The Energy Saving Trust will be at the Farmers Market on 13th March 9am -12 noon. They have a wealth of information and advice about saving energy. They will be giving away free samples of products including gadgets that power down you home as well as running a draw for an eco-kettle.  Sustainable Charlbury will be alongside launching our Eco-renovation project.  Please come and say hello.

To celebrate the arrival of Spring with local seasonal food, drink and community…

Saturday 27 March in the Memorial Hall, Browns Lane, Charlbury
Cost: £5/£3 (10-16yrs) and free under 10yrs
Doors open at 7pm. Feast begins 7.30pm and dancing with the Kismet Ceilidh Band at 8.30pm.

Following on from the success of The Big Lunch (a community feast of local food) in July last year, we now have a ‘SPRING FEAST and CEILIDH’.

Bring your delicious seasonal, local (UK) dishes to the Memorial Hall to share and once the feasting is over we will push the tables aside and the dancing will begin. A bar will be available with local beverages.

Music will be from the well-known group The Kismet Ceilidh Band.
All dances will be called so there’s no need to be afraid.

EVERYONE WELCOME

PLEASE DO BOOK as capacity is limited: phone 01608 811057 or email charlburyfeasts@cwag.org.uk

At the Bell Hotel as usual 8pm in the Bentley Room. Monday 1st March

Wednesday 11th November, the Morris Room, The Corner House, 8pm

Sustainable Charlbury is holding a public meeting to discuss proposed ideas to submit to the Low Carbon Communities Challenge which is an intititive of the Department for Energy and Climate Change. LCCC could provide the funding to:

• ensure that the new Spendlove development is built to Passivhaus standards (http://www.passivhaus.org.uk/);
• significantly reduce carbon emissions from our buildings through undertaking a series of whole house retrofits;
• explore ways to finance investment in eco-renovation or energy efficiency measures.

This is an open meeting for anyone who is interested in contributing to, or getting involved in the project.

Interested in how much carbon you emit?  Come along and join in.  We monitor our carbon emissions through www.thecarbonaccount.com and meet regular to share information about the joys and challenges of low carbon living! All welcome.

8pm The Bentley Room, the Bell Hotel

Monday 5th October, 8pm the Bentley Room at the Bell Hotel. We will be discussing eco-renovation, Copenhagen, and much more. All welcome.

Come along to our stall at the Street Fair on 19th September - find out what we have been up to and how to influence the international negotiations in Copenhagen in December.

Come along to the Charlbury Big Lunch on the Playing Close on Sunday 19 July from 12noon - 4pm.

This is part of the national street party from the Eden Project (http://www.thebiglunch.com).  Charlbury’s Bring & Share Picnic will have a special emphasis on local food, low food miles and zero waste giving it a low carbon footprint. 

 BRING home-grown or local, home-cooked food and SHARE it with others.

Local food and drink will also be available including a pig roast, bread, crepes, ice cream and lager. 

Alan Fraser and friends will be playing music and there will dancing by Street Stage and Charlbury Morris.

Come along with your friends for a relaxing lunch and afternoon. Please make it zero waste by bringing your own plates etc.

The event is being supported by CAWAG, Sustainable Charlbury, Churches Together in Charlbury, Charlbury Garden Society, and the Charlbury WI.

The Age of Stupid is a must-see film - Pete Postlethwaite stars as a man living alone in the devastated world of 2055, compiling archive footage from 2008 and asking “Why didn’t we stop climate change when we had the chance?”. 

Following our sell out screening on 15th May we are showing the film again on Thursday 9th July at 8pm at the Memorial Hall. This will be free for anyone who came on the 15th May and experienced the unfortunate technical hitches, it will also be free for the under 21s.

Apparently 60% of the UK public don’t believe that global warming is being caused by mankind’s actions - compare this with only 1% of scientists! The facts have convinced the scientists, why not the public? If you are one of that 60% then you should definitely see this film.

Sustainable Charlbury and CHOC present the new climate blockbuster from McLibel director Franny Armstrong. Pete Postlethwaite stars as a man living alone in the devastated world of 2055 asking why didn’t we stop climate change when there was still time. Memorial Hall at 8pm.