A New Year’s resolution

I’ve just joined the Big Green Challenge team and will be posting here over the next couple of months, hopefully providing some inspiration so that lots of groups of people put their thinking caps on and enter the competition!

Over Christmas and New Year I’ve been thinking about what community means, in particular the local definition of community, in the sense of where you live and the people around you. Most of the communities I belong to are based online and don’t have a local aspect – the exception being Freecycle which is a great example of how an online group can make a real difference at a local level.

I’d like to make more of a contribution to my neighbourhood, and my New Year’s resolution is to get together with other people to help make my community a greener and happier place to be. I also have a fledgling idea about setting up a group where people can get together to talk about their ideas, since talking about ideas is the first step to making them happen!

It’d be great to hear about how other people have gone about getting more involved in their local community, so please leave a comment if you’ve got any experiences or tips to share.