Yorkshire and the Humber
Yorkshire and the Humber is one of nine official regions of England at the first level of Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS) for statistical purposes. It comprises most of Yorkshire (the administrative areas of South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire, East Riding of Yorkshire, Hull, North Yorkshire and the City of York), as well as North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire. Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland or other areas of the historic county of Yorkshire, are not included. The largest settlements are Leeds, Sheffield, Bradford, Hull, and York. The population in 2011 was 5,284,000.
Yorkshire and the Humber community action
Sustainability initiatives
- Bradford Community Environment Project
- Bradford Environmental Action Trust
- Green Futures, Grimsby
- Hyde Park Source, Leeds
- Kirkbymoorside Environment Group
- Marsden & Slaithwaite Transition Towns
- Students for Sustainability, University of Huddersfield on facebook
- Transition Richmond Yorkshire
Local sustainability initiatives
Please see our Local communities in Yorkshire and the Humber pages, where of course you can share any more information you may have about local sustainability initiatives.
♥ Community involvement
- Heading Upstream, Barnsley's Innovations for Social Justice, 2017 centreforwelfarereform.org
- Open Shop, York
♥ Climate action
Leeds Climate Change Citizens’ Jury
Commissioned by the Leeds Climate Commission in 2019, the Citizens’ Jury recruited 25 randomly selected citizens over nine sessions to answer the question ‘What should Leeds do about the emergency of climate change?’
An oversight panel of key stakeholders met to ensure the recruitment process was fair and robust and to agree which ‘commentators’ should present evidence to the jury.
The twelve strong oversight panel included representation from The City Council, the Chamber of Commerce and Extinction Rebellion.
The citizens' jury commenced on 12 September 2019 and will run for a total of 30 hours over nine sessions, ending on 3 November. [1]
♥ Biodiversity
Friends of Skipwith Common - Rivelin Valley Conservation Group - Yorkshire Wildlife Trust - Yorkshire Nature Triangle
Community currencies activism
Community energy
Community safety
Education for sustainability
Ecoversity, University of Bradford
Environment quality
Care4Air, South Yorskshire Clean Air Campaign
Food activism
Community Allotment Growing Newsome - Community orchard Growing Newsome - Incredible Edible Todmorden (Community group), Todmorden’s edible green route, on urbanpollinators.co.uk - Incredible Edible Wakefield - The Real Junk Food Project - theshipleyfoodproject
Health and wellbeing
- The Kindness Revolution at #KinderLeeds, added 17:31, 21 August 2020 (UTC)
Localism
- Yorkshire Party, building a stronger Yorkshire in a fairer UK
Reduce, reuse, repair and recycle
Social inclusion
- Carecent centre for all homeless, unemployed or disadvantaged members of York's community
- Stamp Out Poverty campaign, York
For multiple deprivation in England, measured by the Indices of deprivation 2007, the most deprived council districts in the region are, in descending order – Kingston upon Hull (11th in England), Bradford (32nd), Doncaster (41st), Barnsley (43rd), North East Lincolnshire (49th), Sheffield (63rd), Wakefield (66th), Rotherham (68th), Kirklees (82nd), Leeds (85th), and Scarborough (97th). These areas are mostly represented by Labour MPs, with a few Conservative MPs representing parts of Leeds (with a Lib Dem MP) and North East Lincolnshire, and all of Scarborough. Apart from Scarborough, they are unitary authorities.
The least deprived districts are, in descending order – Harrogate, Hambleton, Richmondshire, Craven, and Selby – all in North Yorkshire. Like all of North Yorkshire, they are represented by Conservative MPs. At county level, the least deprived areas are, in descending order – North Yorkshire, York and the East Riding of Yorkshire which all have roughly the same level of deprivation, and lower than the majority of England, including Cheshire and Northamptonshire.
The region as a whole is one of the more deprived in England, measured by having far more Lower Layer Super Output Areas (LSOAs) in the 20% most deprived districts than the 20% least deprived districts.
Kingston upon Hull has the highest proportion of people not in education, employment or training NEETs in the region (and fairly high for the UK – 10.6%). This is another demographic extreme it shares with Knowsley in Merseyside.
In March 2011 the region had the third highest overall unemployment claimant count in England with 4.4%. For the region, Hull has the highest rate with 7.8% which is the highest for any English district; North East Lincolnshire is next with 6.4%, and Doncaster has 5.2%. Richmondshire has the lowest rate with 1.8% and Harrogate is next lowest with 1.9%.
Sustainable transport activism
i-Travel York, (iTY) programme to encourage greater use of sustainable and active modes of travel (walking, cycling, public transport, car-sharing and eco-driving).
Leeds, Walking W
The Leeds and Liverpool Canal is a canal in Northern England, linking the cities of Leeds and Liverpool.
Over a distance of 127 miles (204 km), it crosses the Pennines, and includes 91 locks on the main line. It has several small branches, and in the early 21st century a new link was constructed into the Liverpool docks system.
Towards sustainable economies
Hull
This Mutual Aid Network aims to create a chain reaction that goes back into communities. It meshes a thriving timebank with 600 members and the Hull Coin initiative, the City of Culture's 2017 nomination, which is currently mobilizing 4,000 volunteers.
"When I started the TimeBank back in 2010, I saw it as the solution to everything," says Kate Macdonald. "I realized in time that it is 'one' solution and that to have a viable parallel economy, we need different options which have strengths to use in different circumstances. When I heard Stephanie speak about Mutual Aid Networks a couple of years ago, I realized this had been what I had been looking for. What is often missed is a mechanism to join things up." [2]
Trees, woodland and forest
- Long Lands Common, added 16:19, 3 August 2020 (UTC)
- South Yorkshire Forest, partnership initiative started in 1991 and closed in 2016. From its inception to its closure, SYFP planted over 1 million trees. W
Resources
Citizens data initiative
Who Owns My Neighbourhood?, Kirklees land ownership data
Commons
Long Lands Common, added 16:20, 3 August 2020 (UTC)
Community resources
Other resources
Video
News and comment
separate article: Yorkshire and the Humber news
Events
2020
Sep 6 - 12 Kindness Festival Week, Leeds Festival of Kindness, Compassion and Wellbeing 💚 kinderleeds.org, added 17:35, 21 August 2020 (UTC)
2017
May 5 Calder Bootstrap 2017, "a group of entrepreneurs, co-operators, activists and changemakers, looking to engage our community to co-create our next economy."
Ecovillages
Low Impact Living Affordable Community, based in Bramley, West Leeds
Campaigns
Frack Free East Yorkshire, Coalition of Groups Opposed to Extreme Energy - Tidal campaigning group that works to support, coordinate and grow global activism in Leeds
Local communities in Yorkshire and the Humber
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Interwiki links
Wikipedia: Yorkshire and the Humber
References
- ↑ sharedfuturecic.org.uk, Oct 2019, p. 7
& leedsclimate.org.uk - ↑ Shareable