THE FLEETWOOD INITIATIVE

THE FLEETWOOD INITIATIVE is rated 3 out of 5 in the category environmental services. Read and write reviews about THE FLEETWOOD INITIATIVE. “Let me help you or you will drown, said the monkey putting the fish safely up a tree.” - Alan Watts Fleetwood Initiative is a registered charity promoting the philosophy and design principles of permaculture through connective art practice, skill-sharing and utilising embodied energy. Through the perspectives offered by slow and careful observation of our environments, by engaging with and listening to our communities and remaining unrestricted in our outlook, we create an inclusive, aspirational space where an expanded concept of art can be explored. We believe in taking things slow. By slowing down our decision-making process, acknowledging the whole rather than merely the immediate, and by using and reusing all available natural and human resources, we are able to be self-reliant and sustainable. Living, growing and evolving in this way, maintaining an internal balance in which all elements interact with one another, allows us to define our own model of social enterprise. We support those whose work engenders a responsibility toward sustainable and humane social and ecological futures, and we see the creative process as the primary means by which the core tenets of permaculture can be experienced. We seek to fulfil a variety of roles – a space to learn, to create, and to share – and the principles of permaculture design offer a unique framework through which this can be achieved. We believe how has an equal importance to what, and we aim to keep the fish in the water and the monkey in the tree.