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Local Links
- Benfleet Freecycle The Benfleet Freecycle group is for all who live in or near Benfleet want to recycle items rather than throw them away.
- Essex Beekeepers' Association The Essex Beekeepers' Association is a friendly and active association of hobbyist beekeepers in and around Essex.
- Essex Field Club A society for wildlife enthusiasts and people with an interest in the natural history and geology of Essex
- Gaynes Park Allotments & Gardens Society The Gaynes Park Allotments & Gardens Society is situated in Southend on Sea, Essex and is split into two sites, about half a mile apart.
- Healthy Life Essex Healthy Life provides a wealth of information for anyone interested in maintaining a happier, healthier, greener lifestyle, with particular emphasis on what is available in Essex.
- Huntington’s Disease Association Southend-on-Sea Branch
- Rochford Allotment and Leisure Gardeners Association
- South East Essex Conservation Volunteers A group of people that enjoy managing and improving local wildlife areas. Formed in 1987, they carry out practical conservation projects every other Sunday at various locations throughout south east Essex.
- South East Essex Friends of the Earth
- South East Essex Greenpeace
- South East Essex RSPB
- South East Essex WEN: Food Growing Project South East Essex WEN is part of a national network – the Women's Environmental Network - which is the only organisation in the UK working consistently for women and the environment.
- South Essex Natural History Society To further the study and conservation of the flora and fauna, particularly in South Essex, and to create an awareness of the importance of local wildlife.
- Southend (East) Allotments and Garden Society
- Southend Freecycle The Southend Freecycle™ group is open to all who want to "recycle" that special something rather than throw it away.
- Southend in Bloom Southend in Bloom have a new website (please visit them). They are also now on Facebook (do "like" them), are on Twitter (go on, "follow" them!)
- Southend in Transition An exploration of how the people of the borough of Southend on Sea including Southend, Westcliff, Prittlewell, Southchurch, Leigh, Shoeburyness, Eastwood and Thorpe Bay can prepare for a carbon constrained, energy lean world.
- Spiralseed Spiralseed is an independent enterprise founded in 2001 to promote permaculture education and earthright living.
- Springfield Drive Allotments Just 5 good reasons to rent an allotment with the Westcliff Land Cultivation Society here at Springfield Drive, Westcliff on Sea, Essex
- St Laurence Orchard A website dedicated to St Laurence Orchard in Eastwood, Essex. Created and developed on behalf of Growing Together, a horticultural and community development project based in Southend on Sea
- St. Luke's Healthy Living Centre
- Storehouse The Storehouse ministry, an arm of Southend Vineyard, started over 14 years ago. Tins of food were brought in by members of the church and distributed to those in need on a Sunday morning. The ministry quickly developed into a 3 day a week drop in centre
- The Milton Community Partnership
- Top of the Crops Nurturing Health is an initiative of Milton Community Partnership intended to improve the quality of life for residents of Milton Ward and the Southend on Sea area.
- Trust Links Trust Links is a local charity that aims to support people and build communities. Please explore their website and learn more about how a derelict piece of land in Southend-on-sea was transformed into a community garden and the services it now provides.
- Wallasea Island Wild Coast Project
Misc. Links
- Looking After Your Environment Klaus Armstrong-Braun has an interest in environmental and planning law and has instigated or taken many legal cases against various governments to the European Court.
- Protection of Animals Abroad SPANA is a charity that works in some of the world's poorest countries, improving the lives of working animals and the people who depend on them
National Links
- Allot More Allotments A resource for groups wanting to lobby for more allotment provision.
- Allotments Regeneration Initiative Working with absolutely anyone involved in regenerating or creating allotments – all services are free to not-for-profit organisations throughout the UK!
- Blightwatch 'Fight Against Blight'
- British Beekeepers Association The BBKA, an educational charity set up in 1874, is the UK's leading organisation representing beekeepers.
- Brogdale Farm Home of the National Fruit Collection
- Community Supported Baking How can you help to bring Real Bread back to the heart of your local community?
- East Anglia Potato Day
- Federation of City Farms & Community Gardens The Federation of City Farms & Community Gardens exists to support, represent and promote community-managed farms and gardens across the United Kingdom.
- Findhorn Foundation
- Food for Life Partnership The Food for Life Partnership is a network of schools and communities across England committed to transforming food culture.
- Fordhall Community Land Initiative 1 farmer, 8000 landlords!
- Fruit-full Schools Helping to reverse the dramatic decline of traditional orchards: a habitat identified for urgent attention in the UK’s Biodiversity Action Plan.
- Garden Organic The UK's leading organic growing charity, has been at the forefront of the organic horticulture movement for 50 years and is dedicated to researching and promoting organic gardening, farming and food.
- Garden Organic - Sowing New Seeds
- GM Freeze GM Freeze
- GM Watch Keep up to date with the latest news on the issue of genetically modified (GM) food and crops.
- Greenbooks '.....an independent UK publishing company, producing books on a wide range of environmental and cultural issues.'
- Incredible Edible Todmorden "We grow and campaign for local food"
- Landshare Connecting Growers to people with land to share
- lifeisland.org Support for the Manor Gardens Allotments Society
- Love Food Hate Waste Focus on making the most of our fridges and reduce the amount of food we waste.
- National Society of Allotment & Leisure Gardeners NSALG is the recognised national representative body for the allotment movement in the UK.
- Natural Beekeeping Trust The Natural Beekeeping Trust aims to promote awareness of sustainable beekeeping which is strongly orientated by the essential nature and needs of the bees.
- Norfolk Organic Group Norfolk Organic Group - formerly Norfolk Organic Gardeners - is a group of about 250 gardeners, smallholders and farmers.
- Pesticide Action Network UK PAN UK is the only charity in the UK focusing solely on the problems of global pesticide use.
- Plants For A Future A resource and information centre for edible and otherwise useful plants
- Postcode Plants Database This website was produced by Flora-for-Fauna, and enables you to generate local lists of UK plants (flora) and/or animals (fauna).
- RecycleNow Do you know what the various recycling symbols mean?
- Robert Hart’s Forest Garden A small celebration of the Forest Garden at Wenlock Edge, Shropshire on the Welsh Borders, created by Robert Hart, who passed away on the 7th March, 2000.
- Sárvári Research Trust The Sárvári Research Trust is a not-for-profit company based near Bangor in North Wales, U.K. We breed Sárpo potatoes, resistant to late-blight disease.
- Seedy Sunday Seedy Sunday is the UK's biggest community seed swap and also a campaign to protect biodiversity and protest against the increasing control of the seed supply by a handful of large companies.
- Send a Cow For over 20 years Send a Cow have been helping thousands of African families grow enough food to eat, sell their produce and develop small businesses.
- Stop GM
- Suffolk Organic Gardeners We are a group of garden enthusiasts who want to grow our plants using organic methods. We are based in Bury St. Edmunds and have discussion meetings, talks and visits.
- The Center for Health, Environment & Justice The Center for Health, Environment & Justice (CHEJ) mentors a movement, empowering people to build healthy communities, and preventing harm to human health caused by exposure to environmental threats.
- The Food Commission The Food Commission (UK) Ltd, is a not-for-profit company which campaigns for healthier, safer, sustainable food in the UK.
- The Soil Association The Soil Association is a membership charity campaigning for planet-friendly food and farming. Believing in the connection between soil, food, the health of people and the health of the planet.
- THRIVE- The Horticultural Therapy organisation Thrive is a small national charity, founded in 1978, that uses gardening to change the lives of disabled people.
- UK Without Incineration Network UKWIN is an independent organisation representing a network of groups opposingthe expansion of waste incineration in the UK.
- Urban Herbals Supply loose organic medicinal herbal teas, ointments, creams, some certified organic ingredients, some non-certified, including some of their tinctures from the farm.
- Vegan Organic Network Promoting vegan-organic methods of agriculture and horticulture throughout the world so that green, clean and cruelty-free food becomes widely available.
- Why I Love Organic There are lots of reasons to love organic, discover yours.......
- World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms WWOOF links volunteers with organic farmers, and help people share more sustainable ways of living.
