Hull

Queen's Gardens, Hull On the day of the graduation ceremony of the University of Hull, graduands in their academic gowns wait for the start of the ceremony, with their parents and friends. The ceremony takes place in the City Hall, the building with the dome down the street beyond the bus. Author: RichTea, 13 July 2009
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Location Hull, United Kingdom
Coordinates 53° 45' 44.59" N, 0° 19' 48.44" W

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 Hull.

News

Hull
Yorkshire and the Humber
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Earth
  • News Co-ops looking to change the world, town by town, thenews.coop (Nov 03, 2025)
  • News “‘Tell the truth’ didn’t just mean the facts of climate breakdown, it meant the heartbreaking truth of our own potential." Gully Bujak on Cooperation Hull, Daily Alternative (Aug 30, 2024)
  • News ‘Empowering and healing, people’s assemblies are the future of democracy’, positive.news (Aug 21, 2024)
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  • News 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
  • News 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
  • News Yorkshire enters drought after driest spring in 132 years, theguardian.com (Jun 12, 2025)
  • News How heat from old coal mines became a source of local pride in this northern English town – new study, theconversation.com (Nov 20, 2025)
  • News ‘Robot’ buses could bring more environmental benefits than public transport with drivers, theconversation.com (Nov 20, 2025)
  • News Beth Mead: ‘If we don’t adapt to climate change, football becomes a privilege, not a right‘, theguardian.com (Nov 19, 2025)
  • News Sharing soil, sweat and tears, ffcc.co.uk (Oct 30, 2025) — Are farm partnerships the future? We talk to the team behind Abunda to find out
  • News Renewable energy investment should come from defence budgets, say retired military leaders, theguardian.com (Oct 23, 2025) — Former European officers say spending on low-carbon power would make nations more resilient to threats from potential aggressors
  • News Green to Grey, How Europe is squandering the little nature it has left, greentogrey.eu (Oct 01, 2025)
  • News The Cambodian women rising up to protect their communal land, positive.news (Nov 20, 2025)
  • News Bees, Community, and Shared Futures, grassecon.substack.com (Nov 20, 2025)
  • News ‘Robot’ buses could bring more environmental benefits than public transport with drivers, theconversation.com (Nov 20, 2025)

UK and international events

UK events

  • Event Nov 10 - 16, 2025 (Mon - Sun) — Living Wage Week, livingwage.org.uk
  • Event Nov 13, 2025 (Thu) — Kindness Day UK, Nov 13 annually, aiming to increase the value of kindness in society as well as increase the amount of kind acts that take place, making kindness a greater part in our daily life, kindnessuk.com
  • Event Nov 16 - 22, 2025 (Sun - Sat) — Road Safety Week, brake.org.uk
  • Event Nov 22 - 30, 2025 (Sat - Sun) — National Tree Week, The Tree Council's annual tree celebration. People across the country planting thousands of trees to mark the start of the winter tree planting season. "Trees and hedgerows are some of the most powerful tools we have in the fight against climate change.", treecouncil.org.uk

UK community action events

Global or international events

  • Event Nov 05, 2025 (Wed) — Media Liberation Day, Change the Media, Change the Future, mediarevolution.org
  • Event Nov 06, 2025 (Thu) — Outdoor Classroom Day, celebrating and inspiring outdoor learning and play, outdoorclassroomday.com
  • Event Nov 13, 2025 (Thu) — World Kindness Day, Nov 13, annually, highlighting good deeds in the community focusing on the positive power and the common thread of kindness for good which binds us, randomactsofkindness.org
  • Event Nov 16, 2025 (Sun) — International Day for Tolerance, Nov 16 each year, fostering respect, acceptance and appreciation of the rich diversity of our world's cultures, our forms of expression and ways of being human, unesco.org
  • Event Nov 19, 2025 (Wed)International Men's Day, Nov 19, annually
  • Event Nov 28 & 29, 2025 — Buy Nothing Day, en.wikipedia.org

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

Networks, sustainability initiatives and community involvement

Cosmolocal discovery club

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

Northern Ireland community action, Haringey community action, West Midlands community action / ...This week's featured Global videos / ... read more about Cosmolocalism

Hull video

Housing

  • Giroscope, housing charity based in west Hull and pioneers in a movement within UK housing providers called Self-Help Housing, inspiring others and becoming more attractive as regards delivering sustainable regeneration, housing and employment.

Community resources

Community currencies activism

Hull Mutual Aid Network: This Mutual Aid Network aims to create a chain reaction that goes back into communities. It meshes a thriving timebank with 600 members and the Hull Coin initiative, the City of Culture's 2017 nomination, which is currently mobilizing 4,000 volunteers.
"When I started the TimeBank back in 2010, I saw it as the solution to everything," says Kate Macdonald. "I realized in time that it is 'one' solution and that to have a viable parallel economy, we need different options which have strengths to use in different circumstances. When I heard Stephanie speak about Mutual Aid Networks a couple of years ago, I realized this had been what I had been looking for. What is often missed is a mechanism to join things up." Shareable

Sustainable transport

News archive

  • News Meet the Climate Activists Who Moved Cross-Country to Build a New Civilisation, novaramedia.com (Oct 06, 2023)
  • News ‘Real’ public engagement must be prioritised for path to net zero to succeed, climateoutreach.org (Sep 05, 2023) — the UPPER Coalition Reports include examples of successful co-designing and collaboration with local citizens, including Camden Think & Do’s programme, Kendal’s Climate Jury, and initiatives in Hull and Hackney
  • News HullCoin: The social experiment that's rewarding good deeds, BBC News (Jan 30, 2018)
  • News The English City With Its Own Cryptocurrency: Q&A With the Founders of HullCoin, shareable.net (Oct 23, 2017)

About Hull

Kingston upon Hull, usually shortened to Hull, is a port city and unitary authority area in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It lies upon the River Hull at its confluence with the Humber Estuary, 25 miles (40 km) inland from the North Sea. It is a tightly bounded city which excludes the majority of its suburbs; with a population of 275,401 (2024), it is the fourth-largest city in the Yorkshire and the Humber region. The built-up area has a population of 436,300.

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Authors Phil Green
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Cite as Phil Green (2024–2025). "Community action/Hull". Appropedia. Retrieved November 28, 2025.