We’re growing our grassroots movement at ECO Action in Maidenhead â and we need you to help spread the word!
đ Can you help us: â Find out whatâs on in Maidenhead â Choose great local events to attend â Coordinate volunteers to hand out leaflets â Organise local leaflet drops?
If you’re organised, community-minded, and passionate about the planet, we’d love to hear from you!
đ§ To see the detailed job description please click here đ§ To volunteer get in touch: click to email us here Letâs Reduce Carbon, Increase Nature, Improve Wellbeing â together!
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
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 SaveEnergyâs Share Offer will help decarbonise more homes, more quickly
Minimum SEIS investment ÂŁ100, maximum ÂŁ10,000
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!
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 âSaveEnergy eventsâ: 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 â 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!!
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 â 12:30
Why? Ask questions & discuss with your local MP Joshua Reynolds on Eco-Action topics
How? To let us know youâre coming AND ask Josh a question: please email us here
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 â Kit (SaveEnergy)
We held a free event in the ECO Hub âElectric Vehicle Question Timeâ 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 âThere 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 recycledâ.
ECO Cafe – Enjoy a choice of fresh coffee, tea and hot chocolate!
Choose carbon-friendly plant-based oat milk
Or if you prefer cowâs milk, pay a small cheeky âcow taxâ!
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 ÂŁ3.00 for coffee and ÂŁ2.00 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!
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 FebruaryÂ
Saturday 29th MarchÂ
Saturday 31st MayÂ
Saturday 26th JulyÂ
Saturday 27th SeptemberÂ
Saturday 29th NovemberÂ
Keep your eyes out on our website and on our Facebook pages! The ECO Action Team.
Help us freshen up our style, our walls, our Hub!Â
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! Weâre closing on Christmas Eve, then after Christmas weâre 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:Â âReduce/Less Carbon, Increase/More Nature, Improve/Better Wellbeingâ
We’re looking for 3Â 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. Letâs have a chat!Â
