Frome
With local organisations and initiatives including Edventure, Future Shed and Green and Healthy Frome, we are developing a people-centred, place-based evaluation of their community-led climate actions. Frome has a unique local political culture and over the past twenty years has contributed significantly to the development of new models of local governance and community engagement. Frome is our first place-study, and we will be based there from November 2025. We hope to learn about the kinds of imagining and agency that the town has nurtured and if they are transferable to other places and contexts. Our research will feed into Frome Town Council’s evaluation of the Green and Healthy Frome initiative.
We attended the Great Big Green Week in June 2025 and the Green and Healthy Frome Conference in November 2025. Michael and Ellen are based in Frome between November 2025 to March 2026.
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2 November 2025
Call for Participants: Help Tell Frome’s Stories!
Are you a Frome resident with stories to share? Would you like to help create a community-led film or take part in an interview about Frome’s recent history? From November 2025 to June 2026, the Civic Imaginary Partnerships team will be living and/or working in Frome to explore how residents’ sense, feel and dream their […]
10 June 2026
Rural Changemakers: Guest Blog
How do communities imagine and create more sustainable, healthy, and equitable futures? This question sits at the heart of the Civic Imaginaries research project. While much discussion about climate action and the ‘civic’ focuses on cities, rural communities are also developing innovative ways to respond to environmental and social challenges. In this guest blog, Sue […]
8 October 2025
Civic Imaginaries of Frome: Creative Collaboration Call
We are looking for a creative practitioner to work with us to creatively reflect our research experiences, data and findings in Frome and to produce a work that will provoke conversations, thinking and action. Please read the blog/call to find out more.
1 October 2025
Civic imaginaries of Frome
Between November 2025 and March 2026, the Civic Imaginary Partnerships team will be living and working in Frome. In this blog, the first of our Place-Study profiles, we outline some of the features that have shaped Frome’s contemporary civic identities and why the town is of interest to us.
11 August 2026
Welcome to The ForEm!
What makes Frome, Frome? Perhaps it is the independence. The markets. The community groups, noticeboards and conversations. The festivals, parades and carnival. The architecture. The people who organise things, campaign, make art. Or decide that if something needs doing, they might as well do it themselves. These are only some versions of Frome. On Saturday […]