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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

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!!

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.

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

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

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!

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.

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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