Sharing Economy

Web: https://edinburghtoollibrary.org.uk

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.

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.

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.

Edinburgh Tool Library is the UK’s first tool library, promoting sharing as a way of reducing our environmental impact. We lend our members tools for DIY, gardening, decorating, and machine repair, so tool ownership is not a requirement to making. Not only does this collaborative approach make sense environmentally, it also helps our members financially. We have two wood workshops in Leith and Portobello, a dedicated repair space, a pop up location, and an electric van. We run an employability programme, a series of volunteer builds, and a residency programme for young artists. Alongside borrowing tools to use at home, our members access our workshops several times a week, usually evenings and weekends, and join us for making workshops and training. Community is central to everything we do.

Our vision is for a large scale urban food growing project which is nature rich, and which will benefit primarily the communities that live in the local area but also the wider city into the future. We aim to address some of the issues around access to local, affordable fresh produce, environmental degradation and lack of opportunities for people in cities to gain experience in food production resulting in a greater understanding of the wider food system.