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 Transition Leominster are holding a meeting to discuss follow-up actions to the PEB Screening on 12th November. Full details in their newsletter – see below. Future Screenings in Herefordshire Leominster Leominster Methodist Church, Green Lane, HR6 8QJ A
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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
A survey from Rural Hub Herefordshire , working in conjunction with Wye and Usk Foundation and Herefordshire Wildlife Trust, gives a chance for farmers and land managers to have their say about a Nature Restoration Scheme for the River Lugg. Complete the online survey by 13th November, 5.00pm. The latest newsletter from Friends of the River Wye includes opportunities to get involved in citizen science projects and news of their research projects and taking their campaigns to Westminster.
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
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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. 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
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.
The National Heat Risk Commission is calling for evidence on how this summer’s heatwaves affected organisations and the communities they serve , and they want to hear from voluntary and community organisations across the UK. If your work was impacted by extreme heat this year, this is a chance to shape national policy. They want to know: what happened, what you did, what worked, and what got in the way. Submit your evidence by 30 October 2026
PEB Screening – Next Steps If the PEB screening piqued your interest and concerns and you would like to hear from the experts in more detail, click on this page on the NEB website then scroll down to ‘The Expert Briefings’ to hear their presentations in full. Other Follow Up Actions in Herefordshire Anyone organising follow up sessions my want to view the TGC Session which was what may be the first of a series about Two-Way Communications – how to get the message out there, and how to make sure that we get answers back: hugely important in these
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The county’s Repair Cafés will be involved with International Repair Day on 17th October. All the Repair Cafés listed are GOLD members of HGN Saturday 17th October South Hereford Repair Café – 10.00am – 12.30pm GOLD member of HGN. The October session are fully booked. Click here to find out more about future sessions. Malvern Hills Repair Café – 10:00am – 1:00pm Part of Transition Malvern Hills (a GOLD member of HGN) No booking system – just turn up on the day. Click here for more information Saturday 31st
