Kenilworth: Clean Air Day 2024
Kenilworth hosted its first Clean Air Day event on Sunday 16 June. The event was joint initiative between Kenilworth Town Council’s Cycling Delivery and Climate Emergency Groups and WDC Climate Change and Pollution teams, with support from Clean Air Warwickshire,...
Refugee Week 2024
We are excited to invite you to Refugee Week in Warwickshire 2024, a celebration of the contributions, creativity, and resilience of refugees. This year's Refugee Week theme is "Our Home," focusing on the shared experience of finding and creating a sense of home...
Call for Natural Capital Projects
The WMCA are looking for landowners interested in developing their land for natural projects including tree planting, nature based solutions, and habitat banks amongst others. Nature based solutions - including trees, rain gardens and natural flood management amongst...
Climate Response: New Star Council Category
NALC's Star Council Awards are the only awards in England that recognise local (parish and town) councils' contributions to their communities. The long-running awards celebrate local councils, councillors, young councillors, county associations and clerks' positive...
General Election – 4th July
On 22 May 2024 the Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, announced there would be a general election on 4 July 2024. For a general election to the UK Parliament the pre-election period of sensitivity is not set to a particular date. The pre-election period for UK Government...
FoRGE: Friends of Radford’s Green Environment
As part of a series of "Green Conversations" across Warwickshire, Warwickshire Wildlife Trust were in Radford Semele early in May. Amanda Evans, Team Wilder Director, spoke about WWT's goal, to help 1 in 4 people in Warwickshire, Coventry and Solihull take action for...
Pupils Profit: Affordable School Refill Shops
Pupils Profit work with schools enabling children to set up ethical enterprises. Children are very aware of the impact of plastic on the natural world and they are very keen to make a difference. The ECO Refill Shop enables children to actively combat plastic waste...
NALC: Climate Emergency Network Update
At NALC’s recent climate emergency national network meeting. the guest speaker was Professor Jules Pretty, chair of the Essex Climate Action Commission, who informed network members about the work of the commission and the impact it’s had so far, including the...
World Bee Day: 20 May
“To raise awareness of the importance of pollinators, the threats they face and their contribution to sustainable development, the UN designated 20 May as World Bee Day. The goal is to strengthen measures aimed at protecting bees and other pollinators, which would...
Decarbonising Rural Communities: REACH Workshop Update
Rural Energy and Community Heat (REACH) is exploring new and exciting opportunities for rural communities to achieve their net zero ambitions. A previous National Grid innovation project identified that rural low voltage networks need more interventions to help the...