Join The Great Collaboration

Between us as a community around Herefordshire we share great expertise and resource. By working together we have the opportunity to offer genuinely meaningful support to our local councils as they start to take action on the climate crisis…

HGN are developing a project that we will take out around the county this summer in support of local councils who are engaging with the XR prompted Declaration of a Climate Emergency. 

The aims of The Great Collaboration project are: 

  1. To support county, town and parish councillors and their communities to embrace the opportunity created by Herefordshire Council’s Declaration of a Climate Emergency.
  2. To encourage a wider understanding of carbon calculating and the Zero Carbon Britain model, and how these might be applied in Herefordshire. 
  3. To develop shared locally relevant, practical solutions – through discussion, information and inspiration – in response to Herefordshire’s aspiration to be carbon neutral by 2030.

In the first instance we aim to work with councils in Hereford, Leominster, Bromyard, Ross, Ledbury and Kington, inviting adjoining parish councils along plus associated county councillors. 

More information about the project (including a timeline ) is available here.

If this project feels interesting to you – and you feel that you have expertise, time, skills, resources or contacts that would support this project – we need you! 

Please copy and paste the questions below into an email to kate@hgnetwork.uk – and let us know:

How you would like to get involved?

What skills / expertise / resources you could contribute to the project? 

What time you might have to offer?

Where you are based in or around the county?

… And thank you!

2 Comments

  • Hi, Kate, I’d be very interested in helping with this. Sounds exciting , love, rick x

    rick guest June 1, 2019
  • Hi Kate My name is Michael Handley and I found out about this meeting and others from an email sent to me by Clerk of Almeley Council which I am a councillor for my sins.Ha ha. I got on the council to help and sort out alot of planning mainly in this area of broiler chicken sites. I live now back where I was born 66 years ago. Through those years I have seen a dramatic change in the wild life , birds, animals, and wild flowers since I moved back. I live well out in the countryside but it has changed . One of the biggest culprits is the way of farming to-day. Us the consumer wanted cheap food and we got it at a cost to our wild life, water courses and the way fields are producing food to-day. A field to-day on a farm that produces in rotation either spuds, corn, oil seed rape etc the ground is never left fallow. They have taken all the goodness out of it so now have to put heavy loads of fertilizers on to get a crop. You do not see the Gulls flowing the plough as they used to. Have you ever dug down to the depth the plough has gone to see what the soil is like below. It is worth looking at if you have not done so. The soil now is tilled so fine larger insects and moles have gone. Have you noticed you do not have to clean your windscreen as much now of dead flies. It is nice where we are but the common has been let go by ———— council but with what we are going to do in the future I hope will help. As children and as far back as early 1900’s played football and cricket on the common . You would in the summer have a job to find a player as the grass was so high. Sorry for the rant.

    Michael January 31, 2020

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