Yorkshire and the Humber community activism 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
• 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
• Yorkshire enters drought after driest spring in 132 years, theguardian.com (Jun 12, 2025)
• The former fracking site now tapped for clean geothermal heat, BBC Future (Feb 20, 2025)
• ‘Our community deserves beauty’: one man’s mission to green a UK tree desert, theguardian.com (Feb 20, 2025)

• "Our Future" is Grimsby celebrating its native resources, coming together as a community ready for the century's challenges, Daily Alternative (Nov 07, 2024)
• “‘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)
• ‘Empowering and healing, people’s assemblies are the future of democracy’, positive.news (Aug 21, 2024)
• New Sheffield ad ban shows how councils can act on harmful advertising, adfreecities.org.uk (Mar 19, 2024)
• She moved me’: the UK dancers inspired by India’s 112-year-old environmentalist, theguardian.com (Mar 03, 2024)

• Why South Yorkshire needed a citizens’ assembly for net zero, newstatesman.com (Dec 11, 2023)
• What are the neighbourhoods of Sheffield and why are they crucial to the city's emerging future? We're finding out, nowthenmagazine.com (Nov 23, 2023)
• Former fracking site could lead UK’s renewable revolution, theguardian.com (Nov 05, 2023)
• Meet the Climate Activists Who Moved Cross-Country to Build a New Civilisation, novaramedia.com (Oct 06, 2023)
• ‘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
• ‘Dead storage’ and ‘imminent risk to supplies’: documents reveal how England’s water companies struggled in last summer’s heatwaves, unearthed.greenpeace.org (Aug 23, 2023) — Internal briefings expose Environment Agency concerns that reservoir levels could drop so low the water would be untreatable and that companies might break the law
• A community food supply, wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk (Jul 31, 2023) — Urban farms are bypassing supermarkets to create their own local food systems and connect communities. Robbie Armstrong
• The climate crisis leaves students feeling helpless – what universities can do to empower them, theconversation.com (Jul 24, 2023)

• Bradford clean air zone launches, BBC News (Sep 26, 2022)
• The activists taking on England’s sewage-spilling water firms – and winning, positive.news (Aug 23, 2022)
• Developing towns in Coalville, building houses in Grimsby, generating solar power in Bristol - these CANs are vibrant and concrete, The Daily Alternative (Jul 02, 2022) — This week, we have a cascade of what we call CANs, cosmo-local initiatives, coming into our radar. It’s great just to chart their vitality.
• The UK’s first community-run shopping centre will have an “indie feel”- carefully curating their shops, and hosting creatives above, The Daily Alternative (Jun 02, 2022)
• Now Building On Planet A, Alternative Editorial (Apr 03, 2022)

• Bigger ambition for woodland in National Park, Dec 15, 2021...yorkshiredales.org.uk

Local councils can be both arrogant and enabling. They chop down the trees overnight in Doncaster …and ask the citizens to plan their foliage and foresting in Frome, Nov 23, 2020...thealternative.org.uk

• They stopped a toxic relief road. So why not use that energy to establish a forest commons? An empowering tale from North Yorkshire, thealternative.org.uk, Jul 29, 2020
• Flood defences simply aren't good enough – here's what needs to be done...theconversation.com, Nov 11, 2019
• Scarborough Council declares Climate Emergency in first major step to combat global warming, Jan 8, 2019...The Scarborough News

Incredible Edible: Yorkshire town's food-growing scheme takes root worldwide, May 9, 2018...The Guardian

• HullCoin: The social experiment that's rewarding good deeds, Jan 30, 2018...BBC News
• New push to make England's longest cycle tunnel a reality, Jan 1, 2018...The Guardian

Yes, This Is Britain's Happiest Place. (It Looks Beautiful in the Rain.) Nov 13, 2017...nytimes.com

• The English City With Its Own Cryptocurrency: Q&A With the Founders of HullCoin, Oct 23, 2017...@Shareable
• 200,000 trees to be planted to cut Calder Valley flood risk, Feb 24, 2017...home.bt.com
• Hull's first closed-road cycle circuit gathers pace, Nov 28, 2016...heytoday.co.uk
• UK flooding: How a town in Yorkshire worked with nature to stay dry, January 2, 2016...independent.co.uk

• Barnsley to launch landmark solar energy initiative, August 27, 2015...ITV News
• Bradford tackles blocked sewers with pioneering fats-to-fuel scheme, August 26, 2015...Mirror Online
• Pioneering Grimsby energy project takes vital step, August 24, 2015...Grimsby Telegraph
• Hullcoin: The World's First Local Government Cryptocurrency? March 30, 2014...coindesk.com
• 10 Steps Toward an Incredible Edible Town, Dec 3, 2013