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.
Domestic resilience and creative communities
Funding Opportunities
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.
Good Grief
Good Grief is a podcast that sets out to explore the taboo nature of grief and how we develop, learn and form meaningful traditions around it.
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.
Greater Manchester Transformation Lab
Greater Manchester Homelessness Action Network: Creating opportunity for collective sense making and group decisions. We are seeking funding to run a ULab process to support GMHAN to reflect collectively, from different perspectives, on the changing situation around homelessness, and co-design what happens next.
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.
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.
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.
Impact Hub Bradford
At the heart of Impact Hub Bradford is a platform for social experimentation, our “Civic Collaboratory”; an organisational form that encompasses social processes, collaboration, co-design, formal and informal communication and consensus on principles and values. As both learners and facilitators at the intersection of various key sectors – public, private, voluntary, academic, entrepreneurial, NGOs and academia – the collaboratory is a hub that convenes and creates dialogue across unconnected disciplines.
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.
inCommons
inCommons is working to develop an accessible, action-focussed, educational programme for adult learners of any age to develop understanding of commoning and build commoning experience and networks to make positive change in their communities.
Jo Chalkblack
As a social-practice artist, Jo Chalkblack initiates processes of authentic connection in every day places (schools, urban green spaces, graveyards, city through-routes). Whilst also using site specific, temporary processes to connect with hinterland spaces (woodland, wild spaces, vacant buildings) to enable individuals and communities to navigate through ‘crossroads of change’ and to mark that transition together. She approaches her work collaboratively; moving away from human-centric ideas of what this means and understanding how dynamics of power, language and history affect people’s choices and ability to engage together in moments change.
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.
Lantana
Lantana is a children’s book publisher and social enterprise that believes in the power of reading to encourage children towards a greater sense of self-worth, self-esteem and belonging. By publishing inclusive books by authors from under-represented groups, their books promote diversity and inclusion, social and racial justice, female empowerment, and empathy.
Leeds Patchwork farm
Leeds Patchwork farm is a network of food growers and producers that supports and enables more local and ecologically grown food, with the aim of creating a more secure and resilient food supply for Leeds.
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.
Lockdown Gardening
During the recent Covid 19 crisis, small community growing groups in Northern Ireland diversified their activities, providing food delivery to the vulnerable and isolated, checking in on neighbours through phone-round schemes, and later on in lockdown encouraging their neighbours to grow at home, so that fresh food is still being provided locally.
LockdownLIVEs
LockdownLIVEs is a documentary project created by Greater Manchester residents who are homeless during the covid-19 pandemic.
May Project Gardens
May Project Gardens is an award-winning CIC, working across South London to address poverty, disempowerment, access to resources and influence. We work with marginalised groups, mostly young people, people of colour and refugees, using what we consider universally connecting tools – nature, food and creative arts – for social change.