Green drinks

We will hold green drinks on the second (rather than the usual first) Thursday of the month this time. So, on Thursday 9 January from 7.30pm in the Snug at The Mill, Shottermill Road. We will look back on 2024 and think ahead about what we might want to do in 2025, and discuss any other green issues anyone wants to bring up. Please join us. 

Community Fridge now open

Haslemere Community Fridge is now open and redistributing surplus food from local businesses, farms, and neighbours, making sure that good food goes to people, not landfill. Set up by Love Haslemere Hate Waste in partnership with Green and Blue Studios, Haslemere Food Bank and FareShare, it is open Thursdays 4-6pm, Fridays 8am-3pm and Saturdays 9.30am-12pm and is located at Green and Blue Studios, Unicorn Trading Estate, Weydown Road GU27 1FG. Open to everyone. You can find more information here.

Help The Wassail

 

January’s Swan Barn Wassail was a huge success thanks to the great volunteers and revellers both – so much so we think we’re going to need lots of hands-on help to prep and deliver another great community event in January 2025. If you can help in any role – organising, cooking, set up, stewarding or serving on the night, or providing music – email Claire at clairematthes.copse@gmail.com.

Caring for Creation

3 Counties Vineyard Church invites you to join them for an illustrated talk where Andy Sharman will take you on a journey through the wonders of the natural world, exploring the health benefits of immersing ourselves in nature and the biblical foundations of what we can do to be good stewards of God’s Creation. 7-9pm, Saturday 18 January 2025. 3 Counties Vineyard, Linchmere Road, GU27 3QW.

Volunteer on Lynchmere Common

The Lynchmere Society has volunteering opportunities coming up through January on the unique local nature reserve of Lynchmere common. Involving clearing invasive species with great bonfires and friendly people. Stout gloves and loppers are all you need. You can find out more here.

Positive news

In September 2024, the UK became the first G7 nation to fully divest itself of coal-generated electricity when Ratcliffe-on-Soar in Nottinghamshire was closed down. And in 2024, over three consecutive quarters, more than 50% of the energy generated in the UK has been renewable

Take part in Earth Day

A community day to share local action on the climate and biodiversity crisis. Talks, crafts, information, puppets and refreshments. 26 April 2025, 10.30am-3.30pm at Haslemere Museum. If you are part of a group or organisation who would like to participate and have a free stall, contact Kay Topping at education@haslemeremuseum.co.uk. 

Farmers Market and Repair Cafe

There is no farmers market in January but we will have our stall on Saturday 1 February from 10am to 2pm. The Repair Cafe will be at the Swan Inn on the same day from 10am to 1pm. 

Green Coffee

An informal chat at the Courtyard Cafe off the High Street from 10am to 12 noon on the third Wednesday of the month. By arrangement only via our WhatsApp group. If you are not yet signed up, email us at info@transitionhaslemere.org.

Book of the month: Our Green Heart: The Soul and Science of Forests by Diana Beresford-Kroeger

 

The author brings together her Druidic education and pioneering scientific research to create a holistic view of trees and their role in the natural world of which we are an intimate part.

  

Tree of the month: Weeping silver lime

     

This weeping silver lime (Tilia tomentosa 'Petiolaris') looked magnificent in the September sunshine in Kew Gardens. Said by some to be the most graceful of all large weeping trees, it is named partly for the silvery undersides of its leaves which appear to shimmer in a breeze. Its cup shaped, creamy yellow, richly scented flowers are curiously narcotic to bees.

  

Editor: Clive Davidson

Transition Haslemere

info@transitionhaslemere.org