Sustainable Crediton Newsletter 166, April 2025

As I write this the sun is shining, the flowers are emerging and there is the promise of lovely things to come in our Devon countryside.  This month it is our Annual AGM and we'd love you to join us there and hear about what we have done and plan to do.  Take a look at our brief report on the well-attended community conversation that was held to discuss new homes being build at Barnfield.  Check out our events - next up is Graham on Saturday 5th with his bargain bike sale. 

John Craythorne and Lesley Thomas, Joint Newsletter Editors


Dates for your Diary
5th April

Graham's Recyclable Bicycles

9th April

Pollinator Group Working Party

10th April

Sustainable Crediton's Annual Meeting

19th April

Sustainabubble open - call in and see us

26th April

Repair Cafe

3rd May

Seed-sowing for the summer: children especially welcome!

8th May

Supporting Swifts in Towns and Villages

Following on from last year's well-received event with Edward Jackson, Sustainable Crediton is delighted to welcome national expert Edward Mayer of Swift Conservation to share his experiences of helping reverse declines in Swifts and urban biodiversity more generally. Working from the ground upw ...

17th May

The Sustainabubble is open

Come in and find out about who we are and what we do ...

24th May

Repair Cafe

4th June

Pollinator Group Working Party

7th June

The Sustainabubble is open

21st June

Sustainabubble open - call in and see us

5th July

Craft Event at Sustainabubble

Join us for a free craft event on market day ...

2nd August

Bug Hotel Making session

16th August

Learn how to save your seeds for next year

Regular Events
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News Highlights

A Vision for the Land at Barnfield ...aka Old Deer Park

A Community Conversation On Saturday 21 March a well-attended second Community Conversation was held in the Boniface Centre. This event was the result of a joint effort between Crediton Town Council and Sustainable Crediton. Thanks to all those who helped make this morning so successful! The first ...

Don't forget: our Annual General Meeting, 10 April

A reminder for all our supporters that our Annual General Meeting is on 10 April at 7pm, at Crediton Arts Centre. Do come along and find out more about what we have been doing over the past year and more importantly, our ambitions for the year ahead. We will be electing a new Core Group Convenor ...

Have you heard of ECOE Advice?

ECOE Advice (Exeter Community Energy) was established in 2014. Their vision is for renewable energy projects to bring about practical change in the communities around Exeter. They run drop in clinics to offer advice on energy. For all drop in clinics at ECOE see this link. Crediton events are ...

The Trees that Moved!

At the open day at the Crediton Community Allotment in 2022 children from Hayward's School planted two dwarf apple trees, a Sturmer Pippin and a Charles Ross. Since then each year the apples from these trees have gone to the class that planted them. When we gave up the allotment early this summer w ...

Hayward's School Super Heroes Day

Sustainable Crediton was invited to help at Hayward School's Super Hero Day which this year had the theme of sustainability. As they had other folk doing recycling and the perils of plastic we were invited to focus on the theme of wildlife. As we would be seeing 5 groups of 80 children each during ...

Thanks for lovely Recipes!

This month sees the publication of our very last recipe, tirelessly and inventively provided by Paul Cleave and distributed by Linda Lever. The emphasis has always been on local, Devon ingredients and traditional recipes, with no reservations about the value of cream and other delicious goodies! ...

Our very last recipe: Prunes in Port!

Something different for the store cupboard! You will need: 250gm/8oz stoned prunes ( Agenprunes if you can get them) 25gm/1oz brown sugar (Muscovado is best) a cinnamon stick a bay leaf port Place the prunes, bay leaf, and cinnamon stick in a preserving jar, and add brown sugar. Cover wit ...

Aria?

For those of the fortunate Kirtonians who got to see J.S.Bach's St John's Passion at Crediton Parish Church in February directed by Tina Guthrie. There are several wonderful and moving arias in 'The Passion' and for me the standout was the Soprano aria 'Zerfliesse, mein Herze' 'Dissolve, my heart, ...