All community-led

A village shop run by volunteers to serve the local community. This shop sells local produce, as well as everything you need in the way of groceries, including fresh fruit and vegetables. There is also a Post Office.

Forest for Helston

We are Local Spark Torbay Community Supported Enterprise CIC – Local Spark for short. We’re a small but mighty Community Interest Company with huge determination, bags of optimism and a fierce desire to make good things happen in the communities we love. Practically speaking, we work with members of all Read more [...]

Community project to transform urban spaces to grow food and increase biodiversity. Increasing our connection with the natural world, where our food comes from and each other. There are many co-benefits; Working outside with others can improve wellbeing and fitness; opportunities to learn new skills such as gardening, building containers Read more [...]

Helston Climate Action Group is a collaboration between Helston Town Council and members of the Helston community. It was formed to work with Helston Town Council to achieve its climate goals, set when it declared a climate emergency in March 2019. In September 2019 Helston Climate Action Group published their Read more [...]

Every weekend Bogota and a number of other cities across Colombia closes streets in the city and turns them over to the people to cycle, run, walk and skateboard/ roller blade etc. After experiencing the Ciclovia (the cycling, walking event as it is known in Colombia – see links below) Read more [...]

Treverbyn Community Hall is a registered charity working at the heart of the China Clay area in Cornwall. It is run by the local community for the benefit of all. It offers a volunteer led cafe, public library, community garden and village heath. Recently we have partnered with Time Credits Read more [...]

Transition Homes Community Land Trust is developing a scheme of 27 eco-homes on a site, Clay Park, in Dartington parish. The majority of the homes (70%) are affordable rental & shared ownership for local people with a proportion of market housing required for cross-subsidy.

The Totnes Reconomy Project, an initiative of Transition Town Totnes, was launched by a small group of enthusiastic community members. We wanted to reverse the negative economic trends affecting the town, but we also wanted to innovate. We wanted to inspire a new kind of economic regeneration that would create Read more [...]

  Growing Links was created in 2013 to combat food poverty. We were concerned about the imbalance of so much food waste yet people in our community were going hungry. At first we worked with local primary schools setting up edible gardens and teaching young people about seasonality, growing food and Read more [...]