Photos: Sutton Community Farm, Zero Waste Sutton, Repair Cafe, Sutton Nature Conservation Volunteers

Join or start a group driving local change. Some local and related examples include:

🌱 Sutton Community Farm - A community-owned organic farm that grows veg for weekly box deliveries and welcomes volunteers. 

🧴 Zero Waste Sutton - Sutton's independent refill station. Bring your own bottles to refill cleaning and body-care products - all non-toxic products, gentle on us and the planet.

🌍 EcoLocal - A community-run charity in Carshalton running food growing, inclusive cycling and workshops throughout the year, plus markets and the annual EcoFair.

🔧 Repair Cafés - Volunteers repair broken household items free of charge (donations welcome, parts extra) and show you how, keeping things out of landfill:

• Ruskin Road - last Saturday of the month (except Aug and Dec), 2–4pm, booking essential.
• Sutton - second Saturday (except Aug), 11am–1:30pm, YourSpace, Seears Park.

🦔 Sutton Nature Conservation Volunteers - Practical wildlife work (hedge laying, coppicing, scrub clearance, surveys) on weekday and weekend task days.

🏘️ Hackbridge & Beddington Corner Neighbourhood Development Group - Residents who wrote the neighbourhood plan for the area around BedZED, shaping how it develops.

⚡ Surrey Community Energy - A volunteer-run co-op that develops, owns and manages clean energy projects, aiming for cheaper power, local jobs and progress toward Surrey's climate targets. And the Sutton Community Energy which is very new! 

🤝 Local residents associations - Neighbours organising for their street or estate, and a good route to group buys, swaps and street events.

🌻 Local community gardens - Shared growing spaces where you can learn, meet people and eat what you grow, such as EcoLocal's community allotment.

🌳 Friends of Cheam Park, Cheam & Cuddington Horticultural Society, Nonsuch Voles, Friends of Nonsuch, Warren Farm Woodland Trust Working Group - Local groups keeping parks, gardens and woodlands cared for, from litter-picks and coppicing to preserving Nonsuch Park's heritage.

If you know of any other initiatives or groups we've missed that can support personal, local or national action, let us know!