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Community Composting: Marldon Success Story and Opportunities for Your Community
Marldon’s community composting group, supported by Sustainable South Hams, offers a great example of the potential for community composting in the South Hams. Read on to find out more, and to hear about how to register for the many opportunities we are opening up for your community’s composting champions.
January 12, 2024
Sustainable South Hams in 2023
Our recent Christmas Celebration gave us the chance to hear about some of your proudest achievements from 2023, and was also a reminder of how much has happened for Sustainable South Hams in the last year! Read on for a round up of where we’re at now, what we’re looking forward to, and the wide range of things we’ve been up to.
December 22, 2023
Key Conversations at 'Keep It Local'
Around forty relevant local food producers, distributors, software specialists and marketeers attended the Keep It Local Symposium on Friday 10th November at Follaton House in Totnes. They were invited by South Hams District Council to the event, facilitated by SusSH, with the intention of bringing together expertise and experience around the challenges of selling locally and the potential solutions.
November 20, 2023
Events
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Groups
Bioregional Learning Centre
Some of our work includes the UK's First River Charter for the Dart at Dartington and devondoughnut.org (based on the priciples of Doughnut Economics)
Less than 5
Volunteers
CIC
Project Cost
Moor Trees
Moor Trees grows native broadleaved trees in two South Hams nurseries from seed collected locally by its volunteers for planting in South Devon especially Dartmoor National Park. We campaign for a more nature-rich Dartmoor with temperate rainforest filling its valleys and help organisations elsewhere to copy our model.
20-100
Volunteers
Charity
Project Cost
Apricot Centre CIC - Biodynamic Farm and Wellbeing Service
Biodynamic Farming, Wellbeing Services for children and families at the edge of potential, Permaculture Design Services for farms and estates in transition to regenerative practices, Education of Regenerative Farmers
Less than 5
Volunteers
CIC
Project Cost
Projects
Create a Wildlife Corridor Along a River
Yealm Estuary Moor aims to improve the health & biodiversity of the River Yealm
Volunteers
Project Cost
Clean and Survey Your Local Beach
Hope Cove and Soar Mill beach cleans and beach surveys with SMASH
Volunteers
Project Cost
Encourage Wellbeing Through Engagement with Nature
Sturtlebury Woods and Ponds have been developed to bring people closer to nature
5-20
Volunteers
£5k - £50k
Project Cost
