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The first ever Co-operatives Fortnight culminating in International Co-operatives Day took place on Saturday 3rd July 2010. A national campaign to raise awareness of co-operation: calling for people to work together as individuals, colleagues, communities and businesses.
You may not know of any co-operatives in Essex other than the Co-op retail stores, but Gemma Sayers East [...]

Take your Dad out walking and get him talking this Fathers’ day (Sunday 20 June). Recent studies have shown that walking is a great way to get chatting to your family and this weekend the Ramblers are putting on 333 FREE led walks to help you celebrate Dads everywhere.
A GB-wide poll found that walking is [...]

Thanks to our milder dryer climate, Essex and the South East has more regular car boot sales than any other area of the UK.   In the summer months around the Colchester area, for example, you could find one being held almost every day of the week.
Many millions of pounds change hands every weekend at boot sales, making them a favorite weekend family outing. [...]

The Queens Speech today confirmed the new coalition government is planning legislation to create a pioneering loans scheme to finance household energy efficiency measures. This will allow householders to invest in improved insulation and heating, and possibly micro renewables, by borrowing from private sector lenders. The loans will be payable in easy instalments which should [...]

How much water does it take to make a cup of coffee? There’s probably around 200 millilitres in a standard mug. However, water is also used to grow and process the coffee beans, and to generate the energy required to process and transport the finished product. When this volume of water is included, it takes [...]

Work has commenced on the eastern section of the Prittle Brook Greenway scheme between Victoria Avenue and Prittlewell Chase.
The existing footpath next to the brook is being converted into a shared use pathway for cyclists and pedestrians. The scheme will see the existing path improved with landscaping and tree planting to make it an enjoyable [...]

Southend Together Partnership is teaming up with Britain’s biggest supermarket chains to support ‘The Big Swap’ as part of Fairtrade Fortnight.
Fairtrade is about establishing better prices, decent working conditions, local sustainability and fair terms of trade for farmers and workers in the developing world. Offering a fair price for goods enables them to improve their [...]

An original and provocative film, but there is plenty of positive action we can take to improve our environments, as well as erasing our past impacts.

Lyn McFarlane from The Art Factory which is on the Manor Trading Estate in Benfleet will be coming to a meeting called by the Friends of St Peter’s Church and Thundersley Village next Thursday to tell us about plans she has for an Community Eco Arts Project which she hopes to set up in Benfleet.
 
The [...]

A new scheme is today being introduced by the government to encourage home owners to scrap their energy guzzling inefficient G rated boilers in exchange for modern A-rated boilers or a renewable heating system.
From today, 125,000 households in England will be able to apply through the Energy Saving Trust for a voucher which will save [...]