Public Events
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NATIONAL TRUST FAMILY ECO SUMMIT Sunday 3rd July 2022 10.00am - 4.00pm Coleshill Estate, Oxfordshire A family friendly festival focusing on nature and habitat, sustainability, recycling and all things Green The venue is the stunning National Trust Coleshill Estate, Near Faringdon, Oxfordshire https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/buscot-and-coleshill-estates/whats-on Tickets available here boxedupevents.sumup.link |
PROGRAMME OF EVENTS
Exhibitors
Our exhibitors are on hand to answer any questions you may have. Feel free to drop by anytime for a chat.
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A Bag A Day Keeps Litter Away
The wonderful Heather collected litter for 40 days during Lent 2018 when she was just 14 and hasn’t stopped since. She would like others now to join her! https://www.facebook.com/abagadaykeepslitteraway |
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Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust
BBOWT have a bold vision of a wilder Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire, with more nature everywhere – for everyone – in towns and rural areas. We all need nature – for clean water, food and fresh air - but nature needs us too. Our mission is to bring about nature’s recovery by inspiring and empowering local people and partners to help bring nature back https://www.bbowt.org.uk |
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Busbys Bees
Come and see a real live bee hive and learn all about these fascinating and vital creatures. https://busbysbees.co.uk/ |
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Climate Emergency Centre
The Climate Emergency Centres (CECs) project enables the development of a self-funding Eco Centre that brings together a diverse alliance of groups and individuals in the local community to build solutions, relationships and resilience in the face of the Climate Emergency and multiple social crises. Each centre is autonomous but interconnected with a broader network of Centres across the UK that support each other, sharing skills, resources and knowledge. https://climateemergencycentre.co.uk/about/ |
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Farcycles
The Farcycles is a charity that lobbies for cycling infrastructure improvements and tries to influence policymakers on cycling investment. We regularly get involved in projects that facilitate and encourage cycling and sustainable transport. BIKE DONATIONS Do you have a bike you wish to donate to Farcycles for good causes? They are eager to collection as many suitable bikes to help everyone from our local community, Bike Libraries around Oxfordshire, and to provide transport for refugees in Faringdon and around the county. Feel free to bring them along to the Festival and they will be donated to a great cause. https://farcycles.weebly.com/about-us.html |
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Hedgehog Friendly Highworth
Hedgehog Friendly Highworth is a group of people with an interest in helping and raising awareness about helping wild European hedgehogs https://www.facebook.com/groups/482017729448289 |
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Helping Hands Environmental
Not just litter pickers! Helping Hand care passionately about supporting our customers, environmental partners and eco ambassadors in local, regional and global litter picking campaigns and anti-litter consultancy https://www.hhenvironmental.co.uk/ |
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Oxfordshire Badger Group
OBG is a voluntary, charity organisation. They work to protect Oxfordshire's badgers. They are now in their second year of badger vaccination. They operate a badger rescue and call out service. They rely on donations and all their amazing volunteers & supporters https://www.oxonbadgergroup.org.uk/ |
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Plastic Free Swindon
Plastic Free Swindon is an organisation dedicated to help end plastic pollution. They are part of Friends of the Earth and the global Break Free From Plastic movement. They are working to develop a system of zero waste; good for the environment, people, animals, and local economies. https://plasticfreeswindon.org/home/ |
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Puff of Smoke Studios
Puff of Smoke studio was founded by Bee Operanto, where she teaches mindful and compassionate art. She has taken part in numerous exhibitions and pop-up galleries throughout the UK, and was a finalist for the Foxy Crafters "The Craftys" Award in San Francisco. She also featured in the Welsh Art Magazine, and in 2016's iBook of Abstract Art. https://puffofsmokestudios.com/ |
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The Pump House Project
Based in Faringdon, Oxfordshire, The Pump House Project is your community centre; running a weekly timetable of activities, events, classes and clubs for the whole community. Featuring special events, fundraisers and innovative new projects. There aim is to provide a variety of low cost activities for all ages and abilities in Faringdon and the surrounding villages. https://www.thepumphouseproject.org.uk/ |
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Sustainable Shrivenham
Sustainable Shrivenham is a community led group that aims to equip the local community with the information, skills and resources to inspire and enable them to make more sustainable choices in their everyday lives. https://www.sustainableshrivenham.com/ |
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Thames Water
Thames Water takes care of water for 15 million people, building a better future for our customers, our region and our planet https://www.thameswater.co.uk/about-us |
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Vale of White Horse Waste Team
Protecting the environment is important to the Wate Team and they see what you throw away as a resource. What you put in each of your bins goes on to become something else: from brand new products to energy. Learn how the things we throw away are re-used https://www.whitehorsedc.gov.uk/ |
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Westmill Sustainable Energy Trust
Westmill Sustainable Energy Trust – WeSET – is the charity set up by members of the Westmill Wind Farm Co-operative and the Westmill Solar Co-operative. They carry out a wide range of activities, with the core being educational work, supporting local energy conservation and renewable energy initiatives and arts projects https://www.weset.org/ |
Entertainment & Activities
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Bill Church The Story Traveller
Tall tales and traditional fables for kids of all ages 11.15am, The Poultry Yard 1.00pm, Shepherds Hut, Organic Garden 2.00pm, The Midden Bill Church The Story Traveller is a story teller who has told stories to audiences of all ages all over the country in a wide variety of settings. He is currently Story Teller in Residence at Wick Court (a Farm for City Children) and at Kingshill House Arts Centre, Dursley. He is also an author with two books published "Don't Look At Me Like That!" and "Pig The Legend". www.thestorytraveller.co.uk/index.html |
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Carpenters Canteen
Carpenters Yard Delicious freshly made food and drink serving all day https://www.facebook.com/Carpenterscanteencoleshill/ |
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Coleshill Organic
Organic Gardens & Orchard Garden Tours 11.30am, 1.30pm & 3.00pm Come and explore the beautiful gardens of Coleshill Organics. There will be plenty of activities throughout the gardens, or just find a peaceful shady spot. Garden tours will be taking place at 11.30am, 1.30pm and 3.00pm if you're interested in picking up some gardening tips - or if you're simply interested in how they grow organically https://www.coleshillorganics.co.uk |
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Coleshill Organic Childrens Trail
Running all day across the Organic Garden & Orchard Pick up a copy of your trail from the produce shop in the Gardens |
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Coleshill Woodland Baby and Toddler Group
Organic Garden Nature craft sessions on the hour all day Lots of fun activities for our younger attendees from mud kitchens to bug hunting. Nature Craft Sessions on the hour, 10am – Clay Critters, 11pm – Nature Crowns and Fairies, 12pm – Bubble Trouble, 1pm – Clay Critters, 2pm- Nature Crowns and Fairies, 3pm – Bubble trouble https://www.coleshilltoddlerandbaby.com |
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Eddie Cook
Singer/Songwriter 1.30pm, Poultry Yard Eddie is a self taught guitarist with a poetry back ground. His unique style of playing and writing, combined with his passionate and powerful vocal, has given him a unique quality many artist long for. https://purplehistory.wixsite.com/website/bio |
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Emma Boor Puppet Peddler
12.00pm The 3 Bicycle Goats Gruff & 2.00pm The Gingerbread Man, The Poultry Yard Imagine a magical bicycle, arriving at a safe space near you, full of stories, music and comedy puppets. Imagine watching 'be-spoke' mini shows from a bike (sorry for the pun) , packed with creative ideas that inspire you to try things at home and bring worlds to life. Meet ‘The 3 Bicycle Goats Gruff’ and the Cycle Helmet Troll. Have a wheely good time with ‘The Gingerbread Man’ and his messy baking, and join a thrilling race with ‘The Tortoise and the Hare’. It's Cycle themed, Early years street theatre and puppetry for very young audiences and their families. Wild Boor's work is always interactive, entertaining and a little bit silly! https://www.wildboor.com/the-puppet-pedlar/ |
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Kiss The Ground
Running throughout the day starting at 10.30am, The Forge Narrated and featuring Woody Harrelson, Kiss the Ground is an inspiring and groundbreaking film that reveals the first viable solution to our climate crisis. Running on a loop throughout the day https://kissthegroundmovie.com/ |
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McIntosh Nosh
Walled Garden Delicious homemade cakes, teas, coffees and hot drinks from our converted horsebox http://www.mcintoshnosh.co.uk/ |
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Coleshill Mill Opening Tours
Tours will be on the hour, every hour from 11.00am until 3.00pm Come and explore this fascinating 3-storey watermill with two pairs of millstones, and machinery from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Tours will be on the hour, every hour from 11.00am until 3.00pm |
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National Trust Ranger Walks
11.30am, 1.00pm and 3.00pm. Meet at the National Trust Welcome Van A 45 minute gentle walk looking at the first phase of restoration works in the parkland including plans for the future. |
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National Trust Biodiversity activity
Taking place throughout the day in The Orchard Bug hunts around the garden. See what little creature friends you can find hiding. All equipment provided. |
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National Trust Composting activities
Taking place throughout the day in the Walled Garden Create your own compost pots, origami planting and learn about all things compost. |
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National Trust Plastics activities
Taking place throughout the day in the Bothy Learn about how plastics enter the food chain. Try your hand at beeswax wrap making |
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National Trust Biomass Incinerator Tour
Tours run at 11.00am, 12.30pm and 2.30pm. Meet at the Bar Biomass incineration is the act of using organic refuse to create electricity. Learn all about how the National Trust are utilising this green energy source to provide energy to their historic buildings |
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Puff of Smoke Studios
Run throughout the day in The Midden Drop in illustration classes with an eco twist. https://puffofsmokestudios.com/ |
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Rachel Wannerton, Nurtured Wellness
10.15am in The Poultry Yard Drop in yoga. https://www.nurturedwellness.co.uk/ |
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Radnor Arms
The Radnor Arms is the 400 year old local pub. They will be providing a pop up bar offering a great selection of alcoholic and non alcoholic drinks in the courtyard. https://www.radnorarms.com/ |
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Rob at the Woodshed
Rob is a wood worker with a passion for heritage craft making hand crafted spoons and bowls from locally sourced green wood using axes, knives and a foot powered lathe. Rob will be demonstrating his craft throughout the day and will have lots of items for sale. https://www.facebook.com/robatthewoodshed/ |
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Sarah Derrick
12.45pm in The Poultry Yard Sarah is a singer, pianist and guitarist from Oxfordshire. Her beautiful, mellow acoustic music includes some originals covers of a range of contemporary music including Fleetwood Mac, Adele, Emeli Sande, Ed Sheeran and Sam Smith. https://www.facebook.com/sarahderrickmusic/ |
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Smart Greens
Based in The Office Yard Children are never too young to learn about where their food comes from. The more that they know, the more open they are to trying new foods and to growing their own vegetables. Smart Greens have a beautiful site on an educational farm where they grow traditionally, and using Aquaponics Have fun with water, whilst learning about aquaponics. Water based activities aimed at STEM KS2 https://www.smart-greens.uk/ |
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Sustainable Shrivenham
Midden Yard A range of activities promoting sustainable living will be run from the Sustainable Shrivenham stall www.sustainableshrivenham.com/ |
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Thames Water
Drop in activities throughout the day in The Office Yard Come along to the stand and learn all about water conservation and how to stop sewer abuse. There will be plenty of activities including shaky bottles to experiment what should and shouldn’t be flushed away and a poo pipe showing a complete model of a sewer. Yucky fun! https://www.thameswater.co.uk/ |
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The 3 Engineers
Drop in activities and book readings throughout the day, Midden Yard Meet the author and learn about The3Engineer’s mission to motivate children to play a positive roll in protecting our natural world. Throughout the day Nick will be signing books and doing book readings but being an engineer he will also have some great experiments you can try all about the nature of plastics. The3engineers |
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Vale of White Horse Waste Team
Drop in activities throughout the day, Carpenters Yard As well as learning all about recycling and waste management, try your hand at making bee hotels out of non-recyclable waste |
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White Horse Box Pizza
Poultry Yard Delicious fresh pizza served throughout the day https://www.facebook.com/WhiteHorseBox/ |
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Westmill Sustainable Energy Trust
Drop in activities throughout the day, Parkland Lots of fun activities focusing on the production of electricity, focussing particularly on Renewable / Sustainable / Green Energy. Ever wondered how a wind turbine works? Come along and play with the turbines and learn all about how the wind can be used to power our homes https://www.weset.org/ |
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What the Pluck
3.00pm, Poultry Yard A Swindon based ukulele band covering a range of popular tunes from the classics through to more modern hits Toe tapping, lively and always fun https://www.whatthepluckswindon.com/ |
Marketplace
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Alasdair Sharp - Home Farm Décor
Office Yard asharp933@btinternet.com Home décor items and furniture made using found and reclaimed materials from the family farm, fallen trees, old buildings and disused machinery. |
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Blue Acorn Wood
Office Yard Blue Acorn Engraved Wood provide unique wooden products (please see our Shop for the full range) making them that ideal special gift for the person who has everything or even to treat yourself! All our signs and boards are made from a single piece of solid English or European oak from a sustainable source. Select the size you require and then let us know the words and images you would like to have engraved on it. Your personalised item will then be exactly as you require. https://www.engravedwood.co.uk |
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Baking Bee
Carpenters Yard Baking and selling sweet and savoury scones at markets, festivals & events in the local area https://www.facebook.com/bakingbeeashbury/ |
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David Fell – Fell-ed Wood Turning
Midden Yard 100% recycled timber from Oxfordshire, historic buildings and iconic cars. From MG dashboards to Christchurch College floor boards turned into a range of unique gifts. Davidfell126@icloud.com |
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Folly and Wild
Office Yard Home décor and Vegan products and services https://www.facebook.com/follywildoxford |
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Nells Nibbles
Office Yard Hand made dog treats and biscuits containing with no wheat, grain, dairy, fat or eggs. Just all natural goodness. https://www.facebook.com/nellsnibbles |
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Puff of Smoke Studios
Midden Yard In the woodlands, in the heart of Wiltshire, UK, nestles a studio created entirely of reclaimed materials. Bee loves working in mixed media, when little scraps of paper turn into magical creatures and watercolours create infinite oceans. https://puffofsmokestudios.com/ |
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The Pump House Project
Carpenters Yard Selling a selection of pre-loved clothes https://www.thepumphouseproject.org.uk/ |
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Rob at the Woodshed
Poultry Yard Carving hand crafted spoons, bowls and other handmade goodies. https://www.facebook.com/robatthewoodshed/ |
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Root & Branch
Next to National Trust Welcome Wagon Root & Branch are an independent charity located in the Vale of the White Horse, providing activities that promote recovery for people who experience mental health difficulties. They will be holding a plant sale www.rootandbranch.info/ |
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Smart Greens
Office Yard Our Aquaponics growing system specialises in leafy greens and culinary herbs https://www.smart-greens.uk/buying-from-us |
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Solid Bar Company
Midden Yard Sustainable, plastic-free Hair Care, Body Care, Children's Care, Soap Care, Pet Care and Repellent Care Multi-Award winning vegan solid natural bars https://thesolidbarcompany.com/ |
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Stainswick Farm Oil
Carpenters Yard The Sanderson family are the 4th generation of farmers at Stainswick Farm located on the picturesque Oxfordshire/Wiltshire border. We are passionate about providing our customers with a quality, healthy, natural and fully traceable product – the red tractor logo means that we can tell you which field the rapeseed oil in your bottle was grown in! http://www.stainswickfarm.co.uk/ |
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Pegs wood creations
Carpenters Yard Steve likes to recycle and use natural occurring art and enhance it to make it more useful and pleasing to the eye. All the wood he uses is either from a local wood yard where tree surgeons dump their waste wood or from other sources steve.pedge@hotmail.com |
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Swindon Pulse Wholefoods
Midden Yard The most important aims and objectives of Swindon Pulse were, and still are, to promote an affordable and healthy way of living, with minimal exploitation of people, planet, and animals https://swindon-pulse.co.uk/ |
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The 3 Engineers
Midden Yard The3Engineers are on a mission to raise awareness of environmental issues and teach the next generation how they can help. They have written a set of fun rhyming children’s books based on their character ‘Scout, who loves to figure things out’. https://www.the3engineers.com/ |
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Tribe Zero Waste
Office Yard Tribe Zero-Waste run pop-up events and plastic free deliveries around Oxfordshire and nearby counties. They also run a refill shop in Faringdon selling a selection of organic food refills, refillable detergents, and plastic-free, earth friendly cleaning products, homewares and self-care items http://www.tribezerowaste.co.uk/ |
talks
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Richard Benwell - CEO, Wildlife and Countryside Link
"Solving the Nature Emergency - From Coleshill to Canada" 10.30am, Old Timber Store Link’s key role is to bring together our members on issues of common concern and to present a clear, consistent message to Government, opinion leaders and the general public. |
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David Busby - Busby's Bees
All you ever wanted to know about bees and more 11.15am, Old Timber Store 2.15pm, The Forge David’s bees collect the glorious nectar and pollen from woodland, orchards, meadows and gardens from early Spring to Autumn in and around Abingdon. David’s bee colonies live and work in a peaceful aipary locations, which are all in semi- rural settings, on working allotments, where they will help pollinate the gardens and improve the gardeners yields and I also have a new colony in a secluded woodland garden. All of the locations are surrounded by both natural wild flower meadows, fruit trees, farms and domestic gardens from which they forage nectar and pollen. |
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Vale of White Horse District Council Waste Team
Recycle - what happens to our stuff 12.00pm, Old Timber Store Ever wondered where your rubbish and recycling goes? Now’s your chance to find out. |
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Julia Spragg, Greenpeace
Deforestation on our plates – saving forests one meal at a time 1.00pm, Old Timber Store I’ve been involved with Greenpeace since 1989 and first participated in direct action in 1993 to oppose the expansion of the nuclear power industry. After working as a research scientist for 20 years I became a consultant and trainer working for voluntary sector organisations funding health, medicine and research. As part of the Greenpeace group in Oxford, I had already spoken to many people in many contexts about Greenpeace and its campaigns, so becoming a Greenspeaker was a great way to tell others about how Greenpeace works and why it’s an effective organisation |
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Peter Barry, Climate Emergency Centre
2.00pm, Old Timber Store The Climate Emergency Centres (CECs) project enables the development of a self-funding Eco Centre that brings together a diverse alliance of groups and individuals in the local community to build solutions, relationships and resilience in the face of the Climate Emergency and multiple social crises. Each centre is autonomous but interconnected with a broader network of Centres across the UK that support each other, sharing skills, resources and knowledge. https://climateemergencycentre.co.uk/about/ |
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Ken Hirons, Greener Great Coxwell
An update on the Community Energy Project 3.00pm, Old Timber Store The Greener Great Coxwell group have been investigating a community owned, sustainable and secure energy project that would provide heating and hot water to the whole village. The system would replace existing boilers, help with fuel poverty, reduce carbon emissions and provide a revenue stream bringing further benefits to the village. |
