Gloucestershire
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| Location | Gloucestershire, South West England |
| Coordinates | 51° 30' 2.76" N, 2° 33' 1.12" 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 Gloucestershire.
News
The pollution court case that could reach far beyond the banks of the River Wye, theconversation.com (Oct 22, 2025) - Life lessons for a living world in the Forest of Dean, thenews.coop (Aug 16, 2025) — Community benefit society Wylderne has taken ownership of a wilderness education centre and is putting co-op principles into action
- New national forest to see 20m trees planted, BBC News (Mar 21, 2025)
- ‘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
- ‘We found 23,000 worms!’ The soil project bringing life back to the land, positive.news (Oct 22, 2025)
- Mussel power: how an offshore shellfish farm is boosting marine life, theconversation.com (Jun 06, 2025)
- New national forest to see 20m trees planted, BBC News (Mar 21, 2025)
- How heat from old coal mines became a source of local pride in this northern English town – new study, theconversation.com (Nov 20, 2025)
- ‘Robot’ buses could bring more environmental benefits than public transport with drivers, theconversation.com (Nov 20, 2025)
- Beth Mead: ‘If we don’t adapt to climate change, football becomes a privilege, not a right‘, theguardian.com (Nov 19, 2025)
- 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
- 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
- Green to Grey, How Europe is squandering the little nature it has left, greentogrey.eu (Oct 01, 2025)
- Bees, Community, and Shared Futures, grassecon.substack.com (Nov 20, 2025)
- ‘Robot’ buses could bring more environmental benefits than public transport with drivers, theconversation.com (Nov 20, 2025)
- The Cambodian women rising up to protect their communal land, positive.news (Nov 20, 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
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
UK and international events
UK events
Nov 10 - 16, 2025 (Mon - Sun) — Living Wage Week, livingwage.org.uk- 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
- Nov 16 - 22, 2025 (Sun - Sat) — Road Safety Week, brake.org.uk
- 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
Global or international events
- Nov 05, 2025 (Wed) — Media Liberation Day, Change the Media, Change the Future, mediarevolution.org
- Nov 06, 2025 (Thu) — Outdoor Classroom Day, celebrating and inspiring outdoor learning and play, outdoorclassroomday.com
- 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
- 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
- Nov 19, 2025 (Wed) — International Men's Day, Nov 19, annually
- Nov 28 & 29, 2025 — Buy Nothing Day, en.wikipedia.org
2021-2030, UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, International community action events
Gloucestershire video
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
- Down to Earth Stroud, support local and organic food growing and run several community projects across Gloucestershire. Community Interest Company. added 10:23, 8 April 2025 (UTC)
- The Long Table, added 16:50, 8 March 2024 (UTC)
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
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
News archive
- 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)
- ‘Citizen scientists make a vital difference’: the locals who proved the River Wye was polluted, theguardian.com (Aug 12, 2023)
- The Stroud Commons aims to shift housing, energy, land, food, water, transport, social care & the means of exchange into community ownership, The Daily Alternative (Jul 08, 2023)
- 'They just fit': Has the wild boar been over-culled?, inkcapjournal.co.uk (Jul 06, 2022) — Naturalists fear that boar are declining in the Forest of Dean. The controversial question, however, is how many should be there in the first place.
- How Stroud council is encouraging renewables in its Local Plan, takeclimateaction.uk (Mar 09, 2022)
- Have your say on how developments in Stroud should promote sustainable construction, Nov 10, 2016...<ref>stroudnewsandjournal.co.uk
- Stroud Valleys Showcase will celebrate very best of the Five Valley's green and sustainable projects, Sep 28, 2016...stroudnewsandjournal.co.uk
- New Green council chairman Norman Kay partners with climate change awareness project Transition Stroud, May 24, 2016...stroudnewsandjournal.co.uk
- An evening in Stroud: '10 years and beyond', May 9, 2016...Transition Network
- Work starts on Dursley hospital allotments scheme, Apr 20, 2016...gazetteseries.co.uk
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 largest settlement is the city of Gloucester.
The county is predominantly rural, with an area of 3,150 square kilometres (1,220 sq mi), and a population of 975,712 in 2024. Gloucester is located in the north-centre of the county, and the spa town of Cheltenham is immediately to the east. Other towns include Tewkesbury in the north, Cirencester in the east, Stroud in the centre, and Yate in the south. The far south of the county, including Filton and Kingswood, is densely populated and forms part of the 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 east of the county contains the majority of the Cotswolds, and the uplands in the west are part of the Forest of Dean and the Wye Valley. All three areas have been designated national landscapes.
Near you
| Authors | Phil Green |
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| License | CC-BY-SA-3.0 |
| Cite as | Phil Green (2014–2025). "Community action/Gloucestershire". Appropedia. Retrieved November 28, 2025. |