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.
Decolonisation and post-growth economies
Funding Opportunities
Sew and Sow
The Sew and Sow Free libraries project was created to address the urgent need for more sociable and solidarity economies, with the desire to strengthen care-based communities and highlight the feasibility of growing and mending in the domestic scene.
shado mag CIC
shado is a lived experience-led community of artists, activists and journalists united in the fight for social justice. shado provides a space for those across different fields, who are currently working in isolation, to co-exist. We work with a community of over 300 artists, activists and journalists in over 50 countries around the world to spotlight and celebrate necessary and innovative stories.
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.
Shieldfield Art Works
Shieldfield Art Works (or ‘SAW’) is an arts organisation based in Shieldfield, Newcastle upon Tyne. SAW is an artist-led organisation committed to creativity, theological critique and community engagement. Through making art, growing, cooking, discussion and learning, we seek positive change for the welfare of the city, in order to seek out ways of supporting and enabling social transformation.
The Atchin Tan / Stopping Place
The Atchin Tan (Stopping Place) is a welcoming creative space for raising awareness of issues affecting Britain’s Romany, Traveller and nomadic communities. From the decimation of living places, to the historic contribution of Travellers to Glastonbury Festival, there are lots of creativity, talks and discussions to be a part of.
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.
The Coping Mechanism
The Coping Mechanism monitors how people are coping with the pandemic both with positive pro-social coping (resilience) and negative anti-social coping (defendedness) and how financial stability & racial privilege impact coping.
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.
The Mobile Apothecary
A collaboration between Phytology, Rasheeqa Ahmad of Hedge Herbs, and a growing network of talented volunteers, Mobile Apothecary supports underserved communities in the locality with good quality, homegrown and communally-made herbal remedies.
The New School of the Anthropocene
The New School of the Anthropocene is a radical and affordable experiment in interdisciplinary higher education, which confronts biopolitical crisis in collaboration with October Gallery in London. We are an ensemble of experienced academics and practitioners who wish to restore the critical risk and creative desire to arts education.
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.
The Reading Room
The Reading Room is a collaborative project where people can read, learn, listen, and share ideas. Through linking up with spaces across the country, we’ve created libraries stocked with thought provoking books. Reading groups and opportunities to meet authors are being established, providing resources and activities that hope to catalyse collaboration and conversation.
The School of Abolition
The School of Abolition is a year-long action research project that uses contemporary art and activism to challenge Scotland’s prison industrial complex and the ways in which we respond to harm and crime without resorting to further policing or imprisonment.
The Star and Shadow Cinema
The Star and Shadow Cinema is a community owned cooperative in Newcastle upon Tyne. It is 100% volunteer run.
The building which houses a 90-seater cinema, 220-capacity music venue, café, meeting room, Changing Places Loo, workshops and a community garden, is owned by the members.
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.
Theatre Uncut
Theatre Uncut tackles inequality by supporting playwrights to create new work that raises awareness and encourages debate on social injustice. By presenting our work in theatres, online and releasing it free of charge for groups across the world to perform themselves we aim to galvanise action to create a fairer world.