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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

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!

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

THIS WEEK: Repair Cafe – Saturday 8th February

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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 8th February

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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!

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!

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!