Words by Sally Churchward. Image by: Taiko Bennett Placemaking is a practice that builds good quality, restorative, equitable places for all of us to live, work and play in. The Young Placemakers mentorship programme is a Southampton National Park initiative, delivered as part of the YouCAN partnership and...
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Real Climate Solutions screening and discussion tonight
It can be easy to feel overwhelmed in the face of the climate crisis, but Transition groups provide a way to do something concrete to help. Tonight, Transition Southampton is holding a discussion evening based around the Real Climate Solutions videos at October Books in Portswood, Southampton. These six short,...
Mayflower Theatre teams with Veolia in bid for net zero by 2030
Mayflower Theatre marks a significant step towards its net-zero goal by 2030 partnering with Veolia Total Waste Management. Mayflower Theatre is one of the UK’s leading cultural venues and the largest in the region with more than 500,000 attendances per year. “We have set out our vision to achieve...
Interview: Katherine Barbour, Southampton’s first Green councillor, on her first months in office
Words and pictures by photographer Chris Moorhouse. Five months after Katherine Barbour was elected as Southampton’s first Green councillor, Chris Moorhouse asks how it’s going. Her smile at being elected in the early hours of the morning of May 6th was an abiding image of this year’s local election...
Preview: Emergency Festival, MAST Mayflower Studios, Southampton
From the 5 to the 29 October, MAST Mayflower Studios is hosting Emergency Festival – a month of events to discuss all things climate change. The temperature is rising, there’s plastic in the oceans, the rainforest is disappearing… and maybe using a ‘bag for life’ isn’t going to turn...