Fantastic Fungi Foray – 10th November
Sunday 10th November, 2pm – (Holy Trinity Church) – Join us on a guided walk with naturalist John Tyler, to explore and learn about fungi in Penn wood.
Sunday 10th November, 2pm – (Holy Trinity Church) – Join us on a guided walk with naturalist John Tyler, to explore and learn about fungi in Penn wood.
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Money is the tool we constantly use in our lives to do things: to buy food, to clothe ourselves, to have fun and to keep us dry and warm at home. It can also be a tool to change things and support what we believe in.
How about using a bit of time today to talk to our kids about what money is, where we get it from, what it can be used for and how the way we spend it can change the place we live in?
We would like to invite young people aged 12 to 18 to design a logo for us, to be used as part of our communications in the future.
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Madelyn Postman, a Sustainable Amersham volunteer and sustainability specialist, talked about the impact of fashion in our environment as part of the Speak Up for
Sustainable Amersham will hold our second Toy Swap at Amersham Library on Saturday the 29th of June as part of their “little green adventures”.
Local families can bring in their pre-loved toys and swap them for different ones giving these items a breath of new life by rehoming them.
Every two years, the Chesham Bois parish council holds a summer fete on the Common along North Road. This is a very popular occasion, featuring
Take part in No-Mow-May. By simply not mowing your lawn for a month, your patch of green, big or small, has great potential to provide food and shelter for insects.
No Mow May is a movement started by the charity Plantlife. It encourages people to let their lawn (or part of their lawn) grow long
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Our Earth also needs our help to protect it from all the harmful activities our society brings. This is why on the 22nd of April billions of people celebrate Earth Day to make a stand and show that they care for this, our precious home.
Why not take a step at home to show you care while getting your creative juices going?
Have you ever wondered how the lovely meat, fruits and veggies you love get to your plate?
Organic farmers are trying to bring more balance to this process making use of less impactful ways of managing their farms.
Fancy a cuppa and a pastry with a bunch of friendly people and a bit of a chat about the state of the world?Sustainable Amersham
On Sunday 21 April join woodland expert John Morris on this walk to learn about the trees and other wildlife, how people used the woods in the past and the challenges of managing woodland today.
17th of April, 10-12 am, Amersham Band Phil Dearman, a local artist and teacher, held a workshop on drawing nature. 12 people attended and enjoyed
Learn about the fascinating nature of chalk streams and what is being done to help the Misbourne chalk stream in the Chilterns.
Wild Amersham held its first seed swap at March’s Repair Café. We were delighted to see so many members of the local community turn up
We are organising a family visit to a local organic farm (Collings Hanger Farm) in the Spring (11th of May), where parents and children (4-12 years) will be shown around and will be able to understand how a farm works and the impact of food on our environment.
We are organising a family cooking session, on the 28th of September (at the Youth Club) where we will explore food, cooking and how to create nutritious and cost effective dishes that are less damaging to the planet and our future.
Sustainable Amersham’s first ever Toy Swap came to Amersham on Saturday the 24th of February as part of their “little green adventures”.
Our monthly newsletter for families with children to create a future where our children can thrive. This month start gardening and walk while fundraising for nature.
By counting all the plastic you throw away for a week, you can help gather the vital evidence we need to convince UK ministers, supermarkets and big brands to lead the way at global talks that could finally phase out plastic production for good.
Let’s get counting!
Join us for a talk about how farmers, nature and volunteers have worked together for positive change in the Chilterns.
January has been a tough month full of storms, freezing cold spells and bouts of flu. As we turn the corner and start a warmer
This year get together with your children to cultivate some of your own vegetables. It is an immensely fun, soothing and rewarding activity as they dig their little hands in the soil, watching seeds grow into something that you can have for dinner!
This month have a New Year Clean-up or try to Keep the Warmth at Home with our little green adventures ideas to create a future where our kids can thrive!
Climate injustice describes the disproportionate burden of environmental degradation placed on marginalised and low-income communities, who are conversely least responsible for carbon emissions and environmentally destructive practices.
When things look bare and cold, what nature might you see? Join naturalist and photographer John Tyler on an online tour of winter wildlife in the coming “The countryside in winter: wildlife in nature’s hardest season” on Wednesday 31st January.
Have a look at some ideas of activities you can do at home and in nature with your children to explore various areas of sustainability. Have fun and create a world where our children can thrive!
Have a look at all our past newsletters for ideas on how to entertain your kids while building a future they can thrive in.
Have a look at some ideas of books for our kids and ourselves to learn how to love, protect and enjoy this beautiful planet.
Sustainable Amersham has a thermal camera, a really cool gadget that shows, with different colours the temperature of the different parts of your home. When
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With all the Christmas gifting we all start January with a home so full of toys that they spill out of every drawer and cupboard. A year-start declutter is due!
Winter is long, dark and cold and having a warm home is a blessing. However, homes in the UK mostly use gas boilers that release lots of polluting gases (around 11% of a household’s emissions). This, together with the rising cost of energy, makes keeping the warmth in really important to both planet and pocket.
Our first ever “little green adventures” Toy & Costume Swap is coming to Amersham Library on Saturday the 24th of February from 10-12 am. Thinking
Volunteers scythed the last of the wildflower meadow at St Mary’s School. On Saturday 25 November Wild Amersham and Amersham Band volunteers scythed the last of
We have put together lots of fun ideas for nature events to be held in Amersham in 2024. The Wild Amersham Nature Events Group has lots
We met to discuss how we will monitor and record local wildlife. Our Nature Records Group aims to get local people involved in national nature monitoring
Sustainable Amersham launched in January its first People Planet Pastry event at Jester cafe (close to Amersham station).
Anyone could turn up to this free event and get to know people in the community at the same time as having some stimulating conversations about the beautiful nature that surrounds us and the things that we can do to make sure that we protect the environment we have to live in.
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With so much food to buy for Christmas it is impossible not to have quite a bit of leftovers. Yet about a third of all food gets wasted causing a lot of polluting gases.
Try making a family game out of reusing things you have left from Christmas Day. Gather all left overs (turkey, chicken, sauces, stuffing, veggies, fruit) and let the kids run riot and make up their own pies. Bake them and enjoy!
Green Christmas Crafting!
Christmas is wonderful, stressful and challenging in equal measures.
Try these crafting activities to keep the kids entertained while practising the Reduce-reuse mantra.
Buying presents is exhausting, time-consuming and expensive! It also costs the environment dearly with tons of unwanted items.
Why not try to help ourselves and the planet by sitting down as a family and writing a letter to Santa? Get some treats out and reflect on what would truly bring us joy next year.
Share the letters around to your loved ones and help them with their own Christmas shopping!
Let’s create a today where our children can thrive! Protect our little people and their planet with these easy ideas. Climate Change means the Earth is
Come to our first “Green Families Cafe” for a cup of tea with like-minded parents. We will discuss the plans for the project and hear ideas and concerns.
In October, Wild Amersham helped Amersham Hospital turn “lawns2meadows”, restoring the lawns at the hospital to wildflower meadows
Enjoy the changing colour ranges with a roam around our local forests. Here go some forest activities:
Identify our trees with an app or try a print out guide
How about following Zog’s Trail at Wendover Woods?
Try leaf crafts!
Listen! Try to identify local birdsong with an audio guide
Travelling produces 25% of our personal polluting gases. Yet we need to move to do all the things we need to do in life!!
Our Trip Planner invites your family to explore this issue by planning a few of your monthly trips together as you learn about the different options we have and what that means in terms of the pollution we create. It has some colouring and joining games and a bit of learning for every age!
What could be nicer than fresh fruit and veg at its seasonal best? Explore eating seasonably to experience the joy of eating fruit and vegetables at their peak of perfection: fresher, tastier, better value and better for the planet!
Try planning and cooking a recipe with seasonal veggies with our “Cooking with the seasons” activity sheets. Full of colouring, cutting, pasting and thinking! Or just explore the Eat seasonably calendar.
Come to an engaging free online talk to learn about migrating birds near you by Wild Amersham and Prestwood Nature. 8 November at 7.30. Art work by @janeytom.
In this Calendar you will find events and activities on Nature happening close to us.
Find below all the events and activities included in our little green adventurers Newsletter.
Wild Amersham will hold a nature and craft activity for children on Saturday 14th February, where they can make or paint a home for garden birds.
The Wild Amersham Nature Records group met to make plans for the coming year. We are hoping to provide training for local people keen to help us
Wild Amersham organised a ‘Creatures of the Night’ activity for thirteen St Mary’s School children and their equally excited parents.
Eight recently trained Wild Amersham and Amersham Band volunteers scythed the wildflower meadow at St Mary’s School on Saturday 16 September.
We took a stall at the regular Amersham market to promote No Disposable Cup Day and support the two independent cafes who were helping us trial a ‘ borrow cup’ scheme for the day.
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Wild Amersham is joining St Mary’s School on 29 September for its 150th anniversary celebrations.
On September the 10th Amersham Band and Wild Amersham supported nature activities at the band site including activities for children.
In August Wild Amersham organised a family wildflower botany activity at the nature@AmershamBand site, with children making wildflower bookmarks, learning about wild plants on a wildflower trail
In August, Wild Amersham held a scything workshop for 11 volunteers so in future they can mow the wildflowers meadows Wild Amersham supports (using machinery compacts the soil which is not good for wildflowers).
Shop second hand and donate, reuse, re-wear and restyle during Second Hand September – and beyond! WHAT IS SECOND HAND SEPTEMBER? Second Hand September is
In just 3 hours, the collaborative Climate Fresk workshop will teach you the fundamental science behind climate change and empower you to take action.
In collaboration with the Bucks Amphibian and Reptile Group (BARG), Wild Amersham has put down refugia at our two partner sites, Amersham Band and St Mary’s School meadow and woodland
Wild Amersham has started monitoring wild plant species at our partner sites at Amersham Band and St Mary’s School meadow. We have found over 80 species of trees and flowers at each site so far!
Wild Amersham and Amersham Band held a Dawn Chorus Walk in May to listen to the wonderful early morning song of native birds.
Wild Amersham developed a project with Amersham Band to manage the site of its band building for nature and to enable the community to enjoy it.
Wild Amersham developed a project with St Mary’s School in Old Amersham to turn part of the school playing field into a wildflower meadow and heritage orchard.
Wild Amersham volunteers were at the Climate Action Day on 10 June in new Amersham, providing information about composting, hedgehogs and green gardening as well as fun educational nature activities for children.
Wild Amersham became a Team of Sustainable Amersham and set up five working
groups: Green Gardening, Nature Records, Events, Communications and a Steering Group. The groups meet regularly online (and occasionally in person) to organise and plan for great wild things!
In February 2023 we again supported The Climate Coalition’s Show the Love campaign to green-heart the Halls of Power with our Postcards to tell our Prime Minister
The Green Energy Team has launched a new social media series Have you taken any steps to make your home more sustainable? Maybe put up
The Plastic Free team worked with the Amersham School Eco-Council to stop using disposable bowls at lunchtime, replacing them with a re-usable porcelain bowl . The
The Sustainable Amersham Book Club had its first meeting to discuss an excellent book about the UK’s food strategy, and its impact on health and the environment. This was ‘Ravenous: How to Get Ourselves and Our Planet Into Shape’ by Henry Dimbleby, author of the National Food Strategy.
Sustainable Amersham is starting a pilot scheme to use thermal cameras to survey our member’s homes from the outside and help guide future insulation improvements.
Do you want to try to have a greener Christmas this year? Try these tips for a more sustainable festivities!
New date! Sustainable Amersham will be visiting Greatmoor to see how Energy from Waste facilities use our waste to produce energy.
Sustainable Amersham will be at Amersham Heritage Day to help make it a waste-free event
Join us at Amersham Library in the 19th November for our next free talk revisiting how to use less energy saving money and the planet!
Join us at Amersham Library on the 1st of October for our next free talk on how to save energy at home.
Sustainable Amersham participated in the Big Plastic Countdown organised by Everyday Plastic and Greenpeace to uncover the truth about how much we throw away and what happens to it
Repair cafe is back in Amersham! Bring in your broken items and work with our volunteer experts to repair them on-site.
Sustainable Amersham and the Chesham Bois Parish Council work together to make this years Village Fete more sustainable
Have a look at our Sustainability themed shelf at the beautiful new Amersham library. Built in collaboration with the library management it includes a variety
Join us at Amersham Library on the 18th of June for our next free talk on how to save energy at home.
We hosted our first free talk on how to power your home with solar energy. Find all the material here!
Sustainable Amersham have partnered with Big Clean Switch to try and help people in Amersham to use more renewable energy at home. It’s cheaper than
We live in a plastic world. It’s an extraordinarily useful, versatile, cheap material. It’s everywhere and it’s a growth industry, with one in every ten barrels of oil now used to create new
One of the Sustainable Amersham projects is to share information about sustainable living, in order to foster behaviour change. Our main channels are this website,
Burning fossil fuels is a major contributor to climate change. By switching to renewable energy like wind and solar, and making our typically leaky homes