Eco Hub
Greener Gloucestershire Climate Change Community Fund
SVP started a new project in June 2024 and it has now been funded to Jan 2026, creating an inclusive and supportive Eco Hub for the whole of the Stroud district.
This project will create a hub of information at our eco shop in Stroud, supporting people to reduce their carbon emissions in areas such as transportation, food production and energy use. We will also organise lively outreach information sessions with partner organisations at locations across our district, focusing on the least environmentally engaged and the most socially deprived areas.
Advice will be provided in a non-judgemental way and will make the link between saving money and living in a way that reduces carbon emissions.
If you have a location or event where you would like us to provide information in some way, e.g. a workshop, stall, or just helpful leaflets, please get in touch by emailing cpankhurst@stroudvalleysproject.org
Spring 2025 update:
Hub hub-bub by Caroline Pankhurst
We have continued to take our Eco Hub out to communities across Stroud District over the last few months, sharing our eco tips with people at Cam Christmas Fair, Paganhill and Cashes Green Community Hubs, the Repair Café at Trinity Rooms Community Hub and the Keepers Community Café in Wotton-under-Edge.
Over the 10-month project, we’ve run over 15 events, reaching over 500 people and building links with a wide range of community groups. Several events have had a specific focus, such as repair/reuse, energy saving or real nappies, and we were supported at one event by Kat, Gloucestershire County Council’s waste expert, who engaged people specifically on food waste. People are always pleased to hear what they can do to save energy… and also often save money.
Our Eco Tips leaflets are also available in our SVP eco shop, with new editions produced for each season. We’re hoping to receive funding to continue to develop the project from April 2025.
If you’d like to know more, please email: cpankhurst@stroudvalleysproject.org
Autumn 2024 update:
Reaching out with ‘Eco Hub’ by Caroline Pankhurst
We started our new Eco Hub project in June, promoting eco-friendly activities to less engaged communities around the Stroud district.
We produced two different leaflets on 10 ways to be more eco around Stroud (including ‘easy ways’ and ’more ways’), suggesting various activities from growing your own food and looking after wildlife to recycling difficult items at the eco shop and using the Robin bookable bus - either visit:
gloucestershire.gov.uk/transport/the-robin or ring 0345 263 8139. Even people who think they’re ‘eco’ usually find out something they didn’t know!
We’ve held stalls over the summer to try and reach new audiences, working in partnership with other local community organisations. These have included a Yard Trail in Stonehouse, Wild Fun Days in Stratford Park and at the Top of Town and the Wild Hogs Open Day in Frampton. We’ve offered children the chance to decorate packets which they can fill with bird seed, to feed the birds at home, as an introduction to helping nature.
As we move into winter, we’ll be at events including Cam Christmas Fair and will also be organising some special workshops on topics such as energy saving.
Our Eco Hub is funded by Gloucestershire County Council until March 2025.
If you’d like us to join you for an event or have an unusual tip to be included in our leaflet, please get in touch: cpankhurst@stroudvalleysproject.org
This project is funded by the Gloucestershire County Council Greener Gloucestershire community climate change fund until 31 March 2025.
