Under the government’s Go Ultra Low Cities government funding scheme Bath & North East Somerset Counci is sharing a £7.5million grant with 3 other local councils (Bristol, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset) to encourage uptake of Ultra Low Emission Vehicle use. B&NES will be using their share of the grant to increase the number of electric charging points […]
In November, volunteers from Transition Bath, Timebank and the University of Bath spent the day transforming a small area of neglected ground in Twerton into a fruitful community garden. Brambles and nettles were cleared, flow beds were dug out, 8 bags of rubbish were collected and variety of kindly donated soft fruit bushes and bushes […]
Nat Cross from Foraging Bath, who leads our foraging walks, has permission from the Canal Trust to turn this triangular bed into a guerrilla garden. So far, we’ve planted raspberries donated by Bath Organic Group, rhubarb and globe artichokes donated by an allotmenteer and a Japanese wineberry from our Gravel Walk garden. We would normally […]
Bath FoodCycle is looking for more volunteer cooks, drivers and fundraisers to help with its excellent free meal service, using surplus food. FoodCycle tackles food poverty, food waste and social isolation across the UK. It does this by running volunteer-powered projects producing tasty, nutritious meals within local communities. Since its start in May 2009, its […]
Transition Bath has been successful in a grant application to the BWCE Community Fund which will allow us to purchase a blower door and start a blower door project to work in parallel to our existing thermal imaging program. Blower doors are basically big fans which can be inserted into the door of a house […]
This will be the last EIS eligible fund raising round before EIS (30% tax refund for those eligible) is removed by the government at the end of November. The deadline for the investment is 24 November, but hurry as 40% of the money was raised in the first 12 hours the fund was open! The […]
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A recent report by the Association for the Conservation of Energy (AECB) calculates that the UK has the highest level of fuel poverty in Europe and the fabric of its buildings is among the worst of all European countries. Recent changes to government policy with roll-backs of energy efficiency measures in homes including: The cancellation […]
The consultation for the much debated Bathampton Park and Ride (P&R) will have come to an end by the time you read this article. However, it will continue to cause huge divides in opinion throughout Bath. I’d like to use this space to discuss whether a P&R would work, what would need to be done […]
With funding from the BWCE Community Fund we have finally installed the new Try-before-you-buy LED kits for you to borrow in Bath Central Library. We have had a kit in the library since December 2014, as far as we know the first such scheme in the country. The scheme has been very successful, and we have […]