Challenge cards were delivered to letterboxes (with Stay Local), school book bags, scouts, at village events and were available in shops. If you didn't get one you can Print your own.

The cards advertise the following challenges. We have finished counting the cards but you can still take part to make even more of a difference.

The results are in! 

Once everyone who put a card in their window completes their 3 challenges, the Greening Campaign experts have estimated that together we would have...

• Created 66 square metres to support nature to thrive

• Planted 66 new crops of salad to help promote food security

• Saved £858 and prevented 0.80 tonnes of CO2 by only boiling the water we need

• Saved £16,632 and prevented 20.60 tonnes of CO2 by using the fridge correctly, and halving food waste

• Had 198 conversations about climate change and how we feel.

When you add these figures together the savings are huge.  So, please remember to do the challenges you committed to!

All savings are based on an average household over the course of one year. The financial savings of boiling a kettle are based on summer 2024 costs which have dropped to £13 per year. Each challenge's result is multiplied by 0.6 to reflect that people only committed to 3 of the 5 challenges.

Create a 1m square garden space/window box for nature

You could:

• Leave an area untended for nature to do its thing! Leave grass and wild plants (aka weeds) to grow. Leave dead leaves and twigs. You could even make a small pile of old logs or twigs and leaves. Make sure everyone knows not to tend it.

• Create a pollinator patch with wildflowers. 

  • This will contribute to our pollinator corridors project

  • Contact us if you need some seeds.

• Make a small pond perhaps from an old washing up bowl 

• Window box: Turn an old washing up bowl or other container into a container garden for wildflowers. 

Grow some salad on your windowsill and eat it

See our guide from Garden Organic. 

Contact us if you need some seeds.

You could also grow pea shoots with cheap marrowfat peas from the supermarket and have harvests within 2-3 weeks! This works at any time of year

Only boil the water you need

Only filling the kettle to the level of water you need could save £13 a year according to our experts. 

This is because heating water is typically the most intensive use of energy in the home.

It helps to  keep the kettle scale free. 

Reduce food waste by storing food correctly

• Set your fridge to 5C 

• Store fruit and vegetables correctly: keep them in the fridge, except for: unripe bananas, onions and whole pineapples

You can also set yourself a reminder if food needs eating soon.

So do we! 

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