Gentle/Radical is an artist-run socially engaged project, centering healing and social justice, decolonial practice, and non-extractivist engagement. How power works, how it’s historically been organized, and how we transform this – is the starting point for what we do. Intersectional and cross-disciplinary, we curate, collaborate and build projects via cultural praxis that seeks to make the marginal, our mainstream.
PROJECT PAUSE
Project Pause is a collaborative space for people with experience of displacement or migration to share wisdom.
These centred-voices share hope and help to all who are learning to navigate a life on pause and the effects of sudden change.
www.projectpause.net
St Werburghs City Farm
St Werburghs City Farm is an inner-city oasis. Our vision is to inspire and support happy, healthy communities. With a 2 acre small-holding, community gardens, woodlands and allotments, we provide green sites accessible to all and targeted services that equip people with knowledge, skills and confidence. Just 1.5 miles from Bristol city centre, surrounded by […]
Idle Women
Founded in 2015, Idle Women is an arts and social justice project that creates vibrant and adventurous spaces with women in places where they are least imagined. Based and working in the North West our collaborative work combines site-specificity, sculpture, performance, cross sector partnerships and research.
Belfast food Network
Here in Northern Ireland, despite an abundance of producers, distributors and suppliers, we suffer, like the rest of the UK and Ireland,from ever- increasing levels of food poverty, food waste and longer, less efficient supply chains. We seek to combat this state of affairs by promoting a greater profusion and diversity within the food industry, making use of, while not exploiting our resources.
ISOR
ISOR supports people who live ethnically or culturally nomadic lives in terms of security, liberty, expression and free movement. We unite around issues that affect all nomadic cultures. We seek the common ground that can be found through the experiences of cultural diversity. Sustainability is a fundamental concern for us.
Good Law Project
Good Law Project uses the law to fight for the voiceless. We use litigation to expose misconduct, to tackle abuses of wealth and power, and to protect those who can’t protect themselves. We enlist the best lawyers in the country in service of those who need them most.
The UBI Lab Network
In 2020, UBI Lab has become a worldwide network of researchers, activists and campaigners exploring the potential of a Universal Basic Income.
Solidarity Apothecary
The mission of the Solidarity Apothecary is to materially support revolutionary struggles and communities with plant medicines to strengthen collective autonomy, self-defence and resilience to climate change, capitalism and state violence. It was started by Nicole Rose, an anarchist organiser and ex-prisoner dedicated to making herbalism radical and accessible.
Torridge Common Ground
Torridge Common Ground is a non-party-political platform putting the shared values and practical vision of the community at the heart of local governance, empowering communities to transform their local economies and wellbeing. Our key driver is to be giving agency to those who have the least sense of agency.
Enough!
Enough! is a collective formed in response to social, economic and ecological crises within a Scottish context. Through framings of degrowth, decolonisation and deep adaption, we actively respond to emerging (and existing) crisis realities and make visible ideas which are explicitly challenging and exploring alternatives to capitalism.
The Feel Better Project
Domestic Abuse is not inevitable. Every year, globally, millions of people suffer and lose their lives as a result of this epidemic. At The Feel Better Project we use evidence and research to understand the causes that lead to violence, and what steps we can all take to preventing this tragic cycle.
Sewing Café Lancaster
Run by Victoria Frausin, Sewing Café Lancaster is a grassroots project that advocates for an ethical textile industry and sustainable textile practices. We draw on ideas of conviviality in actualizing “the eight ‘Rs’” – revalue, reconceptualize, restructure, relocate, redistribute, reduce, reuse and recycle in relation to clothes and textile production and consumption.
In Other Words
In Other Words, a new publication and series of films curated by Metal and Kate Marsh, brings together 48 contributions from marginalised artists across multiple disciplines to explore their hopes and fears for the future.
West End Women and Girls Centre
We are the first and only open access, community based women and girls centre in Newcastle. We aim to build the power of women and girls, who have been, and continue to be disenfranchised. We seek to drive positive change in the world, our community and in women and girls’ lives.
The Centre for Human Ecology
The Centre for Human Ecology (CHE) exists to stimulate and support radical change towards ecological and social justice through education, action and research. The CHE draws upon a holistic, multidisciplinary understanding of our unravelling environmental and social systems to create learning for being fully human in community and solidarity.
62 Gladstone Street
62 is an online social platform showcasing the work of British South Asian artists, activists and writers from Muslim and none-Muslim backgrounds. This project aims to combat the marginalisation of BME talent by broadening the online creative space to be more inclusive of diasporic arts, from Peterborough to the UK.
The NewBridge Project
The NewBridge Project is an active artist-led community that supports artists, curators and local communities. NewBridge produces a public programme that is responsive to the environment in which it exists, and that places community-centred, experimental, collaborative and socially conscious programming at its heart.
Groundswell
Groundswell is undertaking research to understand the impacts of COVID-19 on the lives of people experiencing homelessness. The project aims to understand how COVID-19 and the response to it is affecting the lives of people who are homeless and include the voices of people experiencing homelessness in the national and local decision-making processes.
Grass Roots Remedies co-op
Grass Roots Remedies co-op works in areas of multiple deprivation in Edinburgh, some of the communities being hardest hit by covid-19. With our community herbal clinic now offering digital consultations only and all free community workshops cancelled during this time we are offering free herbal remedies, distributed alongside free food provision services.