Local Action
How to Start a Petition to Your Local Council That Works
Last winter a woman on Marlow Road knocked on 140 doors to save the bus stop outside the sheltered housing at the end of her...
The crisp packet caught in the hedge outside the bus stop has been there for three weeks, and every morning you tell yourself someone from the council will deal with it.
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Last winter a woman on Marlow Road knocked on 140 doors to save the bus stop outside the sheltered housing at the end of her...
Inspiration
The first Little Free Library was a wooden model of a schoolhouse, filled with books and set on a post in a front garden in...
Local Action
Most campaigns to save a village pub or a corner shop start the week the "For Sale" board goes up.
Volunteering
Margaret, who lives four doors down from me, once told me that from Friday afternoon to Monday morning the only voice she heard...
Stories
Stand at a busy junction outside a primary school at 8:40 on a wet Tuesday and you will see it: a person in a long yellow coat,...
Inspiration
The man who rebuilt the bus shelter bench on my old street was 71.
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