Events we have in store and great ideas from other groups and charities.
Stansted Community Nature Fair
Saturday 6th September 2025, 13:00 – 16:00
Quaker Meeting House, Chapel Hill, Stansted, CM24 8AE
Join Sustainable Stansted to celebrate local biodiversity and discover how you can help nature around us thrive.
We’ll have the findings of the parish-wide biodiversity study we have been working on with MKA Ecology and we’ll be joined by groups and organisations who can help you discover, enjoy and protect nature in many different ways. There will be nature-themed activies for children and a plant & seed swap too.
Come along to hear about:
– the fascinating creatures living in and around Stansted: for example, we’ve found evidence of otters living just on the outskirts of the village;
– ancient woodland within the parish boundaries;
– habitats that we can enhance to encourage at-risk species such as newts to thrive;
– making your garden more resilient to the changing climate;
– how to have a swift box installed at your home or workplace.
Joining us will be:
– Climate Change Gardening;
– Essex County Council – Local Nature Recovery;
– Essex Field Club;
– Gorsefield Rural Studies Centre;
– North East Herts Swift Group;
– Stansted Mountfitchet Parish Council;
– Uttlesford Badger Group.
We’ll also be launching a community resource which will provide information on what we can all do, in our gardens and beyond, to protect and enhance biodiversity in Stansted.
Entry is free and refreshments provided.
Free Home Energy Saving Event
Would you like to make your home more energy efficient?
Come and find out more at this free event:
Thursday 7th February 2025 at 6.30pm
Quaker Meeting House, Chapel Hill, Stansted, CM24 8AE
- Solar panels & battery storage and how you can benefit
- How your home could be wasting heat
- Book a free thermal imaging survey of your home to help identify where heat is escaping
- How air source heat pumps can save you money
- Community energy – how people can work together to reduce energy use and generate low carbon heat and power
No Mow May
While May has passed for another year, many of us are still keeping parts of our gardens unmowed and loving the different plants and insects that have popped up as a result!
Be inspired by conservation charity Plantlife’s No Mow May and do things differently in the garden this month. Their idea is simple: just as you might be tempted to get out and mow the lawn or pluck out some weeds, hold back and let the grass and flowers grow.
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