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With the summer holidays drawing to a close and the start of the new school year, September sees the start of a new programme of online events for HGN members. The first will be: Blinded by the Light? Wednesday 25th September from 7.30pm – 9pm, Are you troubled by light pollution in your community or want to see more Dark Skies across Herefordshire? Yolande Watson, Herefordshire CPRE Executive Team member and lead for Dark Skies Herefordshire, will outline the different types of light pollution, explain why dark skies are important to humans and the natural environment, and offer simple solutions you can put in
This month, Herefordshire Council published a Climate Change Adaptation Plan for the county, to help ensure that its natural environment, people, infrastructure, buildings and businesses are prepared for the impacts of climate change. These impacts include greater incidence and severity of flooding, a higher likelihood of water scarcity and more intense and prolonged heatwaves. The plan was developed by SWM, but co-created by stakeholders who know the county the best. SWM provided the framework and the means of pulling everything together that stakeholders shared with them, to ensure the Plan had buy-in, built on existing work and aligned with other sustainability priorities,
Saturday 4th May 10-12.30 Repair Café at Leominster Community Centre Click here to book your repair. ——————————————————————————————————- This month an added bonus of a Seedling Swap 10-12 midday. Bring yours to swap – but there are likely to be spares if you haven’t got any! N0 bacon roll chef is not available this time but it could be cake? Or anyone up for the job? —————————————————————————————————— Wednesday 8th May 10am (not 3rd Wed this month) Cycling meet Corn Square Social from 7pm at the Chequers Etnam Street ________________________________________________________________________________ Weekly at the Community Centre: Tuesdays 7-8.30pm Choir lccatlcc@myphone.coop Wednesdays 2-3.30pm Circle dancing 01584 877446 ____________________________________________________________________________________ Plant stall at Leominster in Bloom Plant
The Midlands Net Zero Hub is running a couple of Community Energy Fund webinars to promote the scheme and help communities learn how to develop energy projects on behalf of the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero. Through the Community Energy Fund, community groups can receive grants of up to £140,000 to support the initial but critical feasibility phases of a project. The funding is aimed at kickstarting community-owned clean energy projects by looking into the feasibility of small-scale wind farms, rooftop solar partnerships, battery storage, heat networks, and more. The funding will be used to investigate the technical and
Caroline Lucas MP is doing an event with Rossiter Books in Ross on Wye on May 24 to chat about her new book Another England : Another England by Caroline Lucas rossiterbooks.co.uk
HGN are delighted that Applewood, Transition Malvern Hills and Clan CIC have all renewed their membership of HGN, continuing their support of our work. There are details of upcoming courses from Applewood later in this newsletter.
