Wycombe Friends of the Earth

Scrapstore 'Refresh' EVERY WEDNESDAY
2024-05-01 13:30 - 16:30, 2024-04-03 13:30 - 16:30, 2024-03-06 13:30 - 16:30, 2024-02-07 13:30 - 16:30 (Europe/London) | Chilterns Shopping Centre, Unit 8, Chilterns Shopping Centre, Frogmoor, High Wycombe, HP13 5ES, United Kingdom
Refresh Wycombe is a wonderful scrap store based in the Chiltern Shopping Centre, right here in the heart of High Wycombe. Our aim is to encourage you to Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and Create. We have a huge selection of surplus and unwanted stock all donated by local businesses and individuals. You may be a crafter, a teacher, an artist or a maker. We have fantastic fabrics, textiles, haberdashery items, cards, papers, foils, and shelves full of materials just waiting for you to give it a second life and use it on your next project. We are open to everyone, so come and visit us every Saturday between 10am and 4pm and Wednesday between 1:30pm and 4:30pm. We’re just next door to Primark inside the Chiltern Shopping Centre.

Please follow us on Social Media to get all the latest news.
Facebook – Refreshwycombe
Instagram – @refreshwycombe
Website – www.refreshwycombe.org

OTHER ECO GROUPS & EVENTS
2024-05-01, 2024-04-01, 2024-03-01
Click links below…
List of environmental events in the Wycombe area
This is a more detailed listing of individual events. It is a pinned post on the Facebook page of Wycombe Env Centre.
List of environmental organisations in the Wycombe area
Another way to find out re events. Click on the link to the organisation’s website and search for ‘what’s on’, events or similar.

Earth Day
2024-04-22
Celebrate our planet. Find an event near you.
Organised by Earth Day Network.
“Now is the time for the unstoppable courage to preserve and protect our health, our families, our livelihoods… together, we must Invest In Our Planet. Because a green future is a prosperous future. We need to act (boldly), innovate (broadly), and implement (equitably). It’s going to take all of us. All in. Businesses, governments, and citizens — everyone accounted for, and everyone accountable.”
Worldwide. Every 22nd April.

Foraging walk
2024-04-16 11:00 - 13:00
Charmaine from Khepera CIC and Harry from Wycombe Wanderers Foundation lead a foraging walk. Usually, walk is through the local woodlands, identifying various plants some of which are edible. Walk ends in Wrights Meadow Centre where you can buy a discounted lunch.
Meet at Wycombe Lido car park on the Rye. Just turn up!
Updates on Foraging walk: https://www.facebook.com/HighWycombeCommunityBoard
Usually 3rd Tuesday of the month.

Wycombe Repair Café
2024-04-13 10:00 - 13:00, 2024-03-09 10:00 - 13:00, 2024-02-10 10:00 - 13:00 | Church Street, Church Street, High Wycombe, HP11 2DE, United Kingdom
The Wycombe Repair Café project is run by the Wycombe Environment Centre. It is located in All Saints Parish Church in the centre of High Wycombe. Bring your broken household items (mechanical, textile or small electrical) and we may be able to repair it. Either way, there will be no charge (except if a new part is required), although any donations will be very welcome.
Every 2nd Saturday of the month, in High Wycombe.
(note also that there are other Repair Cafes nearby, eg in Marlow and Hazlemere)

Scrapstore 'Refresh' EVERY SATURDAY
2024-04-06 10:00 - 16:00, 2024-03-02 10:00 - 16:00, 2024-02-03 10:00 - 16:00

Chiltern Rangers Conservation MOST THURSDAYS
2024-04-04 10:00 - 13:00, 2024-03-07 10:00 - 13:00 | Wycombe Lido Swimming pool, The Rye , HighWycombe, United Kingdom
Most Thursdays the Chiltern Rangers run a volunteer conservation group which is open to all.
Come along and meet the group at Wycombe Rye Lido Car Park and keep fit while helping to take care of your local environment at woodlands.
Tools, gloves and hot drinks are provided. Please wear stout footwear and appropriate clothing suitable for outdoors activities and the weather. If you would like to get involved then please contact them – info@chilternrangers.co.uk
Check their website for details and more events.

Wycombe FoE Monthly Meeting
2024-04-03 19:30 - 21:00, 2024-02-07 19:30 - 21:00
Format of meeting (Zoom and/or Physical location).
Agenda will be published a few days beforehand on our Home page – www.wycombefoe.org.uk.
Non-members please email us at wycombefoe@yahoo.co.uk for a Zoom invitation.
We welcome new input and faces, so let’s hear from you.

'Wycombe Environment' meeting MOST MONDAYS
2024-04-01 18:30 - 19:00, 2024-03-04 18:30 - 19:00, 2024-02-05 18:30 - 19:00
Wycombe Environment (WE) is part of the Environment and Climate Change sub-group of the High Wycombe Community Board – itself part of Buckinghamshire County Council. WE is not a forum for discussion, but for action, to cut carbon and boost biodiversity.
On most Mondays, the group meets weekly for half an hour by Zoom on Mondays at 6.30 pm. If you would like to join, please email hwcb@buckinghamshire.gov.uk, with ‘WE’ in the subject line.
It was setup 10th Feb 2021.

Community and Climate cafe (CANCELLED)
2024-03-28 18:30 - 21:00
Social get-together, including events/speakers
Mainly in the Front Room Cafe (Castle St, Wycombe), but sometimes in The Patch.
To confirm venue etc, check their WhatsApp group
https://chat.whatsapp.com/CoDzWbJwbtOIP6PHGWSGTm
(call Toby on 07827 797340 if you have problem joining).
If you want to present anything, or talk about a specific topic, you are very welcome.
Last Thursday of the month.

Earth Hour
2024-03-23 20:30 - 21:30
Earth Hour is an annual event where hundreds of millions of people switch off their lights for one hour (8.30-9.30pm) to show they care about our planet. Discover a new world without electricity…
Last (or 4th) Saturday of March. Worldwide.

Water Day
2024-03-22
Organised by United Nations.
Worldwide.
Every 22 March.

Forestry Day
2024-03-21
International day of forests. Organised by United Nations.
Worldwide.
Every 21st March.

Foraging walk
2024-03-19 11:00 - 13:00
Charmaine and Tyler from Khepera CIC join Harry from Wycombe Wanderers Foundation and the group and lead the foraging part of the walk. Last month Charmaine talked about rosehips and this month was about pine, spruce and cedar.
Meet at Wycombe Lido car park. Just turn up!
Updates on Foraging walk: https://www.facebook.com/HighWycombeCommunityBoard
Usually 3rd Tuesday of the month.

Wycombe FoE Monthly Meeting (in person this time!)
2024-03-06 19:30 - 21:00
Agenda will be published a few days beforehand on our Home page – www.wycombefoe.org.uk.
Non-members please email us at wycombefoe@yahoo.co.uk for a Zoom invitation.
We welcome new input and faces, so let’s hear from you.

Food Waste Action Week
2024-03-04 - 2024-03-10
The campaign aims to increase citizens’ confidence in ‘using up leftovers’ by promoting a range of skills that can be easily adopted but potentially have the greatest impact on reducing food waste in the home.
In first half of March, UK

Wildlife day
2024-03-03
World wildlife day.
In 2013, at its 68th session, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) decided to proclaim 3 March, the day of signature of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), as UN World Wildlife Day to celebrate and raise awareness of the world’s wild animals and plants. The UNGA resolution also designated the CITES Secretariat as the facilitator for the global observance of this special day for wildlife on the UN calendar.
Every 3 March. Worldwide.
