Community Project
CAG Devon
"Supporting community projects to reduce, reuse, recycle, share, swap, mend and compost."
Who We Help, Why We Help & the Difference It Makes
Community Action Groups (CAG) Devon is here to support and empower community groups to act towards a more sustainable future.
We provide our members with support for insurance (where needed), guidance, and training, and provide opportunities for networking and sharing skills with other groups.
Our focus is primarily on the areas of waste reduction, composting, sharing, re-use and repair.
Since 2016 we've supported groups in Mid Devon and Teignbridge. From 2023 we are able to support groups across Devon.
Collectively, CAG Devon groups are taking on a range of waste-busting and sustainability activities, including:
- Food surplus food cafés
- Community fridges and larders
- Composting workshops
- Apple days
- Repair cafes
- Clothes swaps, and swaps of just about anything!
- Jumble trails and ‘give or take’ events
- Information stations
- Beach cleans and litter picks
- Craft workshops for making items like reusable shopping bags, make-up wipes and face masks
Our groups often take part in other activities too, encouraging their communities to move towards a more sustainable future. Activities like tree planting and creating wildflower gardens, cycling activities, renewable energy initiatives, working with their local town or parish councils on sustainability planning, and putting on film screenings, talks or networking events. Some are involved with initiatives like the Transition Network, or Plastic Free Communities.
The majority of our groups are voluntary groups, although some are working towards becoming social enterprises.
Our Services Are
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Get in touchWhat We Do
We provide members of our network with support getting insurance, guidance, and training, and provide opportunities for networking and sharing skills with other groups, including our Collaborate sessions, and CAG Conversations. We also have an annual gathering open to all, wherever you are.
If you want to join a group and get involved in some practical action which will help the environment, get in touch and we can tell you if we've any groups in your area, and put you in touch.
If you are just setting up and want support around constitutions, good ideas for activities, possible small grant towards insurance for some activities, join with like minded folk, we can help.
You can sign up for our newsletter here and find out about what our groups are up to, and other local news around sustainability and community action. We don't share your details with anyone.
You can also follow cagdevon on facebook and twitter.
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Get in touchVolunteer
Our groups across Devon welcome volunteers to help in all sorts of ways. These might include:
- cake making - essential for any community activity!
- practical help in the woods, or community gardens, or at the beach
- helping manage and run a community larder
- posting info on social media to publicise events and activities
- writing articles and telling others what the group does
- helping with fundraising
- cooking at a food surplus cafe/event
- tree planting
This is not an exclusive list. All our groups welcome anybody who wants to make a difference for a more sustainable Devon.
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