The latest newsletter from campaign group Friends of the River Wye is full of news after a momentous few weeks for the river. There are also details of ways to get to get involved with citizen science projects, monitoring the river.
St Michael’s Hospice, Hereford are holding a three day plant fair from today Friday 15th May until Sunday 17th May. Alongside the plants there will be local food, crafts, garden furniture and recycled items on sale. Local charities will also have a presence. The organisers are looking for volunteers to help. Click here for full details.
Take a look at our beautiful online calendar HGN now has a really nifty online calendar of events going on around Herefordshire. If you hover or click on an event you’ll see further information and booking info, if available. We love it – so please use it, and do send us more items to include: email admin@hgnetwork.org
There is a new feature on the HGN website – we now have the Events Calendar up and running. You can easily see events organised by HGN, Building Sense and any of our GOLD members listed by date, with links to click through for more details. GOLD and Standard members are encouraged to send in details of any events that they have coming up in the next few months for inclusion in the newsletters. Events organised by GOLD members will be listed in the Events Calendar as well. Do let us know what you think of this new
Drumroll … The beautiful new listing of HGN’s 163 (as I write) organisations and business members is up and running! (Obviously we don’t list our 1000+ individual members online.) For me, it’s truly encouraging to see just how much activity is going on around Herefordshire in terms of climate, nature and community. Take a look at the listings here. And if you’re part of an organisation or business that could join HGN, do sign up – standard membership is free. (Big thanks to our admin team Fran and Rachel for their work on this, plus
We know we promised this a few weeks ago, but it took a little longer than expected to fix things behind the scenes. But finally, if you are receiving this on behalf of an organisation or business, you’ll be getting an email from us about your listing in our new and very improved membership directory! Please do look out for it, check your info, and get back to us with any changes. And if you’re part of or know of an organisation or business that you think should be listed, let us know or sign up for standard or gold membership. Thank you Jackie
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Sign up now for 19 June Ready, steady WORKSHOP – Starting and running a local environment group Following the introductory, online session on starting and running a local environment group, the in-person follow up event will be in Hereford (at the Museum of Cider), running from 10am until 2-2.30pm, including refreshments and a sandwich lunch. We are going to be hearing from groups from Colwall, Fownhope, Almeley and Archenfield, with 1-2 other contributors still to be confirmed. All the details are on the Eventbrite page. Do please sign up using this link. Join us on BlueSky! HGN has migrated from X
Our admin team, Rachel and Fran, are doing a magnificent job upgrading our list of member organisations (we don’t list individual members, of course). The list is about to become bigger and better and, we hope, more useful for everyone. So if you’re from an organisation or business, please keep an eye open for an email in the next couple of weeks asking you to confirm that we’re publishing the correct details. And one more thing before you read on! Again for our organisations – when you forward this week’s HGN Weekly News to your members, do please encourage them to
