Organisational members of DorsetCAN
Providing an umbrella network for likeminded groups across Dorset
Advantage Digital Print Ltd
https://www.advantagedigitalprint.com/
Based in Dorchester. The company uses digital printing, which is cleaner than traditional forms of printing. Digital presses emit few or no VOCs (Volatile Organic Chemicals). Advantage Digital Print is a certified member of Woodland Carbon - an initiative that enables it to participate in actively removing carbon emissions from the atmosphere through UK tree planting activities.
Bee Friendly Bridport
https://www.beefriendlybridport.org
We are bee enthusiasts who would like to improve habitat and access to safe forage for all our pollinators including the bees. We are bringing local environmental groups together to create awareness of how the community can help as a whole to achieve this.
Bridport Area Community Housing
https://www.bridportach.org.uk
BACH is a registered Community Benefit Society established in 2020. Our aim is to inspire and implement solutions to the provision of affordable housing for those members of the Bridport Area community in genuine need. Relieving homelessness and housing.
Bridport Community Shed
https://www.bridportcommunityshed.org.uk/
A group of people who come together to make and mend, sharing their skills and experiences. Various crafts and repairs are undertaken, mostly with used and repurposed materials, such as wood and textiles, promoting the ethos of reduced consumption.
Bridport Food Matters
https://www.bridportfoodmatters.net
Bridport Food Matters aims to be a catalyst for positive change and a provider of information on food matters in the Bridport area. We are a network partnership between Bridport Local Food Group, Seeding our Future and Transition Town Bridport. Priorities include increasing local production and demand, affordable access, healthy eating, sustainable cultivation methods, and food security in response to climate change.
Cerne Valley Sustainability Group (CVSG)
https://www.facebook.com/groups/558932092804501
We are a fledgling group based around Cerne Abbas with the aim of making life in the valley ‘Greener’ and therefore more sustainable in view of Climate Change and how it affects our daily lives. We endeavour to increase awareness of local issues in the community and organise, encourage and report on sustainable activities in the valley. We meet once a month in Cerne Abbas.
Chettle Estate
https://www.instagram.com/chettlevillage
A thriving regenerative community in North Dorset
A village w/ regenerative ideologies. Putting community, nature & resilience before profit. Home to the Chettle Lodge & Chettle Store
Dorchester Repair Cafe
https://www.facebook.com/dorchesterrepaircafe
We run a monthly event, in and around Dorchester, with a team of volunteers to repair items that may otherwise go to landfill. From electrical items to clocks and clothing. Promoting the idea of repair, product longevity and repairability and providing a social environment in which to meet up. Everyone is welcome.
Efeca
http://www.efeca.com
Efeca, a Dorset based micro natural resources company, provides specialised consulting advice on responsible sourcing, sustainable trade and use of natural resources including palm oil, timber, soya, sugar and coffee. A Tropical Forest Alliance partner & World Economic Forum preferred supplier. Efeca has accumulated broad experience working in over 30 countries, across agricultural and forest risk commodities.
Footeprints
https://footeprints.co.uk
A local printer, copy-shop, stationer, paper merchant and photo printing store. Our paper & printing has it’s carbon offset by helping to plant woodland in the UK for every sheet of paper we use or sell.
HOME in Bridport
http://home-in-bridport.weebly.com
The HOME in BRIDPORT PROJECT aims to help provide cultural, educational and practical pathways for people to begin to look away from the traditional economy towards creating local self-sufficiency and a better life. HOME works alongside Transition Town Bridport.
Huff and Puff Construction
http://huffpuff.me/
We are passionate about building with straw and bio-based materials. If you dream of a sustainably built, natural, healthy, breathable building - whether it’s a home, a garden room, an extension, a community centre, a warehouse, whatever you desire, straw bales offer you an ideal solution.
Leigh Climate Group
https://www.facebook.com/LeighClimateGroup
We began in 2020 to bring climate change and ecological concerns to the forefront of thinking within this small Dorset village. With the parish council we installed cycle racks at the village hall and ran a Plastic Free July campaign in 2021. During 2022/23 Leigh Talks covered topics from plastic pollution, transport, energy, farming, food waste, textile mending skills and gardening. We look at individual’s choice and change.
Little Green Change
https://littlegreenchange.com/
Little Green Change is a not-for-profit social enterprise, providing environmental education and opportunities for children in primary and secondary-aged schools, and in the community. Our aim is to inspire, educate and facilitate action, benefitting both the planet and people. We do this through our educational Schools’ Programme, environmental events, competitions, projects, our annual magazine, and initiatives.
Loving by Nature
https://www.lbndorset.com
A small shop that aims to promote the use of reusable nappies for parents of Dorset alongside more sustainable options for clothes and toys.
Marnhull Hub & Repair Cafe
https://www.marnhullhub.org.uk
We are a non-profit making social enterprise. We run a repair, recyle and reuse cafe at Marnhull Village Hall most Saturday’s 10-12pm.
Seeding our Future
https://www.seedingourfuture.org.uk
The aim of the Seeding our Future project is to evolve and share ways that individuals, communities and front-line public services in the UK can grow their resilience skills and wisdom to thrive and adapt to meet future pressures positively. A distinctive aspect of our approach is using contact with Nature as a catalyst, helping people to open to new viewpoints and learn from the resilience of ecosystems. The overall aim of Seeding our Future is to work as a pioneer and catalyst: identifying new issues, and creating or gathering processes to help our client groups to face them. We aim to do this by running pilot projects, achieving proof of concept, and then sharing our experience through train the trainer programmes or online resources to encourage others to use them. Seeding our Future is a non-profit project, started in 2017. The founder and main funder is Alan Heeks, a social entrepreneur and writer.
Supernatural Studio
https://www.supernaturalstudio.com
Sustainable Architects working on Passivhaus projects using Natural Building Materials
We are a multi-disciplinary architecture practice where design converges with purpose.
We have a passion for natural materials and low-energy solutions that look and feel exceptional.
Guided by a client-centric and collaborative approach, we strive to create considerate projects that are culturally sensitive, promote health and wellbeing, whilst treading lightly upon the planet.
Sustainable Art
https://marisamann.wordpress.com/
A project of Marisa Mann: My work explores environmental issues through a process of painting and digital composite. From the peat bogs of Cumbria to representing images of Concentrated Solar Power for my home country of Pakistan, I am interested in capturing the imagination of an audience to the current ecological crisis we face. I draw upon my childhood memories of strong sunlight and vivid colours, in both Pakistan and West Africa.
The Dorset Bee
https://www.thedorsetbee.co.uk/
We specialise in sustainable beekeeping. Offering educational courses and workshops for individuals, companies, schools and organisations. We also offer consultancy for land owners and businesses. We offer beekeeping as a Green Social Prescription.
Transition Town Poole
http://transitionpoole.org.uk/
Transition Town Poole brings together people wanting to learn more about living lighter on the planet, providing a forum to share ideas and tips. We want a better Poole that is low-carbon, socially just, healthier, economically sustainable and gentle on the Earth.
Transition Town Weymouth and Portland
https://ttwp2017.wordpress.com
A charity operating in Weymouth and Portland with the aim of supporting positive action toward more sustainable living. We are commited to amplifying learning around sustainability, permaculture and community growing, working with and for a range of sub groups.
Triarchy Press
https://www.triarchypress.net/
A Charmouth-based Systems Thinking publisher of authors, books and ideas that remind us to be aware of the world around us in all its layered complexity. This awareness of the wider context, and of systemic interactions, underpins each of the eight, overlapping subject areas in which we publish (including ‘Managing Possible Futures’ and ‘Movement & Somatics’).
Titles of interest include Daniel Wahl’s Designing Regenerative Cultures, Nora Bateson’s Small Arcs of Larger Circles and Anni Kelsey’s book on Forest Gardening: The Garden of Equal Delights.
United Diversity Bridport
https://bridport.coop/
We’re working to make the Bridport bioregion a home to thriving people, in a thriving place, whilst respecting the wellbeing of all people, and the health of the whole planet.
Wessex Community Assets
https://wessexca.co.uk/
Wessex Community Assets is a not-for-profit community benefit society which provides support for community-led affordable housing, community renewables and local food initiatives. WCA coordinates the www.raisetheroof.info project - a partnership working with farmers, architects and builders seeking to bring natural materials into the construction and retrofitting of housing. WCA has pioneered the use of community shares to raise funds and the holding of land in community land trusts to support housing, farming and workspace.
Western Area Transport Action Group's (WATAG)
https://watag.org.uk
Objectives are to seek and achieve sustainable improvement in transport systems in West Dorset (Beaminster, Bridport, Lyme Regis, Maiden Newton and surrounding areas) and sustainable improvement in transport links within the WATAG area, neighbouring counties and elsewhere. WATAG was established in June 2001 and holds bi-monthly meetings which provide a forum for those with transport interests, including Dorset, Town and Parish councillors and officers, rail and bus operators and other groups as well as members of the travelling public.