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Click here for the latest newsletter from HGN Gold Member Transition Leominster including details of their AGM on November 12th 7.00pm, with a follow-up meeting to their PEB screening earlier this summer at 7.30pm.
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All the Repair Cafés listed are GOLD members of HGN Saturday 31st October Hereford City Repair Café – 10.00am – 12 noon. This session is fully booked. The repair café now includes include a space dedicated to Ending Loneliness, a community interest group that helps bring people together for a chat and a cuppa. You don’t have to use the repair café to join the session. Use this link to find out more. Saturday 7th November Leominster Repair Café – 10.00am – 12 noon. If you have items for sharpening, no need to book – just turn up. More details and to book
Banter Sessions The banter sessions organised by the Great Collaboration team continue weekly on a Wednesday lunchtime covering a range of topics. Click here for a list of past and future sessions. The next session, on Wednesday 4th November is on B-lines, and how to support invertebrates and other pollinators in your community. The change in the weather meant that last week’s session was an appropriate moment to update everyone on what they can do as individuals to keep their homes warm and dry as effectively as possible, and as parish and town and community councils, to disseminate these
Join Marches Energy Advice for a free Energy Advice Workshop on Thursday 5th November. There is a further workshop on Thursday 4th February. The Government’s Warm Homes Scheme is live. Find out more about it and what it means for your home in this article from Tony Baker of MEA. Find out more about how to improve your home’s energy performance in the latest newsletter from HGN’s Building Sense project. If you want regular updates, sign up here to receive the
Woolhope Dome Community Discovery Day Saturday 7th November, 10.00am to 1.00pm Woolhope Parish Hall, Martins Close, Woolhope, Herefordshire, HR1 4QS Find out about Herefordshire Wildlife Trust’s five nature reserves within the Woolhope Dome landscape and their future plans – including their current fundraising appeal to purchase two new sites. (Woolhope Dome Land Purchase Appeal | Herefordshire Wildlife Trust) CEO Saul Herbert and Nature Reserves Officer Rosie Wilson will give a presentation at 11.00am – but drop in any time to chat with staff and find out more. All welcome, teas and coffees and cakes served. No booking required. The Weobley and District Branch
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Herefordshire Food Futures Project Coordinator Herefordshire Food Alliance, a GOLD member of HGN, is looking for an enthusiastic, experienced and collaborative person to help bring Marches Food Systems for the Future to life across Herefordshire. With a strong understanding of sustainable food systems, climate resilience and community action, you’ll work with local communities, farmers, growers and partner organisations to develop community-led climate action, strengthen connections between people and local food, and help build a more resilient, sustainable food system for the future. The role is part of an ambitious cross-border project spanning Monmouthshire, Herefordshire, Powys and Shropshire, funded
PEB Screening – Next Steps At the HGN AGM, member of the Steering Group Lynne Bowers, who is leading on action following the PEB screenings for HGN, gave a summary of the current situation and action taken to date. Click here to read what she said at the AGM. If you would like to be part of the group, e-mail admin@hgnetwork.org Other Follow Up Actions Presteigne and Norton International Dark Sky Community, a standard member of HGN is asking for signatures on a Welsh Government petition web-link for people to lobby the UK Government to show
22/10/2026
All the Repair Cafés listed are GOLD members of HGN Saturday 31st October Hereford City Repair Café – 10.00am – 12 noon. Use the link to book your items in for this session or just walk in on the day. Saturday 7th November Leominster Repair Café – 10.00am – 12 noon. If you have items for sharpening, no need to book – just turn up. More details and to book in an item for the November session, on their website. If you have items for sharpening, no need to book – just turn up. Marden Repair Café – 10.00am – 12.30pm Take
Banter Sessions The banter sessions organised by the Great Collaboration team continue weekly on a Wednesday lunchtime covering a range of topics. Click here for a list of past and future sessions. The next session, on Wednesday 28th October is on basic energy efficiency actions for individuals and councils. Autumn Newsletter Click here for the latest newsletter from TGC. Great Collaboration Banter sessions are free, open to all, and held at noon on Wednesdays. Feel free to pass this invitation on to anyone that you think could benefit. All sessions are recorded, and the resulting video, presentation, meeting
Join Hereford’s friendly Community Clean Up on the first Sunday of each month, meeting at 10.00am at the Westfaling Street Scout Hut in Whitecross. It’s an hour of gentle litter-picking, good company and a tidier patch to show for it. Gloves and pickers are provided – just bring yourself. Click here for details of other litter picks around the county. If there is one near you, why not get involved. If there isn’t one near you, find out how to organise one.
