Our new air quality campaign hits the streets of Southampton this week to highlight the damaging impacts of air pollution on children. We commissioned local artist Nathan Evans to create striking posters which make clear the link between dirty air and children’s health. They will appear near schools and playgrounds across the city on Thursday… Read More Air Pollution is Heartbreaking
Date and time: 20th October at 7pm What: What are you going to do this winter to make sure you stay healthy? Where: Zoom event online with a Portswood community focus Come and join this community-led conversation about what we can all do this winter to ensure we stay healthy of mind and body. With… Read More The “Mush”Room – a pop-up space where we re-imagine our place
On 20th May 2020, we will be part of the organising team for the Positive Futures online event. This is all about young people, arts, creativity and mental health. Details here. This event is a partnership with Arts and Health South West, Hampshire Cultural Trust, and us, in our role with the Southampton Art In… Read More Positive Futures
Artist Claudia Friend is helping everyone make something together! Make a line – draw, scribble, sculpt, build, fold, paint, create or find a line – just one – curved, colourful, straight, loopy, dotted, thick, thin…get creative! Send the pic to Claudia on Instragram, Facebook or email doloresfroh@gmail.com including your name, location (e.g. Hampshire), Instagram tag…and… Read More Drop Me A Line
Today, our Health Model Village joined SO:Linked community project in the first of a series of events around Southampton, hosting drop-in events at Lordshill Library and Lordswood’s Kings Community Church. We asked people what they like about their areas and plotted their local gems on our big map. People told us how they like to… Read More Community conversations
Interested in the connections between creativity and health? Join the informal gathering of the Southampton Art in Health Forum this Wed 26 Feb 12-2pm at NST City’s Tyrell’s cafe in Guildhall Square. More here.
On Monday 3rd February 2020, we were at Gods House Tower with 27 people from a range of arts projects, health services and community groups. This was a combined event between CHAOS (Creative, Heritage and Arts Organisations of Southampton) and the Southampton Art In Health Forum. We all shared a little bit about ourselves. We… Read More Art and Health – February gathering
Getting creative is good for our health. Whether you like dance, theatre, visual arts, cooking, gardening, music, cooking, sewing, woodwork (anything really), there’s so much potential to be creative and enjoy the creativity of others. The evidence says that arts can make a powerful contribution to health and wellbeing. As the Parliamentary Inquiry into Creative… Read More May is the month of creativity and health!
What’s On for a Sustainable and Healthy Southampton? Here’s some events that we are involved in, or think you’d like to know about: Getting net zero on track: a workshop with Hope for the Future This will explore the role of People’s Assemblies for a zero carbon future. Fri 31st Jan 2020 6pm at Edmund Kell Hall.… Read More What’s coming up
This workshop, with a focus on the role of a People’s Assembly, is being held on Friday 31 January, 6pm, at Edmund Kell Hall in Southampton. Book your tickets here Hope for the Future are specialists in training citizens to have effective conversations with their representatives. This workshop focuses on how a People’s Assembly can… Read More Getting net-zero on track: a workshop in Southampton
Southampton Art in Health Forum 3rd Feb 2020 – 10am til lunchat Gods House Tower SO14 2NY We’re teaming up with the CHAOS network on 3rd February. CHAOS is a network for creative, heritage and arts organisations of Southampton. The gathering starts at 10am with a general CHAOS meeting, and then we’ll focus on health from 11.30am.… Read More Southampton Art in Health Forum
We’ve had an amazing year with our Breathing Spaces project in St Denys, including: hosting five Clean Air Cafes; ten particulate matter air quality sensors installed across St Denys; and a whole load of community action. Hundreds of local people have been involved. We have been overwhelmed by the outpouring of enthusiasm and action for… Read More Breathing Spaces pilot draws to a close
Happy Autumn! Our Breathing Spaces project is coming to an end, and we have our final Clean Air Cafe on Saturday 30 November. We’ll be sharing the learning from the project, celebrating the community activity that has been happening and having a think about the future. More details on our Breathing Spaces website. Interested in… Read More Collective action
Interested in access to health, active travel and air quality? Join us on Fri 27 Sept 2019 for all or part of the day at our Southampton Health Cycle and/or City Wheel and Walk tour. You can join sections of the route, or you can come and chat at our various health stops. For more… Read More Southampton Health Tour
In August 2019, we set up Southampton City Vision as a place for residents and those with a strong connection to the city to have a conversation about what Southampton should be like. We’d been to a Friday Forum gathering at Southampton Voluntary Services on 2 August, and heard about plans for the next phase… Read More Southampton: our city, our vision
September steps towards a sustainable, healthy Southampton with the community at the heart. All Aboard, a Musical and Theatrical Treasure Trail at High Tide (11.30-2.30) on Sat Aug 31st 2019 around the River Itchen’s Cobden Bridge and Blue Rail Bridge. Watch out for the troll! This event has received a Breathing Spaces bursary from The… Read More What’s on into September
Join us for the film premiere of The Race is On. Let’s start a revolution.… Read More The Race Is On
A year is a long time in environmental politics. Last summer, an unknown school girl was striking outside the Swedish Parliament, frustrated by a lack of action on climate change. Back then no-one would have dared to believe that Greta Thunberg would one day be on the cover of Time magazine or nominated for the… Read More Trusting in the power of our communities to make change
Our Breathing Spaces project in St Denys is gathering lots of momentum. We’ve had three Clean Air Cafes now, where people have shared their ideas and pledges for action to improve local air quality and promote liveable neighbourhoods. Our next event is a Clean Air Ideas Drop In on Tues 18 June 5-9pm at St… Read More Breathing Spaces: an Update
We have two events coming up for April. On Thursday 11th April 6.30-8.30pm we’ll be at October Books for Cuppa Social, an informal chance for a chat over a drink. Just turn up, all welcome. On Saturday 27th April at 3pm, we’ve got the second Clean Air Cafe in St Denys. If you want to… Read More Cafe and chats
We had a fantastic time on Sat 23 March exploring arts and health, at the Umbrella Arts Festival at NST City. Hundreds of people came and got involved in singing, interactive theatre, drumming, all sorts of painting and collage activities, board games and joined the health cafes. We made asked people to draw a bike… Read More Umbrella Arts – talking about health
This year’s IWD falls on a FriYay! and the theme is #balanceforbetter . Women can be very good at hosting, feeding and juggling everybody’s needs but often at a cost to their own enjoyment and participation. We wondered how we could balance organising a fun Friday night out without exhausting ourselves or our wallets. We… Read More Balance For Better: Bring It and Share It on Friday 8th
Dear Youth 4 Climate Strikers You have our full support. There’s no question that politicians and businesses are asleep at the wheel when it comes to climate change. Here you are, waking them up, encouraging them to rethink their policies and steer the juggernaut away from the edge. It’s not going to be easy. Before… Read More The beginning of great change
“You say it’s either our future and our problem, or we’re too young to understand. Which one is it?” Young people in Southampton and across the world marched and sang and danced in the streets today. This was not a celebration, but a protest about the party the grownups have been having on this planet… Read More The Kids Are All Right
Last summer, the Southampton Collective was awarded funding to run a clean air project in Southampton through Nesta’s Connected Communities Innovation Fund. Since then we have refocused the idea from a city-wide project to working with residents in one neighbourhood – St Denys. This new project is called Breathing Spaces because we want to support… Read More Creating spaces to breathe
Following the success of our Cuppa Socials last November and January, we’re heading east to Woolston for the fabulous views from Mettricks at Centenary Plaza, SO19 9UE. Come and put the world to rights with Rebecca Kinge (from The Southampton Collective and Healthwatch Southampton) and Vie Portland (from Vieness) from 10am. Together we can talk… Read More Cuppa Social / Thurs 14 Feb ’19 / 10-12
Fun to be had in Portswood this Saturday with body confidence coach Vie Portland of VieNess. We’ll be chatting and cutting and sticking and all sorts of prep for our International Women’s Day event in March.
We decided that there’s never enough time just to sit and chat, so our very own Rebecca Kinge has organised a ‘Cuppa Social’ on Thurs 22nd November at 6pm at By Sea Coffee Lounge. This is chance for anyone interested in health and sustainability in Southampton to come and chat. It’s very informal, let’s grab… Read More Cuppa Social / Thurs 22 Nov ’18 / 6.00 – 7.15pm
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
Join VieNess for a day of inspiring talks and more, at the Phenomenal Women event on 8 March. Details here
Deb and Chris went to London Southbanks’ ‘Deathfest’ in 2012 & were amazed at how many people were there to find out more about death & dying, that they decided to try it in Southampton – and call it ‘Dead Good Days‘. With years of Palliative Care Nursing / Environmental teaching behind them, they continue… Read More Dead Good Days
