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St Davids Eco City Group started a car club – the five seater Nissan Leaf is on lease from Cilgwyn community car club. The Leaf is all electric and has a solar panel on the roof to contribute to the power. It can be charged from a domestic plug with an official range of about 100 miles per charge. Fast charging is already available in places li...
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Ponthafren Association is a user led Mental Health Resource Centre, which serves the community in and around the very rural area of North Powys. It offers a service to anyone with mental health issues or who is socially isolated or excluded and works on an 'open door' policy, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Its members number approximately 250, with an outreach centre in Welshpool and a...
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Food for Your Future
A new way of getting fresh, local food...
FlintShare CSA was started, in 2010, by a group of people who wanted local food produced in a cost effective and sustainable way. We recognise that the days of cheap imports are numbered (perhaps thankfully) and ways of producing more food locally and ‘gently on the land’ must be found. FlintShare ...
Interest in activities with a food focus emerged from a lifestyle audit carried out in Pembroke by the Pembroke Can Make a Difference (PCMAD) subgroup of Pembroke 21C Community Association in 2009. Food related issues also arose during the recent community consultation carried out by Pembroke 21C to develop Pembroke’s 2020 Community Plan. These included:
- Community gardens and/or...
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Wheelrights are a cycle campaign group covering the Swansea Bay Area, and aim to:
1.To encourage and assist potential cyclists to take up cycling and thereby prepare them for using a bike as a means of transportation.
2.To campaign for better provision for cyclists in the Swansea Bay area.
3.To provide information about cycling related ac...
Abergwyngregyn Regeneration Company (ARC) have a very successful record of running innovative projects to promote sustainable community development in the historic village of Abergwyngregyn, famous for the towering waterfall at the end of the valley. The companyʼs achievements include a £470k project to renovate an old mill in the centre of the vill...
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In 1974, Antur Aelhaearn was the first community co-operative registered in the UK - the result of local people coming together to stem the tide of people leaving the village through economic regeneration projects.
Now. 40 years on, the group are working on the Gwynt Aelhaearn project to bring funds into the village to continue supporting this obje...
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Harlech has a special swimming pool, flanked by spectacular sand dunes on one side and overlooked by the famous castle on the other. It is used by individuals and groups from Tywyn to Maentwrog and provides seven local schools with a space for their statutory swimming lessons. This is why community volunteers rallied to take on the organisation after its closure...
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YnNi Padarn Peris is a new group (incorporated in 2014) with big ambitions for the Padarn Peris area. They benefit from the support of the National Trust and there is a lot of renewable energy experience within the group.
Several projects are already underway, including:
Transition Cafe – Cutting carbon by making use of surplus food
The Carmarthenshire Outdoor Learning Wales (OLW) Cluster Group is one of 22 county based networks providing outdoor learning opportunities to people of all ages, supported by Natural Resources Wales. This group engaged Renew Wales to support a Climate Change Action Plan during 201...
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The Renew Wales Pallet Furniture Making project is an initiative that was designed to promote awareness and encourage people to take action on environmental issues.
In 2013 Crickhowell High School supported an idea around setting up a small woodland group and potential environmental classroom as part of the School Ec...
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(Photo from the launch of Egni PV Co-...
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Corwen Electricity Group came together as a community to build a 55KW, high head hydro scheme in the town of Corwen. The scheme is 100% owned and run by the community. They raised over £300,000 for the construction with a share offer. Over 50% of which were bought by people in and around the town of Corwen. The project started several years ago when t...
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The Incredible Edible movement started 10 years ago in Todmorden, West Yorkshire with the aim to grow food to share and give access to locally produced food! Darllenwch Mwy
Clynfyw Care Farm and Learning Centre is a Community ...
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CARE have been working on establishing a community based renewable energy project since 2004. Their long-term vision is to work with the local area to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, whilst at the same time tackle fuel poverty and soc...
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This group are young people (aged between 11-16) from different schools and education provisions in Blaenau Gwent, who are currently receiving support from Youth Workers on the Inspire 2 Achieve Project. There are between 10 and 30 of young people (depending on how many turn up for a session!) They have a go at lots of activities includi...
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Routes to Opportunity PLUS is an initiative that offers young people an opportunity to gain accredited training and work-based experiences in a positive and engaging ...
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Reconnect in Nature is a community interest company that helps people reconnect with their natural environment, reconnect with themselves and create a community that supports each other. Their activities encompass o...
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Members of Rhydyfelin Youth Club came up with the idea for a digital bench while they were learning woodworking skills with the help of Eggseeds, a sustainable education organisation. They identified the problem of charging a phone when out and about and wondered if they could do anything about this problem? Could they come up with an innovative design that ...
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