Deb Wilkes and her partner Chris Townsend are the inspiration behind Southampton’s Dead Good Days, a new festival taking place from 23rd October to 10th November. It is a series of family-friendly events, workshops and talks that will entertain, inform, intrigue, and equip us all to better deal with death, dying and loss. The Southampton… Read More Death Becomes Her
In May this year, the Nuffield City Theatre was the venue for for TEDxSouthampton 2018. It was a whole day event featuring creative and challenging ideas around the theme of ‘Growth’, such as: How can we grow inclusive communities? | What has driven the growth of human societies and perhaps even our species? |… Read More TEDxSouthampton 2018 – Growth
Maps are great tools for enabling people to understand and transform their cities. Southampton’s very own Ordnance Survey has OS Greenspace, a comprehensive catalogue of green spaces across the UK; and Mapping for Change has itself run a project to map community air quality in London. Over the summer we also used cartography to raise… Read More Mapping for Change
We are very proud to have been awarded a prestigious grant to help tackle air pollution in Southampton! The ‘Sniffy’ project will help drive community action for clean air by using citizen science and the power of individuals and communities to create change. The Southampton Collective is one of 16 organisations selected to take part… Read More Connected Communities for Clean Air
Artwork is by Kev Munday – Part of the Stand Together exhibition Thursday 12 April 2018 11am-6pm we are having a Get Together for Health and Wellbeing. This is part of Stand Together for Health week at Solent Showcase Gallery, just off Southampton’s Guildhall Square next to Artisan Cafe. Drop in during the day, or… Read More Get Together for Health and Wellbeing
Every year, Dangerous Ideas Southampton marks International Women’s Day by putting on an event and sharing news of gatherings organised by others. Sisters Act! is on 8 March at 7pm at Solent Showcase Gallery with artist Sarah Filmer. Full listings of loads of other #PressforProgress events are available here. There are also a… Read More Press for Progress
Creative Places is working for Solent Showcase gallery on behalf of Go Southampton, the city’s Business Improvement District, to produce some school holiday trails for the February half term. Families will be able to explore the city centre with a Spitfire theme, learning about the city during World War II and the role of the… Read More Trailblazing
Come along to Touch Network’s evening of live storytelling, taking place on Friday 19th January at 7.30pm at Mettricks Old Town (117 High Street). Debs Carter, the Founder of the Touch Network was a speaker at TEDxSouthampton 2016. The speakers for the storytelling evening have been arranged by Rebecca Kinge, one of the Southampton Collective… Read More An evening of live storytelling
Rebecca Kinge, our coordinator of the Creative Places Southampton, chatted with Alex Ivancevic on Unity 101 radio station during Community Hour, talking about the range of community projects that she has been involved in over the years. Click here to listen to Rebecca chatting about The Southampton Collective, why we need Creative Places and… Read More Unity and Innovation
Under our Creative Places project, we are hosting an event “Innovation on the High Street” on Friday 8 December at 9.30am. This is in partnership with Culture Southampton and others. If you would like to attend, please register via Eventbrite. It’s free and we are delighted that a cross section of people involved in various… Read More Innovation on the High Street
Working towards a sustainable city and liveable neighbourhoods is a key feature of our work. We actively support projects focusing on both climate action and clean air in Southampton. Solent Air Watch is developing low-cost air pollution sensors to enable us all to monitor the quality of the air we breathe. Southampton is one… Read More Clean Air and Climate Action
We are very pleased to have been awarded Community Chest funding by Southampton City Council! This will be used to develop The Southampton Collective as an economically viable, resilient, collaborative community development organisation, which complements the work that others are doing in the city. This includes the outcomes of the council’s consultation on the future… Read More Community Chest funding
A group of us who are passionate about Creative Places are developing a project to support and strengthen these independent businesses and venues: We want to map where those Creative Places are, so we can tell more people about them. We are aiming to consolidate the sense of community around these Creative Places – an… Read More Creative Places: Where community and creativity flourish
The Southampton Collective was proud to support Riverfest 2017, a new community festival which took place in Riverside Park on 27th May. The aim was to bring together the different communities along the Itchen to celebrate their river, through music, the arts, science, history and a love of green spaces. Riverfest was made possible through… Read More Riverfest 2017
You may have heard of the world famous TED talks, and watched a few online, but did you know that you can watch them live in Southampton? Since 2013, annual TEDx events have been taking place in different venues across the city.… Read More TEDxSouthampton 2016 – Self & Society
We’d like to make a special mention to The Lloyds Bank Social Enterprise Start Up Programme, in partnership with the School for Social Entrepreurs (SSE) and jointly funded by the Big Lottery Programme. Our Director, Rebecca Kinge, was invited to join this programme in 2017, and has spent the last year learning about the ins… Read More Thanks for all the support!
