Community action UK

Community action has a lot to offer. See it, celebrate it and sample it. Through community we can do so much more than we think we can.

Welcome to CASwiki's UK portal. Our focus is on Community Action for Sustainability. This includes community involvement through climate action, environmental action and many other sustainability topics.

The gift of climate and ecological emergency is that we all get to work together. Ordinary citizens and community groups naturally share what they learn, and what they know of what helps. Everyone can help, everyone has something to offer, everyone is welcome. We all need to design, make and grow a better future for ourselves, our communities and our world. Together we CAN. Yes we CAN.

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News

UK

Europe

Earth

‘It fully changed my life!’ How young rewilders transformed a farm – and began a movement, theguardian.com (Nov 25, 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)
How soil could help us reach climate targets, theconversation.com (Nov 13, 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)
Human-made global warming ‘caused two in three heat deaths in Europe this summer’, theguardian.com (Sep 17, 2025) — Researchers from Imperial College London say 16,500 deaths caused by hot weather brought on by greenhouse gases
Which countries are scaling solar and wind the fastest? Hannah Ritchie, sustainabilitybynumbers.com (Sep 09, 2025)

The Cambodian women rising up to protect their communal land, positive.news (Nov 20, 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)
How City Leaders in New York Plan to Help Co-Op Buildings Reduce Emissions, insideclimatenews.org (Nov 19, 2025)
Sea-Level Rise Accelerates in New Jersey, Raising Coastal Flooding Risk, Study Says, insideclimatenews.org (Nov 19, 2025)

More UK news

Community involvement

Food

Towards sustainable economies

Climate

Environment quality

How heat from old coal mines became a source of local pride in this northern English town – new study, theconversation.com (Nov 20, 2025)
How community projects are building a brighter future for British farms, wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk (Nov 11, 2025)
Flooded UK coalmines could provide low-carbon cheap heat ‘for generations’, theguardian.com (Nov 06, 2025) — Report says proven technology could benefit thousands in poor quality housing and help UK meet carbon reduction targets. Community engagement is vital, “In our experience, once people realise what value there is in the ground beneath their feet, they are enthusiastic. But many people, especially in less affluent communities, feel that things are being done ‘to them’ and not ‘with them’, and that breeds resentment and objection.” Prof Simone Abram, co-author and director of Durham Energy Institute

How community projects are building a brighter future for British farms, wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk (Nov 11, 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
What if dinner was public infrastructure?, Sower (Oct 29, 2025)

Co-ops looking to change the world, town by town, thenews.coop (Nov 03, 2025)
Climate investment is only growth opportunity of 21st century, says leading economist, theguardian.com (Oct 13, 2025) — Lord Stern says fossil-fuelled growth is futile as the damage it causes ends in economic self-destruction
Iconic Manchester worker co-op Eighth Day celebrates 55 years, thenews.coop (Aug 28, 2025)

Nearly £500k funding offered for green projects, BBC News (Nov 09, 2025) — Maidstone Borough Council is offering nearly £500,000 worth of funding to support environmental initiatives to combat climate and nature crises in the borough
Cutting home insulation funding will imperil UK’s climate goals, Reeves told, theguardian.com (Nov 08, 2025) — Energy firms and charities urge chancellor to avoid short-term fix that could also harm low-income households
Just Stop Oil trio cleared over Stonehenge protest, BBC News (Oct 31, 2025)

How litter-picking became a competitive sport, positive.news (Nov 05, 2025)
Legal challenge begins against Gatwick expansion, BBC News (Oct 15, 2025)
Thousands join biggest-ever UK environmental lawsuit over river pollution, BBC News (Oct 07, 2025)

Events

UK

International

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

Dec 06, 2025 (Sat) — Small Business Saturday, smallbusinesssaturdayuk.com

UK community action 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

Dec 05, 2025 (Fri) — World Soil Day, annually on Dec 5, un.org
Dec 09, 2025 (Tue) — International Anti-Corruption Day, Dec 9 each year, unodc.org
Dec 11, 2025 (Thu) — International Mountain Day, Dec 11, annually, fao.org
Dec 12, 2025 (Fri) — Inheritance Day, celebrated annually on December 12th, invites us to envision that we are 150 years in the future, and humans have figured out how to live in harmony with each other and the planet. We sit down to dinner with our families, both birth and chosen, and celebrate the incredible achievements that our ancestors worked so hard for!, The Terran Collective