Wotton Area Climate Action Network
We are a community-led Climate Action Group serving Wotton-under-Edge and the surrounding areas. We aim to help residents and businesses to reduce their carbon emissions with a goal of helping our area become carbon neutral by 2030.
2nd July 2022 - Nibley Festival
If you have tickets for Nibley Festival, come and join us in the Orchard field's "Apple Tent", on Saturday 2nd July, where we will be holding a family friendly moth identification and release event between 9am and 11am. This will be followed at 1.30pm - 2.30pm by your chance to try out a carbon calculator to see what you can do to reduce your carbon emissions along with a hands-on demonstration of how we engage in 'Riverfly monitoring'; checking out the health of our local waterways.
5th July 2022 - Plastic free picnic and AGM
Join our plastic free picnic and AGM (which will distract you from your sandwiches for no more than 15 minutes - we promise!) We’d love to chat to you more about what we do and the positive impact we’re having on our local environment. All ages welcome and if you'd like to come earlier we will be weeding the 'millstone' bed from 6.15pm.
Date: Tues 5th July 2022 (7pm)
Place: Holywell Leaze picnic area, Holywell Road, Wotton-under-Edge
10th July 2022 -
Town Hall Teas
We're thrilled to be hosting our very own fundraising Wotton Town Hall Teas event on Sunday 10th July, between 2.30pm and 5pm. Come along for some delicious cake and biscuits and bring your friends and family too! If you'd like to help out by baking or helping serve, please get in touch.
Date: 2.30pm - 5pm, Sunday 10th July 2022
Place: Wotton Town Hall
Free to bake or help on the day? Email wottonareacan@gmail.com
Get a warmer, more energy efficient home
Retrofit is all about improving the energy performance, comfort and value of existing buildings through old and new technologies while reducing the carbon impact of heating them.
Retrofitting your home is one way to respond positively to climate change, helping reduce your home's carbon footprint, increasing your comfort, and saving on fuel bills.
Our 3 downloads can help inspire or offer practical tips. For more information, get in touch.
Home Energy Directory - a guide to organisations who can help.
Retrofit case studies - 4 local homes and one business who have used rettrofit measures to reduce fuel bills and become more energy efficient.
A Bristolian's guide to Solid Wall Insulation - a practical guide for those in homes without cavity walls
Join the steering team and help our community reduce carbon emissions
Would you like to make a difference to carbon emissions in our local area? We rely on volunteers to help run our events, plan what's next and publicise our work. We'd love to welcome you if you could spare any time, even if it's just a couple of hours a month. We do not discriminate against anyone for any reason and welcome involvement from all. We pledge to support people living with disability to take part in any of our events or activities.
Sign up to our newsletter
Each month we publish a newsletter giving details of upcoming events, public meetings and useful tips to help you reduce your impact on the environment. We won't share your details with anyone else and you can unsubcribe at any time.
Find us on Stroud District Lucky Severn Community Lottery
Like to play Lucky Severn Community Lottery? Buy your tickets from our page and 50% of the lottery ticket price comes to us, plus 10% goes to other local good causes. If you enter before 26th June '21 you could also win 12 monthly fruit and veg boxes delivered to your door from Boxxfresh.
https://www.luckysevernlottery.co.uk/support/wotton-area-climate-action-network
Small changes make a difference
We identified 6 key areas where we can all reduce carbon emissions. Find out how you can reduce your impact on the environment by making small changes…
How do you make a community carbon neutral?
Watch this inspiring talk by Gary Charnock, who 15 years ago launched Ashton Hayes' ambition to become England's first Carbon Neutral Community.
Gary spoke at the Rural Net Zero conference, chaired by Wotton Area CAN group member, Dominic Driver.
http://www.goingcarbonneutral.co.uk/