Our Planet and Climate Change – Online Talk

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Our Planet and Climate Change

Join us this Earth Day for an inspiring online event! Learn, act, and connect for a greener future. #EarthDay2025

Date and time: Tuesday, April 22 · 6:30 – 7:30pm GMT+1

About this event: This year marks 55 years since Earth Day was established! This year, ECO Action is participating in Earth ACTION Day by hosting an online educational event on climate change. Join us on 22nd April at 18:20 for this seminar as we all take action for this year’s Earth Day!

How to book: Please click on this link to request a ticket from Eventbrite. The link for the event will be sent out via email once you have applied for your free ticket! Any questions about the event, please email us here

ECO Action’s Partner, SaveEnergy “share offer” to help local people enjoy warmer homes, lower bills AND decarbonise

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SaveEnergy help people enjoy warmer homes, lower bills AND decarbonise! 

We’ve partnered with them so they can be even more successful helping reduce the 42% of carbon emissions generated across RBWM from domestic energy consumption. And especially because they make people’s home lives more “comfortable & sustainable”.

We’re running events 11:00 Saturday 26th and 19:00 Tuesday 29th at the Hub. OR join a webinar OR have a chat OR email the team! All information below …

SaveEnergy is: 

  • A community-owned, not-for-profit organisation
  • Run by local people based in Maidenhead
  • An ECO Action & DraughtBusters partner.

SaveEnergy offers: 

  • Home energy assessments & practical actions to help people reduce their energy use
  • Free advice so people enjoy warmer homes, lower bills and reduced carbon emissions
  • AND 20% of services are delivered free of charge to aid people in fuel poverty

Invest for success: SaveEnergy is raising working capital to drive growth and create more green jobs. Investors in SaveEnergy’s Share Offer will help decarbonise more homes, more quickly

  • Minimum SEIS investment £100, maximum £10,000
  • Eligible investors will benefit from SEIS tax relief of 50%
  • SaveEnergy aim to repay capital from July 2028
  • Share Offer is open from April 2nd to May 16th … so act now and don’t miss out!
  • Details of their Community Share Offer & business plan on  www.saveenergy.coop/share-offer/
  • Note: all investments carry a risk, and we cannot guarantee that capital will be repaid

Hear more: Come to an event, have a chat, join a webinar, email or simply read up!

Events & Information: 

  • We are hosting two ‘SaveEnergy events’: Saturday 26th April 11am OR Tuesday 29th April 7pm(*)
  • To reserve your seat on 26th email here or on 29th email here or just turn up on day!
  • To simply ask a question, get more info, OR arrange a chat email them here
  • On-Line Event: Join an online discussion about their plans and share offer – book on Eventbrite here
  • Supporting Info: Read about their background and their share offer on www.saveenergy.coop

(*) NOTE: to get into the evening event 29th March at the Hub, please go down the alleyway besides McDonalds & enter via the back door of the Hub. See you soon – ECO-Action Team!!

THIS WEEK: Repair Cafe – Saturday 12th April

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The Repair Café gives people’s broken or worn-out possessions a new lease of life! See people like yourself rebuilding, repairing and recycling cherished items 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!

Young ECO Action “FRIDAY CLUB”

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Calling all Maidenhead Young Eco Warriors

Drop in to play in our child-friendly Eco Action Hub!

What’s happening?

  • We’ve got singing, story-telling, drawing and a space to play!
  • Bring your Parents or Guardians too!

Who’s it for?

  • From any age: ’young’ up to age 11
  • Parents must please stay & accompany children
  • Please leave a donation if possible for the Hub
  • What Next: Come to the Hub no booking required!
  • Dates: Every Friday through year (some exceptions)
  • Timing: From 10:00 to 12:00 – no booking required
  • Where: Eco Action Hub, Nicholson Centre SL6 1LB

* With tea, coffee and snacks available in the ECO Cafe for a donation.

Repair Cafe – Saturday 12th April

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The Repair Café gives people’s broken or worn-out possessions a new lease of life! See people like yourself rebuilding, repairing and recycling cherished items 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!

Smart Energy Show Marlow April 5th 2025

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The Smart Energy Show Marlow returns this April. We’ll have fresh exhibitors, a great quick-fire talks programme, and a new location with plentiful parking! All information here!

The key focus will again be on better energy management in buildings. This will include exciting renewable and electric technologies like solar panels, batteries, electric car-charging, heat pumps and other electrical home heating technologies, and smart energy controls. And, for anyone renovating or building afresh: energy retrofit assessment, fabric insulation and green building design.

With energy prices rising again, more government support available, and technologies improving, it is time to engage, even if you’ve already made some green energy changes in your life.

The Smart Energy Show Marlow 2025 takes place on Saturday 5 April at Great Marlow School, Bobmore Lane, Marlow SL7 1JE. Opening times are 10am to 4pm.

JOSHUA REYNOLDS MP QUESTIONTIME – NOW 19th April

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What’s Happening: It’s our 2nd Birthday this April and we have a special guest in the Hub for a ‘Question Time’ discussion on local, regional and national eco-action topics – with questions which you have the chance to submit.

As it’s our birthday, the ECO Cafe will be open for free drinks & brownies, and there will be other activities & services in the Hub like Share-A-Lot and Draughtbusters, together with Filling Good being open downstairs.

When: Saturday 19th April open from 10:00 with Questions Time from 11:00 – 12:30

Why? Ask questions & discuss with your local MP Joshua Reynolds on Eco-Action topics

How? To let us know you’re coming AND ask Josh a question: please email us here

Where: ECO Action Hub WAM Nicholson Centre Maidenhead

ECO Cafe; Free Tea, coffee, bubbles and other refreshments available from ECO Action Cafe

Keep an eye out for more great events at the ECO Action Hub!

THIS WEEK: Repair Cafe – Saturday 8th March

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The Repair Café gives people’s broken or worn-out possessions a new lease of life! See people like yourself rebuilding, repairing and recycling cherished items 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!

Save Money Save Carbon: Low Carbon techs for your home

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When: Saturday 15th March from 11:00 – 12:30

Why? Hear about best approaches to reduce carbon and costs. Get better outcomes from insulation, infrared-heaters, maybe even heat pumps and solar panels. Learn more about renewable energies for your home.

How? Join a panel and open discussions & Q&A with experts: designers, installers & users. Topics will include:

  • Air Source heats pumps, Solar & Batteries (Your Energy Your Way)
  • Loft and cavity insulation / Retrofitting – Kit (SaveEnergy)
  • Infrared heaters – Sue Teasdale (user)
  • Thermal imaging & retrofitting – Toby Knight (designer)
  • Heat Pumps – Ian (Community Member & user)

Where: ECO Action Hub WAM Nicholson Centre Maidenhead

Tea, coffee, refreshments available from ECO Action Cafe

Let us know you’re coming AND ask us a question: please email us here

EXPERTS ANSWER EV QUESTIONS

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We held a free event in the ECO Hub “Electric Vehicle Question Time” last Saturday 22nd. Local residents gave questions to our expert panel led by Ginny Buckley.

Ginny is a well known TV presenter from Top Gear, Dispatches & Escape to the Country. Her specialist subject is motoring journalism: She recently set-up www.Electrifying.com where she is CEO.

On the panel were Dug Tremellen (RBWM Transport Policy) & Richard Taylor from Your Energy Your Way, who install EV chargers and also run a small fleet of EV cars and vans.

Questions ranged from optimum charging methods and charging infrastructure through to 7-seater EVs and grid-balancing technologies.

Andrew Ingram, a volunteer at ECO Action who organised the event, said “There were many topics but the answer that surprised the audience most, was that EV batteries will now outlast the vehicles themselves. They are also being recycled”.

The “Guide to Going Electric” is available free at www.Electrifying.com