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Come to our Eco Café at the Hub!

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ECO Cafe – Enjoy a choice of fresh coffee, tea and hot chocolate!

  • Choose carbon-friendly plant-based oat milk
  • Or if you prefer cow’s milk, pay a small cheeky ‘cow tax’!
  • Sit and relax, maybe work on our free WIFI on comfortable sofas.
  • Browse our displays and build – or refresh – your personal action plan?
  • Check out Filling Good with their full range of zero-waste shopping goodies
  • Or just chat!? Maybe while your children enjoy our “Young Eco” play zone?

All drinks and brownies are offered free but donations are very much appreciated: we’d gently suggest £3.00 for coffee and £2.00 for a brownie. We look forward to seeing you!

The ECO Cafe: A great place to meet, work, learn … or just have great coffee!

If you want to know more about our coffee, tea or brownies – read on …

  • Our coffee beans come from local company Moneyrow Beans. We have three flavours of coffee bean available, two of which support important causes.
  • First we have Cocagi Femmes, which comes from a group of 250 women, who each have around 320 trees in Rwanda.
  • Our second coffee for cause, is the Arabica roasted Kanyonyi Coffee. Beans for this coffee are produced by farmers that neighbour the gorillas in the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest in Uganda and are a part of the Gorilla Conservation Coffee.
  • And of course we have great decaf available for the caffeine-free folks!
  • Tea lovers can sip on Clipper’s Fairtrade blends, featuring plastic-free biodegradable tea bags. Our café has a variety of teas to pick, from traditional English Breakfast to herbal teas such as chamomile and peach.
  • Pair your choice of hot beverage with our fantastic Epic brownies! We have vegan and gluten free option for just £2 a slice. So far, our café has had flavours from original, salted caramel, flake and to the very popular chocolate orange!

Join Greenpeace’s “Buy Now”: Film & Welcome Event

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Greenpeace Shopping ad

On 16th February, Greenpeace Berkshire will be in Eco Action WAM in Maidenhead, hosting a welcome event film screening of ‘Buy Now: The Shopping Conspiracy’. 

This film screening and welcome event is a great opportunity to watch and discuss the fantastic new film ‘Buy Now! The Shopping Conspiracy’; directed by Emmy-winning writer and film maker Nic Stacey, which exposes the tricks companies like Amazon use to keep people buying, and the true costs of overconsumption on people and planet. !

  • WHEN : 3pm Sunday 16th February
  • WHERE: ECO Action WAM, Nicholsons Centre, Maidenhead SL6 1LB
  • COST: Free

It’s also an opportunity to meet and get to know your local Greenpeace group, find out what we do, and how you can take part in our campaigns. Come join us to grow our movement for change! The cafe will be open for refreshments .

WHAT NEXT: Please Register HERE to reserve a place , get reminder & get notified of updates.

CLOTHES-SWAP: BACK ON FEBRUARY 1ST!

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Why a Clothes Swap? EVERY swap of an unwanted piece of clothing extends it’s lifecycle and reduce it’s carbon footprint! Fashion enthusiasts can exchange up to 10 unwanted items for preloved clothes, accessories and shoes for less than £1 per item!

Shop other people’s wardrobes and help reduce excess clothing waste. You’re not just swapping but upgrading clothes from ones you don’t wear to ones you will! NB: This is a swap for adults’ clothes, we may run a children’s clothes swap at a later date.

How it works: Bring up to 10 items of clothing, accessories and shoes to swap. Saf’s Swap Shop accepts all shapes, styles and sizes provided they are freshly cleaned and in good condition.
Tickets: Tickets to Saf’s Swap Shop are £8 (plus booking fee £1.38) per person with 20% of each ticket sale donated to the ECO Action Hub. Purchase tickets via Eventbrite: Click Here

Drop off Dates & Times

  • Sunday 26th January between 11am – 2pm
  • Saturday 1st February between 11am -12pm (1 hour before event)

Clothes Swap Date & Time:

  • Saturday 1st February between 1pm – 3pm
  • Go home with a new wardrobe of clothes … !

What happens next? Once dropped off, items are exchanged for relevant tokens. For fairness, there’s a tiered token system: bronze, silver and gold. Items are categorized by type, brand, RRP and condition. Swappers receive tokens to exchange for preloved items.

Clothes Swaps – HOLD THE DATES

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HOLD THE DATE – Clothes Swaps in the Hub!
More information & finalization of dates coming soon.

We’re planning more of our successful clothes swaps in the Hub soon. Our approach will be like last year: clothes to be delivered 2-3 days & the morning before the event, “tickets & tokens” for the Swap-Event on a Saturday

… and lots of chances for you to refresh your wardrobe for 2025 – all while supporting a low-carbon ‘circular economy’ event! Here are the dates to hold – More information soon!

  • Saturday 1st February 
  • Saturday 29th March 
  • Saturday 31st May 
  • Saturday 26th July 
  • Saturday 27th September 
  • Saturday 29th November 

Keep your eyes out on our website and on our Facebook pages! The ECO Action Team.

ELECTRIC VEHICLES – ARE THEY FOR YOU?

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ELECTRIC VEHICLES QUESTION TIME
Saturday February 22nd 2025 

HOLD THE DATE!

WHY COME?

Why have EVs? Are they here to save the planet, or to make money for car companies? Will you save money and reduce carbon if you have one? Why shouldn’t you have one!?

This is your chance to hear our expert panel discuss and answer your questions about electric vehicles. Our panel includes EV users, sellers and Charge-Point installers. Lot’s of experience for you to hear from and decide if EVs are for you:

  • Real life examples of using EVs in towns and for long journeys
  • How to get the best out of your move to EVs: tips & experiences
  • Using solar / battery storage with EVs & taking advantage of off-peak tariffs
  • All presented with real life people, figures, savings & tips by users and experts!.

WHEN AND WHERE:

  • SATURDAY 22nd February 2025 from 1100 to 1230
  • In the ECO Action Hub in the Nicholson Centre
  • ECO Action Cake & Coffee also being served!

WANT TO BE THERE?: And maybe ask a question in advance? Please click this link

We look forward to seeing you there for what we know will be a very interesting and interactive ‘question-time’ conversation ! The ECO Action WAM Team.

THIS WEEK: Repair Cafe – Saturday 11th January

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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!

Repair Cafe – Saturday 11th January

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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!

THIS WEEK: Repair Cafe – Saturday 14th December

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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!

ECO Hub – Refreshing our messaging!

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Help us freshen up our style, our walls, our Hub! 

Christmas Graphics with Strap-Line

What are we doing over Christmas? We think it’s time for a fresh look for the new year! We’ll be busy refining ‘the walls’ in the Hub. And we need your help and your great ideas!

Come and help be part of it! We’re closing on Christmas Eve, then after Christmas we’re opening our doors for our teams of helpers to put “the new look” on the walls:

  • We’re aligning our all our messaging to our tag line: “Reduce/Less Carbon, Increase/More Nature, Improve/Better Wellbeing”
  • We’re looking for 3 or 4 teams working to our ‘message guidelines’ to populate the walls with our Eco-Action messages!
  • You may be a great graphic artist, or have a good sense of design, or loads of enthusiasm? Perhaps you have painting skills, can print and produce good content and messages?? Or just want to get involved?
  • Come for a couple of hours, or a couple of mornings … we’d appreciate your help and we do have great coffee to share!

Want to find out more? Come in and talk to us or email the Eco Action Team with your details. Let’s have a chat!