Sustainable Crediton Newsletter Issue 32

Welcome to the March Sustainable Crediton Newsletter. As spring begins to emerge in the gardens and hedgerows we have a month of varied and interesting events and opportunities with something to suit everyone

This month we have another waste plastics collection on the 9th. Our Clothes and Household Goods Swap is on the 23rd and is being organised by the Waste and Food Groups. Last year over 150 people attended this event and 100's of items of clothing were swapped. This year you can swap household goods too, so now is a good time for a declutter to find items to bring along. On the 21st we have our AGM which will include reports from our action groups and an opportunity to have your say about the running of your Transition organisation!

Catch up with what happened last month in the "In case you missed it section" where you'll find a summary of the well attended talk on alternatives to economic growth. Finally, do have a look in the website Marketplace where there are new items wanted and for sale.

Enjoy the emerging spring. We hope to see you at an event soon.

Charles Mossman, Editor

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Dates for your Diary
4th March

Waste Action Group meeting

4th March

March Core Group Meeting

5th March

Beyond Oil and Gas: The future for energy

9th March

Waste Plastic Collection

13th March

March Energy Group Meeting

21st March

2013 Annual General meeting

23rd March

Clothes and Household Goods Swap

26th March

Talk: Herbs & Hedgerows

16th April

How Big Should Exeter Be?

4th May

Waste Plastic Collection

14th May

Homes for all: Can housing be affordable and sustainable?

15th June

5th Crediton Food and Drink Festival 15, 16 June

6th July

Waste Plastic Collection

7th July

Treasure Hunt

7th September

Waste Plastic Collection

2nd November

Waste Plastic Collection

11th January

Waste Plastic Collection

Regular Events
In case you missed it...
3rd February

Review of Woodfuel from Hedgerows Group Work Party 1

. 9 people attended the work party which was led by Rob and Dave. It was a very productive day wi ...

11th February

Review of Waste Action Group Meeting

Notes from WAGs meeting, Monday 11th Feb at Jills house Present: Jill, Charles, Paula, An ...

12th February

Feedback from the Energy Meeting

16th February

Review of Woodfuel from Hedgerows Group Work Party 2

. 8 people attended on a delightful sunny day. 4.5 project days were worked. We performed the work ...

20th February

Review of 'Shrinking the giant hamster: how we can be better off without growth.'

Around 35 people attended Simon's stimulating talk. Simon explained that we are already using 1 ...

23rd February

Review of Crediton Seed Swap

Sustainable Crediton's 4th Annual Seed Swap The Crediton Seed Swap was on the 23rd February fro ...

23rd February

Review of Woodfuel from Hedgerows Group Work Party 3

12 members worked at the final session of this winter. We cleared 20 more metres of undergrowth and ...

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News Highlights

Insurance Policy

Sustainable Crediton is insured through Zurich Insurance. Brief details of our coverage. We are covered for Public Liability upto £10,000,000 and also our volunteers are covered for personal accidents. To be covered all our events must have risk assessments performed in advance by the event organ ...

Clothes Rails Needed!

We are in need of clothes rails for our Clothes Swap event on 23 March. If you have any, or know of where we can borrow any, please get in touch. ...

One Billion Rising

About One Billion Rising . One in three women on the planet will be raped or beaten in her lifetime. One billion women violated is an atrocity. One billion women dancing is a revolution. On V-Day's 15th Anniversary, 14 February 2013, we are inviting ONE BILLION women and those who ...

Do you want a say in the future of complementary medicine in Crediton?

A newly formed Community Interest Company is in need of directors to join its board as volunteers. The Crediton Well Being Centre CIC - formerly The Well Being Centre - lies just off Crediton High Street behind the Yellow Bookshop. Sometimes referred to as Crediton's best kept secret, it ...

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Campaign Update: Shell abandons 2013 Arctic Drilling!

Last year we promoted a Greenpeace campaign to protect the Arctic from drilling for oil By Shell. On the 27th Feb 2013, Shell announced it's giving up on plans to drill for oil in the Arctic in this year. It's amazing news, because it means no drilling in the pristine waters of Alaska this y ...

Help Needed to Respond to Major Planning Applications

Are there any readers of this newsletter who would be interested in helping Sustainable Crediton respond to very occasional planning applications? John Boyle, John Downes and Charles Mossman had a very good meeting with Simon Trafford from Mid Devon Planning Department last month. In s ...

Summer will come . . .

The Transport Group has been keeping itself warm planning its contribution to the Crediton Festival - a bike ride through Devon lanes on Saturday 15 June. Pedal gently and companionably through 19 miles of Devon Lanes, with the countryside at its best. Stopping for Fairtrade coffee at the ...

Advertise with us

Free Advertisements Any supporter of Sustainable Crediton can place a post in our virtual Market-Place for free. These adverts will only be displayed to our registered supporters when they Login. To place an advertisement, just send me the text, picture and contact details you would like ...

A Waste Sculpture for Crediton?

The Waste Action Group would like to create a Waste Sculpture in Crediton Town Square during the Crediton Festival which runs from June to mid July this year. Everyone we speak to thinks its a great idea so we want to make it a reality and get the public involved. Our plan is to build the scul ...

Waste Plastic Collections to Continue!

Following the success of the waste plastics collection at Peck & Strong in January the Waste Action Group have decided to continue a programme of regular collections for the rest of 2013. Collections will take place on the following Saturdays: 9th March, 4th May, 6th July, 7th Septe ...

Clothes and Household Goods Swap Coming Soon!

Our Clothes and Household Goods Swap takes place on Saturday 23rd March from 10am to 2pm at the Boniface Centre, Crediton. This is the 3rd year of our Clothes Swap and we are anticipating even more eager swappers than ever this year! As in previous years, clothes, jewellery, scarves and hats ...

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Ask your MP to support clean electricity and green jobs now.

We have a chance to move away from dirty fossil fuels and set our country firmly on the path to a renewable, booming, low-carbon economy. In writing, by law. A crucial ingredient of the government's new Energy Bill was supposed to be a legally-binding target for the UK to produce almost zero carb ...

March Energy Group News

Energy Tracers Would you like to have a subsidised draughtproofing survey of your home? If so we require 4 people to put their names forward in the next two weeks. Please contact Charles via the website. The process is explained below. Energy Tracers is a company that does thermal imaging survey ...

Watercolour painting of a March Hedgerow © Sandra Chalton

March Hedgerow

Spring is Sprung! Can you identify the different types of butterfly shown below? (Hover over them to see) ...


“You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.”

Anthony Robbins