Month: February 2026

Eco Matters – the “First 50” book

We’ve been running since 2022 to help raise local people’s awareness and improve their wellbeing on climate change. As you may know, we’ve published the Eco Matters column every fortnight in the Maidenhead Advertiser. At the end of last year we ran our fiftieth column.

So we have compiled the first fifty into a small book. 

Each Eco Matters column is written by a different person. We’ve covered a wide range of eco topics from heat pumps and electric cars through to bees and Christmas gifts, offering practical advice, information and tips.

Our aim in publishing the book is to make sure that all this great insight and advice reaches as wide an audience as possible beyond the circulation of the newspaper itself. We decided to physically print it (on recyclable paper of course) to ensure it has a more lasting life and makes more impact than a digital-only document.

If you would like one of the remaining FREE copies of the book (otherwise with a cover price of £8.99). If so, just fill in your details on this link and we will send you one of the free copies – assuming they haven’t run out yet.
And if you’d like to help us cover our ECO Matters and ECO Action costs please check out this link too! All contributions very much appreciated.

Lastly, thank you to our co-sponsors; Maidenhead Advertiser, SaveEnergy, and The Louis Baylis Trust. Keep looking in the Maidenhead Advertiser for even more ECO Matters articles: we publish one every 2 weeks, so here’s to the next 50! 
 
Andrew Ingram

Repair Cafe Saturday 14th February

Bring your treasured broken possessions to our Repair Cafe and give them new life! See our team rebuilding, repairing and recycling things that might otherwise be thrown away.

Register here to bring something for repair and reserve your time-slot.
Or email the Repair Café team on repair.maidenhead@gmail.com.

Open from 10:00 to 13:00. Repair skills available 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!