📢 MMMM! This Monday + Share Your Stories with West Dorset News

Join us this Monday, 3 March for another MMMM! Monday Movie, Meal & Mingling event, where we’ll be screening #ClimateScam?

Plus, we’ve got an exciting update: our newsletter has a new name, and we’re inviting you to contribute!

📅 MMMM! Monday 3 March, Movie (#ClimateScam?) Meal & Mingling
📍 6-9pm, The Chapel in the Garden (Rax Lane entrance), Bridport DT6 3JX
🎟️ Book your spot and order your food now → ud.coop/climatescam

⬇️ Read more about the event:

MMMM! Monday 3 March, Movie (#ClimateScam?), Meal & Mingling

MMMM! is back this Monday 3 March: We’ll have a delicious (mostly organic) vegan curry from 6ish: Cauliflower with potatoes Chickpeas in a northern style Masoor Dal Basmati Rice And salad Pre-book (or at least let us know you’d like food) to avoid disappointment! 🎟️ 🍲😋 https://ud.coop/climatescam This week

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A New Name & An Invitation to Share Your Stories

As part of our transition from United Diversity Bridport to West Dorset Commons, we’ve also renamed our newsletter from Bridport Community News to West Dorset News. This isn’t just a name change—we want this to be a platform where you can share your news, projects, and stories of positive change happening across the West Dorset bioregion.

📢 If you’re working on something that contributes to a thriving local future, we’d love to hear from you!

📩 Contact our editor at josef@uniteddiversity.coop and let’s share your story.

⬇️ Read more about this and how to contribute:

Share Your Stories with West Dorset (Bioregional) News

Same Mission, New Name As many of you will know, we’ve long referenced the “Bridport bioregion” which, as we define it, roughly aligns with the area of West Dorset shown in the maps below. This topographic map illustrates the “life place”—or bioregion—we’re talking about, following the hills from

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Easier Email Management – Why (More of You) Are Receiving This

To make things easier to manage, we’ve added everyone from our manually maintained MMMM! email list to this newsletter. This means:

✅ You’ll get future updates about MMMM! events (and more!) via this newsletter
✅ You can unsubscribe anytime using the link at the bottom of the newsletter emails

Looking Back: Our Original Vision

When we first launched, we wrote this long read about our plans. If you’re curious about where it all started, or just want a better understanding of where we're coming from, you can read it here:

Update on plans to get the Bridport bioregion into the Doughnut (and other crazy/ genius ideas)

TL;DR (too long; didn’t read): 1. Subscribe to the newsletter - get future updates as soon as they’re published! 2. Support the plans financially - our first goal is to get 20 locals putting in £5+/mo 3. Fill in this survey if you’d like to get involved -

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Our goal is to make the West Dorset bioregion a home to thriving people, in a thriving place, while respecting the wellbeing of all people and the health of the planet.

🚀 In other words, get the West Dorset bioregion into the Doughnut by making "rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society" a reality in our locality.

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