Common Ground

Common Ground is a small, grassroots organisation based in Dorset that collaborates openly to reconnect people with nature and inspires communities to become responsible for their local environment.

Common Ground was founded in 1983 by Sue Clifford, Angela King and the writer Roger Deakin, with the idea of Local Distinctiveness at its heart. Projects like Apple Day, New Milestones, Parish Maps, Tree Dressing and Community Woodlands have captured the imagination of hundreds of communities all over the country and continue to unearth very strong feelings of attachment and belonging, to local history, to language, nature, architecture, folklore, and to the landscape of places.