- Book exchange – an book crossing style event to promote reading & libraries.
- Self build – ideas for self building economically vialble houses
- Social Media in Communities – hyperlocal websites and building community to make things happen.
- Look up Wolverhampton – a collaborative photography project to promote the uniqueness of the cities buildings
- Wolves in Wolves – Life size sculptures of wolves to create a trail across the city, similar to Bristol’s Gromits.
- Restoration of a church – Bringing a disused building back into use in Finchfield.
- Artists and Makers network to support the route to self employment
- Wolves Friends of the Earth – Living off the grid. Setting up a space in Wolverhampton to demonstrate sustainable, off the grid living.
- Up-cycled Furniture. Making use of scrap furniture, wood and other materials to re-purpose them into usable affordable furniture – moving into custom made furniture.
- SCARF – Schools and Community Arts Resources Facility – Black Country We Paint. Collecting high quality arts, crafts and recycled industry scrap, paints etc… to re-purpose for community use.
- Social Care and support in communities
- Creative conversations, networking for older people. Providing safe friendly places for older people to connect across the city.
- Art trail around the city. Commissioned pieces to across the city alos linking to Arts on the Move – art on all major transport hubs and on trains, buses and local taxis.
- What should be free? – What resources should be free and why? Food? Water? – how do we make that happen.
- SWEDA – creating new social enterprises and community projects.
- Celebrating international links. Building understanding through international links.
- Crowd-sourcing activities for local community centre.
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