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A BETTER NORWICH
Find community groups, businesses, and individuals who are taking action against the effects of the Earth crisis in Norwich.
This directory highlights local efforts, why they matter, and how people can get involved.
The Norwich Eco Hub goal is to connect people with like-minded individuals and organizations who are working to make a difference in the community.
Welcome to
Norwich Eco Hub
A community where we work together to create a more sustainable and resilient local economy through cooperation, fairness, and the wise use of resources while respecting the living world around us
Who we are
Norwich Eco Hub is a Community Interest Company representing a diverse group of individuals and organizations who are passionate about promoting, coordinating, and celebrating regenerative living. From plant-based diets and renewable energy to circular economics and permaculture, we believe in supporting a wide range of sustainable practices.
Our Vision
Norwich Eco Hub is a welcoming and safe community where people can come together to exchange ideas, events, feelings, and opportunities within Norwich and the surrounding areas. We believe that collaboration between different groups is fundamental in achieving our shared goals of building a more sustainable future for ourselves and future generations.
Our Mission
Our mission is to provide a hub for people, social enterprises, charities, community groups, and small businesses to meet, work, and collaborate towards a more resilient and sustainable local economy. We strive to achieve this by hosting events, discussions, and consultations and working with community groups and businesses to foster collaboration and camaraderie.
What's on in Norwich
Norwich is a fantastic city for groups working to address the Earth crisis and promote better living and taking action to tackle the environmental challenges we face and inspire others to get involved.
These groups often host inspiring talks, community actions, and events that bring people together to learn and have a positive impact.
Every month, we compile a list of all these events and send them out as an email newsletter to our subscribers.
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Our projects
Norwich Eco Hub is actively working to create partnerships and co-develop local projects that promote the sustainable development goals.

Norwich Community Gardens Festival
Open Gardens for Community-Maintained Green Spaces
The Norwich Community Gardens Festival brought together volunteers, nature lovers, and local residents for a weekend dedicated to celebrating the city’s green spaces. Taking place on Saturday 26 and Sunday 27 April 2025, the festival showcased over 25 community-maintained green spaces, from woods to verges, from Grade II listed parks to allotments.
Visitors could explore the festival map to find their nearest community garden and visit it, or go on a self-guided walk or cycle ride across the city to see more. In some of the gardens taking part, they were welcomed by volunteers from the community groups who showed them around and even hosted special activities.
Highlights included guided tours of Grapes Hill Community Garden and the UEA campus ecology, learning about growing food sustainably at Marlpit Community Garden with hands-on activities for children organised by Norwich Science Festival, and going on a bug hunt in Wensum Park.
For those looking to do some gardening that weekend, they could get involved with one of the newly established community green spaces: NR5 Community Hub who started working on a bright sensory garden on the raised bed outside the West Earlham Dental Health Practice, The Feed’s Community Garden at Jubilee Park who were preparing new beds for fruit and vegetables, or Mousehold Community Garden, a new community allotment off Gertrude Road.
The 2025 festival was organised with support from Norwich City Council and we are hoping it will become a yearly event.
Visitors could explore the festival map to find their nearest community garden and visit it, or go on a self-guided walk or cycle ride across the city to see more. In some of the gardens taking part, they were welcomed by volunteers from the community groups who showed them around and even hosted special activities.
Highlights included guided tours of Grapes Hill Community Garden and the UEA campus ecology, learning about growing food sustainably at Marlpit Community Garden with hands-on activities for children organised by Norwich Science Festival, and going on a bug hunt in Wensum Park.
For those looking to do some gardening that weekend, they could get involved with one of the newly established community green spaces: NR5 Community Hub who started working on a bright sensory garden on the raised bed outside the West Earlham Dental Health Practice, The Feed’s Community Garden at Jubilee Park who were preparing new beds for fruit and vegetables, or Mousehold Community Garden, a new community allotment off Gertrude Road.
The 2025 festival was organised with support from Norwich City Council and we are hoping it will become a yearly event.
Norwich Unity Hub
A community for people, place and planet under a shared roof
Norwich Unity Hub identifies unused buildings in Norwich and repurposes them for shared use by local charities, CICs, community groups and arttists.
Norwich Unity Hub identifies unused buildings in Norwich and repurposes them for shared use by local charities, CICs, community groups and arttists.
Would you make use of such a space?
Re-imagine Norwich
Social foundation
The safe and just space for humanity
Ecological ceiling
We are inspired by this framework and its uses in Norwich.
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Our Power
Norfolk Communities Act on Energy
New initiative Our Power partners with groups in Norwich and Norfolk and collaborates with trusted community members to empower people to reduce energy usage and decarbonise homes. This initiative aims to lower energy bills, provide greater control over energy consumption, and support our planet.
Homes in Norwich, much like elsewhere in the UK, often suffer from poor insulation and rely on gas boilers, which significantly contribute to Norwich’s carbon footprint. As a result, higher energy bills are impacting health, well-being, and personal finances.
Our Power aim is to enhance home energy efficiency in various local communities and empower them to manage their energy usage. While full home retrofitting remains unaffordable for most, communities have the potential to save money by acting collectively—through bulk buying or using community buildings to generate energy.
Homes in Norwich, much like elsewhere in the UK, often suffer from poor insulation and rely on gas boilers, which significantly contribute to Norwich’s carbon footprint. As a result, higher energy bills are impacting health, well-being, and personal finances.
Our Power aim is to enhance home energy efficiency in various local communities and empower them to manage their energy usage. While full home retrofitting remains unaffordable for most, communities have the potential to save money by acting collectively—through bulk buying or using community buildings to generate energy.
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New to Norwich Eco Hub
Recently added
Yare Valley Meadow Makers
A new community group for anyone who has an interest in improving the park
Repair Cafe Norwich
Volunteer led group that roams around Norwich, holding day events where people in the community can bring almost anything that is broken to be fixed
Friends of Sloughbottom Park
A new community group for anyone who has an interest in improving the park
Norwich Writers Rebel
A collective of local Norfolk writers addressing the climate and ecological emergency through words, writing and action