For Marsh Volunteers Rota: Click Here The Marsh: SSB’s composting site: adjacent the South West Water site on Exeter Road is open on Sunday mornings from 10am-1pm both to leave garden waste, and to buy compost. Having placed collection of compost on hold for a few weeks, compost is available for collection again. However, we still need MORE green garden waste eg. grass cuttings, dead flowers etc., and LESS wood! Please don’t bring stumps, vines, bamboo, Japanese knotweed, Himalayan balsam,…
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Two Monthly Community Litter Pick from 2-4pm meeting up at Palstone Park Recreation Ground at 2pm organised by SSB’s ‘Talking Rubbish’ group. Please join us if you can. There will be some hi-vis jackets, gloves and litter-pickers available, but if you have some, please bring them. See: https://ssb.org.uk/event/community-litter-pick-2/. Every 2 months on the last Sunday of the month from 30 January 2022. FFI contact Eva or Tina at rubbish@ssb.org.uk Sunday 30 January 2022 Sunday 27 March 2022 Sunday 29…
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Thursday 2 – Sunday 5 June 2022: The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Central Weekend. On 6th February this year Her Majesty The Queen became the first British Monarch to celebrate a Platinum Jubilee, marking 70 years of service. To celebrate this unprecedented anniversary, events and initiatives will take place throughout the year, culminating in a four day UK bank holiday weekend from Thursday 2nd to Sunday 5th June. The bank holiday will provide an opportunity for communities and people throughout the…
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Regular Monthly meeting of SSB Trustees/directors.
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Friday 10 June 2022 (changed date) from 7.30 - 9.30 pm. Venue tbc. SSB and Dartside Explorer Scouts are teaming up to spend a cheery evening tackling a species that's invading areas of Dartmoor: Himalayan Balsam. If left unchecked, this prolific plant will readily out compete and further endanger our native flowers, depriving insects of habitat, and birds of a food source. Many hands make light work, and all SSB members are welcome to attend. Himalyan Balsam is very easy…
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Sunday 12 June 2022: Guided bike ride to discover the Primrose Line: Come and join Sustrans volunteers for a summer bike ride through the beautiful South Hams countryside to discover the old railway known as the Primrose Line from South Brent towards Kingsbridge and the proposed ‘Primrose Trail’ . There are two choices of starts from Ivybridge or South Brent Start at 9.30am in Ivybridge at Watermark Centre, Ivybridge, PL21 0SZ , returning to start by 4.30pm (35 miles) Join…
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Wednesday 15 June 2022. ‘PL21’ Open meeting and AGM at 7.30pm in Ivybridge Library. PL21 Transition Town Initiative (a similar organisation in Ivybridge to Sustainable South Brent), invites you to a talk by Amanda Keetley, Executive Director of Devon Environment Foundation. Amanda is an environmental and marketing professional who has been campaigning to reduce plastic pollution locally and globally since 2015. In 2019, she wrote the book ‘Plastic Game Changer' to help people reduce plastic waste in their organisations. She…
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The recently revitalised Talking Rubbish group will be holding their Zoom meeting monthly at 7pm on the Third tuesday of the month. We’ve got lots of great ideas and plenty of room for new members! Everyone welcome, so please email rubbish@ssb.org.uk if you would like to receive the Zoom invitation.
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Competition one week to go!: Just a few days left to enter SSB's free-to-enter Competition. Great prizes up for grabs for photographers, artists and writers. Click on banner above for full details.
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Competition entry deadline midnight today!: Last chance for 02-21 year olds to enter SSB's free-to-enter Competition. Great prizes up for grabs for photographers, artists and writers. Click on banner above for full details.
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