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We support stakeholders across the food systems from farm to fork to adopt more sustainable practices to ensure more people have access to good food.

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.

Granton Goes Greener is an environmental project based at Granton Parish Church in North of Edinburgh. The core of the project is clothes swap shop, where we encourage our service users to reduce their carbon print by using second hand clothes, books and other items. We do organise occasional upcycling workshops and run a weekly sewing class.

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.

Edinburgh & Lothians Regional Equality Council (ELREC), founded in 1971, is a company limited by guarantee and a registered charity made up of individual members and representatives from a wide range of organisations. ELREC is a member of the Scottish Alliance of Regional Equality Councils and has a remit to work across the areas of City of Edinburgh, East Lothian, Midlothian and West Lothian Councils. ELREC runs the Communities’ Reduce, Reuse & Recycle Project which is funded by Climate Action Fund (CAF), The National Lottery Community Fund. The aim of the project is to encourage and support BAME communities in Edinburgh to reduce waste, increase reusing and repairing and to shift to a more sustainable consumption.

​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.

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 Climate Cafe principly acts as an information providers and offers a space for people to take time and explore the various conepts, ideas and solutions in relation to climate change. We offer this mostly through street provision but also respond to information requests to attend events galas or as a supporting role to similar provision.We deliver works

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.

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