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The Soil Web - UK published their Delivery Report!4 months ago
Delivered 1 June 2024
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By Claire Venus
Addressing climate hope, sustainability, food waste, wellbeing the initiative will be a catalyst for a national programme and UK wide champions in composting through worm hotels.
Claire and David Venus are Permaculture Experts, climate hope and allotment garden enthusiasts. They run a yoga and wellbeing studio with coastal views in Shilbottle, Northumberland. The Soil Web project addresses climate hope, sustainability, food waste and wellbeing. The initiative is part of a 10-year vision which acts as a catalyst at a local level for using outdoor space to ignite climate hope and introduces new and innovative permaculture systems nationally. The project is aimed at communities; everyone from aged 2-92 can play a part in reducing waste through using worm hotels. More here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUZBdGkSd74 Soil Web Satellite Sites – an invitation We would like to partner with schools/ community projects/ residents within villages/ towns to act as UK wide 'Soil Web Champions'. Our research showed people have MANY barriers to composting which in fact is a very simple and powerful act as part of our daily routine/ agency in Climate Hope.
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Why it's a great idea:
We ran a successful pilot project Feb – Sept ‘23 (funded by Creative UK and The Rural Design Innovation Centre) in our village. We are still receiving partnership support through The Rural Design innovation centre to align our passion with the best partners and make this work sustainable as part of our company. As part of the pilot project, we researched the best ways to compost quickly and addressed barriers to composting through talking with over 100 locals. The pilot encouraged friends/ neighbours/ local gardening enthusiasts to; -try our worm hotel composting systems -try slow compost heaps creating soil -try ‘worm tea’ as fertiliser for plants as a by-product. - remove barriers to composting via worm hotels - educate individuals/ businesses in composting using worm hotels, gently influence communities to produce less waste and share resources using permaculture principles.
Steps to get it done:
1.(£300 or more) - BE A PARTNER - ‘Devoted to the Doorstep’ invites at least 3 local areas to take on their own set of fully funded worm hotels. Communities receive full training a permaculture expert and learn composting techniques. The sessions will be tailored to the best bio-diversity systems that work for them. Once set up the projects will encourage small scale composting right on their doorstep for whole community access. (Suitable spaces include a school, a community centre, a public allotment space or shared garden). 2.(£50 or more) - BE A CHAMPION - Become a National ‘Soil Web Champion’! For your investment, you get access to our digital composting toolkit (x 10 video tutorials, shopping lists to set up the best systems and our recommendations of the best tools and more). Our toolkit shares information on everything you need to set up your own composting systems using tiger worms and a poster in the post! 3. £any amount - support the project and receive a postcard!
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Brilliant news, thanks everyone!
Hi Backers of Soil Web, We've granted the Soil Web team to adjust their target. Here's a quick update from the team: 'We are delighted to raise enough to work with two schools in our Soil Web project. One school will also get the opportunity to make an animation about their experience of learning the science of composting through using worm hotels. ' For any further information, feel free to reach out to us at [email protected] Best wishes, Spacehive Team
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VolunteerHi! I'm Claire Venus, I live with my husband David, two children and 6 pet chickens under dark skies on the Northumberland coast. We met at a yoga class in 2013. David's marriage had fallen apart, he was suffering with miltary induced PTSD and in our first 6 months as a couple we lost his brother, his mum and I fell pregant with our first child.
We moved from the city to re-wild by the coast in Northumberland. We were looking for a slower pace, for community, to learn how to garden and grow food and teach others what we'd learnt about yoga and creativity as a beautiful blend to engance wellbeing...
My company Creatively Conscious produces projects that use art for social change.
My work is underpinned by a co-creative community approach to environment and sustainability. I work with families, individuals, small and large business supporting them to create, engage and make lasting change to support their creative eco-systems and the envrironment.
I have two programme strands;
1. Inspiration Island–my work as an engagement/ audience development consultant/creative mentor
2. Retreat and re-wilding from our doorsteps in partnership with my husband who is a permaculture expert.
I am passionate about our 'slow paced' life which enables us both to spend time tending to our allotment garden, raising our children and doing work we are called to do. My husband trained in permaculture design in 2014 and has worked to make our three garden spaces sanctuarys for wildlife and humans alike! He partners with a local woodland to host re-wilding retreats and we host mini retreats here at home rooted in education around mindfulness, meditation, fermentation and re-wilding.
My clients include; Action for Children, National Trust, Tate Modern, Northumberland County Council and many other arts and cultural venues. My award winning projects act as catalyst for participants to find and using their creative voice through writing, art, photorgraphy and storytelling.
My husband's passion is working with ex miltary folk to help improve their quality of life and supporting those who have experienced trauma or long term ill health.
Together we run retreats and workshops which blend creativity with caring for the earth and ourselves.
We are passionate about reaching MORE communities with our work to turn waste foods into compost in a way that is easy, has no adour and creates a brilliant and delightful eco-system as part of the process.
Project Owner: Claire Venus The Project Owner takes legal responsibility for receiving and spending the funds raised and ensuring the project is delivered.
