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Building resilient communities

Sensory Trust and the Eden Project are partners in a project funded by the Carnegie UK Trust to exchange ideas and support good practice in building vibrant, resilient rural communities.

Each project partner or ‘host’ brings to the table a combination of exemplary rural development practice that we they learn share and provides inspiring venues for the events programme. The main hosts for the project are

  • The Eden Foundation share their experiences regenerating communities that have lost key industries including the Clay Futures work
  • The Falkland Centre for Stewardship in Fife, Scotland, will share its experience of food and farming issues
  • The Centre for Alternative Technology in Machynlleth, Wales, has expertise in low-carbon technologies to share through their ‘Zero Carbon Britain’ vision
  • The Tipperary Institute in Ireland build on their ground-breaking approach to integrated area planning.

During 2009 the Sensory Trust created content, hosted events, and ensured FierySpirits, the online community of practice, were in touch with issues such as designing for inclusion, social sustainability and community involvement.

The Sense of Place:sustainable placemaking event held at the Eden Project in September 2009 was part of Sensory Trust and Eden Project's contribution to the rural resilience agenda. Around 200 delegates attended a mixture of talks and activities designed to share best practice, challenge assumptions and support new ways of developing communities.

Fiery Spirits, the online community of practice is a network of people from around the work who share ideas and information on creating resilient rural communties. The community of practice web site includes discussions and information on subjects such as food production, community development, policy and practice, zero carbon initiatives and a wide selection of other topics all related to the central theme of resilience.

 

 

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