*background photo - stone circle in Millennium wood, Didcot - Oct 2020*
Sustainable Didcot is a community action group for Didcot residents with a shared interest in the environment, living sustainably and raising awareness of climate change.
We believe that through positive action we, as a community, can reduce Didcot’s impact on this global threat.
The group follows the 1987 UN’s Brundtland Commission definition of Sustainability:
“Meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs”.
We are part of the Oxfordshire Community Action Group network.
|Waste reduction/recycling | Local food| Energy | Transport |Environmental stewardship|
Volunteering opportunities
To be part of creating a more Sustainable Didcot come along to one of our green drinks evening, or one of our other events. Here you can meet the other volunteers, find out more about our projects, and fill out a membership form
Newsletter
We release a newsletter giving occasional updates about our events and projects.
Green Drinks
Green Drinks is an informal social gathering where you can meet other environmentally minded locals for informal chat, debate, speaker presentations, etc.
For 2024, Green Drinks is running on the first Wednesday of the month.
Unless otherwise stated, Green Drinks will take place from 7.30pm to 9pm in The Green Hub in the Soha Building, accessed via the door at the rear of the building (through the staff car park on the Lydalls Road side).
Map: https://what3words.com/tiny.hillsides.strongly
Planning Meetings
Everyone is welcome, but if you want more of a chance to chat, and find out what we do and how you could get involved, Green Drinks would also be a good place to start.
How to get involved
There are a number of other ways to get involved, here is just a taste:
Turn up at our events such as freecycles, and repair cafes
Come gardening with us at our community allotment, we meet weekly and if you're very keen you can have access to the site to garden outside our weekly sessions as the allotment needs plenty of watering and weeding
Help out at our events - even an hour spent at our freecycle stall, fixing things at our repair cafe, hosting the repair cafe and making sure it is run well helps. We also regularly need people to help move our equipment to and from events.
Provide help in other ways - cakes for our repair cafes, help publicising what we do, or linking us to other community groups. We're especially looking for community groups interested in gardening at our allotment or for future projects on upcycling.
Sit on our committee (we elect new members in June) - our committee consists of a chair, a secretary, a treasurer and a number of leads for each of our key projects.