Working together as a community to reduce our environmental impact

Welcome to Green Wedmore

Monthly meetings are something we have always been committed to, and from these meetings come our ideas and inspiration. At present, these take place on Zoom, 7.30pm on the last Monday of the Month. Get in touch here to make sure you receive the link.

We focus on ACTION and keeping it LOCAL. 

Our Facebook page has been very busy recently, here is a snippet of what we have been talking about and what we have coming up!

We welcome anyone to join us, ensure you receive our monthly update and link to the next meeting by signing up to our mailing list here.

Here is a taster of the things we have acheived in the last few years, take a lokk around the website to see some of our current projects. 
 

• We’ve set up regular Free Cycle Days, 18 to date.

• During Covid we held popular door step freecycle weekends too for several months. 

• We witnessed our Vice Chair Sonya get her MBE for contributions in the renewable energy field. 

• We’ve held 5 Produce Markets in the village,

• Encouraged and supported the Wedmore Community Co-Op, and the now complete Solar Paddocks

• We’ve improved recycling. 

• We run renewable energy switching deals.

• We put on many repair Cafe’s.

• Bulk Purchasing of renewable equipment. 

• Encouraged local food and shops through our first book ‘Is It Local’ Cookbook. 

• Launched a plastic bag free village. Held a Green Fair and Energy Evening. 

• Had a number of movie nights.

• Been a source of environmental support and advice. 

• Developed two community woodlands and a community orchard, and more recently on behalf of the parish council Worthington Woods Food forest.

• We took part in the Mendip Open Eco Homes Scheme. 

• Co-organised the Fruit Trees for All Scheme, bulk purchasing and selling fruit trees.

• Supported the Wedmore in Bloom scheme. 

• Encouraged the local school initiatives to produce renewable energy.

• We bought and distributed 1000 Oak Trees - under a special Covid Project.

• Started a ‘pass it on books’ scheme for environmental books.

• Purchased Eco meters for households to check electricity usage.

• Held ten litter pick up days, collecting almost 75 sacks of recyclables and rubbish.

• Produced renewable energy information sheets.

• Developed this website providing information for the community. 

• Made important linkages with other community groups to share information and support.   

• Covid 19 gave us an opportunity to lend out our equipment for litter picking.

• Written over 40 articles for the village magazine showing how a life can be more eco-friendly. 

• ​Spoken at local schools and churches on environmental topics. 

• Rolled out our very own Zero Carbon Wedmore project in 2019. 

• We installed solar on our village hall, bowls club and tennis club. 

• W​e installed a Tesla battery in the village hall too. 

   

• We are planning a new cook book

• Recently launched our Green Wedmore Solar Challenge 1000 project

• We have further plans for litter picking, more work on housing and transport with installation of more EV chargers

Join our Facebook group for lots more information.