Taking your first steps as a community changemaker can be exciting and rewarding – but also daunting and confusing! Toolkits rarely share the real life details of how other people have got started, or offer … Read more...
Rural Roots Resources
Month: December 2025
Becky Lovegrove Reflects on Connection, Learning and Climate Hope
In the last two and a half years the Green and Healthy Frome (GHF) team has connected with around 150 organisations, campaigns and community members reaching over 3,000 individuals outside our town to share ideas … Read more...
The Power of Joined Up Care – Dr Helen Kingston Explains How Community Resources Could Help Ease NHS Pressure
In this Intelligent Health interview – ‘Neighbourhood Health and the future of our communities’ wellbeing, Dr Helen Kingston explains how Frome Medical Practice has spent 15 years blending traditional clinical care with community-based support to … Read more...
When Climate Conversations Open Up: The Award-Winning Voices of OpenStoryTellers
We’re very proud to share that Journeys Through Time and Climate — a short film created by learning-disabled artists that asks whether climate change affects us all equally — has been awarded the Social Impact … Read more...
Read Hot Poet Chris Redmond’s improv poem performed live at the Green and Healthy 2025 Conference
On a tour of Frome Medical Practice I meet a Japanese data scientist here to learn how the NHS can be more sustainable. Her bilingual 20-month-old wrinkles her nose, smiles, tells me she’s learned something … Read more...
Health, Action, Equity, Participation: Charlotte Carson’s Reflections on How Partnerships and Collaboration Can Make Things Happen
What does the Hippocratic Oath – one of the oldest and most enduring foundations of medical ethics, still echoed in the pledges many doctors take today – mean by “do no harm” when the systems … Read more...
Experiencing Green & Healthy Frome: Solène Quandalle’s Account of a Town Taking Action
The climate crisis will be resolved through governance, rather than government. Many researchers argue the need for non-centralised measures and interconnected networks beyond the state to tackle a global problem which transcends state boundaries. There … Read more...