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The Leeds Global Donut Festival
Bringing the ‘Global Social Lens’ of the Leeds Doughnut data portrait to life through a week of community events
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Leeds Doughnut: one year on from launch
A summary of our journey since our launch event in April 2022
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Now I AM afraid of doughnuts
A reflection on the launch of the Leeds Doughnut
Leeds Doughnut Coalition (Climate Action Leeds)
The Leeds Doughnut started up in 2021, to bring integrated thinking and doing to the movement for city scale change. It was born out of the National Lottery funded Climate Action Leeds programme, which works for a zero carbon, nature friendly, socially just Leeds by the 2030s. Within that, the Leeds Doughnut's vision is of a city where people and planet thrive.
April 2022 saw the publication of the first Leeds Doughnut City Portrait, a full research report and summary document setting out a sketch portrait of how Leeds is doing against the various dimensions of the Doughnut's 4 lenses. The report was launched at a packed-out full day event, with a diverse audience taking part in discussion, workshops and activities exploring what the findings mean for Leeds. Find the reports here:
https://www.climateactionleeds.org.uk/leedsdoughnut
Last Autumn, we were excited to premiere the Leeds Doughnut illustrated film at the 'From Vision to Action' climate assembly held at Leeds City Museum. Check it out below (and please like and share too).
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Getting Involved
The Leeds Doughnut Coalition is an open invitation with many entry points depending on your interests, time and energy. Whether you simply want to be kept informed or want to volunteer some time to the team, if you want to get stuck into strategising or have a project idea you'd like to develop with us - hopefully you can find your place.
We hold monthly lunchtime meetings on Wednesdays and there are a range of doughnut related projects and offshoots to join too. There's a mailing list for occasional updates, and a Leeds Doughnut Coalition workspace on the Slack platform which we use as a virtual office for communicating and organising. Get in touch with Jenni Brooks, our Doughnut Economics Lead, for more information.
Next Steps
The Leeds Doughnut Coalition is currently taking some time to review what's been done so far and to plan what we want to do in the next year and beyond. We hope to have more information to share in Spring 2023 - so watch this space!
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The Leeds Global Donut Festival
Bringing the ‘Global Social Lens’ of the Leeds Doughnut data portrait to life through a week of community events
Posted by Leeds Doughnut Coalition (Climate Action Leeds)
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Leeds Doughnut: one year on from launch
A summary of our journey since our launch event in April 2022
Posted by Leeds Doughnut Coalition (Climate Action Leeds)
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Now I AM afraid of doughnuts
A reflection on the launch of the Leeds Doughnut
Posted by Leeds Doughnut Coalition (Climate Action Leeds) & Tim Frenneaux
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Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom
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Poppy Cooke
Pontefract, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom
I am recent Environment economics and ecology student from the University of York. For my dissertation project a carried out an analysis of nations climate mitigation and adaptation policies in relation to the doughnut economics model, to explore the level of reference within these towards a must needed systematic change. I want to continue to learn about and the Doughnut economics model, which is what brings me to the DEAL Community.
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Eunjung Kim
South Korea
I am a community activist, dedicated to fostering positive change within my local community.
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Olivia Birthwright
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Angela Moran
Barnoldswick East Lancs UK
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Rob Minto
Leeds
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Agnes Henson
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Rob Greenland
Leeds, United Kingdom
Hello I'm Rob and I've worked in the world of social business and social innovation for most of my working life - getting on for 25 years now. I started out working for a fairtrade cooperative in Leeds and then I worked for a few different organisations, supporting people to set up and run social enterprises. In 2010 I co-founded a social enterprise which aims to develop creative, collaborative solutions to complex problems. We set up various projects including Empty Homes Doctor and Zero Waste Leeds. I left SBB in May 2023 and I am currently exploring what to focus on next. I'm a big fan of Doughnut Economics - I loved the book and I really like the focus on both the social and the environmental - you can't focus on one without thinking about the other. I'm interested too in the circular economy - and more than anything I want to continue to explore ways we can respond to the #climateemergency. I write here on Substack and have written here about Doughnut Economics.
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Luis Palicio
Leeds (UK) / Oviedo (Spain)
I'm a 37 years old food safety expert from Spain but living in the UK for the last decade. Our current model is unsustainable and that's we need to use frameworks like Doughnut economics to reshape our local communities and way of living. I have experience in food manufacturing and involvement of civil society and community work.
