NEWS
- Great turnout for our CAP Spring meeting and AGMCAP’s meeting all about our rivers, lakes and coasts was held on Saturday 15th March at St George’s Church Hall in Preston. It was the first CAP event with nature as its key theme, other than the practical volunteer session at Andy’s Bee Meadow last September. The turnout was great – thanks to all who…
- Your chance to help nature and the climateLast week I spent a few hours with a group of volunteers planting native trees – oak, hawthorn, alder, blackthorn, lime – at the Pope Lane Tree Planting site. There were about 15 of us plus two members of staff from the Ribble Rivers Trust and it was estimated we planted about 800 saplings that…
- Autumn Refresher, Saturday 19th OctoberArticle by Rosy Townsend Our well-attended day at Plungington Community Centre was full of interest. Information about the ‘Better Buses‘ campaign was brought to us from South Yorkshire by Fran Prostlethwaite. See here for that and for details of the input we had from Friends of the Guild Wheel and Community Energy Preston. Julie’s presentation about Preston…
- In solidarity…Article by Wolfgang Kuchler CAP members were out on Preston’s Flag Market this Pride Saturday with a stall highlighting the impact of arms spending and warfare on the environment as well as people round the world. In particular we were showing solidarity with PENGON, our sister Friends of the Earth group in Palestine, with information…
- Bee Meadow Volunteering Event a Success!Last Saturday 21st September, ten volunteers spent a couple of hours with Chris Taylor, Horticultural Project Lead for Let’s Grow Preston, raking the recently mown Andy’s Bee Meadow on Broadgate. The weather was lovely and had been all week – really lucky for those of us raking and then moving all the grass away from…
- Blog: Summer walksIt’s a great time of year for enjoying the outdoors, walking the dog, spending time with the kids, etc.When my other half and I are out with the dogs, we love looking at what’s in bloom or fruiting. Right now on the unmown bits of our regular walk, there are a lot of thistles flowering.…
- Community Energy LogoCEP now has its own website with a brand new logo designed by a student at Preston College! communityenergypreston.co.uk
About
Climate Action Preston
The objectives of Climate Action Preston are to:
• Hold our local leaders, civic institutions and public agencies to account by monitoring and challenging their climate plans.
• Put local solutions into action.
• Raise public awareness throughout local neighbourhoods, working with local groups and the general public to make our neighbourhoods greener and safer for all.
• Work with all communities and across generations to continuously educate ourselves about the challenges and solutions to the climate and nature emergency.
• Focus as much on biodiversity and nature as on the reduction of individual and institutional carbon footprints.
Welcome
All are welcome! Please email secretary@climateactionpreston.org to be added to the mailing list .
As a ‘Friends of the Earth Local Action Group’ CAP has signed onto the FoE Charter.
This can be read here https://cdn.friendsoftheearth.uk/sites/default/files/downloads/Local-group-charter-final.pdf
To be a Member of CAP we ask you to agree with the CAP objectives and the Charter.
If you wish to be a Member, please say so in your email – Thanks!
CAP is a member of the Lancashire Climate Action Network (LancsCAN) https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/lancscan/
Activities
 | Preston Pedals increasing everyday cycling |
 | Community Energy Preston |
 | Warmer Homes Preston |