Adaptation CoP: Resilience Community Hubs

In this Adaptation Community of Practice opt-in session, we’ll be joined by Parisa Wright, Founder, Chief Vision & Partnerships Officer, Greener & Cleaner

Building Local Sustainability & Resilience – A New Type of Community Hub?

Since 2022, Greener & Cleaner (a community group, turned CIC, turned charity) has been piloting a unique Community Hub model that transforms a prominent, vacant shopping centre unit into a thriving, reliable, and engaging community space – building community sustainability, adaptability, and resilience.

In a time of cost of living crisis, mental health crisis, loneliness crisis and unemployment, this is a multi-impact model that can be scaled up and down. A model using a space at the heart of a community to provide a permanent and reliable Community Hub with pop up events and projects out in the wider community.

With over 1,000 visitors a month and additional events and projects out in the community, their Community Hub pilot in Bromley is a place where local people from all walks of life share their skills and knowledge to address social, economic, wellbeing, and environmental needs – all through the lens of sustainability.

Parisa will share details about the model and offer practical ideas and advice on how to create a more inclusive and permanent community sustainability space/project – which also boosts local adaptability and resilience – with the potential for further (free/funded) one-on-one consulting and support.

Find out more: https://www.greenerandcleaner.co.uk/the-hub-from-greener-and-cleaner/

To join please email Peter at gfn@exeter.ac.uk.