Activism & Lobbying

Mothers CAN is a UK-based network of mothers from all walks of life, from all over the country. We come together in our communities to build power and figure out what we can do together to create change.

Web: https://opencollective.com/edinburgh-regenerative-practitioner-guild

An informal group for residents of Willowbrae to communicate local news, events, community efforts, tips to lead a more sustainable life, crime watch, and to offer mutual aid and support. This includes a Transition Streets group and Mothers CAN group, and links to the Eco group at the local Primary School. Community efforts include activities such as hand weeding streets to prevent Council from spraying glyphosate.

supporting dance artists and engaging people with the benefits of dance

Edible Edinburgh is one of a network of Sustainable Food Place Partnerships, supported UK wide by Sustain. The cross sectoral partnership plays an important role in the development of sustainable food systems, campaigning for change and informing policy. City populations have a buying power and scope to free up land to grow more food locally. Also to influence the public spending on food to ensure that people can benefit from good, sustainable food.

Architecture & Building Surveying support to the not for profit sector in aligning our built environment with our response to the various sustainability crises facing us.

​Bridgend Farmhouse is a sustainable community-owned centre for learning, eating and exercise in South Edinburgh. We aim to grow together to develop a flourishing community and place.

A Coalition of groups and activists who organise campaigns for action to stop the drivers of climate change and to make the changes needed in policy and programmes at all levels

Cargo Bike Movement is a charity that was established, initially informally, in April 2020 in response to the first UK Covid-19 lockdown. Since then, we have gone through the journey of being a Community Interest Company (CIC) and now a registered charity (SC051593)!

In summary, with our activities centred on Leith Community Croft at the NW corner of Leith Links, we connect people with each and the land/nature and promote responsible global citizenship.

We are the city-wide collective supporting the development of resilient communities through community-led improvement of buildings, via planned maintenance, retrofit and local heat and energy systems. Edinburgh Building Retrofit and Improvement Collective empowers the local ecosystem of groups working to do these things. A community can be a tenement, a street or a neighbourhood. Working at community-scale offers many advantages and improving whole buildings gives the best results. We develop stronger and more resilient communities in the process.

The main aims of BANZAI are to:

Primarily awareness raising, community litter picks, occasional community information events and climate cafe info points