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Below is the information we gathered from everyone about their wants, needs and offers.
| Organisation / Individual | Want to do | Need | Offer |
| Encourage farmers in a warm and positive way, one at a time, supporting them to change. They feel threatened and alone. Need something to benefit their living. | |||
| Alan Mossman | Advice on Open Space workshop technologies | ||
| Anita | Group for planting trees with others | ||
| Anna Helpern Lande (Solar South West) | Initiative to buy and install 1 – 2 GigaWatt of Solar in the South West (“Solar South West”) | People to lead on outreach, planning and education for Solar South West | Advice on commercial initiatives |
| Bernard | Develop a CSA near Stroud | Grower or farmer interested in biodynamic / organic principles for new CSA Land (small to start but up to 100 acres) for community farm | Advice on biodynamics / sustainability and background principles to these |
| Biodynamic Land Trust | Enable more biodynamic farming to feed Stroud | Advice / pathways to securing land for growing | |
| Bisley Community Composting Scheme | Network with other groups Extend the work we already do with schools and other voluntary groups | Research on carbon sequestration More community composting schemes! | Leaf mould, unsieved compost, sieved compost, advice, information, workshops |
| David Drew | Contacts with main funding organisations, esp. Tenant Farmers’ Association and Land for People | ||
| Earth Protectors Stroud | Steering group with town council to create a global town model | ||
| Emily Seffar | Be part of something meaningful Promote change and shared responsibility Use my skills, including as an illustrator, to find creative solutions | Affordable living solutions for young people Time | Illustration expertise, time |
| Fungus-loci (Dom) | Set up community food resource space including community kitchen and education | Space for urban growing and community food processing resource (Ideally in town) | Advice / ideas on: small-scale mushroom cultivation and set-up design role of fungi in fruit/veg growing and forestry |
| Hedgehog Republic | Rewild people’s back gardens and bring down barriers for wildlife | ||
| Janet Obdell | Land for growing (?) and for cabin | ||
| Judy Barbour | Advice and expertise on EMF mitigation including 5G Circle of Elders at The Beacon Plant based food expertise for wellness World cafe discussion meetings | ||
| Kath Haywood | Carbon balancing supporting woodland in the tropics | ||
| Lucas Oakbrook Farm | Planning advice and help | Community investment Advice on fundraising for organisations | |
| Narjiss Seffar | Get involved in “Teach the Truth” workshops about climate and what we can do individually, at schools and universities | Speakers (experts and doers) to speak and educate at SOAS in climate awareness / response workshops Free guidebook on how to live, shop, dress, wash and eat sustainably in Stroud | Students position Access to an International platform of young people Speaking and networking skills Workshops on climate awareness |
| New CSA (Ian) | Land Growers Money Community members to be part of CSA | ||
| Open Food Network | Open source software to facilitate Food producers to set up advice online shopfront direct to customers Community groups to set up food hubs from multiple local producers for local collection and/or delivery | ||
| Sid | Grow food and give it away for free, funded by retreats | Access to land very close to town | Permaculture training Eco building / strawbale building |
| Sophia Latham | Wild food foraging walks Nature connection facilitation | ||
| Stop Ecocide | Through EPT – to link and facilitate schools to become practically and regularly involved in rewilding, increasing biodiversity, tree planting and food growing, enabling children and young people to develop resilience (including wellbeing and emotional resilience) | ||
| Stroud District Action on Plastic | Develop resources and a website / platform so that other districts can learn from our successes and replicate the work we are doing | More businesses to take part in our plastic free community scheme including sports clubs, schools and parish/town councils | Workshops, information, monthly drop in, resources, practical ideas, list of where to shop unpackaged / plastic free, champion accreditation |
| Stroud Seedbank (Beth) | Connect with public to inspire and educate about seed sowing Create a map of saved seed in Stroud (where, how long, species etc.) | Saving seed workshops Group communication re. Seeds Visits to seed saving education and spaces | |
| Stroud Slad Farm (Paul and Sarah) | Beauty in the farm Create evidence for sustainable grassland and carbon sequestration | Flowers / underplanting in our orchard PhD level research | Passion and vision for part of Slad Valley Stroud Slad Farm as venue for research |
| Slade Bank Woods | Create a model for increasing disabled access to woodland and nature spaces | Funds to run health and wellbeing [] on GP prescription | Land / Venue 15 minutes walk from town to run workshops |
| Stroud Valleys Community Car Club | Want to go all electric by 2020 10 spaces in one place | More members | Can have an EV in the same place as the Car clubs |
| Stroud Valleys project | Plant more trees More partnership working | Land for green burial site | |
| StroudCo Foodhub | Planning / consultation group on how to improve food distribution in the Stroud Districts in particular the role of online shopfronts | Restructuring ideas so StroudCo can meet needs of growers, farmers, shoppers and buyers | |
| Transition Stroud | Groups that can offer specialist support to local climate action grops | Link to Transition Stroud Action Groups (Transport and Culture, Energy, Repair Cafe, Stroud Community TV, Textile Group, Plastic) Help in setting up community based climate action groups including advice, workshops, confidence building | |
| Transition Textile Group | Teach more people to mend their clothes | Teaching how to mend own clothes and keep clothes out of landfill | |
| Treesisters | Community tree-planting bringing together self-resourcing, nature connection and action Support and raise awareness of similar projects in the tropics | Land Trees Love Cake | Tree / nature connection New paradigm of action balancing self-resourcing, nature connection and action |
| Warm and well | Advice to make your home more sustainable and the building warm and well |