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By Mirella Ferraz on 24th June 2021

Rethinking Consumption For Personal And Planetary Wellbeing

In response to the global urgency to review how many of us live, many exciting initiatives are popping up all over the world to facilitate more sustainable ways of consuming. These initiatives can be seen as part of ‘the great

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By NOW on 8th April 2021

World’s First Mobile Library Of Things is Reopening!

Why buy when you can borrow – it’s better for you and for the planet too. That’s the idea behind our project the Share Shed, reopening soon and celebrating it’s 4th Birthday today! The Share Shed is a mobile library

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By Mirella Ferraz on 25th June 2020

World’s First Mobile Library of Things To Be Launched…

On average, an electric drill is used for up to 13 minutes in its whole lifetime. How many electric drills might your community, or even the street where you live, have? What if rather than owning a drill, we were

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By Florence Scialom on 25th June 2020

Webinar on Community Action for Health and Wellbeing

In these unprecedented times we need to find effective ways to support each other. Here at NOW, we’ve relaunched our Wellbeing Together webinar series, and this post shares a summary of a webinar on Community Action for Health and Wellbeing.

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By NOW on 27th February 2020

Record-Breaking Day of Repairs Proves Good for Wellbeing

The Big Fix 2020, which happened on 15th February 2020, brought reuse and repair to the attention of the wider public across the UK, and helped increase awareness of a more sustainable and collaborative lifestyle. The initiative was a national

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By Mirella Ferraz on 27th January 2020

Britain’s Biggest Repair Cafe Encourages Sharing and Repairing

On 15th February towns and cities across the country will take part in the Big Fix – Britain’s Biggest Day of Repair. In Totnes, Devon, where Network of Wellbeing (NOW) is based, we’ll co-host a local Big Fix to support

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By Roger Higman on 30th October 2019

How Do We Build Community Resilience in Austere Times?

What can we do to help communities become resilient in the face of austerity? NOW’s Director, Roger Higman reports from a recent study tour of Gloucester. How can communities build resilience in austere times? This may seem an odd question

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By Tracy Cheesman on 6th June 2019

Twinning UK Towns For Wellbeing

With Brexit looming and many small towns suffering job losses, high street decline and low community motivation, Carnegie UK Trust stepped in to establish the UK’s first domestic town twinning programme. In this webinar, Jennifer Wallace shares stories of how

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By NOW on 24th February 2019

What Could A City of Compassion and Wellbeing Look…

NOW’s Josh Malkin was one of the team behind Exploring Common Ground, an event promoting a city-wide Festival of Compassion & Wellbeing in Leeds. He explains here how the group started and its progress towards The Leeds Festival of Compassion

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By NOW on 21st February 2019

ShareFest Brings People Together to Share, Repair, Swap and…

In partnership with Shareable and the Share Shed – A Library of Things, the Network of Wellbeing hosted the first ShareFest Totnes, in the south of England, which brought together over 800 people to celebrate sharing, repairing, swapping and making. To find out more, visit here.

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Supporting Greater Wellbeing for All: A City Wide Approach

Share Shed Totnes: Sharing Uni-Cycles, Guitars & Conversations!

Frome’s Economy: From Blind Growth to Wellbeing

Rethinking Consumption For Personal And Planetary Wellbeing

World’s First Mobile Library Of Things is Reopening!

World’s First Mobile Library of Things To Be Launched…

Webinar on Community Action for Health and Wellbeing

Record-Breaking Day of Repairs Proves Good for Wellbeing

Britain’s Biggest Repair Cafe Encourages Sharing and Repairing

How Do We Build Community Resilience in Austere Times?

Twinning UK Towns For Wellbeing

What Could A City of Compassion and Wellbeing Look…

ShareFest Brings People Together to Share, Repair, Swap and…

Your community - Inspiring Projects

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