Buxton's first Repair Cafe was a huge success.
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Shipley Eco Action Group Secures Lease for Woodside Community Garden
A new community garden has got off to a flying start after new group, Shipley Eco Action, secured a lease on land in the village. Over the last month the group’s volunteers have prepared 3250 square meters of land, created a hot compost pile, and prepared raised beds, a sensory garden and paths. The group will be fundraising on Heanor Market in October and hope to be able to make a living willow structure with funds raised.
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New Buxton Repair Cafe
A new Repair Cafe is aiming to stop a skip's worth of stuff from going to landfill in its first year of operation. Transition Buxton held their first Repair Cafe on 28th September and got off to a flying stat, looking at 35 items and mending most of them. Organisers said the smile on the face of a boy, whose pair of robotic toys were fixed, was priceless!
Buxton has joiied over 1500 other places around the world, and at least seven other locations in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire, in supporting local people to extend the life of ‘stuff’ and save it from going to landfill.
Their next Repair Café will be on 26
th October at the Methodist Church in the Market Place. People are invited to bring along broken item(s) and the repairers will work with you to try to fix your item. There is no charge for the service, but donations are very welcome. Transition Buxton are very grateful to the Bingham Trust for a small grant to help get the Repair Café up and running.
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Nottingham City Council is a Climate Champion Finalist
Nottingham City Council is a finalist in the Guardian Public Service Awards because of it’s work on climate change. The council ring fences its workplace parking levy for renewable transport projects, puts solar panels on all council homes, has the world’s largest fleet of biogas double decker buses and is aiming to plant at least 10,000 trees by 2023.
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Amber Valley Plans to Plant 2500-500 Trees Per Year
Amber Valley Borough Council is proposing to plant between 2500 and 500 trees per year over the next 5-010 years as part of its ‘Forest for the Future’ initiative. The council’s plans involve 40 acres of woodland in locations around the borough. The council believes that the tree planting programme would be capable of sequestering 6,400 tonnes of carbon, the equivalent of six years of the council’s carbon emissions. A full list of the locations throughout the borough is available here:
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Free Tree Scheme is Back in South Derbyshire
Individuals and community groups have until 28
th October to apply for free trees from South Derbyshire District Council who are working in partnership[ with the National Forest Company. As in previous years, two trees are available per households and 10 per school or community group. This year’s species are cherry plum, hazel, crab apple and holly.
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DEADLINE APPROACHING: Derby City Council Recruiting Climate Change Coordinator
Derby City Council is recruiting a Climate Change Coordinator. The Council has declared a Climate Emergency which commits the Council to raise awareness of climate change and to develop a local action plan to help reduce the carbon footprint of both its own activities and the wider city. The role of Climate Change Co-ordinator will be pivotal in making things happen by developing the necessary documentation and projects to develop this campaign along with galvanising the support and commitment of internal and external stakeholders in addressing this pressing global issue.
Application deadline: 9th October!!!!!
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Empowering Our Communities Fund Open to Applications
Electricity North West are offering grants of up to £50,000 for projects covering energy issues, supporting vulnerable customers and reducing fuel poverty. Applications will be accepted from organisations in the area in which ENW operates, which includes High Peak and some of the Derbyshire Dales area.
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List of Climate Emergencies Declared
The list of Local Authorities who have declared climate emergencies in the local area is unchanged from last month, which simply reflects the fact it’s been the summer period.
- Amber Valley District Council
- Bolsover District Council
- Broxtowe Borough Council
- Chesterfield Borough Council
- Newark and Sherwood District Council
- North East Derbyshire District Council
- Derbyshire Dales District Council
- Rushcliffe Borough Council
- Derby City Council
- Matlock Town Council
- Wirksworth Town Council
- Hayfield Parish Council
- Belper Town Council
Meanwhile, Derbyshire County Council has published a Derbyshire Climate and Carbon Reduction Manifesto with the aim of becoming carbon neutral. Nottingham City Council has the most ambitious Net Zero Carbon target of any local authority in the country: 2028.
High Peak Borough Council will be debating a motion to declare an emergency on 15
th October.