The latest 30 additions to the Just Living guide.
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Local meetup group for people interested in using technology for social benefit. As of July 2010, meetings are last Tuesday in the month in the Arts Picture House bar. Check the website for up to date info....
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A group of revolutionary anarchists organising for an end to class society through social struggle, with the aims of achieving a sustainable, equal society based on economic democracy, community self-government and individual freedom....
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Independent cafe with fair trade drinks and local ingredients. Also stocks local musicians cds, and holds fundraising and awareness events, events such as clothes swaps and collecting warm clothes and food to be taken to displaced migrants in Calais....
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Stocks locally produced bread, fruit and veg, pickles and preserves, ready meals, apple juice, cakes etc. Gluten free and vegan options. Lunches or buffets delivered. Homemade soup served Tue-Fri. Open Wed - Sat 10am -6pm. As of June 2010, a local market first Saturday of every month will be held ou...
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The Cambridge Hub is a student-run network, with over thirty five member groups, that aims to coordinate and raise the profile of charitable, ethical, campaigning and volunteering activities in Cambridge University. Through our website, weekly email bulletins and social networking events, we connect...
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CycleStreets is a UK-wide cycle journey planner system, which lets you plan routes from A to B by bike. Planning a cycle journey gives you both the quietest and fastest routes. It is designed by cyclists, for cyclists, and caters for the needs of less both confident and less confident cyclists. ...
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A volunteer-run savings and loans organisation, providing a friendly service for people who live and work in Cambridge. Members can apply for loans up to twice their savings after they have been saving for 13 weeks....
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A well-kept Cambridge secret, the old chalk pit is full of Mediterranean blue water (from all the chalk, although it still looks lovely), and inhabited by large peaceable fish, which gives some hope for its cleanliness! Great in summer for bathing and sunbathing, and listening to the occasional wild...
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We are a group of volunteers who support Oxfam by campaigning and fundraising. We campaign against poverty, taking on a wide variety of issues such as health and education, climate change, arms control and trade....
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Hold a market stall every Sunday from 8am onwards where you can buy locally grown (Littleport) strictly organic seasonal vegetables....
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Energy provider that puts all its profits into building its own stock of renewable energy resources. Actively looking for landowners to house wind turbines!...
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The Magog Trust is creating an area for conservation and informal recreation on the Gog Magog hills just south of the boundary of the City of Cambridge, opposite Wandlebury Country Park, off the A1307 road to Linton and on Haverhill Road, Stapleford. Magog Down has two meadows and six woods, covers ...
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We haven't gone into detail describing individual market stalls, however basically the local market is a great (and usually cheap!) way to support small local businesses, including crafts and gifts, second hand bikes and repairs, fair trade goods, and fruit and veg stalls regularly stocking local pr...
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The Bharat Bhavan, also known as the Old Library, is the Cambridge Hindu Shrine, and hall of the Indian Culture & Community Association, and serves delicious vegan traditional Indian food on Wednesdays and Saturdays. It also has a hall for hire for events....
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Tasty Indian restaurant near the football ground that has gone to the trouble of going through its menu and identifying everything that contains anything that people might be interested in, e.g. dairy, gluten etc....
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Cambridge Gaza Solidarity is a group that grew out of the 2009 occupation of the Cambridge University Law Faculty in protest at the Israeli state\'s attack on Gaza. Over one hundred students initiated the sit in which continued for six days, during which hundreds more students expressed their suppor...
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We are a grassroots and democratic union helping to organise all workers in all workplaces. The IWW differs from traditional trade unions. We believe that workers have a greater voice if we are organised within our own industries. For example, teachers, cleaners, and secretaries who work in a school...
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A fully constituted street community group led by homeless, ex-homeless and vulnerably housed people, working to represent homeless people and provide information and services. Regular meetings and activities....
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Animal Rights Cambridge campaigns for the right of all animals to live free of human exploitation. Meetings take place at the Bath House at 8 p.m. on the fourth Monday of every month....
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Carries out energy efficiency audits and provides advice on optimum boiler installation for houses, on behalf of homeowners, local authorities, builders, surveyors and architects. Provides Energy Perfomance Certificates, SAP Home Energy Ratings, and Energy Efficiency Assessments....
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Provides information about and organises local farmers markets, currently held in Burwell, Shelford, Linton, and Impington. These consist of local producers of fresh and organic produce selling direct to the public. See website for details of individual markets....
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Disability Cambridgeshire (formerly Directions Plus) is an advice and information service for disabled people and/or older people and their carers. It serves people of all ages in Cambridgeshire. For over ten years, Disability Cambridgeshire has helped to maintain and improve the quality of life ...
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Citylife is an independent charitable organisation which amongst its other activities, provides affordable workspaces and office units for social and creative enterprises in Cambridge - currently on Newmarket Road, with a future move to North Cambridge planned at the time of writing. They raise fund...
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Burwell Community Print is a busy, efficient printing and print-finishing centre which offers a variety of printing and photocopying services at competitive rates. Burwell Community Print is a social training enterprise, a business that trades for a social purpose. It provides vocational training...
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A registered charity which runs projects across Cambridgeshire providing leisure, educational and work opportunities for over 600 people with a wide range of disabilities. Red2Green works with people aged 14+ who have learning disabilities, mental health problems, physical disabilities, sensory i...
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Cam Sight is a charity, working with blind and partially sighted people within Cambridgeshire. Its vision is a society where visually impaired people enjoy the same rights and opportunities as other people and where no-one feels isolated or excluded due to losing their sight. Cam Sight strives to m...
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A voluntary group, run by parents with no commercial interests, which works to: increase parents’ awareness of choice of nappies; increase the use of reusable nappies; encourage local hospitals and health care professionals to give information and advice about nappies to parents and expectant pare...
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Sally Ann’s, the Salvation Army charity shop, has been located on Mill Road for twenty five years. Its purpose is primarily for fund raising, supporting the community centre further along the road, and the Citadel, in Tenison Road. It is one of the largest charity shops in the region and sells a ...
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Opportunities Without Limits is a Sawston based registered charity working with people with learning disabilities and other disadvantaged/disabled groups. We specialise in work based learning, work experience, supported employment and volunteering opportunities to help people live normal, happy l...
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