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.
Decolonisation and post-growth economies
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 […]
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.
Black History School
Black History School is an online curriculum for children and families. This UK centred programme will provide families the opportunity to learn about Black history through songs, sketches, cooking and mindfulness, providing activities that encourage a supportive community network through shared heritage and creative learning.
Breaks & Joins
Breaks & Joins is a collective who want to make the connections between practical acts of repair, and the repair of our communities and ourselves. We have a repair café led by ‘Mend it with Mo’, Community conversations training with Raj Bhari, and arts workshops with Sue Mayo, Amanda Mascarenhas & Chuck Blue Lowry.
Community Apothecary
We are a collective of medical herbalist, growers, local residents and volunteers who cultivate a network of herb gardens in the London borough of Waltham Forest and offer training in herbalism and horticulture with the aim of building circles of communal knowledge and resource sharing.
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.
Gardening Earth Logic
Gardening Earth Logic explores and shares new principles of governing urgent sustainability change for the fashion sector through a series of short films. The project is conducted by Kate Fletcher and Mathilda Tham, researchers and activists.
Gentle/Radical
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 organised, 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 seek to make the marginal, our mainstream.
Grass Roots Remedies co-op
Grass Roots Remedies is a Worker’s Coop based in Edinburgh and Glasgow working to rekindle our rich tradition of herbal community healthcare and promote ecologically responsible herbalism. We believe that herbal medicine is the medicine of the people, and that it should be accessible to everyone.
Herbalism Without Borders
Individual UK herbalists have been supporting refugees in the camps of Calais and Dunkirk since 2015, slotting into different threads within of the eco-system of humanitarian response. From September 2019 we have consistently showed up in Northern France as an agency in our own right, Herbalists Without Borders UK.
Hopeful solidarities
Hopeful Solidarities is a collaboration between three writer-teacher-activists and community
organisations we are part of in Brighton and Hove. In times of multiple intersecting crises,
ranging from struggles for daily survival in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic, the spiralling cost
of living, climate change and the racist legacies of European colonialism, we explore and work
alongside islands of hope. We engage with members of our community organisations, listening
to people’s reflections on their own stories in the light of the present moment, and seek to
build on emergent solidarities through everyday, practical and creative work including writing,
film, photography, food and music.
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.
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.
Jonnet Middleton
Jonnet Middleton (PhD) is a feminist artist-researcher and degrower who lives in/as performative experiment, a job she calls ontowork. She makes everyday rearrangements to self and lifeworld – unlocking, undoing, resisting, rewiring, shedding, holding on. She also works on infrastructuring in marginal communities in Havana, Cuba, where she previously lived.
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.
Liverpool African Diasporic Filmmakers Network
Liverpool African Diasporic Filmmakers Network (LADFN) is a collective of Filmmakers, Creatives, Practitioners and Entrepreneurs that centre black identity in their work. We hold monthly gathering (in person and virtual) to connect, share and develop creative and entrepreneurial initiatives. If you’re interested networking, send your email and join our membership.
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.
Radical Herbalism Gathering & Network
As a collective of medical herbalists, healthcare activists, bodyworkers and designers we have organised Radical Herbalism gatherings for the past eight years. We’re currently offering information and resources through our website, addressing the COVID-19 crisis through the lens of healthcare inequality and race-based and other injustices, with solidarity and support for people and communities experiencing the pandemic and its effects disproportionately.