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7.00 pm Friday 23rd September

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A Murder Mystery Evening
hosted by the Green Party Branches of
North and West Oxfordshire

A fundraising evening kindly sponsored by the crew at "Stickyendings.co.uk" 

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West Oxfordshire Green Party

Wednesday July 27th 7:30 pm onwards

Its been quite a while since we had a meeting in Chipping Norton.

We have lots of members (new and old) in and around the town so we though it would be nice to have the opportunity to meet up face to face and get to know each other. 

Why not come and meet up with Green Party members and supporters at the Chequers in Goddard Lane, Chipping Norton.

Please do come and join us. We will be there from 8:00 pm onwards sitting in the back room.

Don't hesitate to bring your friends - the more the merrier.

If you need a lift just let us know and we will set up a car share system.

For more details and to let us know that you plan to join us please visit:  https://www.greenoxfordshire.com/west_oxon_green_drinks_chipping_norton  

Come and help us get
Rosie Pearson
elected in
Brize Norton & Shilton. 

(including Fordwells, Asthall, Asthall Leigh, Swinbrook, Field Asserts, Bradwell Village & Brize Meadow)

2nd May - ACTION DAY 
10:00am - 12:00pm

Manor in good time so that we can head off canvassing and leafleting at 10:00am.

 West Oxfordshire Green Party
Asthall Manor, Burford and on Zoom

With food poverty at its worst for decades and health services under extreme stress, community gardens and orchards, school gardens and allotments offer a perfect opportunity to increase wellbeing in the community through their valuable social, physical and mental health benefits.

In an effort to encourage and support the expansion of community growing projects we have gathered together speakers from both community and health sectors: 

- Our community presenters will share their experiences of setting up community gardens and orchards in towns and schools around Oxfordshire.

- Our health sector experts will explore the benefits of growing your own food on both mental and physical health

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This meeting will be one of our first events in the last couple of years where there will be face to face networking and we want to make it very special. We are fortunate to be invited to hold our meeting at the historic  Asthall Manor in Burford.

For more details and to book your place please click here

West Oxon Green Drinks March 2022

Green Fair 2021

Oxford Town Hall Dec 4th

Everyone's favourite Winter Fair returns to Oxford Town Hall on Saturday 4th December - meet friends, shop at festive and ethical stalls, eat delicious vegetarian and vegan food and meet local community and charity organisations. Family friendly and everyone welcome!

Open Meeting Chaired by Baroness Natalie Bennett:

Healthy Food Shouldn't Cost the Earth

Our food supply and the food chain itself are under threat as are biodiversity and the environment with massive single crop farming and the Government's proposed changes in regulations governing Genetically Modified Organisms in our food.

Come along and join us at this open event and listen to, and question our panel of experts.

Baroness Natalie Bennett (Green Party Peer) has agreed to chair the evening.

 Our speakers are:

• Liz O’Neill  "The GMO threat to our food system"
  Liz is Director of GMFreeze ( https://www.gmfreeze.org/ ), the UK umbrella campaign challenging the use of genetic modification in food and farming 
• Henry Astor
  Henry farms on the Bruern Estate, where they are transitioning to regenerative methods of farming. 
• Tim Mitchell "Growing wildlife-friendly food by organic methods" - Asthall Crop Share.

Followed by a Question & Answer session with the chair and panel 

West Oxfordshire Green Party

Social evening.

Our next nformal evening meet-up – “Green Drinks” is on the evening of Thursday 18th November from 8.00 pm onwards, and then every third Thursday of the month.

We areenjoying our new meeting place -the snug of the Beekeepers on Market Square Witney. The kitchen will be open until 9:00 pm.

We do hope that you will be able to join us and meet up and make new contacts.

Just turn up and look for the table with the green flag!

You are more than welcome to bring your friends along too. We are a very hospitable lot, and there is so much going on at the moment to chat about.

 West Oxfordshire Green Party COP26 Awareness
Halloween Stall

Come and chat with us about your expectations fromCOP26.  We will be outside the Woolgate Centre entrance near the Taxi rank in Witney on the 30th Oct. from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm.

Lets see if COP26 will be a "Trick or Treat"

West Oxfordshire Green Party

Social evening.

We plan to restart our Informal evening meet-ups – “Green Drinks” on the evening of Thursday 16th Sept. from 8:00 pm onwards, and then every third Thursdayof the month.

We are trying a new location for our meet-ups, the snug of the Beekeepers on Market Square Witney . The kitchen will be open until 9:00 pm.

Witney Action Day

Please join us campaigning to get Andrew Prosser elected as District and County Councillor on 6 May! 

Register Here

Witney Action Day

Please join us campaigning to get Andrew Prosser elected as District and County Councillor on 6 May! 

Register Here

Energy improvements for manufacturing businesses

Oxfordshire’s buildings are old, inefficient, and constantly wasting energy – and that includes our workplaces: offices, warehouses, manufacturing plants etc.

In fact, in the UK buildings are responsible for 29% of total carbon emissions.

Not only is this a disaster for the environment, it’s also leaving businesses with high energy bills that damage their bottom line, and workplaces that are uncomfortable for employees, customers, and visitors.

One sector where this is particularly important is manufacturing. Manufacturing businesses tend to have lots of energy intensive equipment which needs to be constantly run. They also often occupy large spaces which need to be well lit and heated for both health and safety and comfort.

In this event we’ll be exploring the energy improvements that manufacturing businesses can make in their premises – and how this can contribute to significant cost and carbon savings. We’ll also tell you more about the Energy Pioneer Award, and inviting you to make an application for your company.

Click Here to Register

LCWO ACT Now workshop with:

 - Anaïs Bozetine, Replenish Project Coordinator;

 - Susan Hutchinson, LCWO;

 - Ruth Lyster, School Cook at West Oxford Community Primary; and

 - Nina Osswald, Good Food Oxford.

Register Here

Environmental campaigner Jojo Mehta, Chair of Stop Ecocide, talks about their work.

We have all been horrified by films of forests being destroyed to make way for soya crops and cattle ranches.

Protecting the future of life on earth means stopping the mass damage and destruction of ecosystems taking place globally.

And right now, in most of the world, it is legally permitted. 

It’s time to change the rules!

Stop Ecocide are working to make it an international crime at the International Criminal Court.

Join us at this online event at 7.00 pm 29th March 2021, to hear the environmental campaigner Jojo Mehta, Chair of Stop Ecocide, talking about the work of the organisation.

Stop Ecocide campaigns to forbid and prevent further devastation to life on Earth by establishing ecocide as an international crime at the International Criminal Court. It was founded in 2017 by Jojo and the visionary UK lawyer the late Polly Higgins .

The Oxfordshire COP26 Climate Alliance have organised a “CLIMATE ACTION DAY” on Saturday March 27. They have talks and discussions from 10am - 3pm. Please do join them.

The opening session is on the COP26 Conference and why it matters, with speakers including FoE International Climate Campaigner Rachel Kennerley.

At 2pm they have a special session on   ‘Climate Justice and how we can build a diverse climate action movement here in Oxfordshire’ . Speakers include Zarina Ahmad who has been working in the environmental sector for over 10 years. She has developed and set up the Ethnic Minority Environmental Network, a platform for EM voices and a network for emerging climate leaders). There’s six other workshops during the morning to choose from as well.  

Find out more at www.oxcop26.uk  or register at: https://actionnetwork.org/events/oxfordshire-cop26-climate-action-day

The Centre for Sustainability, Equality and Climate Action and the School of Social Sciences, Education and Social work at Queen’s University Belfast invites you to a forthcoming lecture on

‘The Promise of Green Growth: A Pathway to Prosperity while Achieving National and Global Ambitions’

Dr Stelios Grafakos, Global Green Growth Institute

This century will bear witness to a profound global transformation—and there are critical choices to make in determining what direction that transformation will take.

Across the world, countries are starting to rethink their options for long-term development strategies, given rising concerns about the global environment, the need to sustain and protect their environment and natural capital, and the desire to promote robust, inclusive social development.

Recognizing that conventional, resource-intensive economic growth can undermine their resource base and social progress, countries are increasingly turning to green and low-carbon growth as their best option for long-term sustainability, social well-being, and economic prosperity.

This lecture will talk about the main global environmental challenges, with main focus on the climate crisis and discuss how governments can address these challenges by following green and low carbon growth pathways.

Speakers include:

• Prof. William Bloss, University of Birmingham, Professor of Atmospheric Science
• Dr Gary Fuller, Imperial College London, Senior Lecturer in Air Quality Management
• David Milner, Create Streets, Deputy Director

The Nature Recovery Network’s (NRN) second webinar focuses on some of the practical issues associated with Parish Councils’ upcoming statutory responsibilities for enhancing biodiversity on their land.

As discussed in the first webinar, the NRN approach is to bring communities together - their enthusiasts, local experts, councillors and government officers - to reach a shared understanding of what needs to be done; and to connect up in a flat network to make the doing of it sustainable and scaleable.

Here, we look at new approaches to managing tree health & safety that make the clear-fell chainsaw a tool of last resort.

We look at hedge management, the importance to society of hedges as carbon sinks and the last wildlife corridors that could save some species from extinction, including pollinators critical for food production.

And we look at ways in which nature recovery can offer job creation opportunities in the green economy.

NOTE a recording of the first meeting is available here https://youtu.be/ha2Zu7nI8nU

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER

Waste and Climate Change

An expert-led opportunity to explore and further understand how our relationship with stuff, consumption and waste impacts the climate.

LCWO ACT Now workshop with:

 - Anaïs Bozetine, Replenish Project Coordinator and Community Action Groups Network Support Coordinator;

 - Jenny Carr, formerly at WRAP;

 - Mark Watson, Waste Strategy Projects Officer, Oxfordshire County Council; and Share Oxford’s Library of Things.

Part of a series of events this spring, brought to you online by members of the Communities for Zero Carbon

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Energy Recovery Facility - what happens to non-recyclable waste

Ever wondered what happens to the waste you put in your wheely bins?

Learn about how non-recycling waste from Oxfordshire residents is treated at the Ardley Energy Recovery Facility which generates enough electricity to power the equivalent of approximately 60,000 homes.

Jessica Baker-Pike Learning & Visitor Centre Manager Viridor

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER