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September 24, 2023

Welcome to the Herefordshire Green Network!

Welcome to our many new HGN Group Members and to those of you who receive this newsletter via your parish council, local green organisation or email group. We are delighted that our weekly newsletters are becoming more and more popular and now go out to over 850 people each week directly (and are then are even more widely shared around HGN membership groups around the county). Your generosity with membership donations plays an increasingly vital role in keeping HGN in business supporting so many groups and activities around the county. If you are not already an individual HGN Member, signing up is

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March 23, 2021

HGN are hiring! Great opportunity to join our team

Part time HGN Administrator About the role: HGN is an expanding network of more than 80 organisations in and around Herefordshire who are working to address the climate crisis. This role would put you in contact with our increasingly diverse and growing network, supporting and delivering HGN’s outreach and project work in the county and administering the systems that support our membership. The HGN Administrator will work alongside HGN’s part-time project Coordinator for ‘The Great Collaboration’, HGN’s volunteer Steering Group and wider HGN Membership in the realisation of HGN’s Aims and Mission. Location: Home working, plus regular meetings (including some evenings), currently remotely,

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March 22, 2021

Managing and valuing our churchyards Online Workshop: this week

Diocesan Online Workshop Wednesday March 24th 7.30-9pm Valuing our churchyards Join us to gain inspiration, practical ideas and understanding as we move forwards on our Hereford Eco Diocese journey. In this workshop we are focusing on one of the five Eco Church topics – managing and valuing our churchyards. We have an excellent speaker from Caring for God’s Acre – Director Harriet Carty. Harriet is a professional ecologist and has worked in nature conservation for many years. She has worked with Caring for God’s Acre for seven years. She will speak about how to manage churchyards to increase biodiversity and how to record

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March 19, 2021

Report from the Joint HGN and HWT City Branch Nature Recovery event

On Wednesday March 17th, the City Branch of Herefordshire Wild Trust and Herefordshire Green Network joined together for a zoom presentation, with Andrew Nixon, Senior Conservation Manager of Herefordshire Wildlife Trust, addressing an audience of over 100 people on the topic of Putting the County’s Wildlife into Recovery. In a wide-ranging presentation, he took us through some of the work that the Herefordshire Wildlife Trust is doing to restore our wildlife, putting the emphasis on connected landscapes to form a green network where flora and fauna can thrive without meeting hostile landscapes which limit their range. This was presented in the

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March 18, 2021

Climate Distress Café

Run in collaboration with Herefordshire Green Network (HGN) Monday 26th April 2021 from 18.30-19.30pm In this session participants will explore the psychological effects of the climate crisis and identify ways they can support themselves and others as we all work towards a brighter future. We will together identify the impact of the negative messages we read and hear every day and discuss what action we can take to be hopeful rather than feel hopeless.The session will be run by Clare Cherry – Wellbeing and Personal Coach, along with Kate Gathercole of HGN. Numbers limited to 12 per session so registering is recommended.  Cost: donation

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March 18, 2021

The HGN Great Collaboration – update

It has been nearly a year since The Great Collaboration moved to the virtual world and in that time, we have engaged with more councillors and clerks than ever before. Our workshops and member gatherings are well attended and councillors have joined us for workshops about: clean energy generationnatural flood managementtreestransport andretrofitting buildings for energy efficiency …to name a few. If you missed a workshop or gathering then take a look at the recordings which can be found here. Our strength lies in our network and we now have 12 member councils! These councils have made a commitment through

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March 18, 2021

Environmental events and advice for farmers

From Herefordshire Rural Hub Tuesday 30th March, 7pm – 8pm “How to complete your Farm Carbon Calculator, and what it means for your business”. A Free “faster farmers” webinar. Join Becky from the Farm Carbon Toolkit to understand how to complete your carbon calculator and what it means for your business. We will use a local Herefordshire farm example to talk through how to enter the data, and then more importantly how to interpret it in a way which highlights how to reduce emissions and improve sequestration.  We will also look at how to model changes in management using the calculator. To book your place, please email 

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March 18, 2021

Online Offerings: Latest resources from the Climate Emergency UK group

Climate Emergency UK have just issued their latest resources: Scientists Warning Europe have arranged three workshops on Thursday 25th March for Councillors & Council Staff to encourage more ambition with climate & ecological emergency targets and action plans. 9am-10:30am Climate and Biodiversity Crisis action – briefing by top scientists Four top scientists come together to provide a high-level briefing on the Climate and Biodiversity Crisis specifically for councillors and council staff.12-1:30pm Council success stories from the Climate and Biodiversity front line! Don’t reinvent the wheel – copy these successful strategies. With speakers from Cornwall, Nottingham, Isle

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March 18, 2021

Herefordshire Sustainable Transport Group reports

The latest reports from HSTG are now available. Read the Herefordshire Sustainable Transport Group response to the Midlands Connect Transport Strategy Refresh – challenges, opportunities and a call for input – click here for a copy.And click here for their report on the Role of Railways in Herefordshire’s Future HSTG contacts: ghal@btinternet.com or protheroughcarole32@gmail.com

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Left Bank Talks and Discussion Evenings – coming up

From Nat and Alan: Details of upcoming talks are below. Please, as ever, do pass on to individual friends and family, but please do not share this access information publicly on social media.  24 MARCH 2021 Food (4) Alan Adams I shall present the fourth of my series about Food. This time exploring nutrition and the increasingly serious issue, nationally and globally, of obesity. Balanced, appropriate, nutrition and exercise are vital for health and well-being; the current endemic problems in this area are so detrimental individually and an enormous drain on NHS resources. A well recognized contributory factor to Covid deaths, Boris Johnson acknowledged his being overweight made his illness with Covid more serious, said

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