Author: JW

So much of our civic life depends on people giving their time for others: “Recognising the fantastic contribution of East Devon volunteers” – Sustainable Sidmouth Champion Awards “We will need the engagement of volunteers more than ever.” – Sustainable Sidmouth Champion Awards 60 years of Sidmouth Voluntary Services – Sustainable Sidmouth Champion Awards The latest… Continue reading We need volunteers!

Sidmouth is Festival Town: Festival champions – Sustainable Sidmouth Champion Awards And today, the extraordinary Science Festival starts up: Science Festival 2022 starts this week, 10 years on – Vision Group for Sidmouth It is fundamentally about ‘education for sustainability, education for hope‘: The Sidmouth Science Festival was started by a small team from the Vision… Continue reading Science Festival champions

The churches of the Sid Valley are doing a huge amount of work to inform parishioners and the wider community about green issues – in particular climate change. Back in 2019, a whole series of events were held at the different churches: Our Fragile Earth: ‘fantastic response’ to church-led talks – Vision Group for Sidmouth… Continue reading Churches champions

Earlier in the summer, Exeter launched its ‘Sustainability Awards’: New for 2022, the awards are a way to celebrate, support and recognise the sustainable practice and commitment of the businesses, organisations and individuals driving change across Exeter. Calling all eco heroes! It is rather official: Princesshay, Exeter City Futures, Exeter City Council, Exeter University, In… Continue reading Exeter Sustainability Awards: bona fide?

Next week, Devon will be a-buzz with libraries doing exciting things – including in Sidmouth: Libraries throughout Devon and Torbay will be bursting with free community events at an annual Fun Palace extravaganza. Libraries will be hosting the fun days on September 30, October 1 and 2 for people to experience something new.  · Japanese… Continue reading Sidmouth Library champions

There is a great local network when it comes to helping with mental health: Mental Health Support | Sid Valley HELP Mental Health and Wellbeing – Sid Valley Practice And one of these support groups they point to is the very accessible DRLC: Welcome to the Devon Recovery Learning Community A Recovery College provided by Devon Partnership… Continue reading Devon Recovery Learning Community champions

To quote from the homepage of the Sustainable Sidmouth Champions Awards website: “The Awards 2021 started with an inspired idea – and went on to a packed awards ceremony.” As for this year: “The proposal is to make the Champions Awards 2022 about the positive things people have taught and learnt – whether it’s offering… Continue reading Education for sustainability, education for hope

The Sid Valley Neighbourhood Plan came out almost three years ago now: 19 November 2019 – Sid Valley Neighbourhood Plan is now officially ‘made’ – East Devon And it included several ‘community actions’ on the environment: community-actions-july-2019.pdf Sidmouth Town Council was keen to follow these through – and so set up its environment committee to… Continue reading Town Council Environment Cttee champions

The growing SolarPunk movement is very much about creating a dialogue about a possible positive future – in other words, it’s very much about ‘education for sustainability, education for hope’: We now live in an era where pragmatism is a radical stance. Thus Solarpunk seeks to cultivate a positive, hopeful, vision of a future rooted… Continue reading SolarPunk champions

People really want to know more about the natural world – and the Sid Valley Biodiversity Group is very much about informing and engaging people: Our aimsMaking a measurable positive difference to the biodiversity of Sid Valley by:• Helping people to understand and celebrate the rich diversity of wildlife already present in the valley. People•… Continue reading Sid Valley Biodiversity Group champions