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How can we increase the amount of active travel in our district?
Tom Rushby
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How can we integrate the value of a river ecosystem into an economic appraisal of our district?
Tom Rushby
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How can we best support place-based innovators and entrepreneurs?
Tom Rushby
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How might we make local food and food producers more visible and accessible in coastal communities?
Melanie Foster
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Can you capture high-quality photos or videos of the Future Towns Innovation Hub?
Robert Woolf
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How can we keep funding in our city/region and what are the benefits of doing so?
PCE Hubs
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How can we approach doing funding better - more collaboratively and equitably - as a city/region?
PCE Hubs
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How can we approach the finance of partnerships fairly, such as paying people for their time?
PCE Hubs
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What support do you need to write successful funding applications?
PCE Hubs
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Community driven solutions to heatwaves. (Join our Beat the Heat Community)
Rebecca Kinge
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How can VCSEs ask for, or how should they ask for, payment for their time without feeling awkward?
Liz Allaway
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Should there be a standard fee for VCSEs to charge large organisations?
Liz Allaway
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Could Universities provide help fo VCSEs / smaller community organisations with succession planning?
Liz Allaway
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Have you ever used the Southampton Data Observatory for a project / funding bid? Please let us know!
Jamie Davies
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How can we enhance community‑driven data collection to inform decision-making?
Clean Water South
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How do we standardise citizen science sampling in water quality monitoring to maximise impact?
Clean Water South
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How can we share and visualise data to maximise impact on improving water quality?
Clean Water South
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Developing standardised chalkstream education topic packs for schools.
Clean Water South
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How do we devise initiatives to drive behavioural change for water efficiency?
Clean Water South
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Informing Dynamic Pricing for Water Abstraction (for Agriculture)
Clean Water South
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How do we prevent pharmaceuticals from entering wastewater and the wider environment?
Clean Water South
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What can shift behaviour around the use of household cleaning products to tackle water pollution?
Clean Water South
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Help us develop reactive source‑apportionment tools for identifying problems in water bodies
Clean Water South
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Quality Assurance for Water Monitoring Data – Agreement and Standardisation
Clean Water South
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Understanding the impact of planning and road run-off on water systems
Clean Water South
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Planning, maintenance and governance of existing rural road drainage networks
Clean Water South
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Planning and road‑runoff pressures contribute significantly to pollution, increased sediment loads, habitat fragmentation, and...
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Understanding the impact of urban and rural planning, historic infrastructure, and governance structures on water systems by mapping...
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Turning insights into tangible actions by ensuring that environmental monitoring data is trusted, standardised, openly accessible, and...
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Understanding which pressures are responsible for negative outcomes in a water body remains one of the biggest barriers to...
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Looking at holistic approaches to managing water resources across entire catchments by creating a visible, shared vision that scientists,...
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Save the date!! Urban Wild will be coming back to Southampton in 2026 from the 23rd-31st May. Please go to www.southamptonnpc.com/urbanwild to...
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Strategies for balancing supply and demand while improving efficiency and accessibility by exploring dynamic pricing approaches for...
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Strategies for balancing supply and demand while improving efficiency and accessibility by driving behavioural change in water...
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Addressing the growing challenges of emerging pollutants by introducing safe and accessible drug‑return schemes that prevent...
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Addressing the growing challenges of emerging pollutants by encouraging households to shift towards non‑toxic cleaning products and...
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Schools in Hampshire receive many different topic materials, and chalkstream‑related resources vary widely in quality and...
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Share How do we standardise citizen science sampling in water quality monitoring to maximise impact? on Twitter
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Exploring how community‑driven data collection can enhance water quality monitoring and inform decision‑making by identifying the...
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Environmental monitoring data is presented, recorded, and shared in different ways across organisations, leading to variable...
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Exploring how community‑driven data collection can enhance water quality monitoring and inform decision‑making by creating a clear...
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Solent FutureScape is the first large-scale AI-focused event in the Solent region, designed to showcase innovation, foster collaboration, and...
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Thanks to everyone who said hello at the PCE Hubs Winter Networking Event, we're always thrilled to hear how people have been using the Data...
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Share Community driven solutions to heatwaves. (Join our Beat the Heat Community) on Twitter
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Share How can VCSEs ask for, or how should they ask for, payment for their time without feeling awkward? on Twitter
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Asking for payment can feel difficult. Hiw should VCSEs begin those upfront conversations and set expectations?
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Share Should there be a standard fee for VCSEs to charge large organisations? on Twitter
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Should this be more standardised across all organisations who work with VCSEs, i.e., not just University of Southampton, and if so how could that...
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Share Could Universities provide help fo VCSEs / smaller community organisations with succession planning? on Twitter
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Many small community organisations fail or fizzle out because they rely on 1-2 people to run and organise them, who are themselves volunteers. As...
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Share How can we keep funding in our city/region and what are the benefits of doing so? on Twitter
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What can we learn from the world of doughnut economics and community wealth building, and how can we apply it locally? From intsitutional pledges to...
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How can we make sure that VCSE sector organisations are confident to ask to be paid when working with organisations like the UoS – and how can...
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When funding is scarce and demand is high, how can we think and work collaboratively rather than competitively to improve success of funding...
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The Future Towns Innovation Hub (FTIH) team want to hear from you about this very online collaboration platform - how might you use it? How can it...
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What data sources are available to you and how can you get the most out of them to showcase your impact? How can this support you in gaining more...
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Southampton Voluntary Services (SVS) are delivering funding and grant writing workshops in 2026 and want to find out what YOU need to make...
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View activity "Is it safe to swim in our river?"
Challenge - Is it safe to swim in our river?
Botley Parish Council
Botley Parish is home to the Upper Hamble River and is used extensively for leisure activities such as kayaking, paddle-boarding and swimming. The...
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Example Challenge: How Can We Better Use Data to Support Our High Street?
Our high street is facing significant challenges, including changing...
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Example Challenge: How Can We Increase the Amount of Active Travel in Our District?
Encouraging more people to walk, cycle, or use other forms of...
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