Real nappy week event

April 29, The Grafton Centre (near Goldsmiths), 9.00-14.00
Come and see why the council’s free real nappy starter kits are so popular. See a demonstration on how to use them, quiz a real nappy expert and, if you’re convinced, put your name on our waiting list for a kit.
Free kits are available for Cambridge City residents [...]

Spring Watch event – Trumpington

Sunday 19th April 11-1pm , Trumpington Community Orchard, Foster Way
Family activities and opportunites to volunteer: For children there will be the chance to spot and record the signs of Spring happening all over the orchard, and we are also repeating the opportunity to weave a bird house to take home for your own garden. For [...]

Fairtrade Fortnight 23rd February – 8th March 2009. Special events in Cambridge to celebrate and promote Fairtrade.

Special events in Cambridge to celebrate and promote Fairtrade.

Throughout the fortnight

Go bananas

Cambridge University Fairtrade Steering Group

This student led group is running lots of internal events during Fairtrade Fortnight including Fairtrade football, pancake stalls, formal dinners and speakers events.

Emmanuel United Reform Church Fairshares Café, Trumpington Street
This year the theme of Fairtrade Fortnight is ‘Go Bananas’ so the URC’s Fairshares Cafe has added a special selection of ‘banana’ dishes to their menu, including Banana cake, Banana split and Banana smoothies.

Please do pop in during the fortnight for a banana-flavoured treat!

Open 10:30am – 3:00pm Tues – Fri.

Anglia Ruskin University

Staff and students will have the opportunity to enter the Go BANANAS challenge, try Fairtrade snacks, buy Fairtrade clothing, play with Fairtrade footballs and find out what Fairtrade is all about, with Oxfam, Cambridge World Development Movement and Wombat (Fairtrade clothing).

Introducing the Comfort Zone

Thursday 12 February. St Luke’s Church centre. 3pm-7pm.
The Comfort Zone is a scheme designed to focus home energy efficiency promotional activity in a specific area of Cambridge. Our primary aim is to assist local residents in increasing the energy efficiency of properties and at the same time reducing the quantity of households in fuel poverty.
Members [...]

Orchard maintainance

Sunday 8th March, 11am-1pm. Trumpington Community Orchard near Foster Road allotments will be performing site maintenance and tidy-up.
This will take place on the second Sunday of every month.
Email trumpingtonorchard@yahoo.co.uk for more information

Hopes and Fears through Music

February 5 – 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm.
Led by Dr. Helen Odell-Miller.
This workshop will explore our hopes and fears about climate change through music.
Music therapy can help us access thoughts and feelings which might be hard to put into words. Used in a group it can be a gentle but powerful way to explore experiences.
The [...]

Consumption and waste: tat bingo, clothes swap and knitting

January 20 – 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm.
One person’s wardrobe-crowder is another person’s treasure! Come play tat bingo with unwanted Christmas presents, participate in a clothes swap or learn to knit in a lesson for blokes and beginners.
Home-made cakes and tea will be on hand as well.
Venue:
Friends Meeting House, Jesus Lane, Cambridge

Cambridge ramblers

Christmas eve, 24 December. Walk to Anglesey Abbey. 24km/15 miles.
Meet near the Penny Ferry Pub, north of the river Cam at 09.15 (note early start). Bring your National trust card for Winter Walk at the Abbey NT care/restaurant.
For more information contact Jill 01223 362881

Translating the technical

14 January – Cambridge Carbon Footprint workshop led by Andy Brown.
A workshop of facts, figures, truth and lies about climate change and how to talk about them all! Brush up on information you’re not sure about, find anaswers to those frequently asked questions, learn how to squash the urban myths, develop confidence in dealing [...]

Mill Road Winter Fair

Saturday 4 December.
All sorts of stalls and activities. The Fair will also mark the launch of the Mill Road plastic bag free initiative and free cotton shopping bags will be available while stocks last.
For more information about the campaign e-mail:
no-plastic-bags@mill-road.com or telephone 07982 810343
More about the Winter Fair