Havant FOE Newsletter - June 2023

Havant Borough Big Green Week Events Programme

We have a great programme of events lined up around the Borough, all designed to celebrate local action on protecting our environment which starts on 10th June.

See the full list of events

Have a look at (and share) the list, get some days into your diaries and support the organisations which are putting on all these events.

Please also help us by sharing the information as much as you can.

There are lots of great resources on the Great Big Green Week website

Help Needed with Event Stalls

FOE/Havant Climate Alliance need help with stalls at both Havant and Waterlooville.

If you can spare a couple of hours, please do come along and help out to promote the Friends of the Earth campaigns like United for Warm Homes, and the Havant Reservoir petition.

Havant

Location: St Alban’s Primary School
Date: 10th June
Time: 11am – 3pm

Waterlooville

Location: Jubilee Park, off Milton Road
Date: 18th June
Time: 10am – 5pm

If you can help out at please email [email protected]

Open Meeting – What Can We Do? Ideas which might change the world

Date: 14th June
Time: 7pm
Location: Havant Meeting place at the United Reformed Church, Elm Lane

As part of the Green Week, there will be an evening of short films and presentations on exciting ideas which you might like to explore further.

Doughnut Economics, B Corps, Economy for the Common Good, Circular Economy.

Skills and power building event for FOE activists in the South East

Date: Saturday 29th July
Time: 11am – 5pm
Location: Brighton

You’re invited to attend a skills and power building event for FOE activists in the South East.

The event is completely free which includes refreshments and a picnic on the beach, it would be good if a group from Havant could go along.

Book your tickets

Our petition for action on Warmer Homes

Don’t forget to sign and share our local FOE petition calling for help with energy bills, a huge programme of retrofitting and investment in renewable energy.

Ask Alan Mak MP and Flick Drummond MP to take action for warm homes

Friends of the Earth Trees Map

FOE have produced new maps of tree cover across the UK and shown where extra planting could be most effective.

They show that 43% of neighbourhoods have less than 10% tree cover and these are often the most deprived areas in other ways.

View the FOE Trees map

Havant Reservoir Petition

We’re also keen to get more names on our petition calling for Southern Water to explore alternatives to putting recycled effluent into Havant Thicket Reservoir.

There are well over 5,000 now but we could do with lots more.

Stop Plans for Drinking Southern Waters Recycled Sewage