Yorkshire and the Humber community resources

This article is an offshoot of Yorkshire and the Humber community action focusing on community resources and assets. Resources in the introductory article such as networks, events and community involvement (people and relationships) can be considered as primary resources. Also resources are the activism and physical assets (or what citizens value), such as green spaces, biodiversity, cycle lanes, etc, from other Yorkshire and the Humber community pages.

Video

Food activism

• Community Allotment Growing Newsome
• Community orchard Growing Newsome
• Incredible Edible Todmorden (Community group)
• Todmorden's edible green route, on urbanpollinators.co.uk
• Incredible Edible Wakefield
• theshipleyfoodproject

Land activism

• Yorkshire, landjustice.uk, added 10:25, 7 January 2022 (UTC)

Social inclusion

For multiple deprivation in England, measured by the Indices of deprivation 2007, the most deprived council districts in the region are, in descending order – Kingston upon Hull (11th in England), Bradford (32nd), Doncaster (41st), Barnsley (43rd), North East Lincolnshire (49th), Sheffield (63rd), Wakefield (66th), Rotherham (68th), Kirklees (82nd), Leeds (85th), and Scarborough (97th). These areas are mostly represented by Labour MPs, with a few Conservative MPs representing parts of Leeds (with a Lib Dem MP) and North East Lincolnshire, and all of Scarborough. Apart from Scarborough, they are unitary authorities.

The least deprived districts are, in descending order – Harrogate, Hambleton, Richmondshire, Craven, and Selby – all in North Yorkshire. Like all of North Yorkshire, they are represented by Conservative MPs, aside from Selby which elected a Labour MP at the 2023 Selby and Ainsty by-election. At county level, the least deprived areas are, in descending order – North Yorkshire, York and the East Riding of Yorkshire which all have roughly the same level of deprivation, and lower than the majority of England, including Cheshire and Northamptonshire.

The region as a whole is one of the more deprived in England, measured by having far more Lower Layer Super Output Areas (LSOAs) in the 20% most deprived districts than the 20% least deprived districts.

Kingston upon Hull has the highest proportion of people not in education, employment or training NEETs in the region (and fairly high for the UK – 10.6%). This is another demographic extreme it shares with Knowsley in Merseyside.

In March 2011 the region had the third highest overall unemployment claimant count in England with 4.4%. For the region, Hull has the highest rate with 7.8% which is the highest for any English district; North East Lincolnshire is next with 6.4%, and Doncaster has 5.2%. Richmondshire has the lowest rate with 1.8% and Harrogate is next lowest with 1.9%.

Community resources

Citizens data initiative

Who Owns My Neighbourhood?, Kirklees land ownership data

Commons

• Long Lands Common, added 16:20, 3 August 2020 (UTC)

Reduce, reuse, repair and recycle

• Repair Cafe, The Tech, Holmfirth, holmfirthtech.co.uk