A flavour of our work over the years is outlined below

Wales wide

  • Spearheading the Real Nappy Campaign - provision of a wide variety of campaign resources, media, awareness raising, training and network development. (see the video above)

  • Finding Our Voices 1 & 2 - All Wales conferences on Participatory Democracy

  • Write On! - Series of breakfast seminars on office recycling and buying recycled paper

  • From Here to Sustainability - Community sector training programme introducing environmental and ethical policies and practices to organisations.

  • Fashion Conscience? - Seminar on the unethical Fashion Industry

  • 21st Century Living - Local Solutions to Climate Change Conference

  • A Resilient Local Economy? - conference

  • Climate Change Exchange Day Cardiff - community sector training and information.

  • Reduce Your Group’s Carbon Footprint Training – policy development & carbon audit

  • Shine a Light films– highlighting the need for local energy production and supply

  • Online Climate Emergency Petition

  • 4 part Webinar Series (Do we need a Circular Economy?) https://www.sustainablewales.org.uk/blog/webinardesignforlife

publications

  • ‘Simply The Best!’ - Encouraging people and environment friendly event, conference organising. Bilingual

    ‘Write On!’ - initiating a ‘buy recycled’ paper campaign in Wales. Bilingual

  • ‘Dumping The Diaper’ - Real Nappy Campaign Guide - English and Welsh

  • ‘Have I Got News For You’ - local groups campaigning and media advice. Bilingual

  • ‘Deepening Democracy’ - a Civic Forum proposal for Wales drafted for Llias Cymru - Bilingual

  • ‘First Class’ - a guide to developing a school’s recycling policy

  • Community Connections’ – a periodical magazine focused on sustainability issues (good and bad) in the borough of Bridgend

 

Film production

‘It’s Time for a Real change’ Real Nappy Promotion (for new mums and midwives)

‘It’s Time for a Real change’ Real Nappy Campaign (for councils and campaigners)

‘From Radioactive Mines to Radioactive Bullets’ - Uranium pollution (used also in America)

Sustainable Wales ‘What do you bring?

The Wales We Want Interviews for Cynnal Cymru

Shine a Light? 3 short films promoting local heroes (highlighting difficulties communities have in developing renewable energy schemes) and 1 x 20+ minutes encouraging local energy production. Available on youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aTjFGCKKHE&list=PLcfImMVPfkTpJbVApugqqqR9_oJ7yCAN0&index=5&t=258s

Every Little Thing – short film promoting volunteering and ethical shopping. https://www.sustainablewales.org.uk/blog/every-little-thing18

Local and replicable activity

  • Real Nappy Development Officers in Swansea, Cardiff, Torfaen and Wales.

  • Community based local Sustainable Development Officer- operating in Bridgend

  • Production of Community Connections – series of magazines 12,000 copies widely distributed

  • Fairtrade, Farmer’s Market and local food network development and promotion

  • SUSSED Café

  • Advancing responsible consumerism (green and ethical purchasing) supporting SUSSED WALES activities

  • Organisation of 21st Century Sustainable Living Festivals

  • Profiling and advocating climate change and sustainable energy

  • Local community group and partnership development                        

  • Helping groups develop Sustainable Development policies and practices                                      

  • Lots fundraising etc.

  • Single-Use Plastic Campaign (working with local Porthcawl traders, schools, and the council)

  • Supporting and coordinating Bridgend Fairtrade Partnership                                     

  • Development of Arts For The Earth Collective

  • Establishing ‘The Green Room’ – a convivial, cultural space for events, training, debates, meetings.

  • Greening Your Organisation – hands on help for the community sector to reduce their carbon footprint with ‘people and planet’ friendly policies and practices.

Founding Bridgend Local Energy Group - working on activities/projects to reduce climate change, encourage local energy development and challenge development control to adopt climate change responsibilities.

Social Enterprise Business Development:-

Sustainable Wales Projects Ltd, a community co-operative, limited by guarantee, operated as ‘Gentle Touch’ a SE Wales real nappy laundry service, based in Caerphilly. This ‘not for profit’ service to the public ran for 6 years.

‘SUSSED Wales’. Incorporated in June 2005, SUSSED is a not-for-profit, Community Co-operative. Retails fair trade, local and environmentally friendly goods and provides an outreach education service. This high street shop opened September 2006.

(The Charity and the Company are closely linked, having the same broad objectives, but operate independently.)