Green Future Associates is a Community Interest Company delivering a hybrid mix of consultancy and project management opportunities.
Established in 2016 we are now in our 10th year. Our key people are joint coordinators Jeremy Iles & Maddy Longhurst.
We have worked with a wide variety of partners, and made steady progress with a range of grants and contracts.
Since 2020 our most of ourwork has been focused on supporting and coordinating the pioneering Urban Agriculture Consortium, for which GFA is the accountable body. https://www.urbanagriculture.org.uk
- The Urban Agriculture Consortium supports place-based food partnerships, local authorities & communities to upscale nature friendly urban farming and food growing as part of an integrated, resilient, and just food system. We are working to support regenearive agroecology in response to climate and health emergencies, Brexit and food insecurity. We have been working with a range of partners & pathfinder places since autumn 2020. Our innovative on-line Policy Influencers Network Group (PING) brings stakeholders together in a supportive forum where we can explore new ideas and good practice together “a breath of fresh air”. Great progress in being made as people and communities grasp the opportunites for regenerative urban agroecology in response to the climate emergency. https://www.urbanagriculture.org.uk
Oral History work & expertise: Jeremy has been developing parallel work as an oral history since 2010. Trained to British Library and Oral History guidelines. Member of the Oral History Society and presented at their conferences 2024 & 2025.
Oral history projects:
2010 – Coordinated an oral history project to celebrate the 30th Anniversary of the Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens.
2017 – oversaw a simple oral history project to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Horfield and District Allotment Association (Bristol). Funded by Heritage Lottery Fund, who described it as “one of the best small projects” they had seen.
https://www.horfieldanddistrictallotments.co.uk/centenary
2022 – 2025 – part of the Oral History of the Environmental Movement team, at Royal Holloway University London. A vast project collecting over 70 hours of recordings from 100 environmental activists spanning 50 years from 1970 – 2020.
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