Wycombe Friends of the Earth

Wycombe FoE Monthly Meeting
2025-03-05 19:30 - 21:00, 2025-02-05 19:30 - 21:00, 2025-01-08 19:30 - 21:00 (Europe/London)
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 Env Projects' meeting - MOST MONDAYS
2025-03-03 18:30 - 19:00, 2025-02-03 18:30 - 19:00, 2025-01-06 18:30 - 19:00, 2024-12-02 18:30 - 19:00
Wycombe Environment Projects (WEP) is a projects group run by the charity Wycombe Environment Centre.
WEP is not a forum for discussion, but for action, to cut carbon and boost biodiversity.
The group meets weekly for half an hour by Zoom on most Mondays at 6.30 pm.
If you would like to join in, please email penelope.trustee@refreshwycombe.org
Group was setup 10th Feb 2021.

Wildlife day
2025-03-03
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.

Re-Use Shop 'Refresh' EVERY DAY EXCEPT Monday
2025-03-01, 2025-02-01, 2025-01-07 13:30 - 16:30 | Chilterns Shopping Centre, Unit 8, Chilterns Shopping Centre, Frogmoor, High Wycombe, HP13 5ES, United Kingdom
Open Tues-Thurs 12-4, Fri-Sat 10-4 & Sun 12-4.
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 and located near the Primark entrance 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
2025-03-01, 2025-02-01, 2025-01-01, 2024-12-01
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.

Wycombe Repair Café
2025-02-08 10:00 - 13:00, 2025-01-11 10:00 - 13:00, 2024-12-14 10:00 - 13:00, 2024-11-09 10:00 - 13:00 | Church Street, Church Street, High Wycombe, HP11 2DE, United Kingdom
The Wycombe Repair Café is a project run by the charity Wycombe Environment Centre. The Repair Café 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 Flackwell Heath, Marlow and Hazlemere)

Chiltern Rangers Conservation MOST THURSDAYS
2025-02-06 10:00 - 13:00, 2025-01-02 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.

Steve Morton memorial walk
2025-01-12 13:00 - 14:00
We will meet at 1PM by the Children’s playground on Coates Lane (see map link below) and walk around Hughenden Manor (est. walking time 1 -1.5hr). We will end the walk at the Manor Cafe – optional to stay with us for a cuppa and/snack.
Map: https://www.google.com/…/data=!3m1!4b1!4m6!3m5…

Steve Morton remembrance day
2024-12-23 08:00 - 17:00
Steve Morton passed away on 23rd December 2022.
He was a committed environmentalist and hardworking WFoE coordinator. He left a large gap in the local eco community and is sorely missed.

Chiltern Rangers MOST THURSDAYS (not 19th & 26th Dec!)
2024-12-05 10:00 - 13:00 | Wycombe Lido Swimming pool, The Rye , HighWycombe, United Kingdom

Soil day
2024-12-05
To focus attention on the importance of healthy soil and advocating for the sustainable management of soil resources.
Worldwide, every 5th December.

Wycombe FoE Monthly Meeting (Xmas social)
2024-12-04 19:30 - 21:00
Format of meeting (in person, social).
Agenda: chat, eat mince pies.
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.

Re-Use Shop 'Refresh' EVERY DAY EXCEPT Monday & Xmas closures
2024-12-01 13:30 - 16:30 | Chilterns Shopping Centre, Unit 8, Chilterns Shopping Centre, Frogmoor, High Wycombe, HP13 5ES, United Kingdom

Buy Nothing Day
2024-11-24 | A WorldWide Event
It’s a day where you challenge yourself, your family and friends to switch off from shopping and tune into life. The rules are simple, for 24 hours you will detox from shopping and anyone can take part provided they spend a day without spending!
Every fourth Friday in November, worldwide.
www.buynothingday.co.uk

Tree week
2024-11-23 - 2024-12-01
National Tree Week is the UK’s largest tree celebration annually launching the start of the winter tree planting season. It is a great chance for communities to do something positive for their local treescape. Each year, The Tree Council’s member organisations such as voluntary bodies and local authorities, up to 200 schools and community groups, our 8,000 Tree Wardens and many others, support the initiative by setting up fun, worthwhile and accessible events, inspiring upward of a quarter of a million people to get their hands dirty and together plant around a million trees.
UK, 4th Saturday in November, to Sunday in a week.

Fisheries Day
2024-11-21
World Fisheries day is celebrated every year throughout the world by the fisherfolk communities. Fishing communities worldwide celebrate this day through rallies, workshops, public meetings, cultural programs, dramas, exhibition, music show, and demonstrations to highlight the importance of maintaining the world’s fisheries.
www.gdrc.org/doyourbit/21_11-fisheries-day.html
Worldwide Event (every 21 November).
