An investigation about ownership, access, disruption and place. 9ft in Common uncovers the complexities and shares the possibilities of an infrastructure of urban alleyways, Belfast’s wild and liminal spaces. 9ft in Common is developed across the disciplines of art and architecture by Amberlea Neely (Starling Start) and Aisling Rusk (Studio Idir).
Environmental and human rights
Funding OpportunitiesBehind Locked Gates
Behind Locked Gates is an inside view of the impact COVID 19 has had within Traveller families and communities. The film explores the hopes, insights, struggles and resilience of individual Travellers, whilst highlighting specific issues connected to daily routines; mental health issues; child care & education; food scarcity and growing; work and livelihoods; post-growth and […]
City of Sanctuary
City of Sanctuary UK is running a collaborative film-making initiative called #SanctuaryStoriesOnline to share local stories of creating a culture of welcome for people seeking sanctuary and to communicate our network principles to our growing online audience. To date, 2 films have been commissioned with contributions from 10 participants and 1 training session.
Doulas Without Borders
A voluntary organisation spanning across the UK and offering grassroots support, advocacy and nurture to pregnant, birthing and newly mothering women, who are experiencing multiple disadvantages.
eat WILD!
Brought to you by The Association of Foragers, an international, professional membership of foragers, including foraging educators, authors, herbalists and harvesters.
Fuel Poverty Action
Fuel Poverty Action confronts the climate and cost of living catastrophes as one fossil-fuelled crisis. We support residents fighting for safe, non-flammable insulation; warm secure housing; reliable, affordable communal heating systems; windfall taxes on energy corporation profits; and fair energy pricing. Born 2011, we’re a small but growing grassroots group.
Good Law Project
Good Law Project uses the law to protect the interests of the UK public. We prioritise tackling poverty and inequality, protecting the environment and upholding democracy.
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.
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.
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.
Lancaster Black History Group
Lancaster Black History is a new grassroots community group of local residents working to fight racism through education. The group aims to make Lancaster a leading example of how Black British histories can be included in all aspects of education, arts, and society.
Land in Our Names
Land in Our Names is a black-led grassroots collective committed to reparatory justice in Britain through securing land for BPOC communities, reimagining of land stewardship, and the deep healing of colonial-rooted trauma that separates us from this reality at present.
LockdownLIVEs
LockdownLIVEs is a documentary project created by Greater Manchester residents who are homeless during the covid-19 pandemic.
Permaculture
The Permaculture Responds project will make our network of projects, educators and practitioners and all the brilliant learning and practice that we have built up over the years, more accessible to more people. We will support people to get involved through events, increased communications and bursary places on the new online learning course.
POWER
POWER declares that a climate emergency has arrived on every street. As artists and filmmakers working with our home community we are taking a vital leap of the imagination – giving ourselves the power of government to print money and enact a Green New Deal now setting up a solar POWER STATION across the rooftops of Waltham Forest, London.
Shared Assets
We are collating videos from practitioners and have been speaking to infrastructure organisations within the land sector to seek opportunities for collaboration in response to the crisis. We want to focus our attention on the social and economic justice impacts and what COVID has revealed there.
SHIFT
SHIFT is a digital platform that undertakes research and conversations with UK based learning disabled and neurodivergent artists about where and how their works are placed, showcased, and written about. The accessible films showcase eight artists and their practices, alongside important conversations with these artists, hearing their opinions.
https://www.shift.jenniferlaurengallery.com/
Siyakhuluma Wetalk Podcast
We Talk is a platform that makes asylum seekers and community voices heard. On the podcast we really do welcome everyone.
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.
Tenants Union
Tenants Union is a network of powerful local branches where tenants have the knowledge and power to tackle housing issues in their local area. Our network centres around Greater Manchester, and over the coming months we will be combining our local branches to form Greater Manchester Tenants Union.