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!
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!
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!
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
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!!
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.
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.
🚽💫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.
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.
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.
What we do today and everyday helps form the kind of world we want to live in. Reducing our carbon emissions is ever more important: Working together we can achieve more – and we’re here today and every day to help you!
Here are some really great ideas – chose one (or two) for Earth Day and every day!
Eat less meat and dairy – saving money and carbon!
Leave the car at home – walk or cycle or bus and feel good!
Draughtproof the house – you’ve always wanted to and we can help!
Turn the thermostat down 1% – saving money, fuel and money too!
Shun single-use plastic – stop buying bottled water of coffee in a cup?
Join a local ‘Wild’ group and make your space more green & friendly?
ECO Action’s mission is ‘to help and inspire local people to do more to address the Climate and Biodiversity Emergency.’ The Hub Administrator is crucial to the successful running of this dynamic centre with its very varied activities.
“Key role: meet & greet all visitors, and be a focal point for volunteers”
Liaise with and arrange volunteers to staff the hub during all our open days
To administer loans from and returns to the Library of Things
To support significant special activities that take place from time to time.
If you are passionate about promoting sustainability and biodiversity and have the attributes and skills to inspire local people and small businesses to take positive action in the Climate Emergency, we would love to hear from you.
