Newsletter

Hello all and welcome to our newsletter. Here we find ourselves coming to the end of heatwave number 3 this year. The Met Office has just reported that we must now expect this kind of weather to be our new normal. I spend a lot of time wondering why we carry on the way we […]

Dear all Theres no denying spring is here, so time for a bit of optimism! There’s lots to read below about what we’ve been up to but first perhaps a bit of ‘blue sky thinking’? What else could Green Ilminster be doing to help our planet? We spend a lot of time thinking and talking

Seasons greetings to you all! Welcome to the final Green Ilminster newsletter of the year. It’s difficult to believe that another year is drawing to a close and winter is upon us once again. I am going to resist the temptation of talking about how glum the world might feel and how it’s easy to

Chairs welcome Hello all and welcome to Green Ilminster’s Autumn Newsletter. Its difficult to believe that it’s been five years since Green Ilminster formed, and what a five years It’s been! We have grown into a vibrant, passionate and determined organisation which is lucky enough to have some of Ilminster’s most brilliant and inspirational folk

Hello and a slightly belated Happy New Year to you all. Welcome to our Winter Newsletter – there is lots to fill you in on. As evenings gradually get lighter and spring approaches our thoughts are turning to what might be happening in our gardens this year and what we might start growing. Since its start

Hello all, Green Ilminster Climate Week We hope this letter finds you all well and that you are enjoying the fine weather….at last a bit of an Autumnal nip in the air! We are a small team and as usual are working hard on lots of different projects. We have been thinking about trying to

Our big news this month is that we’ve decided to team up with Westcountry Rivers Trust (WRT) to monitor the water of our local River Isle. We plan on having a team of people sampling and testing water, on a monthly basis, at a number of crucial sites on the Isle from Combe St Nicholas to Puckington. Testing

Hi all, Welcome to this month’s slightly late newsletter! It was fantastic to chat to so many interesting folks at the Community drive event, we live in such a great place, with so many great people who want to make a positive contribution – welcome those who have signed up for the newsletter. Our Share

Spring is truly bursting into life, and Green Ilminster is as busy as ever! We are always working hard ‘behind the scenes’ forging relationships in our community and pursuing opportunities wherever we can, aiming to make positive change for our environment. There has been much in the news recently about the terrible state of our

Spring has Sprung!! April got off to a great start with another brilliant ‘Share’ event, the Gardeners Social/Seed & Plant Swap on 1st April was well attended and had a great ‘buzz’. There were plenty of interesting seeds and plants to exchange and some great conversations being had about all sorts of gardening subjects. The event raised some

Another busy month at Green Ilminster. Lots going on and even more in the pipeline!  The Share and Repair shop has been celebrating its 1st birthday and continues to go from strength to strength – we have settled into a steady flow of repairs and the shop remains very busy. We are always looking for more volunteers to work in

What a busy month again! Very excited to have our website up and running, making us visible and accessible to more of our community. We have so much planned for the year and are itching to get going! Quiz Nite – 7th Feb. This month we have our quiz which is always great fun –

Happy New Year! As we start another new year with one pessimistic news story after another it is easy to feel despondent about the state of our world but here at Green Ilminster we will not give up trying to make a positive difference for our amazing planet. As an organisation we are in our