You can now access the recordings of the PING held on 17 October here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgKsTYC4twM&t=21s The next PING will be in January/February 2024 and will be looking at our recent work on re-imagining the greenbelt around Bristol and Bath.
UAC is now in our fourth year. Our initial core grant from Esmée Fairbairn has come to an end, so we are pleased to report that we are still here (!) and evolving with a patchwork mix of projects, grants and contracts, and we are partners in a number of co-designed initiatives across the UK… more details …
October 2023 UAC was delighted to have been contracted to undertake a feasibility study into new farmstart projects by Nottinghamshore County Council. We think this is the first such study in the UK to be commissioned by a County Council – and we hope it will inspire other local authorites to look at farmstarts and …
Latest News / July 2023 An Oral History of the Environmental Movement. www.rhul.ac.uk/ohem UAC’s Jeremy Iles is now working on an additional role with Royal Holloway, University of London. Jeremy is part of a team undertaking a three-year oral history of the environmental movement. Work started on the project in September 2022 and the first interviews are now …
In April, Maddy (co-lead of UAC) was asked by Mary Stevens at Friends of the Earth experiments programme, to bring together evidence and reflect on the question of ‘How to map neglected spaces for community=led growing’. This will help to inform FoE’s Postcode Gardener project – which is developing a self-sustaining model for community-led cultivation …
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Since 2020 we’ve run a series of on-line workshops and PINGs (our Policy Influencers Network Groups) covering all sorts of useful topics, from planning, participatory mapping, soil and nutrition, amongst others. You can look back at the recordings of these on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXp0NTfplLmmvTWTYXSEvCQ/playlists?app=desktop https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXp0NTfplLmmvTWTYXSEvCQ/playlists?app=desktop
The most recent PING meeting was held on Weds 24th May We featured the Right to Grow campaign led by the Incredible Edible Network, and also looked at tools for opening access to public land for local food growing. You can watch the recording on Youtube: PINGs are held on-line, and are open to all …
If you’re interested in how farmstart projects get going, read this fanatstic short blog from Catherine Howell, coordinator of the Middlesbrough Farmstart project. To connect with Catherine go to: https://www.facebook.com/BarefootKitchenCIC/ Farmstart Middlesbrough ‘23 kicked off this January with a small cohort of six participants raring to go! This is our second year. The group come …
Open Food Network workshops in Lincolnshire – 26 January 2023 By Laura Stratford (Lincolnshire Food Partnership Coordinator): We’re still buzzing from the conversations led by Nick Weir about developing local food networks and food hubs in Lincolnshire. 25 people travelled from across the county (Greater Lincolnshire is MASSIVE!) and gathered at Mint Lane Cafe in …
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