Dorset

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 Dorset.

News

Networks and sustainability initiatives

This section has been AI aided: AI Overview from a Google search, 09:36, 3 November 2025 (UTC)

• Langton Planet Action on dorsetcan.org, group in the Purbeck area that works with other local environmental groups to reduce environmental impact and promote sustainability. added 10:58, 3 November 2025 (UTC)
• Sustainable Dorset, website of Dorset Agenda 21, county wide sustainable development charity based in Dorchester
• Sustainable Bridport, Building a Resilient, Fair and Low Carbon Bridport, added 16:59, 10 April 2023 (UTC), link checked 11:01, 3 November 2025 (UTC)
• Transition Bournemouth
• Transition Town Dorchester
• Transition Town Christchurch
• Transition Town Poole
• Transition Towns Weymouth and Portland

Events

Dorset video

Community and voluntary action

• Community Action Network, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, added 08:22, 27 April 2021 (UTC)

Food activism

Research

Can you help with NuFEAST?: send us your top tips for eating sustainably research.bournemouth.ac.uk, (2016)

Community energy

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• Dorset Community Energy, not-for-profit society that finances and installs solar PV on schools and community buildings to provide them with low-cost electricity. It also offers local investment opportunities and has a community fund for projects that reduce carbon emissions.
• Energy Local Bridport on dorsetcommunityenergy.org.uk. The first Energy Local Club in England, this group allows residents to buy electricity at a lower cost directly from local renewable sources, such as the 50kW wind turbine at Salway Ash.

Community resources

• The Power House, Poole, added 08:21, 27 April 2021 (UTC)
• Help And Kindness, for Dorset, added 08:49, 27 April 2021 (UTC)

Climate action

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• DorsetCAN, Dorset Climate Action Network. Network of community groups and individuals across Dorset that works toward a sustainable future. It supports local groups and actions aimed at climate change.

Cycling activism

• Dorset Cyclists' Network

Maps:

• Interactive cycle maps, dorsetforyou.com

Biodiversity

• Dorset Wildlife Trust

Rewilding

• Beavers at Little Sea, Studland, project of nationaltrust.org.uk, added 10:32, 1 March 2025 (UTC)
• Wild Woodbury, dorsetwildlifetrust.org.uk, community rewilding project at Bere Regis. added 16:03, 11 March 2024 (UTC)
• Wilder Dorset, project of Dorset Wildlife Trust: "plans for transforming the landscape from being intensively managed to letting nature take the lead will be developed in conjunction with the surrounding community, giving local people more opportunities to connect with nature while also benefitting local wildlife."...wildlifetrusts.org.

Trees, woodland and forest

• Wareham Forest on forestryengland.uk, added 15:11, 16 April 2024 (UTC)

News archive

About Dorset

From Wikipedia:Dorset

Dorset ( DOR-sit; archaically: Dorsetshire DOR-sit-sheer, -⁠shər) is a ceremonial county in South West England. It is bordered by Somerset to the north-west, Wiltshire to the north and the north-east, Hampshire to the east, the Isle of Wight across the Solent to the south-east, the English Channel to the south, and Devon to the west. The largest settlement is Bournemouth.

Over half the county is designated as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.