Community action/Surrey

The aim of this page is to recognise, celebrate and encourage the self-empowerment of community agency networks (CANs) and community groups' activism for climate, environment and many other sustainability topics across Surrey.

News

Networks and sustainability initiatives

• Transition Farnham
• Transition Haslemere
• Transition Redhill
• Woking Environment Action, link checked 17:31, 21 September 2022 (UTC)

CDC video

Surrey video

Events

Food activism

Grace + Flavour, community fruit & vegetable-growing co-operative for East & West Horsley.

Community energy

In the United Kingdom the first sustainable community energy system was pioneered by Woking Borough Council, starting in 1991. The system uses traditional and a phosphoric acid fuel cell co-generation plants, thermal storage, heat fired absorption cooling and photovoltaics (over 9% of the UK's small capacity), to supply both residential and non-residential customers, as well as the Council's own facilities. By end of 2005 there were over 60 generating islands in the Borough.

Despite the investment in the plant, the system delivers cheaper energy than can be supplied from the traditional 'brown energy' suppliers, helping to tackle fuel poverty. It is part of a plan to cut local carbon dioxide emissions by 80% by 2050. Their initiatives won the Council the Queen's Award for Enterprise in 2002.

Action Surrey - Wikipedia: Woking, Energy policy

Land

• Surrey Interactive Map, on surreycc.gov.uk, link checked 16:26, 28 December 2024 (UTC)

Reduce, reuse, repair and recycle

Farnham Repair Cafe on Facebook

Climate action

• Talking Tree, Climate Emergency Centre and cafe on Staines High Street, projects include a Community fridge, added 10:45, 10 February 2022 (UTC)
• What Next?, Godalming based environmental charity, added 10:22, 5 July 2021 (UTC)
• Dorking Climate Emergency, Surrey based Climate action group, added 17:48, 23 June 2021 (UTC)
• Zero Carbon Guildford, helping the borough of Guildford reach carbon neutrality by 2030. Currently acquiring a space to act as a Climate Emergency Centre. added 15:30, 13 May 2021 (UTC)
• Surrey declare climate emergency, July 2019...climateemergency.uk
• Staines, Guildford and Farnham have Climate emergency centre groups...Handbook, Climate emergency centre
• Extinction Rebellion Reigate and Redhill
• Horse Hill Rebel Alliance on facebook
• What is Surrey County Council doing about climate change? surreycc.gov.uk
• Surrey Climate Commission, a collaboration of organisations, launched in June 2019

Sustainable transport activism

Walking: Wikipedia: Footpaths in Surrey (category)

Waterways:

From Wikipedia:Wey and Godalming Navigations

The River Wey Navigation and Godalming Navigation together provide a 20-mile (32 km) continuous navigable route from the River Thames near Weybridge via Guildford to Godalming (commonly called the Wey Navigation). Both waterways are in Surrey and are owned by the National Trust. The River Wey Navigation connects to the Basingstoke Canal at West Byfleet, and the Godalming Navigation to the Wey and Arun Canal near Shalford. The navigations consist of both man-made canal cuts and adapted (dredged and straightened) parts of the River Wey.

• River Wey and Wey Navigations Community Site
• The Wey & Arun Canal Trust, Wikipedia:Wey and Arun Canal

Cycling activism

Dorking Cycling Club

Biodiversity

• Surrey Wildlife Trust, Wikipedia:Surrey Wildlife Trust

Open spaces

• Wikipedia:category:Parks and open spaces in Surrey (category)

News archive

About Surrey

Campaigns

• Guildford Greenbelt Group

From Wikipedia:Surrey

Surrey () is a ceremonial county in South East England. It is bordered by Greater London to the northeast, Kent to the east, East and West Sussex to the south, and Hampshire and Berkshire to the west. The largest settlement is Woking.

The county has an area of 1,663 km² (642 square miles) and had an estimated population of 1,248,649 in 2024. The north of the county, which includes the towns of Staines-upon-Thames and Epsom, is densely populated and forms part of the Greater London conurbation. A second conurbation along the western border of the county includes Camberley and Farnham and extends into Hampshire and Berkshire. Woking is located in the north-west, and Guildford in the centre-west. The south of the county is rural, and its largest settlements are Horley in the south-east and Godalming in the south-west. For local government purposes Surrey is a non-metropolitan county with eleven districts. The county historically included much of south-west Greater London but did not include what is now the borough of Spelthorne, which was part of Middlesex. It is one of the home counties.

The defining geographical feature of the county is the North Downs, a chalk escarpment which runs from the south-west to north-east and divides the densely populated north from the more rural south; it is pierced by the rivers Wey and Mole, both tributaries of the Thames. The north of the county is a lowland, part of the Thames basin. The south-east is part of the Weald, and the south-west contains the Surrey Hills and Thursley, Hankley and Frensham Commons, an extensive area of heath. The county has the densest woodland cover in England, at 22.4 per cent.

See also

• Towards a more democratic and climate friendly way of meeting housing need across England