Earth Day: today and every day!

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What we do today and everyday helps form the kind of world we want to live in. Reducing our carbon emissions is ever more important: Working together we can achieve more – and we’re here today and every day to help you!

Here are some really great ideas – chose one (or two) for Earth Day and every day!

  1. Eat less meat and dairy – saving money and carbon!
  2. Leave the car at home – walk or cycle or bus and feel good!
  3. Draughtproof the house – you’ve always wanted to and we can help!
  4. Turn the thermostat down 1% – saving money, fuel and money too!
  5. Shun single-use plastic – stop buying bottled water of coffee in a cup?
  6. Join a local ‘Wild’ group and make your space more green & friendly?
  7. Buy less, spend less … consume less: Refuse, Reduce, Reuse Recycle!

🌎🌱 Make every day earth Day! Help create a greener, healthier future! 🌎🌱

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Get Swapping and Growing!

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We’ve got two swaps coming up for you. The first is in Datchet (perfect for people on the Windsor side of the borough) on Saturday 27th April. The second is during our anniversary event at the hub on Saturday 11th May.

You can bring well labelled seedlings along to the hub on the Thursday and Friday before the events. Or bring them on the day of the swap. As with the last seed swap – all are welcome (new growers welcome!), the events are FREE and donations to the hub are welcome as it is run by volunteers.

We’re linking in with Wild About Datchet, Maidenhead Veg Growers, Wild Windsor and the Wildlife Garden Awards. So come and get involved!

ECO Action Question Time: All about Solar Panels

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Join us at the Braywick Nature Centre for an informative event all about solar panels!

Whether you’re a seasoned environmental enthusiast or just curious about sustainable energy, this is the place to be. Our panel of experts will answer all your burning questions about solar panels and how they can benefit both you and the planet.

Put your questions to our expert panel – which includes users and installers – chaired by Peter Gibbs (from BBC R4 Gardeners’ Question Time):

  • Richard Taylor, Your Energy Your Way
  • Hayley George, RBWM Solar Together
  • Ian Alexander: Solar Panels user

Timing: From 11:00 too 12:30 Saturday 18th May.
Early-Bird Tickets: 2-for-1 and Concession options: Tickets: Book here on Eventbrite!

Location: Braywick Nature Centre, Hibbert Road, SL6 1UU

  • FREE: Tea, Coffee, Biscuits.
  • FREE Parking at Braywick Nature Centre!!
  • Additional Overflow Parking: Braywick Leisure Centre (chargeable)
ECO Action QT: all about solar panels

🌿🎉Join Us at the ECO Action Hub’s 1st Anniversary Party!🎉🌿

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What’s Happening? We’re celebrating our first year – AND we’re celebrating YOU, our incredible community of eco-warriors. Here’s why you won’t want to miss this:

When: Saturday May 11th from 10:00 with the ‘grand opening’ at 11:00, cake and bubbles at 12:00 and events through the day in ECO Action Hub.

Inspiring Conversations: Connect with people on the same journey or just starting out: climate advocates, curious minds. Share stories, swap tips, learn how small actions can make a big difference for you & for the planet!

Meet Our Team and our Partners:  Our passionate team members will be there to chat with you about sustainable living, climate action, and biodiversity. Our partners (from the local “Wilds”, from the “Wildlife Garden Awards” and others will all be there too!

Meet Special Guests: We’re thrilled to welcome RBWM’s Karen Davies, Cabinet Member for Climate Change and Biodiversity, along with her colleagues. They’ll be signing up for the 10% Challenge right alongside you!

Engaging Eco-Activities:

  • Seedling Swap: Bring your extra seedlings and exchange them with fellow gardeners.
  • Repair Cafe: Got a broken item? Our skilled repair volunteers will help fix it!
  • Library of Things: open for you to be able to pick items to take out ‘on loan’!
  • Banana Climate Game: A fun way to learn about carbon footprints and climate impact.
  • Jenga Challenge: Challenge yourself to answer eco-questions playing a giant Jenga game.
  • Personal Action Plan Sign-Up: Get personalised tips to reduce your environmental impact.
  • 10% Challenge: Commit to reducing your carbon emissions by 10%—we’ll guide you!
  • Young ECO-Warriors Story-Telling: for children from MDG at 11:15 / 13:15
  • Live Music: Relax and listen to gently soothing eco-friendly live music too!

Cake and Bubbles: And if that’s not enough there will be cake and champagne to go with the games and the swaps and the conversation … it’s a reward for your commitment to a greener planet!

🌎🌱 Together we can create a greener, healthier future. See you there! 🌎🌱

Take the 10% Carbon Reduction Challenge!

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What’s it all about? We all know we need to reduce our carbon footprint, don’t we? We can see climate change is real, that there are global issues and local concerns. Can we afford to do nothing, or can we really make some changes ourselves and have an impact?

Can you make a difference? What can you do to really reduce carbon, save money, and equally importantly how will you feel if you do make changes? How much difference can you really make as a person, and how easy will it be? We can help you! 

Introducing the 10% Challenge: Understanding your personal and household’s carbon footprint, finding tools and approaches to become more aware, then being given plans, approaches, and support to reduce your footprint year on year is what the 10% Challenge is all about.

Tell me more? 

  1. We will help you calculate your carbon footprint today.
  2. Prioritize changes you can make (how easy, how expensive, what return).
  3. Build a plan with you to make a difference (travel, food, reduce/reuse, …)
  4. Show you how to keep assessing, planning, and making real changes!

What next? Come and see us and get some great ideas to start your journey and make a difference now. Sign up with us to get more help. We are open Thursdays to Sundays (here) 

Come to our Anniversary Party: we’ll have our team there ready to talk with you AND we’ll have special guests including RBWM’s Karen Davies (Cabinet Member for Climate Change, Biodiversity) and her colleagues signing up to and taking the 10% Challenge with you!!

THIS WEEK: Repair Cafe Saturday 13th April

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Back again this year: Maidenhead’s successful Repair Café gives people’s broken or worn-out possessions a new lease of life! See people like yourself rebuilding, repairing and recycling things that might otherwise be thrown away. Open again in our ECO-Action Hub.

Please register here if you wish to bring something for repair to reserve your time-slot: Or feel free to email the Repair Café team on repair.maidenhead@gmail.com.

We open from 10:00 to 15:00. Repair skills available at this next event include:
– small electrical items (excludes microwaves and large items)
– laptops/computers, phone repairs (except screen repairs)
– IT assistance(e.g. anti-virus, software updates)
– glass repairs, book binding, fixing picture frames
– basic woodwork, small furniture items
– sewing and mending, textiles repairs

We aim to fix anything, our volunteers love to solve problems!

Look out for our future dates in 2024!

We’re hiring – ECO Action Hub Administrator

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ECO Action’s mission is ‘to help and inspire local people to do more to address the Climate and Biodiversity Emergency.’ The Hub Administrator is crucial to the successful running of this dynamic centre with its very varied activities.

“Key role: meet & greet all visitors, and be a focal point for volunteers”

  • Liaise with and arrange volunteers to staff the hub during all our open days
  • To administer loans from and returns to the Library of Things
  • To support significant special activities that take place from time to time.

If you are passionate about promoting sustainability and biodiversity and have the attributes and skills to inspire local people and small businesses to take positive action in the Climate Emergency, we would love to hear from you. 

  • Please review the detailed Job Description: Hub Administrator JD
  • If you would consider this role as a job-share please let us know too!
  • Please contact us with your background and relevant information on ecoactionrbwm@gmail.com. 

We would love to talk with you!

Want to make a difference? VOLUNTEER with us!

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Are you concerned about climate change and want to help make a difference?

Want to help other people understand how they can take small steps in their own personal journey to reduce carbon, increase nature, and save money?

Do you have skills that could be useful for the Repair Cafe or the Library of Things?

Become a Volunteer: Help us as we grow – build more engagement with people in the ECO Action Hub, at the events we attend, and at the events we run. There are also admin and business volunteering opportunities.

Find out more about us on our website https://ecoactionhub.co.uk

Contact us by email ECOActionRBWM@gmail.com and register an interest on the application form

Repair Cafe Saturday 13th April

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Back again this year: Maidenhead’s successful Repair Café gives people’s broken or worn-out possessions a new lease of life! See people like yourself rebuilding, repairing and recycling things that might otherwise be thrown away. Open again in our ECO-Action Hub.

Please register here if you wish to bring something for repair to reserve your time-slot: Or feel free to email the Repair Café team on repair.maidenhead@gmail.com.

We open from 10:00 to 15:00. Repair skills available at this next event include:
– small electrical items (excludes microwaves and large items)
– laptops/computers, phone repairs (except screen repairs)
– IT assistance(e.g. anti-virus, software updates)
– glass repairs, book binding, fixing picture frames
– basic woodwork, small furniture items
– sewing and mending, textiles repairs

We aim to fix anything, our volunteers love to solve problems!

Look out for our future dates in 2024!

We’re hiring: ECO Action Hub Administrator

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ECO Action’s mission is ‘to help and inspire local people to do more to address the Climate and Biodiversity Emergency.’ The Hub Administrator is crucial to the successful running of this dynamic centre with its very varied activities.

“Key role: meet & greet all visitors, and be a focal point for volunteers”

  • Liaise with and arrange volunteers to staff the hub during all our open days
  • To administer loans from and returns to the Library of Things
  • To support significant special activities that take place from time to time.

If you are passionate about promoting sustainability and biodiversity and have the attributes and skills to inspire local people and small businesses to take positive action in the Climate Emergency, we would love to hear from you. 

We would love to talk with you!