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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Southwark & Lewisham Women’s Space
The Southwark and Lewisham Women’s Hubs offer trauma-informed, one-stop-shop support for women affected by the criminal justice system and multiple disadvantage from two safe and welcoming women’s centres in South London.
The Birch Collective
We are a new collective formed in response to the current context. We developed ‘Nature Connection Tools for Resilience;’ an online course for 18-25 yr olds which will run alongside Rites of Passage camps. Both explore ways young people can deepen their relationship to the natural world, themselves and each other and so begin a journey of inspired and engaged adulthood.
eat WILD!
Brought to you by The Association of Foragers, an international, professional membership of foragers, including foraging educators, authors, herbalists and harvesters.
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.
Repository of the undercommons – creative response
Repository of the Undercommons (RotU) is a curator/artist residency borne out of Enough! as a way to (re)imagine alternatives + (re)create cultural codes, messages + values for our future(s).
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.
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.
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.
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.