Sustainable Calne will be running a repair café at Calne Town Hall on Saturday 10th May 2025. Full details to follow!
Bremzero will be running a weekend of workshops exploring our responses to the state of the world, and inspiring hope and action.
- Honour your feelings in response to your own suffering and the suffering in our world
- Connect with your heart-felt values and gain new perspectives
- Enjoy the sense of interconnectedness with the group and indeed all life
- Gain clarity about what you can do, in connection with others, to make positive changes
When: June 6th to 8th 2025
Where: Bremhill Village Hall SN11 9LD (Friday at 19:30)
Ratford Retreat Centre, Calne, Wiltshire SN11 9JX (Saturday and Sunday)
- Date: Monday 20th January at 7pm
- Place: Calne Library
- Cost: Free (no need to book)
- Speaker: Bean Beanland
Our first event of the year is a talk about Heat Pumps. Bean Beanland of the Heat Pump Association, who has recently done a series of podcasts with Evan Davis of R4, will join us for a talk and Q & A session.
We plan to follow this up with a talk from a local installer.
We’ve added slides from the talk and other resources about heat pumps, so you can catch up if you missed this excellent talk.
- Date: Tuesday 15th October at 7pm
- Place: Calne Library
- Cost: Free (no need to book)
- Speaker: Jeremy Percy
You have probably noticed the reduced number of insects this summer. Our environment and food supplies depend on insects to pollinate plants. Come along and find out why this really matters and what we can do to help.
This event is run in association with Friends of the Marden Valley
Hear a first hand account from Kenya at this special event in partnership with Calne Fairtrade.
Date: Wednesday 11th September at 7pm
Place: Calne Library
Cost: Free
Speaker: Patrick Kaberia Muthaura a farmer from Kenya.
We often think about Climate Change as affecting the future but many parts of the world are already experiencing the effects. Patrick will tell us about some of the problems farmers are already facing. Please come along to hear our visiting speaker and encourage other interested groups or individuals.
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AGM 2024
Marden House Wednesday 22nd May 2024 7.30pm
Refreshments served from 7.00.
As well as reviewing the year and electing officers we will hear an update from our two members who are doing accredited retrofit training. We have been awarded significant funds to hold events to share this knowledge and would welcome your ideas.
Presentation
On Saturday 11th May 2024, Sustainable Calne launched its new Retrofit project by launching Retro Duck at the annual Duck Race, organised by Calne Lions.
We are very excited to have secured funding from the Centre for Sustainable Energy for a new project on retrofitting our homes to make them more energy efficient – good for the planet and good for our pockets. Two of our volunteers have completed accredited training and will be looking for ways to share their knowledge to householders about the starting points for any work you may think would help you.
Sara and Denis will be at our AGM on Wednesday 22nd May 2024 to explain about:
- what Retrofitting is
- some key things to think about when starting to make your home more energy efficient
- some pointers for where grants might be available
On Tuesday 23rd April Paul Jupp from ‘Meadow in My Garden’, will be joining us at Hillcroft Gardens to do some work and plant some additional seeds in the wildflower beds. We’ll be there from 10.00 until 1.00 – if you can help for an hour or so we’d really appreciate it – especially the first couple of hours. If you have a scarifier or rake (not a leaf rake) you could bring that would be great.
We are very pleased that Wiltshire Council have brought forward the development of a plan to improve the walking and cycling network in Calne and surroundings. The plan will form the basis of any work that will be done when funding becomes available. This is the time to put our ideas forward.
The consultation time has been extended until Monday 5th February 2024. The draft is very much a desktop exercise and needs local input. We need comments on what is good in the plan, what won’t work, and also what missed opportunities there are. You can have your say by following this link.
https://calne-and-melksham-lcwip.commonplace.is/
Meeting on Monday 11th December via Zoom
We held a meeting via Zoom on Monday 11th December week where we shared ideas and local knowledge about proposed routes.
Saturday 18th November we have 1500 bulbs to plant at The Rec! Meet by the wildflower area. Bring dibbers and trowels if you have them. Please share our Facebook post about this to your local friends.
