Ambition Lawrence Weston

Ambition Lawrence Weston

Welcome to the Ambition Lawrence Weston 'Our Bigger Story' website. This is part of the multi media evaluation of 15 Big Local areas in England. The website is an opportunity to follow what is changing in Lawrence Weston as a result of Big Local over a ten year period.

The aim of the website is to share the learning from everything that is happening in Lawrence Weston with other Big Local areas and highlight what works in communities with a wider audience of practitioners and policy makers.

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  • Greening Lawrence Weston
     October 1, 2022      Film
    This film records the work of Lawrence Weston Big Local and Ambition Lawrence Weston to improve the local environment. This includes new green energy initiatives, environmentally friendly housing, better green spaces and tackling fuel poverty
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    Festival of the Future Event
     October 16, 2021      Text
    October 16th 2021 - Festival of the Future event hosted by Bristol ideas. Bristol's community organisations and artists are pioneering bold and equitable community-led climate action in Bristol. They share insights on how to engage diverse communities about the urgency of the climate emergency at a local level. Ambition Lawrence Weston and the Big Local have been involved in this project https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7yHmTPMMGc&t=161s
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    Lawrence Weston; No Place Left Behind
     September 22, 2021      Text
    22nd September 2021 Ambition Lawrence Weston: A No Place Left Behind Case study In August 2020 the Create Streets Foundation launched No Place Left Behind, the Commission into Prosperity and Community Placemaking. It sought to identify and develop policy and practice that enables regenerative development in "left behind places'. Lawrence Weston is a post-war housing estate on the north west outskirts of Bristol. Ambition Lawrence Weston was established in 2012 by a group of residents who wanted to make the area a better place to live, after a decline in local services. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coe-BOz2-Mo&t=3s
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    Lawrence Weston Climate Change Action Plan
     May 10, 2021      Text
    An uplifting compilation of the climate actions planned by the community partners of Bristol's Community Climate Action programme. To find out more about the programme, visit www.bristolgreencapital.org/project_cat/community-climate-action https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHkgxRLGwkQ&t=22s
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