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…
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…
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 is a choice of starts…
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…
The revitalised Talking Rubbish group will be holding their Zoom meeting monthly at 7pm on the last 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.
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.
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…
Competition entry deadline midnight July 1st!: 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.
Monday 11 July 2022: Dartmoor Invasive Species Project: Following the survey conducted by ecologist Mervyn Newman for Dartmoor National Park, Mervyn, and Dartmoor Ranger Ella Briens and are looking for help to tackle Himalayan Balsam around Brent. “If anyone is able to help out it will be really appreciated. We are meeting at 10am near…
SSB's Jessica Shipp, Nick Cape and Penny Wainwright will be on air on BBC Radio Devon, on Friday 15th July on the their Breakfast show between 6 and 9am, in a recorded item from the Old School Community Centre about the Community Fridge and also the Fair for South Brent. If you missed it,…