2025: what a year, we’ve achieved so much, again!

By Adrian | January 25, 2026 |

Despite the unparalled national and international back drop, as a local community-based group, and registered charity, we've continued to focus our efforts on our 3 greatest strengths;

Big Bike Fix, local nature improvements and education.

The Big Bike Fix recently reached another milestone of refurbishing over 1000 bikes, thank you so much to our team of fixers, it is truly inspiring what you are doing for our community, in repurposing possible waste. Sadly, you may know, we’ve not been successful in gaining further funding yet, but with the help of our volunteers we’ve been able to keep this initiative going, for now. If you wish to help in any way, please read more here.

Locally, within our communities, you will also have seen the many improvements to our natural environment all our volunteers continue to make, including; new educational signage and natural hedge creation around Churchfields, path clearance and improvements along the riverside, orchard pruning in Deepdale and many more trees planted (to help with biodiversity, slowing rainwater runoff to prevent flooding and reduce heat islands). Thank you so much, people in our communities are noticing the hard work.

We also continue to work with local schools. It’s great to see Lady Hastings Primary School achieve their Eco Schools Green Flag award for the 2nd year running, congratulations! We also continue to assist within the STEM Learning; Climate Ambassadors Scheme framework, which requires all educational settings to have a Sustainability Lead and a Climate Action Plan in place by the end of 2025.

We've continued to engage our broader communities in new and exciting ways, with our 2nd annual citizen science moth trapping and count exercise, a drier autumnal evening bat walk this year, a local Arborist talk, bi-annual litter picks, a new excess autumnal fruit & veg stall, an Eco Energy Fair in Wetherby, a showing of Ocean at Wetherby Cinema and an end of year People, Planet, Pizza social celebration - all well attended.

We have many more events planned for 2026, so please subscribe to our newsletter, so you don't miss out, via our home page.

As part of our education objective, we’ve been lucky enough for members of our community to start to share their low carbon journeys; articles such as;

Don't forget, we have a huge amount of information on our website, so if you want to know more about energy saving, solar panels, batteries, heat pumps, cycling and recycling, please make yourself a brew, grab a biscuit and have a root around!

If you wish to learn more about the Community Group and its activities, please get in touch.

Adrian (adrian.balcombe@bostongreengroup.co.uk)

If you are unable to give your time, then we do continue to need funds to be able to purchase;