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Past Events & Meetings

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When What Description Results
2010      
4,5 Sep Sustainable Wallingford's Green Fair at Bunkfest  
3 Jul Swap Shop    
2 May Cycle Ride    
27 Apr General Election hustings  for Wantage Constituency, arranged jointly with Churches Together  
Sat 17 Apr Swap Shop    
Sat 10 Apr AGM    
Sat 23 Feb Swap Shop    
Sun 31 Jan Greening Campaign Phase 1 Celebration Party Around 50 people attended.  Amongst other things, our insulation leaflet was promoted and people generally had the chance to meet and enjoy themselves.
2009      
Sat 5 Dec The Wave   SusWal attended.  See picture
Fri 13 Nov,
Corn Exchange		 Film: Age Of Stupid    
Sat 10 Oct Greening Campaign Launch   See Wallingford Herald Report
Sat 8 Jul Greening Campaign
Public Meeting 		  See Wallingford Herald report
Sat 27 Jun Swap Shop    
Sat 16 May Launch of 2009/2010 Buy Local Directory   See Wallingford Herald report
Sat 7 Mar Swap Shop    
2008      
October Climate Change Questionnaire   Click here
Jun 28 Swap Shop   See pictures
May 3 Fir Tree School work party    
Mar 6 Swap Shop   Click here
Apr 28 Buy Local Guide Launch of Guide in Wallingford Market Square.

We had wonderful support from the Ecology Building Society.  Click here and see page 2.

 See Press report and and launch

Also click on thumbprint for enlarged photo

The Mayor of Wallingford and Dorothy Cussens

The Mayor of Wallingford, Nigel Moor, and Dorothy Cussens, convenor of Sustainable Wallingford's Buy Local Group, at the launch of the new edition of Where to Buy Local in Wallingford.
Bob Neilsen and the Mayor and Mayoress of Wallingford Bob Nielsen of Brightwell Vineyard and the Mayor and Mayoress of Wallingford toast the new edition of Sustainable Wallingford's 'Buy Local' directory.
Mar 31 Climate Group Our Climate Change group were in Wallingford Market Place to offer advice and information on saving energy and reducing household carbon emissions.  
Mar 10 Swap Shop   Swap Shop
Jan 13 Swap Shop   Swap Shop
2006      
Oct Our award   Sustainable Wallingford's work on the Fir Tree School Vegetable Garden was a winner at the Oxfordshire Sustainability and Conservation Awards.  More...
Sep 23 Swap Shop   Swap Shop
Sep 1 - 3 Bunkfest We were on site on both Saturday and Sunday and this year our stand had a recycling theme, with displays and activities for children. We collected 5000 plastic cups for recycling (festival uses 12,000 cups in all)
Spring/summer Fir Tree School garden Development of garden Click here
Jun 10 Swap Shop   Swap Shop
Mar 27 Community Coppicing    
Mar 11 Food, people and Place  
Market Place stall Market Place stall
Market Place stall Click on thumbprint for enlarged photo
Mar 4 SW Swap Shop and Collection day   Swap Shop
2005      
Nov 17 SODC prize giving Hampers and Compost Click here
Nov 12 Swap Shop Swap Shop and recyclable collection day  
Sep 3 Bunkfest We had a stall promoting 'water efficiency' and collected the beer cups for recycling. We collected 5000 plastic cups for recycling (festival uses 12,000 cups in all)
Jul 9 Double Bill   Click here
Apr 30 Launch of Sustainable Wallingford’s ‘Buy Local’ Directory. More...  
Mar 16 Eco-friendly parenting talk - "Raising a Green Child"

A joint event with the Wallingford branch of the NCT (National Childbirth Trust).

  
Feb 12 Swap Shop Clear out clutter without adding to the waste mountain Click here
2004      
Dec 11 Wild Waste Show
Market Square		    
Dec 3 St John’s Primary School Christmas Fair We had a stall. The children printed Xmas designs onto recycled wrapping paper and made gift tags from recycled card. The paper was used to wrap ‘post Christmas post boxes’ – ready for the children in the local primary schools to ‘post’ their used Christmas cards when they return to school in January. We’ll then collect up the used cards from this year and store them ready for recycling activities in the run up to Christmas ’05!
Dec 2 Victorian Evening Sustainable Wallingford's stall was a great success and our table looked well stocked. A big thank you to everyone who helped with the preparation and to those who helped man the stall on the night.

We managed to get about
10 new volunteers interested in helping us out so that was really great.
Victorian evening stall Victorian evening stall
Victorian evening stall

Click on thumbprint for enlarged photo
Oct 9 Swap Shop, Regal Centre, Wallingford   Swap Shop
Sep 23 Nappuccino  Come and discuss cloth nappies with the "experts". Look at the range of washable nappies now available. Tea, coffee and biscuits available. Toys for little ones to play with. Phone Sally Eccleston for details - 01491 834780
Sep 4 Big Green Day, coinciding with the 3rd Wallingford Bunkfest   Click for our Bunkfest report
Jul 3 Swap Shop, Regal Centre, Wallingford   Swap Shop
July School Summer Fairs
  • Fir Tree
  • Crowmarsh
 SW stands, planting seeds and revamping old clothes (tie dying etc):  
Jun 19 Wallingford Carnival This year’s theme was Nursery Rhymes. In an attempt to be faithful to this topic but also to the topic that defines our organisation – sustainability, we decided on ‘Wiggly Worm at the bottom of the garden’ – in the composter! The Carnival was great fun. 32 SW members and friends participated in our float.

The photos speak for themselves!

More...
Jun 7 Sustainable Design in Public & Commercial Buildings David Rowley architect and director at Nightingale Associates discussed the principles of sustainable design. The talk also focused on best practice examples of sustainable architecture including the award winning Wessex Water HQ and the Eden Project. Finally David provoked debate about the potential for incorporating environmental building standards in South Oxfordshire. 25 people attended this extremely interesting talk.  Report
Jun 5 No Plastic Bags Day
The aim behind this initiative was to reduce the disposal of plastic bags, which take hundreds of years to decompose and cause the environment enormous harm. The re-usable cotton bags can be put into back-packs, hand bags, even pockets! They can be carried anywhere and used for groceries or any other kind of shopping.
Over 700 local residents received a re-usable cotton carrier bag.
The bags were handed out at nine local businesses that kingly and eagerly agreed to help us:
Waitrose, Champions, Petitts, KP Stationers, Rags in Bags, Shoes in Twos, From Here to Maternity
Pennifex, Boots.
This initiative had a huge take-up and we also have the County Council to thank, for providing us with the bags – and printing SW’s logo on them.
Click here for more with photo.
May 22 Collection Morning, Saturday 22nd May, 10 – 12, Regal Centre
A chance to get rid of the following items without harming the
environment:
* Ink Cartridges * Mobile Phones * Light bulbs and fluorescent tubes * Aluminium foil * Spectacles * Computers * Batteries * Old Tools * Paint..

We will make sure these are either recycled, re-used, sold for charity or safely disposed of. Nothing will go to landfill.

Click to see what we collected.
March Sustainable Wallingford schools group led assemblies and ran "green fairs" in local primary schools.
Every Tuesday in March Wallingford Green Gym: morning activities were held mostly on Riverside and Castle meadows. See programme here.
Mar 27 Solarsavers launched in Wallingford market place - in partnership with SODC and Thames Valley Energy. See the Solarsavers website
Mar 24 Conference at Oxford Brookes University on local food in the public sector.
Feb 26 Talk to Royal British Legion members in Wallingford
Feb 7 Swap shop – like a big jumble sale but no money changed hands – the idea was to swap things you don’t need for things you do!  Wallingford Regal Centre, 10 am - noon
Jan 15 Energy Efficiency in the Home - a talk by Annie Batten from the Thames Valley Energy Efficiency Advice Centre on how to make better use of energy in the home - saving us money and helping reduce greenhouse gases!
2003  
Dec 13 From Rubbish to Rubens – the waste group hosted RECREATE from Oxford to make innovative Christmas presents and decorations with children and to educate us about what to do with all that left over wrapping paper and our Christmas Trees! Click for feature from BBC Oxford Radio
Dec 4 Victorian Evening Market Stall – the biggest evening of the year in Wallingford ; the group were there promoting more sustainable ways of living, looking back at forebears! Photos
Nov 15 Energy Action Group along with TV Energy Efficiency Advice Centre promoted energy efficiency and renewable energy in Wallingford market place.
Oct 18 Swap Day - like a big jumble sale but money did not change hands – the idea was to swap things you don’t need for things you do!
Sep 20 National Childbirth Trust (NCT) Nearly New Sale

A great event was run by the local branch of the National Childcare Trust to buy nearly new baby clothes, toys and accessories -  a great example of reuse.
Sep 15 Renewable Energy Talk – Ian Bacon from TV Energy talked about renewable energy in the community and what we might be able to achieve in Wallingford.
Sep 2 Trip to BEDZED - state of the art zero emissions housing development in London.
Aug 29 - 31 Wallingford Bunkfest Market Stall – Sustainable Wallingford were there with a market stall promoting small steps that we can take to make our lives more sustainable!