershire community action
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 Gloucestershire.
News
‘People feel a sense of ownership’: the growth of community composting, theguardian.com (Jan 23, 2025) — residents of an English village build their own composting site
- Library of Things helping Charlton Kings residents save money, BBC News (Apr 11, 2024)
- ‘We’re totally pay as you can’: the UK restaurant prioritising people and planet, theguardian.com (Mar 06, 2024)
- The Guardian view on the planning bill: new towns must be for people who need them, Editorial, theguardian.com (Mar 11, 2025)
- Six climate change activists sentences reduced by appeal court, BBC News (Mar 07, 2025)
- Dramatic fall in London’s levels of deadly pollutants after Ulez expansion, theguardian.com (Mar 07, 2025) — People in capital breathing much cleaner air, with significant improvements in capital’s most deprived areas
- ‘Global weirding’: climate whiplash hitting world’s biggest cities, study reveals, theguardian.com (Mar 12, 2025)
- Only seven countries worldwide meet WHO dirty air guidelines, study shows, theguardian.com (Mar 11, 2025) — Governments could clean their air with policies such as funding renewable energy projects and public transport; building infrastructure to encourage walking and cycling; and banning people from burning farm waste.
- Many cities are banning ads for airlines, SUVs and fossil fuels – and yours could be next, theconversation.com (Mar 10, 2025)
Near you, networks and sustainability initiatives
- Stroud community action...separate article
- GloucesterCan is an initiative of Gloucester Community Building Collective, an independent organisation that seeks to proliferate community driven change across the city. added 13:18, 14 March 2021 (UTC)
- Sustainable Thornbury
- Vision 21, promoting a sustainable future for Gloucestershire
- Transition Cam & Dursley
- Transition Town Cheltenham
Localism
GLOSS FM is local radio for Thornbury and District, offering free local infomertials on-air for local not-for profit community initiatives
Communities online
Food activism
- The Long Table, added 16:50, 8 March 2024 (UTC)
Climate action
- Climate and nature emergency community groups in South Gloucestershire, map and information from beta.southglos.gov.uk (South Gloucestershire Council), added 08:33, 28 January 2025 (UTC)
- Planet Cheltenham on twitter, hub space for people living in the town to explore ways in which to tackle climate change, fight social inequality and re-imagine a better future. added 13:27, 11 October 2021 (UTC)
- GlosCAN, Gloucestershire Climate Action Network
Sustainable transport activism
Cotswold Canals Trust, (Wikipedia): registered charity that aims to protect and restore the Stroudwater Navigation and the Thames and Severn Canal.
Cycling activism
Education for sustainability
Friends of the Wilderness Centre, Forest of Dean
Biodiversity
- Common Connections, 4 year project to restore, improve and connect green spaces along the border of South Gloucestershire and East Bristol to benefit both nature and people. Project includes Avon Wildlife Trust, The Conservation Volunteers, Buglife, West of England Nature Partnership, town and parish councils and friends groups, and is a partnership project between South Gloucestershire Council and the West of England Combined Authority. added 08:42, 28 January 2025 (UTC)
- Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust
- Stroud Valleys Project
Reduce, reuse, repair and recycle
- BATCOM, Brimscombe & Thrupp Community Composters, co-operative and Community Benefit Society,added 14:54, 25 January 2025 (UTC)
- Thornbury Give n Take on mythornbury.co.uk
Community currencies activism
Fair Shares, community time banks
About Gloucestershire
Campaigns
Frack off our Forest on facebook
Past events
- Oct 1 - 8, 2016, Stroud Valleys Showcase
- June 27 - 28, 2015, Edible Open Gardens
- September 20 - 21, 2014, Cheltenham Green Doors
- September 20, 2014, Greener Gloucestershire Festival 2014
Gloucestershire ( GLOST-ər-shər, -sheer; abbreviated Glos.) is a ceremonial county in South West England. It is bordered by Herefordshire to the north-west, Worcestershire to the north, Warwickshire to the north-east, Oxfordshire to the east, Wiltshire to the south, Bristol and Somerset to the south-west, and the Welsh county of Monmouthshire to the west. The city of Gloucester is the largest settlement and the county town.
The county is predominantly rural, with an area of 3,150 square kilometres (1,220 sq mi) and a population of 916,212. After Gloucester (118,555) the largest distinct settlements are Cheltenham (115,940), Stroud (26,080), and Yate (28,350). In the south of the county, the areas around Filton and Kingswood are densely populated and part of Bristol built-up area. For local government purposes Gloucestershire comprises a non-metropolitan county, with six districts, and the unitary authority area of South Gloucestershire. South Gloucestershire Council is a member of the West of England Combined Authority.
Gloucestershire is bisected by the river River Severn, which enters the county near Tewkesbury and forms a wide valley down its centre before broadening into a large tidal estuary. The hills to the east form the majority of the Cotswolds AONB, and the uplands to the west are part of the Forest of Dean and the Wye Valley AONB, which stretches into Wales.