Sustainable Crediton Newsletter Issue 35

Welcome to the June newsletter and the start of the Crediton Festival.

We have some great events coming up this month which are part of the Festival, starting next Saturday the 8th with the  Community Market which will feature a stall run by the Waste Action Group and a waste sculpture entitled " a summer garden". Come along and help make our summer garden grow! Lapstock Music Festival are providing music at the market.

And just a week later on the 15th and 16th the Crediton Food Festival and Big Sunday lunch return for the 5th year with our Food Group offering its famous salad bar and the Waste Action Group organising the recycling. Crediton is becoming known as a 'foody' centre so why not take some time to visit the Food Festival and find out what all the fuss is about. Also happening on the 15th is our 19 mile Devon Lanes Bike Ride with the opportunity to picnic by the river at Brampford Speke.

Finally, did you realise that all the blue coloured words/phrases in the newsletter and on the website are clickable links which go to other pages of information? Our website has over 1500 pages of information. Do have an explore at your leisure.


Dates for your Diary
1st June

Crediton Festival 2013

3rd June

June Energy Group Meeting

5th June

Meditation Group

8th June

8 June Community Market

8th June

A Garden Made From Waste Plastic?

15th June

5th Crediton Food and Drink Festival 15, 16 June

15th June

Devon Lanes Bike Ride

17th June

FRACKtured FUTURE

17th June

June Food Group Planning Meeting

24th June

June Core Group Meeting

26th June

Meditation Group,

1st July

Waste Group Meeting

6th July

Waste Plastic Collection

7th July

Treasure Hunt

13th July

July Community and Art Market

10th August

August Community Market

7th September

Waste Plastic Collection

14th September

September Community Market

25th September

Cut Heating Bills this Winter – talks by low carbon guru & micro-yacht sailor Mukti Mitchell and draught buster Brian Harper

12th October

October Community Market

2nd November

Waste Plastic Collection

11th January

Waste Plastic Collection

25th January

Sustainable Crediton: Back to the Future

Regular Events
In case you missed it...
13th May

Review of Waste Action Group Meeting

Minutes of WAGs Meeting held at Wetherspoons on Mon 13th May at 2pm Present: Paula, Char ...

20th May

Feedback from the Core Values Meeting

22nd May

Feedback from the Energy Meeting

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News Highlights

The Best Of All Possible Worlds

For as little as £10 you can help crowd fund an important documentary. Award-winning director Stevan Riley (Blue Blood, Fire in Babylon, Everything or Nothing) has been granted an exclusive 20 hours of interview with James Lovelock. At 93 years of age, Lovelock is remarkably energetic and spritel ...

Town Square, The InCredible Neighbourhood Garden

Grow and share The 'InCredible Neighbourhood Garden'- in the Town Square! A group of enthusiastic gardeners from three local schools are setting up some recycled and donated raised-beds in the Town Square, which will be planted up with herbs, flowers and a range of fruit and vegetables. ...

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Save Our Seabirds

Over the last few weeks in Devon, Cornwall and Dorset, over three thousand stricken seabirds including guillemots, puffins and razorbills have been washed up on our shores, dead or dying. The culprit: a substance called Polyisobutene (PIB) which covers these precious seabirds in a toxic glue. ...

Meditation Group is now up and running

The new Hearts and Minds meditation group has now met three times at the Well Being Centre in St Saviours Way Crediton on Wednesdays at 7.30pm. We are a small group of friendly people with a very varied history of previous meditation practices. Because we are all coming from different backgr ...

Enough Food for Everyone IF

There is enough food for everyone, but 1 in 8 people go to bed hungry every night. With a child dying every 15 seconds from hunger, this is the silent scandal and injustice of our age. On June 17th, David Cameron and other G8 leaders have a chance to tackle the causes of hunger and save mill ...

Crediton festival 2013

Be a volunteer at the Crediton Festival!

You will be given a festival T-Shirt to mark your role! First Aid training will also be available. If you would like to get involved with any aspect of the Festival either for part of one day, or more often then fill in the "Be A Volunteer" form and hand it in to Olivers Bakery. You will ...

Sustainable Crediton has a flag flying at the Crediton Festival

Sustainable Crediton has a flag flying in Crediton High Street for the next 6 weeks as part of the CredFest Flag Festival. See if you can spot it ! Crediton Arts Centre organised the event which has seen two local artists co-ordinating the design and sewing of 40 flags representing local ...

Freecycle for Business launched by Globechain

Globechain is a new social network that connects people, charities and businesses to enable them to reuse unwanted items within a global supply chain network. The mission of Globechain is to connect individuals, organisations and charities to enable them to be more productive and cost effec ...

Sustainable Crediton Receives £2088 Grant from Awards For All

Sustainable Crediton is delighted to announce that it has received a grant of £2088 from Awards For All for its Firewood from Hedgerows Group. The grant which must be used in the next 12 months is to be used for training group members in traditional Devon hedge-laying techniques, woodland managemen ...

Watercolour painting of a June Hedgerow © Sandra Chalton

June Hedgerow

Honeysuckle and Roses - the fragrance of June! .... But which is which? Did you know that both Elder and the Guelder Rose (hover over the white blooms pictured below) are in fact members of the honeysuckle family? ...


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