Christmas is here! And there’s no shortage of fantastic eco activities going on in the month to get stuck into…

• No Waste Noel – Sat 10th Dec – 12–4pm, Exeter Hall. Waste Innovation Station (WISH) is putting on a community Christmas bonanza complete with arts, crafts, food and more. Even Santa will be there! (see poster below).
• KEG Talks – Don’t miss the selection of short KEG talks running in parallel in the small hall (see talk topics and speakers in poster below)!
• St Mary’s Fields Work Party – Sat 7th Jan 10am-12pm. Join the team down at St Mary’s Car Park (OX5 2AZ) for the first blitz of the year (provided the fields haven’t flooded)!

Profiling Some Regular Events you might be interested in…

• Warm Spaces in Kidlington – if you’d like to cut down the carbon whilst saving a few pennies on your heating bill this winter why not join others in one of our community warm spaces (see poster below).
• Hazel Walk Allotments – Fridays from 10am, Between Hazel Crescent and Oxford Road, Kidlington, OX5 1ED – Join the team of regular volunteers who gather on Friday mornings and who will be building raised beds, removing brambles, shovelling wood chips, and encouraging wildlife on the allotment.
• Repair Café – Saturdays 11am – 2pm, Exeter Hall, Oxford Rd, OX5 1AB – Cherwell Collective have started a Repair Café for electrical equipment every Saturday at the Larder, 11am – 2pm. Why chuck it when you can fix it?! They also have a Party Library with items to borrow for children’s parties etc.

For more information or details about how to sign up or get involved visit the upcoming events page on the KEG website here.

Local Eco News – Some Headlines from November…

• Andy P (of the summer’s famed ‘Andy’s Bat walks’) organised a ‘Walk for Wildlife’ on the last Sunday of November with a pleasant ramble for nature lovers over St Mary’s Fields. Numerous species were spotted and recorded on irecord – including yellowhammers and redwings, not to mention several colourfully named fungi: Turkey Tails, Crystal Brain, Hairy Curtain Crust and Dog Vomit Slime Mould! There are plans for another walk in the new year – watch this space!

• Volunteers with Cycling Without Age visited the Dovecote wellbeing Cafe the same day and took a number of people out for a spin round Kidlington on their amazing trishaw, so that the guests could feel the wind in their hair and experience the joy of cycling!

• Rhiannon from Wild Kidlington and a fab team of volunteers have been busy plug planting wildflowers to beautify Lyne Rd Green next year.
• Kidlington Baptist Church’s ‘Ladies Christmas Swap Shop’ event got a great uptake and went very well. Quality preloved clothes, gifts and toys were swapped by those gathered over Christmassy refreshments in the run up to Christmas – to save money, recycle and have fun!

If you have any local eco news or events to feed in to our next monthly digest please email: kidlingtonecogroup@gmail.com

Our next KEG meeting is on Thurs 12th Jan (a week later than usual due to the new year), 1pm @ Exeter Hall (in the small hall) – feel free to join us!