Links

Growing and Food

• Bristol Food Network – umbrella organisation for community food producers

Get Growing

• Get Growing Trail – annual event each June showcasing local food producers
• Council allotments
• Avon Organic Group – has promoted organic food and growing in the Bristol area since 1984
• Forest of Avon Trust – supply trees and encourage community tree-planting
• Edible Landscapes Movement – Knowle West Media Centre project to share real-time growing experience
• Community Supported Agriculture – Soil Association project to connect growers and consumers locally

Community Gardens and Orchards

• Golden Hill Community Garden
• Horfield Organic Community Orchard

Local Food

• Lawrence Weston Community Farm – city farm that runs many workshops and children’s activities
• Foodcycle – a UK charity that combines volunteers, surplus food and spare kitchen spaces to create tasty, nutritious meals for people at risk of food poverty and social isolation
• Blue Finger Alliance – group of organisations involved in rethinking urban food supply, based around M32 corridor and beyond
• Bristol Food Policy Council – strategic initiative to think through future food issues in Bristol
• Sheffield Abundance – charity that collects and makes good se of unused fruit growing locally

Local Produce Market

• Box Bush Farm apple juice

USING LESS

Transport

• Travelwest – integrated transport planner for Bristol and Bath region
• First Bus Bristol
• Wessex Bus
• Car Clubs
• Sustrans – Bristol-based national sustainable transport charity
• Lifecycle UK – refurbish old bikes
• Transport for Greater Bristol

Energy

• Bristol Solar Map – council map showing solar energy potential across the city
• Bristol Energy Network
• Centre for Sustainable Energy
• Bristol Green Doors
• CREATE Centre Ecohome
• Bristol Energy –
• Bristol Energy Co-operative
• Energy Saving Trust
• Pathways 2050 – government tool for exploring emissions scenarios
• Fifth carbon budget – UK government proposed emissions policy

Sharing Economy

• Freecycle Bristol – exchange for giving and receiving stuff that is too rubbish to sell on ebay. Don’t chuck it away!
• Street Bank – exchange for sharing equipment and skills
• Land Share – a scheme to match would-be growers with people with spare garden space

 Biodiversity

• Friends of Badock’s Wood – local nature reserve
• Avon Wildlife Trust – nature reserves and activities in the Bristol/Bath region
• Bristol Naturalists Society – talks and trips focussed on different aspects of local wildlife
• Urban Pollinators – University of Bristol research project
• Hedgehog Street – project to help reverse decline in habitats for hedgehogs
• Bioblitz – fun events to catalogue biodiversity

Local community

General

• Westbury-on-Trym Society
• Westbury-on-Trym Business Association

Local and National Government

• Bristol City Council
  • Neighbourhood Partnership – Area 3; Henleaze, Stoke Bishop and Westbury-on-Trym
    • Official council page
    • ActiveNP
  • Planning online
  • E-Petitions
  • Bristol Green Capital
  • CREATE Centre
• Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
  • Environment Agency
• Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy – the old Department of Energy and Climate Change has been subsumed into this new department
• Department for Transport
• Department for Communities and Local Government

Events

• Westbury-on-Trym Village Show
• Bristol Festival of Nature
• Big Green Week

Sustainability And Environment Links

Bristol Groups

• Ecojam – directory of eco stuff
• Transition Bristol
• Sustainable Redland
• Sustainable Bishopston

Shopping and Trade

• Bristol Independents
• Bristol Pound
• Bristol Fairtrade
• Break the Bag Habit – CPRE campaign

Environmental Campaigning and Education Organisations

• Greenpeace
• Friends of the Earth
• SumOfUs – Fighting for people over profits
• Avaaz
• Schumacher Institute