Community Climate Action Hub
Welcome to the latest round-up of recent news and events for the local community! The Climate Action Hub offers a fantastic way for parents and children to get involved in recycling, reusing, and repurposing at home. It also highlights local events happening in Ealing that you can attend with your family on weekends and during the holidays. These events not only help you repurpose and recycle items at home but also provide a fun opportunity to learn new skills for the whole family.
Follow the link below to see upcoming event around your area;
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Sustainability Workshop Fun: Kids’ Creative session on 7 April Book your children on the Broken Umbrella Challenge Workshop, a fun and engaging sustainability workshop at either Acton Library or Ealing Central Library on Monday 7 April. The kids will learn how to repurpose broken objects and recycled materials by transforming them into something new. Get creative with this hands-on upcycling activity
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Green West Ealing: Join Our Gardening Initiative Join a group of committed residents to Green West Ealing area for gardening and litter picking. Together, West Ealing Green Spaces, they are transforming unused and unloved plots of land into vibrant spaces. Also fostering biodiversity and climate resilience
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Forage for Food: Discover Wild Edibles in Boston Manor Park Discover the edible and useful plants on your doorstep in Boston Manor Park on Tuesday 8 April at 2 pm. Join Tash to forage for food on this informative family foraging event where you can find things to eat and cook with on our doorstep.
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Volunteer Opportunities at Berrymede Community Garden Drop-in for the volunteering sessions at the Berrymede Community Garden. Located in the playgrounds of Acton Gardens Primary School, these sessions offer a wonderful opportunity to contribute to the lovely community space
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Science Week The theme for 2025 is...’Change and adapt’! Our behaviours change too – we need to change how we consume the world’s resources to offset the worst effects of the climate crisis, and adapt our lifestyles to reduce our impact through recycling or reducing waste. But change and adaptation doesn’t just happen here on Earth, even the stars and other celestial bodies change as they gain and lose mass. Perhaps there is life on other planets that adapts as their environment changes. When exploring this theme, we can also consider how attitudes to STEM and the people who do it have changed and adapted. Perceptions of scientists are changing and we need to keep adapting our thinking until we can no longer picture a ‘stereotypical scientist’ – anyone can be a scientist. Change and adaptation is often a good thing, but not always! A topic we have all become more familiar with in the last four years, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, is viruses and how they adapt to better infect and multiply within their living hosts. This can be scary, but understanding this behaviour allows scientists to develop the most effective vaccines and other treatments.
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Fancy Dress Costume Swap for World Book day, 1st March On Saturday 1 March, visitors to the March Reduce and Recycle hub can take part in a Costume Swap for World Book day by either taking one costume per person and/or donate an old one for someone else to enjoy. The swap will be open from 12 to 2 pm at St Mary’s Church Acton. World Book Day is on Thursday 6th March 2025 and many families will start to think about which of the children’s favourite book characters they will be dressing up as this year, so put our swap in your diary and pop along. Even if your children aren’t taking part in a world book day dressing up day event but love a costume, please join in the fun and pop along. Invite family and friends so they can enjoy choosing their costume together.
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Reduce Waste with Miniml Refills in Boston Manor Park The Potting Shed sells refills for your kitchen and bathroom cleaning needs. Bring along your bottles and refill. If you don't have bottles, they sell prefilled bottles that can be refilled on your next visit. The Potting Shed is the cafe in Boston Manor park by the children's playground.
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Lacto-Fermentation Workshop London: Gut-Healthy Goodness Discover the magic of transforming simple organic ingredients into nutrient-packed, probiotic rich ferments in the hands-on Lacto-Fermentation Workshop London at Horsenden Farm!
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Corporate Volunteering Opportunities at Horsenden Horsenden is a local nature reserve and farm and a popular choice for volunteering and they offer corporate volunteer and corporate social responsibility (CSR) days. With around 80 hectares, the Horsenden site spans ancient woodland, meadows, ponds and wetlands, and hedgerows. It is a nature reserve and a working community farm
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Nature Drawing Workshops for Kids and Adults Join Nature drawing workshops with Hazel from Ealing Wildlife Group. These workshops are on Sunday 19th January 2-4pm and Saturday 1 February 11-1pm in Boston Manor Park. Relaxed indoors and guided workshop for children aged 15 years and upwards and adults welcome, all equipment provided. No experience necessary.
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Get ready for the Big Garden Birdwatch in January Sign up today for the world’s largest garden wildlife survey with the Big Garden Birdwatch with the RSPB (Royal Society for the Protection for Birds). It’s fun, free and will only take an hour, whenever it suits you, from Friday 24 – Sunday 26 January. Thousands of nature lovers will be counting birds from their gardens
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Ealing Repair Cafe: Repair Clothes and Reduce Waste Need help on how to repair clothes? Let Ealing Repair cafe teach you how to mend your clothes. Pop along to Ealing Broadway’s Christmas market on Tuesday 17th December from 10am-4.30pm. Then Ealing Repair cafe is back with their usual meet ups in January. Ealing Repair café encourages the mending of clothes and textiles.
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Christmas Tree Recycling and how to Care for them As the festive season winds down after Christmas, dispose of your real Christmas trees responsibly.. Jumpstart the new year with a simple, swift, and eco-friendly disposal process by including your tree in the Ealing curbside rubbish and recycling collections or by delivering it to a nearby park or reuse and recycle centre.