Sustainable Crediton Newsletter Issue 16
Hello Everyone,
This month we celebrate reaching our 500th Sustainable Crediton
supporter. It is a fantastic achievement for a community
organisation that is run entirely by volunteers, has received
very little grant funding, and has only been going for 4 and a
half years. Thank you to every one of you for all you do to benefit
the environment and to help Sustainable Crediton grow. In
September we will be asking you to tell us a bit more about
yourselves so we can build up an idea of the skills, interests
and experiences of our supporters which we hope will help
us move forward even more.
In the meantime would you like to enjoy some sustainable
activities during Aug & Sept? Among others we have a bring and share
supper near Crediton on Aug 6th, a visit to Embercombe on
Aug 10th, and a myriad of events coming up in September. These
include another community market, a teddy bears
picnic and Crediton Legs It, our chance to show the world
how many ways the people of Crediton can get around using just
our leg power! In fact something for everyone! Details of all
these events and more are included below so make sure you
read right to the bottom of this packed summer edition.
Paula Mossman, Editor
Dates for your Diary |
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4th August | | 6th August | | 10th August | | 15th August | | 17th August | | 31st August | | 1st September | | 3rd September | | 6th September | | 10th September | | 10th September | | 17th September | | 21st September | | 24th September | | 24th September | | 26th September | | 1st October | | 3rd October | | 15th October | | 19th November | | 10th March | |
In case you missed it... |
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13th July |
An eclectic bunch of food-interested folk were brought together
by a lightly worded invite from t ... |
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News Highlights |
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We have continued to contact schools and to give them free
copies of 'Hot Tips for a Cool Planet',
a booklet kindly donated by Southgate Publishers of Sandford.
So far we've given out 640 copies. We have also been giving
out copies of 'Positive News', an encouraging quarterly
newspaper with g ... |
Sustainable Crediton now has over 500 supporters which is really
encouraging. However we know very little about your skills,
experience and interests. Having more information would enable us
to utilise people's skills to better effect and involve our
supporters more effectively in existing and ... |
If you are looking for free items or want to have a clear out,
as well as the "Freecycle" website, this Freeads
website may also be useful. I have not used it personally so cannot
comment on the results, nor should this be
seen as a personal recommendation, but it may well be useful for
findi ... |
The Waste Action Group hopes everyone will contribute to two
projects we will be running in Sept and Oct. They are:
Food Plastics Collection and Recycling Trial.
This will take place on 2 Saturdays in September, 3rd and 17th in Morrisons Car
Park from 10am to 1pm.. Anyone can bring along p ... |
Take up for our project continues to be excellent. 100
people have joined the scheme for a survey. 84 homes have been
surveyed with 16 people still awaiting surveys. 34 orders have been
placed.This puts us firmly into the 5% discount and 5% end of
year rebate part of our discount table. With anothe ... |
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“The line between failure and success is so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it. How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience, would have achieved success.”
Elbert Hubbard