Tuesday 29 April 2014
2014 Annual Report
Our 2014 Annual Report can be now be found on our Governance page. The minutes from our very successful AGM will be published shortly.
Sunday 27 April 2014
AGM Reminder
Reminder that our AGM takes place on Monday 28th April at 7:30pm in the Chiltern Room at the Village Centre.
The agenda for the evening can be found here and a copy of last year's AGM minutes can be found under our governance page.
Please come along. It looks to be an interesting evening.
The agenda for the evening can be found here and a copy of last year's AGM minutes can be found under our governance page.
Please come along. It looks to be an interesting evening.
Sunday 20 April 2014
Greening Chinnor AGM
Well it's that time of year again. Hard to believe that we are now in our third year.
Our AGM will take place on Monday 28 April at 7:30 pm in the Chiltern Room at the Village Centre.
We are a small local community action group who meet about every two months in the Chinnor Village Centre. Meetings are friendly and informal and we discuss forthcoming events and other issues that members would like to bring up.
If you are interested in local environmental issues and would like to be involved in the group why not come along to our AGM and see what we are about.
The evening will consist of a short AGM where we will elect our Chair, Secretary and Treasurer for the next year. If you would like to make a nomination or would like to volunteer for any of the posts the nomination form can be found here.
After the AGM we have a series of short presentations by guest speakers on 'Chinnor's Great Outdoors' where you will find out about 'Ribbon of Flowers', Estover Way Wildlife Area, some of the many local footpaths and BBOWT Nature Reserve.
Our AGM will take place on Monday 28 April at 7:30 pm in the Chiltern Room at the Village Centre.
We are a small local community action group who meet about every two months in the Chinnor Village Centre. Meetings are friendly and informal and we discuss forthcoming events and other issues that members would like to bring up.
If you are interested in local environmental issues and would like to be involved in the group why not come along to our AGM and see what we are about.
The evening will consist of a short AGM where we will elect our Chair, Secretary and Treasurer for the next year. If you would like to make a nomination or would like to volunteer for any of the posts the nomination form can be found here.
After the AGM we have a series of short presentations by guest speakers on 'Chinnor's Great Outdoors' where you will find out about 'Ribbon of Flowers', Estover Way Wildlife Area, some of the many local footpaths and BBOWT Nature Reserve.
Visit to Cassington Anaerobic Digestor Plant
Have you ever wondered what happens to all your
food waste that is collected each week? Greening Chinnor went on a guided tour
of an anaerobic digestive (AD) facility near Cassington to find out.
In a fascinating tour we found out that weekly food waste collection is taken to the Cassington plant where it is recycled into a liquid fertiliser called digestate which is then used on local farmland.
To read more about our visit and AD, click on our Waste page.
In a fascinating tour we found out that weekly food waste collection is taken to the Cassington plant where it is recycled into a liquid fertiliser called digestate which is then used on local farmland.
To read more about our visit and AD, click on our Waste page.
Monday 7 April 2014
Thermal Imaging
The Greening Chinnor group are pleased to announce that the
2014 Thermal Imaging task was brought to a successful conclusion with the
extremely well attended open evening on Wednesday 12th March. It is
fair to say that it has been a steep learning curve for everybody involved.
From learning how to use the camera and software to putting together reports
for all of the buildings imaged. To make thermal imaging a complete success you
really need cold dry weather. Unfortunately this was severely lacking towards
the end of January. However the rain gods did give us some brief periods of
respite
How did we do?
We carried out Thermal Imaging over 7 nights from Monday 20th January on 25 households and 5 public buildings including the Village Centre and Parish Office. We took 481 thermal images using a camera kindly loaned to us by Haddenham in Transition. All of the collected data was put together in a bespoke report for each residence which was discussed with the householder and then subsequently emailed to them. Our feedback from the householders has been extremely positive with lots of “ I thought that we were losing heat there” type comments and even more importantly people starting to plan actions of how to save wasting energy.
Alan Brawn
Greening Chinnor
How did we do?
We carried out Thermal Imaging over 7 nights from Monday 20th January on 25 households and 5 public buildings including the Village Centre and Parish Office. We took 481 thermal images using a camera kindly loaned to us by Haddenham in Transition. All of the collected data was put together in a bespoke report for each residence which was discussed with the householder and then subsequently emailed to them. Our feedback from the householders has been extremely positive with lots of “ I thought that we were losing heat there” type comments and even more importantly people starting to plan actions of how to save wasting energy.
Moving forward to next winter, we already are starting to
collect details of our next tranche of people who would like to avail themselves
of this free service. We will be asking for names in the October issue of the
pump so watch this space.
Finally our thanks to everybody who help make this a
success.
Alan Brawn
Greening Chinnor
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