Tuesday 14 May 2024: Active Devon. Join Active Devon for a chat from 9.30am-12.30pm in Ivybridge library at the Watermark, as we explore opportunities for walking and cycling around Ivybridge. Come together to share experiences and ideas – your voice matters – let’s make as difference – one step or pedal at a time. Part…
Wednesdays 14 February; 13 March; 10 April; 15 May 2024: Energy Advice Drop-In Sessions from 9.30am-12noon in The Hub at the Old School Community Centre. Free impartial advice from Mark Skinner of South Dartmoor Community Energy. Worried about the rising cost of energy? Struggling to Heat your home? Not sure where to get good advice?…
Sunday 26 May 2024: Community Litter Pick from 2-4pm. Join SSB’s South Brent Litter Pickers at the Hub at the Old School Community Centre at 2pm. Equipment is provided there is tea, cake and conversation in the Hub afterwards! All are most welcome - "Together we make changes!" Community Litter Picks are usually…
Tuesday 28 May 2024: Avon Valley Project – Networking Event for Avon Valley Landowners and Land Managers: meeting in the main hall at the Old School Community Centre from 6.30-8.30pm. Do join us if you are a land owner or land manager in the Upper Avon Valley and you are interested in conservation and one…
‘Money Matters’: at 7pm in the Hub at the Old School Community Centre organised by SSB. An informative evening evening of information and advice with Jack Clancy, Chartered Financial Planner with Plant Financial Limited, weighing up environmental ethics with banking and investments. Ethical Banking and investments address issues such as climate breakdown and human…
Thursdays 13 & 27 June; 4 & 11 July 2024; 10am-3pm: Led Bike Rides: South Brent to Slapton – D-Day 80th Anniversary Ride (approx. 30miles return). The starting point is at Bishopsmead, South Brent. We leave South Brent on the quiet road to Avonwick then pick up the new Primrose Trail towards Diptford. We climb…
'Sustainable Earth 2024: Accelerating Action on Net-Zero through Mobilising People-Power' is a free online event and offers the opportunity for researchers, businesses, NGOs, community groups and individuals to come together to hear inspirational speakers, to network, spark ideas and encourage collaborations to tackle global and local challenges around the climate. With talks from University of Plymouth…
Free Knitting Workshop every Wednesday from 3-5pm (note time change) in the HUB and Warm Space in the Moor Room at the Old School Community Centre. Families and children welcome with their grown ups. Never has there been a better time to learn to knit! Come & learn from our resident expert, Sue, from Cosy…
The Marsh Composting site webpage: https://ssb.org.uk/projects/the-marsh-community-compost-and-re-use-centre/ Current Marsh volunteers rota - January - June 2024
NB. This event has been postponed - New date to be announced ‘Bogs and Frogs: Understanding the role of peat in our moorland ecosystems’ from 7 - 8.30pm at the Old School Community Centre. Steve Edmonds - National Trust and SW Peatland Partnership Ranger, gives an introduction to the peatland restoration work that is taking…