Author: JW

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

Welcome to Festival Town Sidmouth! And as with the BBC, one could say the remit is to ‘educate as well as entertain’. Five years ago, there was a gathering of festival groups to push the idea: 2017 Making Sidmouth a Festival town – Vision Group for Sidmouth And it happened again this spring – with… Continue reading Festival champions

We can indeed learn so much from our friends and neighbours – especially ‘in foreign lands’. This week, the Herald looks forward to the Twinning Circle moving ahead: Members of Sidmouth Twinning Circle are looking forward to welcoming residents of their twin town in Switzerland next year. Since 1984 Sidmouth has been twinned with Le… Continue reading Twinning Circle champions

Young people can ‘learn’ outside school – especially when working in the community. Earlier this month, the Brownies were reported doing a really good deed: Brownies visit Sid Valley Food Bank | Sidmouth Herald The Brownies are of course part of the bigger family of scouts and guides – who were nominated several times for… Continue reading Sidmouth Brownies champions

The VGS has been contacted by staff at one of the Sid Valley’s care homes for the elderly: “We are looking for ways to support our local community to save the environment and become more eco-friendly as a home. I wondered if you could give us some information on this – and we would really… Continue reading Sidmouth’s care home champions

Congratulations to SVS on reaching sixty years of providing so much for the Sid Valley: Sidmouth Voluntary Services As recognised and celebrated at last year’s Sustainable Sidmouth Champions Awards: Peter Murphy, chair of the Vision Group for Sidmouth, presents the Chairman’s Award to Frances Newth, president of Sidmouth Voluntary Services. Photo credit: Tony Spooner ARPS,… Continue reading 60 years of Sidmouth Voluntary Services

You don’t have to be of school-age to go to classes: ‘education’ can be for people of all and every age. And so, we have the University of the Third Age: Across the UK, u3a members draw upon their knowledge and experience to teach and learn from each other for pleasure; learning is its own… Continue reading U3A champions