Meetings for getting together, sharing good food and talking about whatever takes your fancy. These meetings are open to all and are a great way to begin to get involved and to meet people.

CCF Summer Social

27 June 2012
7:00 pmto9:30 pm

Let’s take an evening to kick back and celebrate all the hard work we’ve done so far this year. Meet some other volunteers and CCF supporters and get a sneak peak into what’s in store for the rest of the year.

If you’re interested in volunteering this is a perfect chance to learn more and meet some of our current volunteers.

Feel free to bring along some nibbles to share. Please RSVP so we have an idea of numbers and can give you the address (Gwydir Street). See you there!

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Exciting opportunity to join our Eating Local blog on Jan 1st!

After the usual excesses of Christmas and New Year we thought it would be a good time to get our Eating Local project going again, this time in the winter! So, if you want a New Year’s resolution that you have a good chance of keeping for six weeks, do join us from January 1st! Continue reading

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Autumn Seasonal Meal

23 October 2011
7:30 pmto10:30 pm

Come and join us for our autumnal seasonal meal.

Please bring food and drink to share, with as much of it local, seasonal and home-cooked as possible!

Let us know what is in your dish and where the ingredients came from with a tempting label! There will be a prize for the most local and delicious home-cooked dish!

The meal will be followed by games. Tell your friends and bring as many people as you can!

Venue: Ross Street Community Centre, Ross Street, Cambridge CB1 3UZ

Email: info@cambridgecarbonfootprint.org

Free event, though donations to cost of room hire are always appreciated.

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Sustainable Come Dine With Me – Autumn

Many of you may have seen Channel 4′s ‘Come Dine with Me’ – well CCF is organising it’s very own version, with the theme of ‘Sustainable Food’!

 

 

 

 

 

We’re looking for people with a passion for cooking – and for the environment – to take part.

Over four evenings in September or October (one evening a week) participants will take turns to host a ‘sustainable dinner party’ for each other.

This is your chance to show off your culinary skills, enjoy three nights of dining out, meet some new local people, or just a creative way to get rid of surplus veg from your allotment!

So if you’d like to have dinner with a few Cambridge folk, and eat some seasonal, local, home-cooked food (or just to find out more), then get in touch…

To register an interest please email or phone in with your:
- Name, Address,Telephone and Email
- Any dietary requirements

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The First 20%, Ceilidh and Homeless Soon

March 2011 Newsletter

This month brings an opportunity to learn how to knock the first 20% off your home’s footprint and save cash, to get fit and have fun at our Ceilidh and to help us find a
new home and office space
– plus piles of exciting CCF Events and Related Events.

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March 2011 Newsletter: The First 20%, Ceilidh and Homeless Soon

This month brings an opportunity to learn how to knock the first 20% off your home’s footprint and save cash, to get fit and have fun at our Ceilidh and to help us find a
new home and office space
– plus piles of exciting CCF Events and Related Events.

Continue reading

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Sustainable Come Dine with Me

If you’d like to join in the fun please
email Beejal or call 01223 971353
by Friday 11th Marchat latest! :)

Many of you may have seen Channel 4′s ‘Come Dine with Me’ – well CCF is organising it’s very own version, with the theme of ‘Sustainable Food’!

We’re looking for people with a passion for Continue reading

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Ceilidh – with Moon Carrot & Daisy Black

12 March 2011
7:00 pmto10:00 pm

St Lukes Centre, Victoria Road,
Camb CB4 3DZ

7.00pm – Bring food and drink to share
8.00pm – Live Ceilidh band and dancing!
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Swishing Party!

28 January 2012
2:30 pmto4:00 pm

Love fab new clothes but not the price tag to your wallet or the planet? Swishing parties are the answer, one of the great ideas brought to you by Futerra.

If you’ve never been to one before here’s how it works: Attendees bring nice, clean, presentable clothes that are lurking unloved in our wardrobe, and other women fall in love with them and give them a good home.  We’ve all bought things in the past that we’ve never worn or have outgrown one way or another, and now’s the time to swap them for something that you’ll love to wear!  It’s the perfect opportunity to swap those unwanted Christmas gifts, pick up some new clothes for free and to learn about how to organise a Swishing party of your own!

This could be you!

If you’d like to come along:

- Please bring at least one item; you can leave with as many as you like

- All clothes must be clean and in good, ready to wear condition

- No money is exchanged – all Swishable clothes are free to whoever claims them first. Donations to CCF would be greatly appreciated though (suggested £1 per item of clothing you take)!

- Any items left over at the end will be donated to Oxfam.  If people want to take things they brought back home with them that’s fine too.

Location: Railway station/Hills Road (details provided on booking)

Event free and open to all, but numbers are limited so booking is essential!

To book please contact info@cambridgecarbonfootprint.org

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10/10/10 Seasonal Meal

Yummy, sustainable food

We shared a delicious low-carbon meal as part of the 10:10:10 Global Day of Doing, for positive action on climate change. It felt good to be among the 7,347 actions worldwide
Over 20 people, including many new faces, brought food to Continue reading

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10:10:10 Seasonal Meal

10 October 2010
7:00 pmto9:30 pm

CCF are celebrating the 10:10 campaign’s Day of Positive Action on Sunday 10th October, 10/1010, with an autumn seasonal meal:  7-9.30pm at Ross Street Community Centre, CB1 3UZ.

Please bring food and drink to share, with as much of it local, seasonal and home-cooked as possible! Let us know what is in your dish and where the ingredients came from with a tempting label! There will be a prize for the most local and delicious home-cooked dish! Tell your friends and bring as many people as you can!

In addition, Cambridge Carbon Footprint’s Climate-Friendly Homes Project volunteers are aiming to conduct 10 household energy surveys on the 10th – a great new record for us!

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Mill Road Winter Market

5 December 2009

The 2009 Mill Road Winter Fair will take place on Saturday 5 December. This is a wonderful community event, held in the liveliest and most exiting neighborhoofd in cambridge.

It will open at 10.30am on Donkey Green (at the Parkers Piece end of Mill Road ) and go until about 4.30pm. The fair takes place along the length of Mill Road and there will be street entertainers, music, dancing, community groups, food stalls, local artists, history walks special offers from local businesses and much much more. The programme for the whole fair is online at: http://www.mill-road.com/winterfair.aspx
Come along and support this fantastic local community event.

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Carbon Conversations Facilitator Training

14 November 2009to15 November 2009

Venue: Ross St Community Centre, Ross St, Cambridge

This two day workshop is aimed at would be Carbon Conversations facilitators in areas beyond Cambridge. It introduces the materials and key skills needed to run a successful Carbon Conversations group. Included in the price are:

1 copy of the Member’s Handbook, 1 copy of the Facilitator’s Guide, lunch and refreshments on both days of the training.

Games packs and more copies of the Member’s handbook and Facilitator’s Guide will be available to buy at the workshop.
Times: Saturday 14th Nov 9.30 – 5.00. Sunday 15 Nov 9.30 – 5.00
Cost: £165.00 per person

Some bursaries may be available for those on low incomes. Please contact us for details.

Trainers: Rosemary Randall, founder of Cambridge Carbon Footprint and author of Carbon Conversations, Penny Henderson, Groupwork trainer and CCF member.

Accommodation in Cambridge. A list of b&bs can be found at http://www.visitcambridge.org/wheretostay.php. We may also be able to find you accommodation with Cambridge Carbon Footprint members who will put you up at cost.

Please email Sally or Siobhan, or call 01223 971353 for queries and to book.

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August 2009 Newsletter

You can download this newsletter in a pdf version here.

I. Cambridge Carbon Footprint News and Upcoming Events

Ed Miliband is a carbon conversations fan!

Ed Miliband is a carbon conversations fan!

  • Manchester Report
  • Carbon Conversations Courses starting soon
  • CCF is moving!
  • Fundraising News
  • Intern opportunity
  • Volunteers needed in September
  • Mark your calendars: Grow Your Own session, communication workshop and more

II. Local News & Events

  • The work that reconnects
  • Zero Carbon Caravan

III. Politics and Campaigning: Miliband’s Low Carbon Transition Plan and more by Tom Bragg

IV. Ro’s Reflections Manchester and Beyond by Ro Randall

V. Ask Andy: Can I buy renewable energy? by Andy Brown

VI. August Gardening Guidance by Keith Jordan

VII. Martin’s Memo (DIY tips): Home Energy Improvements – Why Wait? by Martin Roach

VIII. Jacky’s recipe: Cherry Plum Upside-down cake Jacky Sutton-Adam

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‘Curious Climate’: a communications workshop POSTPONED

13 October 2009
7:30 pmto9:30 pm

This workshop has been postponed. We will post details of new arrangements on the website. If you are interested in attending this workshop, please contact Sally@cambridgecarbonfootprint.org.

Venue:  Tibbetts Room, St. Luke’s Church, Victoria Road.

Climate scientist Stephen Peake will help you feel confident in talking about climate change.  We’ll explore creatively what the science tells us, what it does not, and how to get your point across.

Contact Karin to book.

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