Towards Zero Carbon Herefordshire
Make, Do & Mend events engage the local community with recycling, up-cycling, repair & home cooking skills. They encourage community cohesion and enable dialogue across a range of environmental and local community issues.
Our Key message
Living more sustainably is good for your planet, your wallet and your community.
Events in Herefordshire
Make, Do and Mend at the Wellbeing Cafe
28th August 2019
11.00 to 14.00
Repair and recycle with Herefordshire Green Network at the Wellbeing Cafe. Drop by and get your bike checked out by our free mechanic or learn some basic metalworking skills turning old tin cans into beetles and bugs.
Activities are suitable for children and adults aged 8 and above and are being offered free of charge with support from The Big Skill.
Make, Do and Mend x Life and Soul Kitchen
14 September 2019
10am to 3pm
Create, repair and recycle with Herefordshire Green Network at the Life and Soul Kitchen. Drop by and give your bike a once over, find your odd sock’s perfect match, weave yourself a bird feeder or fix a broken piece of furniture.
Bring clothes to swap, socks to match, bikes and furniture to fix or just bring yourself and join our crafting or enjoy a treat from the cafe.
Activities are suitable for children and adults and are being offered free of charge with support from The Big Skill.
Planet B – Kington
21st September 2019
Our volunteers will take over an empty shopfront on the high street with food, clothes swap and crafts
Watch this space for more information….
Ross Hedgehog Festival
22nd September 2019
All day
Bike repair, local produce and crafts. Herefordshire Green Network will have a stall at the Festival so come along for some inspirational Reuse-Repair-Recycle chat!
Watch this space for more information….
Sixth Form College – Hereford
1st October 2019
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Leominster Community Centre
5th October 2019
Watch this space for more information….
Herefordshire Green Network
We are offering monthly ‘HGN Member’s Workshops’ at a range of venues around the county. These events will draw geographically local groups & experts together, providing support in response to HGN membership concerns, and include workshops on website development, fundraising, social media training, volunteer engagement, national / regional initiatives.
These events, coupled with HGN’s ongoing meetings, web support & e-mailings will develop stronger links between local community organisations. By supporting the work of our member organisations in this way people will have a better understanding of resources to help them save energy & more people will have access to information about healthy sustainable lifestyle choices.
About Make, Do and Mend
Drawing on the skills & expertise of local people & support the development of local recycling, up-cycling, repair & home cooking skills.
The events provide an opportunity to bring the local community together around a meal or activity, and thereby create an environment for community discussions and the sharing of resources. We have funding from Awards for All to develop Make, Do & Mend events with 6 communities around Herefordshire, and we will be working with a wide range of local communities
Previous Events
Kindle Centre Hereford
15th September 2018
Last Year’s event at the Kindle Centre, ASDA, Hereford for our next Make Do & Mend session! From 10 am – 2 pm.
Activities include another big Clothes Swap (refresh your autumn wardrobe?), bike & household repairs (challenge Brian! bring him something he’s never had to fix before….), kids cookery fun, and more.
Repair Café, Kington
20th April 2019
If you have a household item that needs repairing, visit the KLEEN Repair cafe. It runs on the third Saturday of the month in the Market Hall, Kington
Canon Frome Court
28th April 2019
Bike repair, local produce and crafts including hand knitted dishcloths from recycled cotton – and some inspirational electric car chat!
