How can we bring back nature to where people live through community power?
Our planet is experiencing a dangerous decline in nature, equivalent to the largest loss of life since the dinosaurs – driven by and worsening climate change.
Though with the launch of the Peoples’ Plan for Nature this March 2023, new policy in the shape of Local Nature Recovery Strategies putting a greater focus on communities, and with resources from national funders, what greater role and opportunities, can there be for community-based organisations and businesses?
Protecting and restoring nature is about both physical and behavioural change, bringing nature back to where people live and mobilising people to take action. With over 11,000 community businesses across England, many supported by Power to Change, and many more social enterprises and voluntary organisations across the whole country, can these community-connected, and often asset-owning organisations hold a key to community power nature restoration?
Emerging from the city’s Empowering Places and Future Parks Accelerator programmes are a new network of park and land-based community businesses in Plymouth working with communities, the local authority and national partners to deliver community-driven urban nature restoration – creating opportunities for green jobs, regeneration, wellbeing and the environment.
This Place Matters webinar will explore the journey so far and point to emerging opportunities, with presentations from Casey Morrison, the communities lead for the Future Parks Accelerator programme, and Ed Whitelaw, Director of Nature and Neighbourhoods, for the Real Ideas Organisation, in Plymouth, followed by a Q&A.
Time: 13:30 BST
