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.
Grass Roots Remedies co-op
Grass Roots Remedies co-op works in areas of multiple deprivation in Edinburgh, some of the communities being hardest hit by covid-19. With our community herbal clinic now offering digital consultations only and all free community workshops cancelled during this time we are offering free herbal remedies, distributed alongside free food provision services.
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.
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.
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 Shieling Project
The Shieling Project is a social enterprise and community-based off-grid education centre in Glenstrathfarrar, near Beauly in the Scottish Highlands. We use the story of the ‘shieling’ (àirigh in Scottish Gaelic) as a route into place-based learning about crofting, horticulture, green building, food growing and cooking, renewable technologies, traditional skills, crafts and culture. The idea is simple: to explore the landscape’s past to help build a more sustainable, resilient future.
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.
The London Renters’ Union
The London Renters’ Union is a member-led, campaigning union. We take action with our members to win better housing conditions in the here and now as well as organsing to transform the housing system so that it serves people instead of profit.
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.
Awareness with Horses
Our mission is to help create, and help others create a more peaceful, sustainable world through equine assisted experiential learning and therapeutic interventions that support learning and growth, self-awareness, mental health well-being, resilience, co-creative leadership skills and nature connection, for both adults and young people, we work one to one and in small groups.
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.
FoodFutures
FoodFutures is North Lancashire’s award-winning Sustainable Food Partnership and Network. Its working to build a collaborative community of practitioners, food citizens, policy makers and researchers that work on sustainable food matters in the local area.
Jo Chalkblack
As a social-practice artist, Jo Chalkblack initiates processes of authentic connection in every day places (community projects, city sanctuaries, schools) and brings people into places of authentic connection (woodland, riverside, cemetery). Impermanent, embodied becomings; blending organic with digital; form with light and dark, chalk, tree, charcoal; marking death-love and love-loss; evoking innate enactments of transition at crossroads of change.