Communities on Britain’s margins, left alone by the centres of power, are boldly rewriting the future, reclaiming and reimagining neglected land and buildings to prepare all of us for the uncertainties ahead. Join us to find out more about these frontierlands and what lessons we might learn to bring into our own communities.

Frontierlands are Britain's forgotten places. Silt-filled harbours, overgrown forests, sunken railway tracks and empty buildings. All once economic engines, now abandoned by investors and the state. But they are home to local communities, and amongst them, some remarkable pioneers working together to repair, rebuild and prepare for the future.

Hazel Sheffield takes us on a journey that begins at the coastline and travels inward via hoardings and railway arches, factories, streets and neighbourhoods to our homes. Moving from Watchet harbour in the South West to Gateshead in the North East, from Lancashire to London and the South East, she introduces us to the people who are acting to shape their own destinies - people with first-hand knowledge of the problems Britain faces and with clear ideas how to make things better.

This is a book about regeneration, reclaiming power, and the hope that comes from community action.

About people questioning how the world works and determined to do things differently in the face of economic upheaval and climate crisis. People learning to build a new world, challenging us all to think about how we should live in the face of certain change.

Hazel will be joined by Jess Prendergrast (Onion Collective) and Melissa Mean (WeCanMake) to discuss reimagining abandoned and neglected places in Bristol and the South West in conversation with Andrew Kelly (Bristol Festival of Ideas).

Jess Prendergrast is one of the founding directors of Onion Collective, a place-based social enterprise in Watchet, West Somerset. Over eight years, Onion Collective built a £7.3m arts centre on Watchet's derelict quayside. Before this, Jess was one of the team behind a £3.2m indoor skate park and youth centre called Minehead Eye. Melissa 

Mean is founding director of WeCanMake. WeCanMake designs and delivers innovative approaches to community-led housing, including unlocking micro-sites for affordable homes, and using localised digital design and fabrication technologies to help communities to capture more value from the process of development in the form of jobs, skills and infrastructure.

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