Monday 16 September 2024: Quarterly meeting for Avon Valley ‘Land Guardians’: meeting in hub at the Old School Community Centre from 6.30-8.30pm. Do join us if you own or manage land in the Upper Avon Valley, and are interested in conservation; increasing biodiversity; creating nature corridors; networking and hearing about what others are doing. Do…
Saturday 21st September 2024. Brent Island 30th Anniversary Fun Day: 11am-4pm on the Island. Brent Island was bought for the village by the residents in 1994 and is managed by Brent Island Trust for people to enjoy and for the protection of wildlife. The trust is organising this day to mark the Island’s 30th…
Leaders: Mike & Rowan For current Hedges and Woodland group activities, Click here to open the programme
Monday 7 October 2024: ‘Storing Sunshine’: A Buyers guide to purchasing Solar PV. A talk by Mark Skinner, of South Dartmoor Community Energy, from 7.30-9pm in the Old School Community Centre. Tickets at £6/£4/Free can be obtained via Eventbrite at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/storing-sunshine-tickets-1011190155977 or scan the QR code
Tuesday 8 October 2024 (NB. Please note change of date and time from Saturday 5 October): South Brent Community Energy Society’s Annual General Meeting at 7.30pm in the Old School Community Centre. Remote connection to the AGM by Zoom may be possible FFI, email ejc.chapman@sbces.org.uk. See: http://www.sbces.org.uk/
Wednesdays 18; 25 September; 02; 9 October 2024: Market Garden & Orchard Drop-in sessions from 09.30-1300 in the foyer at the Old School Community Centre: Sustainable South Brent has been given the exciting opportunity to lease a 10 acre field from South Hams District Council, close to the centre of South Brent to create a…
Devon Rural Skills Trust, Annual Hedge Steeping Competition see: https://drst.org.uk/pg/comp.aspx For current Hedges and Woodland group activities, Click here to open the programme
Monday 14 October 2024: ‘An Evening with – A Climate Activist’ at 7.15pm in the Old School Community Centre. The first in a series of ‘An evening with …’ interviews and Q&As. We will meet an activist who engages in arrestable activity to protest on the climate. What motivates him to put his liberty at…
Leaders: Robin & Jude For current Hedges and Woodland group activities, Click here to open the programme
Thursday 24 October 2024: Meeting/talk organised by Brent Birders at 7:30pm in the Old School Community Centre. Peter Burgess will speak on ‘Wilder Devon’. Peter Burgess is Director of Nature Recovery for Devon Wildlife Trust and has spent over 18 years working in the conservation sector in Devon, with diverse experience developing and delivering conservation…