Shared Assets

🌱 🫂 Building capacity and connectedness for the agroecology movement. We are partnering with Farming the Future as part of their new Field-Building programme which aims to support the land, food and farming movement to grow in resilience and connectedness, diversity and confidence, to see progress on key issues, great collaboration between different parts of the sector and evidence of influencing thinking and behaviour beyond the agroecological sphere. Read about the Field-Building programme here: https://buff.ly/3BUbXTw Our role will be twofold - firstly to act as a general source of support for partners involved in the Field-Building Programme through regular coaching calls, distributing support budgets, and making connections between people, and secondly to coordinate a sequence of collective learning and reflection activities, and distilling the learning emerging from these throughout the programme. We are so excited for this programme - you can read more about our involvement in it here: https://buff.ly/3YwXHsM

🚀 🌱 The Future's Already Here - Communities stepping into our power Join Transition Together, Co-operative Alternatives, and Positive Carrickfergus for a 1-day event making visible the practical, community-led solutions emerging across Northern Ireland to address climate and ecological crises, community fracture and the dysfunction in our economy. “The future is already here, it's just not evenly distributed” - American speculative fiction author William Gibson. View the event programme here: https://buff.ly/3YbIVX3 📆 Friday 15th November 2024, 9.30am - 4.20pm

📚 🍂 What we’re reading this Autumn! With days getting shorter, & weather changing, we compiled a list of book recommendations for winter evenings. We chose books engaging with land as social, economic, & environmental justice issues, with publications by key members of the land justice movement. 🌟 A World Without Racism: Building Antiracist Futures. Edited by Joshua Virasami Includes a powerful chapter from Land In Our Names, written by Josina Calliste and Katherine Wall, tracing the connections between land, capitalism, colonialism, & racism, & exploring land as a site of antiracist struggle. The chapter is 1 of 10 contributions from racial justice organisers, on subjects including: women's liberation, land and food struggles, healthcare and housing, culture, imperialism, policing, prisons and climate justice. 🌟 Wild Service: Why Nature Needs You. Edited by Nick Hayes and Dr Jon Moses Features 13 contributions from diverse environmentalists calling for the mass cultural reconnection to nature. Includes a valuable chapter from Right to Roam campaigner Nadia Shaikh on the colonial mindsets of mainstream conservation. 🌟 The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer The latest book from author of Braiding Sweetgrass takes a look at the ethics of reciprocity, gratitude, & community embodied by the plant world. Drawing on indigenous wisdom, the book asks what nature offers as alternatives to economies of scarcity, extraction, & hoarding. 🌟 I Belong Here by Anita Sethi This memoir explores belonging, place and identity, by charting the author’s journey on foot through the Pennine hills as an act of reclamation after experiencing a traumatic race-hate crime. 🌟 Owning the Future: Power and Prosperity in an Age of Crisis by Adrienne Buller & Mathew Lawrence from Common Wealth Think Tank This book argues that systemic change in our current age of crises depends on radically reimagining ownership, and sets out ownership models for a 21st century commons. What are you reading in the coming months? Let us know in the comments! #autumnreading #landjustice #readinglist

We've been supporting The Orchard Project develop their Monitoring and Evaluation (M+E) System. This work is really important for organisations to measure and demonstrate their impact and success. But developing simple and effective frameworks for this process can be challenging. We supported staff to consider a holistic and realistic new approach to M+E that is suited to their organisation. Read about this work here👇

ICYMI: How can CLTs be used for sustainable agriculture? The CLT model could help create a more cohesive land reform movement, by joining up 2 disconnected areas of community land ownership; housing + food/farming 🏡 🌿 Our report commissioned by Community Land Trust Network earlier this year outlines how. Read the full report here: https://buff.ly/3MCMgsC We asked why so few land trusts/projects identify as CLTs, even when they fit the legal definition; how to consolidate and disseminate resources addressing sustainable agriculture CLTs; and possibilities for a shared public narrative between housing and sustainable agriculture CLTs. As part of this work, we also created a Resource Library for CLTs working, or seeking to work, on ecologically friendly agriculture + nature restoration ❗📚 👩💻 https://buff.ly/4cW7E6V With Community Land Trust Network Tom Chance

📣 🌱 Save the date! Pathways to Land Forums Stir to Action invites all BPOC farmers/community food organisers, as well as progressive lenders, funders, and landowners to the second phase of the Pathways to Land project. Through listening to the barriers and needs to access land faced by racialised farmers/community food organisers, the in-person and online forums will begin to map the practical steps needed to facilitate sustainable pathways to land for them. This will be done through constructive conversations between experienced BPOC landworkers and financial providers where all voices will be actively heard. For more information and to register your interest for an in-person or online forum, please see further details here: https://buff.ly/3Zci6Eb Please note, BPOC participants will be remunerated for their time and travel for forum attendance if they would otherwise not be paid to attend, at a rate of £130 for the in-person forum + advance booked travel costs (if applicable) of up to £100, and £60 for a two-hour online forum. For further information, please contact nicola.scott@stirtoaction.com or joannakamal6@gmail.com

Our food system is broken. But there's hope! 🌱 Social enterprises are leading the way to a healthier, fairer food future. We're excited to see this new guide published by Shared Assets in collaboration with LEYF on how social enterprises can be catalysts for sustainable and healthy local food systems. Packed with insights and practical tips, it's a must-read for anyone passionate about making a difference. Read the guide in full here - https://lnkd.in/eN9By5wD #socialenterprise #foodsystem #sustainability #healthyfood

❗🌱Call for Growers Future Farms is seeking experienced growers to set up agroecological farms on council-owned land in Powys, Wales! The project seeks to tackle some of the fundamental barriers to increased fresh food production in rural areas, by unlocking land for small, agroecological farms. Grower info ➡️ https://buff.ly/4d8jKuR Project info ➡️ https://buff.ly/3W47C6N

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Fantastic to see this Good Practice Guide come out of our research on social enterprise and sustainable food systems (SEFS) as part of the UKRI Transforming UK Food Systems programme! Fantastic work by our project partner Shared Assets! #sustainablefood #foodsystems #socialenterprise