Latest news from around the Herefordshire Green Network.
Views expressed are those of the individual authors and not necessarily HGN.
Welcome to the Herefordshire Green Network!
Welcome to our many new HGN Group Members and to those of you who receive this newsletter via your Parish Council, local green organisation or email group. We are delighted that our weekly / daily newsletters are becoming more and more popular and now go out to over...
HGN announcement re Coronavirus
As everything goes into stasis around Coronavirus, we need more than ever to be moving forwards with our work as a community around the climate crisis. So, we will hold members meetings and workshops via the online video platform, Zoom - which can...
HSTG: A Tale of Two County Towns
From Herefordshire Sustainable Transport Group. Shropshire and Herefordshire have a great deal in common. They are both essentially rural shire counties with county towns at the heart and a number of smaller market towns that look to be connected and feed into them....
Community Car Share Club: news from Leominster
News from Transition Leominster: the local group working towards an equitable, sustainable and resilient Leominster. OPPORTUNITY: PROJECT ORGANISER / ADMINISTRATOR Transition Leominster hopes to initiate the formation of a Community Car Share Club with its own small...
Join Transition Network UK for the What Next? Summit
The TNUK What Next? Summit is happening in just a few weeks’ time, and their exciting new platform and events calendar is now live. The What Next? Summit will build community power across the UK by bringing together hundreds of community activists...
Ledbury Railway Station Project
From Rail and Bus for Herefordshire. Rail and Bus for Herefordshire in partnership with West Midlands Railway launch a new project for Ledbury Railway Station under the banner of Your Community, Your Fund. The project, funded through a grant from the West Midlands...
Hstg: time and speed
From Herefordshire Sustainable Transport Group The writer Monisha Rajesh made a telling and accurate comment in her book ‘Around the World in 80 Trains’. She said: As a people we’d become obsessed with speed, checking our watches, glancing at the clock, running for...
Left Bank Talks and Discussion Evenings – coming up
News of the upcoming (online) Left Bank Talks and Discussion Evenings From Nat and Alan: Details of upcoming talks are below. Please, as ever, do pass on to individual friends and family, but please do not share this access...
“Green Screen” at the WOW film festival
HGN are delighted to be associated with the WOW Wales One World Film Festival. This small festival from Wales started 20 years ago and presents “eye-opening world cinema so you can experience the weird, wild, wonderful world we live in”. The festival are presenting a...
HGN “BUILDING SENSE” takes off!
Our new BUILDING SENSE: creating comfort + cutting carbon initiative on building retrofit got off to a great start at our HGN gathering on Wednesday. We packed in a huge audience and lots of information and views from our contributors. Some key takeaways: Building...
Winter News from Herefordshire Tree Forum
For tree lovers, here is a link to 'Herefordshire Tree Forum's Winter News - full of info and links to guidance on tree planting, with a focus on urban trees in this issue. “Much is being planned, but I think we can agree too, much more is needed!”Mo Burns,...
Joint HGN and HWT City Branch Nature Recovery event
Wednesday 17th March 7pm Herefordshire Green Network are delighted to be co-hosting this event with the HWT City Branch. Andrew Nixon, Conservation Senior Manager for HWT will discuss the important issue of strategies to better protect and nurture an increase in...
Donate a photo to the HGN e-Card fundraising page
Temi is looking for stunning pictures of the flora, fauna and landscape of our beautiful country, for a fundraiser he is creating for HGN. The page will be hosted on charity ecards uk.com. If you have a photograph or two you would like to donate, please get...
Identiplant Course
From Clan CIC Do you want to identify plants correctly, to use a flora and to follow a botanical key? This course could be the answer. Herefordshire based group Cultivating Learning and Nature, are offering tutorship on the Identiplant Course 2021 This course is not...