How do you define community?
The Big Green Challenge is about people working together to turn ideas into action within communities. But what do we mean by communities?
The place where you live is often the first thing that springs to mind when you hear the word ‘community’. Many people feel connected to their local community and this can apply on different scales. Smaller communities could be formed by a single street, an area of a town or a group of villages, and larger ones could cover a town, neighbouring towns or a city.
The local interpretation is just one of many kinds of community. Communities can be based around networks of friendship, culture, faith, ethnicity or political commitment. Work colleagues, hobbies or interests can also have communities built around them. Some of these communities might be connected to a local area, but they can extend across large areas too.
Lots of people are members of communities that are based online and these groupings might include people from all over the UK and from other countries too.
These are just some ideas about how communities can be defined - it’s up to each Big Green Challenge entrant to define their community and we expect to see lots of different interpretations. If you have any questions about the application criteria for the Big Green Challenge, then take a look at the rules and our FAQs.
