Boston Spa, Wetherby & Villages Green Group

The Boston Spa, Wetherby & Villages Community Green Group was set up with three objectives:

To reduce our carbon emissions
To increase biodiversity
To reduce waste and increase recycling in our communities

Our aim is to help the environment in our local area and hopefully other areas can benefit from some of our ideas.

We have so far set up 3 community action groups to focus on specific areas, namely:

Protecting and increasing Tree Cover, and creating Wildlife Corridors
Making Cycling safer
Reducing Waste and increasing Recycling

See tabs above for each group's pages and blogs/news.

We also have four developing projects:

Creating a clean river environment
A community repair shop/café
Net zero carbon and energy efficiency
Young Peoples' Green Group

Every week, we are getting new members joining us who would like to get involved in some aspect of protecting our local environment, reducing our carbon waste, increasing biodiversity or reducing waste. We now have over 250 members and growing!

Boston Spa, Wetherby & Villages Green Group

Next Group Meeting & Events

If you share our desire to improve our local environment and do what we can personally and as a community to reduce our carbon footprint, please join us at one of our community events throughout the year:

From April through September - we took part in a new citizen science community project, counting our local butterflies, see how we did, in our separate post.

Weekend of 23rd to 25th October - mass lobby in support of Yorkshire Wild Waters campaign, get in touch if you want to know more.

Sunday 22nd November, join us for a guided walk round East Keswick Wildlife Trust estate - Meet 10am at Bardsey Academy Primary School car park. Bring appropriate clothing and footwear.

Monday 23rd November, 7.30pm-9pm 'People's Emergency Briefing' at Walton Village Hall, all welcome.

Our annual People, Planet, Pizza celebration; Tuesday 15th December from 6pm - join us for pizza, quiz and a round up of all the good things we've done this year.

Please keep an eye on our social media page for latest event updates.

If you missed our latest Eco Energy event in Wetherby, you can access details of the speakers, exhibitors and some of their shared works click here to find out more.

What we've been doing over the last 7 years

✓ Helping people save energy and money. Supporting Yorkshire businesses and creating local green jobs.

✓ Planted thousands of trees in our local community.

✓ Fixed and donated over 1,000 bikes as part of our Big Bike Fix.

✓ Recycled over 250,000 crisp packets as well as used pens, and toothpaste tubes and brushes.

✓ Supporting 6 local primary school eco initiatives and education.

✓ Started our Plastic Free Community journey.

✓ Working to improve our natural riverside environment.

✓ Run 4 community eco, energy fairs and a Citizens Assembly.

✓ All community volunteers.

Take part in our eco kids challenge

Do you have an eco hero in your home? Get the kids involved with our eco challenge. Download here.

Want to know more, do more or understand more about any of the Green Group sub-groups, you can contact them on their respective pages (see links at the top of this page) and we'll be back in touch.

Please Contact the Webmaster if about this site only or you are a group leader and need help.