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• How heat from old coal mines became a source of local pride in this northern English town – new study, theconversation.com (Nov 20, 2025, North East England; UK)
• How community projects are building a brighter future for British farms, wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk (Nov 11, 2025, Hertfordshire; Shropshire; Fife; Devon; UK)
• Nearly £500k funding offered for green projects, BBC News (Nov 09, 2025, Maidstone; Kent) — Maidstone Borough Council is offering nearly £500,000 worth of funding to support environmental initiatives to combat climate and nature crises in the borough
• A view on Scottish land reform: vast estates remain feudal in scale [The Guardian], Daily Alternative (Nov 03, 2025, Scotland; UK)
• The London solar project slashing bills for vulnerable residents, positive.news (Nov 03, 2025, Hackney; UK)
• 'Nobody owns the sand': The 12-metre fence dividing an affluent beach town, BBC News (Nov 01, 2025, Dorset; UK)
• Just Stop Oil trio cleared over Stonehenge protest, BBC News (Oct 31, 2025, Wiltshire; UK)
• West Yorkshire moor brought under community ownership, thenews.coop (Oct 30, 2025, Yorks; UK) — Bridestones Moor, near Todmorden, will be managed by a CIC led by local ecologists, naturalists and residents
• Building a Connected Scotland, scottishcommunityalliance.org.uk (Oct 30, 2025, Scotland; UK) — Why Local Hubs Matter
• What if dinner was public infrastructure?, Sower (Oct 29, 2025, Scotland; UK)
• Sir David Attenborough backs plan to buy estate, BBC News (Oct 29, 2025, North East England; Cumbria; UK)
• Green energy jobs should help bring down heating bills, says expert, BBC News (Oct 26, 2025, Wales; UK) — senior Welsh government advisor David Clubb says UK ministers plan to spend billions on "unproven technology" such as carbon capture, when the initial focus should be on home insulation to help bring down bills for the public
• ‘We found 23,000 worms!’ The soil project bringing life back to the land, positive.news (Oct 22, 2025, South West England; UK)
• The pollution court case that could reach far beyond the banks of the River Wye, theconversation.com (Oct 22, 2025, Wales, West Midlands, Gloucestershire; UK)
• “We believe our communities should be benefiting from the transition to renewable energy, not being left behind”, says Highland People’s Power, Dailt Alternative (Oct 22, 2025, Highland; Scotland; UK)
• Taiwan Film Festival in Scotland—"connecting inward truths with outward visions, creating a vibrant shared space for reflection and inspiration”, Daily Alternative (Oct 21, 2025, Glasgow; Scotland; UK)
• Stand-alone Welsh water regulator to replace Ofwat, BBC News (Oct 21, 2025, Wales; UK)
• ‘Much fairer’: all profits from new Orkney windfarm to benefit locals, theguardian.com (Oct 21, 2025, Scotland; Orkney; UK) — Construction due to begin in 2027 on what is expected to become UK’s largest publicly owned windfarm
• Energy clubs offer chance to reduce electricity bills by up to 30%, theguardian.com (Oct 18, 2025, Dorset; Lambeth; UK)
• ‘Hopeful and imaginative’: introducing the UK’s ‘best’ new building, positive.news (Oct 17, 2025, Southwark; UK) — London care home built to tackle social isolation wins major architecture award
• Legal challenge begins against Gatwick expansion, BBC News (Oct 15, 2025, West Sussex; South East England; UK)
• The flood-prone Worcestershire town being abandoned by insurers, theguardian.com (Oct 14, 2025, West Midlands; UK) — Millions more homes in Great Britain at risk of flooding, investigation finds
• ‘Brummies united against racism’: poster campaign takes on the far right, theguardian.com (Oct 12, 2025, Birmingham; UK)
• Thousands join biggest-ever UK environmental lawsuit over river pollution, BBC News (Oct 07, 2025, Wales; UK)
• Forestry England buys 66-hectare plot of land near Smarden for new woodland, BBC News (Oct 02, 2025, Ashford) — Forestry England to invite local people to share their views to help shape designs for the new woodland ahead of a wider formal public consultation in spring 2026
• Over 33,000 New Homes Could Be Built on Hampshire’s Brownfield Sites, cprehampshire.org.uk (Oct 01, 2025, Hants; UK) — research shows that there are enough brownfield sites across England to build 1.4 million new homes,
• Funding marks step forward for community-led renewable energy in Scotland, gov.scot (Oct 01, 2025, Scotland; UK) — Community and Renewable Energy Scheme’s (CARES) Community Energy Generation Growth Fund will enable 46 community groups to install local renewable energy schemes such as wind turbines and solar panels, to meet local needs.
• Kent GPs under 'unsustainable pressure', BBC News (Sep 30, 2025, Kent)
• Bottom trawling ban hailed by fishing groups, BBC News (Sep 29, 2025, West Sussex; South East England; UK) — Fishing campaigners say a bottom trawling ban in West Sussex could be a "blueprint of success" for other parts of the South East
• Whitstable campaigners fight to stop 1,350 home development, BBC News (Sep 29, 2025, Canterbury; UK) — local residents stepping up their campaign to fight what they have said would be the "largest ever development" in their part of Kent
• Historic windmill fully operational after refurb, BBC News (Sep 28, 2025, Gravesham; UK)
• ‘You don’t get to aim big when you are somewhere small’: A teenager’s fight to end single use plastics on her Scottish island, theguardian.com (Sep 24, 2025, Argyll and Bute; Scotland; UK)
• Food banks warn demand has reached crisis point, BBC News (Sep 23, 2025, Kent; UK)
• App launched to improve night-time safety, BBC News (Sep 13, 2025, Maidstone; UK)
• Scottish Community Coalition on Energy release a Manifesto for Community Renewables [Scottish Beacon], Daily Alternative (Sep 12, 2025, Scotland; UK)
• How Japanese 'tiny forests' are sweeping Scotland, BBC Future (Sep 11, 2025, Scotland; UK) — Grown using the Miyawaki method, fast-growing miniature forests in the middle of cities can bring surprisingly big benefits for people and the environment.
• Plymouth’s iconic Millennium Building set for community ownership, thenews.coop (Sep 09, 2025, Plymouth; UK)
• As pine martens are reintroduced to south-west England, a new study shows why local people need to be involved, theconversation.com (Sep 09, 2025, Devon; UK) — "...more collaborative relationships can be developed when people are involved in making plans for reintroduction."
• "Shetland is ideally placed to spearhead a green transition... commensurate with net zero aspirations" [Democracy Collaborative], Daily Alternative (Sep 06, 2025, Shetland; Scotland; UK)
• English housing project aims to transform later-life living, positive.news (Sep 01, 2025, Manchester; UK)
• Net-zero not "a platitude or a soundbite" but presents significant commercial benefits - regulator, BBC News (Sep 01, 2025, Scotland; UK) — "There are real, very significant, commercial benefits for the UK from the projects around net-zero."
• Iconic Manchester worker co-op Eighth Day celebrates 55 years, thenews.coop (Aug 28, 2025, Manchester; UK)
• The Ancient Woodland Practice Boosting British Biodiversity, reasonstobecheerful.world (Aug 28, 2025, Suffolk; UK)
• Scotland’s first community-led marine conservation network, scottishcommunityalliance.org.uk (Aug 28, 2025, Scotland; UK)
• ‘They’re beautiful’: 13-year-olds lead audacious project to save harvest mice in Devon, theguardian.com (Aug 28, 2025, Devon; UK)
• Government minister visits Dunfermline to find out about Citizens’ Assembly project, electoral-reform.org.uk (Aug 27, 2025, Fife; UK)
• The Pylon, the Turbine and the Black Black Blade [Bella Caledonia], Daily Alternative (Aug 26, 2025, Scotland; Highland; UK)
• A tiny Scottish island, a digital participation platform: the spirit of Comhairle [CrownShy], Daily Alternative (Aug 25, 2025, Scotland; UK)
• Glasgow’s Citizens Theatre reopens: what its seven-year transformation reveals about the future of historic venues, theconversation.com (Aug 22, 2025, Glasgow; UK)
• Sustainability on show at Co-op Group’s newest store, thenews.coop (Aug 21, 2025, Cambridgeshire; UK)
• Trial sees A&E visits drop by nearly 70% for group, BBC News (Aug 21, 2025, Kent; UK)
• Why the Arthur’s Seat burn is a cautionary tale for the UK’s wildfire management strategy, theconversation.com (Aug 19, 2025, Edinburgh; Scotland; UK; South Africa)
• Enlisting hearts and minds to save Somerset’s last eels, positive.news (Aug 18, 2025, Somerset; UK)
• Life lessons for a living world in the Forest of Dean, thenews.coop (Aug 16, 2025, Gloucestershire; UK) — Community benefit society Wylderne has taken ownership of a wilderness education centre and is putting co-op principles into action
• Lynx could thrive in Northumberland with most in area supporting return, study finds, theguardian.com (Aug 07, 2025, North East England; UK)
• Campaigners take airport expansion to High Court, BBC News (Aug 04, 2025, Bedfordshire; UK) — Campaign group argues the government acted unlawfully when it granted the scheme permission - as the impact on climate change had not been properly assessed. The government backed the project despite the Planning Inspectorate recommending it should be rejected over environmental concerns
• How does it feel? The impact of mass development on local people, David Mairs, cprekent.org.uk (Aug 04, 2025, Canterbury; UK) — They felt the potential loss of this land acutely – one person described it as “like having a limb cut off”, Executive summary, Rachael Reilly
• Council recognises right of River Test to flow unimpeded and unpolluted, theguardian.com (Jul 30, 2025, Hants; UK) — Test is one of only about 200 chalk streams in the world and councillors says biodiversity in and around it has declined
• Residents being asked how best to spend £20m grant, BBC News (Jul 29, 2025, Thanet)
• 60 homes proposed by Vita Group at Belvidere House in East Malling close to rejected Ivy Farm site, kentonline.co.uk (Jul 28, 2025, Malling; UK) — “The whole battle between locals trying to protect their area from over-development and the developers starts all over again. It’s relentless.” Gary James
• Glasgow Student Housing Cooperative Opens!, glasgowstudenthousingcoop.org (Jul 25, 2025, Glasgow; UK) — "We refuse to believe that enduring housing horror stories should be an accepted part of student life. Cooperatives are our alternatives, which teach skills for the future to build just and sustainable alternative economies." May Armstrong, Glasgow Student Housing Cooperative
• Community groups call for locally-owned solar farms in Kent, BBC News (Jul 23, 2025, Kent; Swale; Malling; UK)
• Planning free-for-all as Maidstone council misses five-year housing target, kentonline.co.uk (Jul 05, 2025, Malling; Maidstone; UK) — “Horrendous... Developers will now rule the roost”, Cllr Valerie Springett
• South East hosepipe ban comes into force, BBC News (Jul 18, 2025, South East England; Kent; East Sussex; West Sussex; UK)
• Campaign launched to buy waterfall beauty spot, BBC News (Jul 17, 2025, Yorks; UK) — Campaigners say the community is ready to take responsibility for the future of the ancient woodland and waterfall
• Sheep are destroying precious British habitats – and we taxpayers are footing the bill, Chris Packham, theguardian.com (Jul 15, 2025, Devon; UK)
• Council champions 'pioneering' Rights of River Charter to protect 'landmark waterway', lewes-eastbourne.gov.uk (Jul 09, 2025, East Sussex; UK) — Charter will 'enshrine importance of River Ouse for generations to come'
• Public diners: a taste of the future, nourishscotland.org (Jul 08, 2025, Nottingham; Dundee; UK)

• Steve Coogan on why he is backing the Middleton Co-operating project, thenews.coop (Jul 08, 2025, Manchester; UK)
• London’s low-traffic zones ‘cut deaths and injuries by more than a third’, theguardian.com (Jul 07, 2025, London; UK) — “LTNs have led to considerable reductions in road traffic injuries inside their boundaries for all road users – from pedestrians and cyclists to drivers. At the same time, concerns about nearby main roads becoming more dangerous aren’t supported by the evidence.” Dr Jamie Furlong
• Ambitious plans to redevelop town centre unveiled, BBC News (Jul 06, 2025, Tonbridge)
• “We need renewables to be something *for* communities, not something done *to* communities”—the Scottish Beacon reports on the “Power Shift”, Daily Alternative (Jul 03, 2025, Scotland; UK)
• Stampede in Soho: puppet animals on an epic trek bring wonder and warning to London streets, theguardian.com (Jun 28, 2025, London; UK)
• New stretch of national coast path opens on island, BBC News (Jun 24, 2025, Swale; UK)
• A friend of the Earth: how I stopped Surrey becoming the new Texas, observer.co.uk (Jun 20, 2025, Surrey; UK)
• Yorkshire enters drought after driest spring in 132 years, theguardian.com (Jun 12, 2025, Yorks; UK)
• Re:Assembling The Future, Alternative Editorial (Jun 08, 2025, Birmingham; UK)
• Mussel power: how an offshore shellfish farm is boosting marine life, theconversation.com (Jun 06, 2025, South West England; UK)
• Farmers 'making a change' to cut carbon emissions, BBC News (Jun 05, 2025, Cornwall; UK)
• Can the use of citizens’ assemblies transform Northern Ireland’s policy landscape?, agendani.com (Jun 01, 2025, Northern Ireland; UK)
• Kent landscape that inspired Dickens made nature reserve, BBC News (May 30, 2025, Gravesham; Malling; UK)
• Drought declared in north-west England amid declining reservoir levels, theguardian.com (May 29, 2025, North West England; UK)
• Gillingham's historic lido, the only riverside saltwater tidal swimming pool in England open for summer after £250k refurb, BBC News (May 24, 2025, Medway; UK)
• Councillor backs campaign to block housing scheme, BBC News (May 20, 2025, Maidstone; Kent; UK)
• Pleas to 'use water wisely', BBC News (May 18, 2025, Kent; Malling; UK)
• Fife Council welcomes Scottish Government's commitment to local democracy, fife.gov.uk (May 15, 2025, Fife; Scotland; UK)
• Glasgow Seed Library is a collection of seeds and a community of growers [CCA], Daily Alternative (May 13, 2025, Glasgow; UK)
• Welcome to the Edinburgh Open Workshop—“we cater to you if noise or mess is your jam!”, Daily Alternative (May 12, 2025, Edinburgh; UK)
• How a community-focused vision for net zero can revive local economies, theconversation.com (May 06, 2025, Lancashire; Manchester; Eaast Sussex; North Ayrshire; London; UK)
• The UK is falling behind in tackling microplastic pollution – here are three ways the government can catch up, theconversation.com (May 06, 2025, UK)
• Two Britons to challenge UK’s ‘weak’ response to climate crisis in Strasbourg court, theguardian.com (May 05, 2025, UK)
• Lessons from Wales’ future generations law, theprogressplaybook.co (May 04, 2025, Wales; UK)
• New Forest site secured for wildlife with help from Southern Co-op, thenews.coop (Apr 30, 2025, Hampshire; UK)
• Londoners are swapping cars for bicycles at a rapid pace, data shows, theprogressplaybook.com (Apr 29, 2025, London; UK) — If recent trends persist, the city says cycling will overtake motor vehicles as the main mode of transport within the next two years
• Neigbourhood Plan Community Survey for West Malling, westmallingpc.org (Apr 16, 2025, Malling) — A survey form is dropping through West Malling letter boxes. It has been sent out by the Parish Council to collect information on how everyone would like to see West Malling develop, or be protected from change, in future. The Neighbourhood Plan will eventually be published and a public vote will take place before being submitted to TMBC. Once approved, it will carry equal weight to the Local Plan. Please have your say. You can also complete it on line at surveymonkey.com
• Kent Wildlife Trust bids to raise £500k to buy land, BBC News (Apr 15, 2025, Kent; UK)
• 'We saved a 200-year-old pub in a forgotten part of Scotland', BBC News (Apr 13, 2025, Dumfries and Galloway; Scotland; UK)
• Scotland's largest fully-community-owned solar farm is given the greenlight, on the Isle of Arran, Daily Alternative (Apr 10, 2025, North Ayrshire; UK)
• Give us a chance and we’ll give you community power, powertochange.org.uk (Apr 10, 2025, North East England; UK)
• Coin Street: How co-op ownership can keep the bulldozer at bay, thenews.coop (Apr 07, 2025, Southwark; UK)
• Artist Cath Carver spreads soft power everywhere in her London area, Daily Alternative (Apr 07, 2025, Enfield; UK)
• How Wales is building a sharing economy through its ‘libraries of things’, theprogressplaybook.com (Apr 05, 2025, Wales; UK)
• Butterfly project aims to halt population decline, BBC News (Apr 05, 2025, Canterbury; Kent)
• Check out my threads! The local library where you can borrow a new outfit, positive.news (Apr 02, 2025, Shropshire; UK)
• Power to the people: the rise of community energy, positive.news (Apr 01, 2025, London; UK)
• Electric bus rollout delay for charging point work, BBC News (Apr 01, 2025, Dartford; Gravesham)
• Building a better future one community at a time in Portobello, Edinburgh [Bella Caledonia], Daily Alternative (Mar 25, 2025, Edinburgh; UK)
• Direct Access To Power, Alternative Editorial (Mar 23, 2025, Scotland; UK; Earth)
• Social supermarket is 'a hand up, not a handout', BBC News (Mar 21, 2025, Lambeth; UK)
• New national forest to see 20m trees planted, BBC News (Mar 21, 2025, South West England; Bristol; Bath; Wiltshire; Gloucestershire; Somerset; UK)
• Creating Community Wealth Through Scotland's Energy Revolution [Brian Connolly], Daily Alternative (Mar 19, 2025, Scotland; UK) — "why should society continue accepting profits going primarily to shareholders rather than communities?"
• Why the British are flooding parts of their coast, Leo Plunkett, Sandy Watt, news.mongabay.com (Mar 19, 2025, Somerset; UK)
• Urgent action needed to harness tidal power in Severn estuary, say experts, theguardian.com (Mar 19, 2025, Wales; UK)
• Drone tree-seeding trial could ‘revolutionise’ the expansion of rainforests say exponents, positive.news (Mar 18, 2025, Cornwall; Devon; UK)
• 'A library is more than a place with books, it is a lifeline', BBC News (Mar 18, 2025, Croydon; London; UK)
• New free London Underground map helps cyclists to discover the city’s green spaces, positive.news (Mar 17, 2025, London; UK)
• The Living Mountain: why a second world war meditation on nature’s fragility and wonder is still relevant today, theconversation.com (Mar 17, 2025, Scotland; Earth)
• Wilderness to Wonderland community garden project volunteers tidying up neglected public spaces in Margate, BBC News (Mar 15, 2025, Thanet)
• Man, 80, gives up solar panels fight with council, BBC News (Mar 14, 2025, Essex)
• We called for a one stop shop for election information – it’s now coming to Wales, electoral-reform.org.uk (Mar 13, 2025, Wales; UK)
• When communities own renewable energy generation, the benefits are enormous [The National], Daily Alternative (Mar 11, 2025, Scotland; UK)
• Work on £1.5m city centre revamp to start in April, BBC News (Mar 11, 2025, Canterbury) — Work to transform an area of Canterbury to reduce the use of cars locally will start next month
• The 10 areas across east and south-east England where housing targets will be 'undeliverable' due to a shortage of water reserves, inews.co.uk (Mar 08, 2025, South East England; East of England; UK) — Water scarcity issues are less acute further north, in areas such as Yorkshire, Northumberland, Cumbria and Lancashire – as well as in Wales and Scotland
• Dramatic fall in London’s levels of deadly pollutants after Ulez expansion, theguardian.com (Mar 07, 2025, London; UK) — People in capital breathing much cleaner air, with significant improvements in capital’s most deprived areas
• WL Meets: Cegin y Bobl – The People’s Kitchen, wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk (Mar 06, 2025, Wales; UK)
• Work starts on energy efficient affordable housing, BBC News (Mar 01, 2025, Dover)
• Forum to allow young people to shape Folkestone & Hythe's future, BBC News (Feb 24, 2025, Folkestone)
• Rewilding sees animals rebound in Hackney Marshes, BBC News (Feb 21, 2025, Hackney)
• ‘Lush bread – for all.’ Placing affordable loaves where they’re most needed, positive.news (Feb 21, 2025, Bristol; UK)
• The former fracking site now tapped for clean geothermal heat, BBC Future (Feb 20, 2025, Yorks; UK)
• ‘Our community deserves beauty’: one man’s mission to green a UK tree desert, theguardian.com (Feb 20, 2025, Yorks; UK)
• The bakery that offers pay-as-you-can-afford bread, positive.news (Feb 18, 2025, Edinburgh; UK)
• Town to get new 'central' leisure hub, BBC News (Feb 02, 2025, Tonbridge)
• Restoration is helping native raptors thrive in Scotland, report shows, positive.news (Jan 28, 2025, Scotland; UK)
• Volunteers turn old rail track into walking route, BBC News (Jan 25, 2025, Swale; UK)
• Frome residents win five-year battle for community-led housing project, theguardian.com (Jan 23, 2025, Frome; UK) — “What’s really exciting for me is that it’s not actually about the amount of commercial space or the affordable housing it will provide – it’s about the sense of confidence and agency and possibility that I think it will give us as a community.” Fiona Barrows, Frome town councillor
• ‘People feel a sense of ownership’: the growth of community composting, theguardian.com (Jan 23, 2025, Gloucestershire; UK) — residents of an English village build their own composting site
• New insect corridor created to boost nature, BBC News (Jan 23, 2025, Bristol)
• Warm spaces event giving out advice and goods, BBC News (Jan 22, 2025, Bristol; UK)
• Public assured access to a green 'haven of peace', BBC News (Jan 22, 2025, Bristol)
• Norwich Western Link road plans withdrawn due to concerns on bats, BBC News (Jan 21, 2025, Norfolk; UK)
• Rural communities awarded cash help, BBC News (Jan 11, 2025, Folkestone)
• A decade on, six things the world can learn from Wales’ innovative future generations law, theconversation.com (Jan 06, 2025, Wales; UK; Earth) — Includes "Engage all stakeholders early and effectively"
• West Peckham residents buy The Larkins historic pub, BBC News (Jan 04, 2025, Tonbridge; Malling; Kent; UK)
• Limpley Stoke pub saved by the community sets reopening date, BBC News (Jan 01, 2025, Wiltshire; UK)