11 Sep 2014:
Palace Pint in south London is one of several Grow Beer groups who grow hops for brewing in community gardens. How can you set up your own?
10 Sep 2014:
A community in a deprived area of Wales learned to use recycling projects and street parties to revive neighbourly spirit. Here are some tips for doing the same in your area
10 Sep 2014:
A Halloween party was the unlikely catalyst to the revival in fortunes of a street in Neath Port Talbot, south Wales (our seventh community project), reviving community spirit
Guardian Professional,10 Sep 2014:
As the US Cities of Service volunteering scheme launches in the UK, council release plans to tackle problems from loneliness to food poverty with volunteering
8 Sep 2014:
A Woking-based volunteer group strives to create habitats for these nocturnal birds and inspire children to help in conservation, discovers Patrick Barkham
From a gravity-powered light for the developing world to cabaret nights for scientists, green gap years, coffee bio-power and more of the best bright ideas
6 Sep 2014:
In the latest instalment of her working trip around the world, Cat Rainsford volunteers at a restaurant in the Italian lakes which is at the hub of village life
4 Sep 2014:
Kilfinan Community Forest in Argyll, Scotland, trades in timber and teaches visitors sustainability, forest and woodworking skills. Hope Whitmore got a cut of the action
3 Sep 2014:
Once a wasteland, Hulme Community Garden Centre is a fruitful learning and therapeutic resource for inner-city Manchester. Joanne O’Connell went along to see the benefits
We look back at Apple's tech products, including game-changers such as the iMac and iPhone, curiosities like Lisa – and duds, like the 20th Anniversary Macintosh