Category Archives: Updates

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! 

FILLING GOOD AT THE HUB!!

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We’re delighted to be welcoming Filling Good Cooperative Group into our ECO Action Hub in the very near future – watch this space!! Here’s more info from our partners Filling Good:

BIG NEWS: We’re excited to announce that we are temporarily moving to the Eco Hub in Maidenhead! We’re partnering with this wonderful group while our shop gets fixed up after the recent flooding.

🎉 NEW STOCK ALERT: Come and grab your favourites this SATURDAY only! We’ve got a fresh supply of: 🍚 Organic arborio rice, 🍝 White & wholewheat fusilli …and many more items waiting for you to refill and reduce waste! 🌍💚

🕒 Opening Hours: After Saturday 2nd, Filling Good will be TEMPORARILY CLOSED for about a week as we make the move. We’ll keep you posted on reopening!

🤝 Volunteers Needed: We will need help to make the move! If you’re not already a volunteer and would like to pitch in, please message us at shopping@fillinggood.co.uk.

💖 If you wish to donate, you can do so at the bio on insta or through the Donation Link on Facebook: https://gofund.me/f32ed7ff We are incredibly grateful for your ongoing support and generosity! Thank you from the bottom of our hearts!

🥰 #SaveFillingGood#Fundraising#ZeroWasteHeroes#CommunityLove#Maidenhead

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WE NEED YOU TO HELP US GET OUR ECO CAFE READY!

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We’re building our ECO Cafe in the ECO Action Hub ‘now’: We’re opening very soon. The coffee’s going to be great and the cakes & snacks are fantastic!

HOLD THE PAGE: We’ve had some great response to this post – we might have someone working with us soon … we’ll let you know when you can come and have the first coffee!!

Due to illness, we URGENTLY need someone to help prepare for and set up our new café. This would suit someone who is organised and able to investigate things.

This is a few days PAID work starting immediately. The work can be done mostly at home.

If you’ve an interest in climate & the environment AND COFFEE, we’d love to talk to you. Come into the Hub, reach out to us here, or come to one of our events and see us!

INTERESTED IN MARKETING? HELP US BE EVEN MORE SUCCESSFUL!

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We’ve been pushing marketing outreach on social-media, email-newsletter and our website for months. Our marketing team work well – but now we need someone to help us grow more: social / digital marketing, newsletters and all other communications!.

We’re looking for someone with ‘any’ level of marketing skills to join our volunteer team. Could that be you?

If you’ve an interest in climate & the environment, want to ‘do something that makes a difference’ and have even some marketing skills & capability we’d love to talk to you. Come into the Hub, reach out to us here, or come to one of our events and see us!

BUILD YOUR OWN JUNK JOURNAL!

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Want to have something that’s Eco-Smart to help record a holiday, a special event, plan your next big adventure or ‘simply’ for every-day mindfulness thoughts? Come and make a ‘Junk Journal’ from things around your house that you would probably throw away!

Take envelopes and paper to make the body of the journal. Decorate with pictures and designs from magazines, catalogues and food packaging. Add ‘bling’ using ribbons, beads and wool.

Please bring

  • 1 or more large envelope (C4/A4 size)
  • 5 or more smaller envelopes – any shape or colour
  • Magazines/catalogues, packaging with designs or words you fancy using.
  • If you them, great to add to your journal: beads, earrings, wool, ribbon or lace.
  • Glue sticks and scissors provided but feel free to bring your own.

Who’s it for & what’s it cost?

  • Children and adults of any age from 12 upwards!
  • We ask that parents stay with & accompany children.

No charge for the workshop but a donation to support the Hub is very welcome!

What Next?

  • Workshop runs on Saturday 5th October from 11:00 – 14:00
  • Spaces are limited to 20 so please book now: Eventbrite ticket here
  • If you turn up on the day & there is space we will do our best to fit you in!

This is upcycling at it’s best.

WHY BUY WHEN YOU CAN BORROW?

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Need to fix something but don’t have the tools you need? Don’t want to invest in something you only need to use once? Come to the Library in the Hub and borrow our useful Things for your home, projects and adventures.

Simply create and confirm your membership via this link (Share a LoT Maidenhead: Inventory), then start browsing our catalogue for anything you would like to reserve!

ECO Action’s Share a LoT operates at the ECO Action Hub in the Nicolson Centre, where items are collected from and returned. If you would like to learn more about the LoT, you can find out more on the ECO Action website, or you can come and chat to one of the volunteers at the Hub.

* If you’d like to help with the Library – please come and talk to us!!

Residents and businesses can now join the Solar Together scheme!

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RBWM are supporting IChoosr in the roll-out of this scheme for a third year! Deadline for registrations is the 9th August.

Through a reverse auction with installers, you can get highly competitive rates on solar panels, batteries, and chargepoints. Plus, you’ll receive support from the IChoosr team and the council throughout the process. Don’t miss out on this opportunity!

No payment or obligation until you receive a survey and proposal from pre-vetted installers.

More information can be found at: Solar Together | The Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead

And a Q&A on Solar here: Frequently Asked Questions | The Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead (solartogether.co.uk)

A letter from Chris Packham

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Restore Nature Now

[London 22nd June]

Dear friends, I’m writing to your group as one of the UK’s many smaller, grassroots organisations. It’s a beautiful day in Arne, Dorset where I’m currently filming Springwatch- the field of grass shoots and seedlings seems appropriate.

I applaud you- grassroots are the beating hearts of campaigning and activism. We may be small but we are mighty!

We are the mycelium under the floor of campaigning; tirelessly working away, growing, networking and barely seen- but without us the whole ecosystem of activism would simply not flourish. I thank you for the vital role that you play. A selfless, passionate and inspiring role.

We are light and agile, without the heavy governance and processes of boards and multiple layers of management. We can be responsive, reactive and blaze trails where other bulkier organisations can only slowly follow. What we lack in membership and funds we make up for in energy and effectiveness.

So here’s to the grassroots; the volunteers, the local activists, the common people, the ordinary folk MAKING CHANGE HAPPEN.

I thank you from the bottom of my heart and I hope to see as many of you as possible on Sat 22 June in London to demand our government Restore Nature Now. You can sign-up as a supporting organisation here and as individuals pledge to march here.

We know that amazing things can happen when we come together- when we unite en-masse to joyously, fervently, demand the changes we need to see from our elected leaders when it comes to biodiversity loss and climate breakdown.

See you on the streets! Chris

ECO Parenting: “potty-training” babies!

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🚽💫Are you an expectant parent or already experiencing the joyous chaos of raising a baby aged 0-6 months? Find out how transform your potty-training experience!🚽💫

Join us at 11am on Friday, 17th May at the Hub and discover a revolution in potty training.

  • What is ec babies? A groundbreaking app to guide parents to success with potty training.
  • Who’s it for? Parents to be or with babies aged 0-6 months, keen to save money & the environment.
  • Reserve your FREE seat: Eventbrite tickets here

How does it help? In the face of an environmental & cost of living crisis, there’s never been a better time for new parents to try elimination communication (EC). This gentle approach to potty training early is good for the environment & saves you money. It also promotes healthy bowel and bladder development, and encourages communication skills.

ec babies graphic & app
  • Why do it? With EC, good bladder and bowel control and the ability to communicate toileting needs develop at a very early age, so many babies no longer require nappies by between 12 and 18 months of age.
  • What’s the benefit?: fewer nappies used in year 1, potty-trained altogether a year or two earlier than might be. For disposable nappies: less cost & less waste. For reusables: less laundry and energy consumption. AND health benefits too!
  • Is EC a new thing? The EC approach is common in cultures around the world from Vietnam to Alaska; just a couple of generations ago it was common in the UK too. Unfortunately, the methods have been largely forgotten here.

Tell me more! ec babies guides, motivates, and supports parents and carers willing to give EC a go. We’ve worked hard to make it the best we can. After much prototyping and testing we have something ready to go. If you would like to help evaluate (and maybe even test) our latest offering we’d love to hear from you.

Find out more at www.ecbabies.org