Henry, Author at TWBC Climate Action

Tunbridge Wells car club expands to Hawkenbury

Henry — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 11:23:51 +0000

Tunbridge Wells car club expands, now with nine cars available for use by Co Wheels Car Club members.

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Soroptimists Toilet Twin the town of Tunbridge Wells

Henry — Mon, 13 Feb 2023 09:10:58 +0000

Thanks to the efforts of the Tunbridge Wells and District Soroptimist group, Royal Tunbridge wells has become a ‘Toilet Twinned’ town.

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Great Big Green Week 2023: summary of TWBC events

Henry — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 10:31:11 +0000

TWBC hosted a 'Women in Sustainability' panel event and a 'Going Green: Sustainable Business' event for the Great Big Green Week 2022. The 'Women in Sustainability' event was a huge success. The conversations had were truly inspiring and the enthusiasm in the room was electric. The panelists brought insight into the topic of community

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Active Travel Survey – The Results!

Henry — Tue, 22 Nov 2022 12:03:37 +0000

In June, we launched an Active Travel survey to share with residents across the borough. This survey went live during national Bike week (Cycling UK) and was promoted online and through in-person engagement at Tunbridge Well’s own Cycling Festival. The survey ran for 4 weeks and received a total of 431 responses from residents

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Climate Change Adaptation: The results

Henry — Mon, 17 Oct 2022 17:18:38 +0000

Last month, we sent out a survey asking how residents were impacted by recent extreme weather events (heat waves.) We received around 100 responses, here’s what you told us: 40% of participants said they were significantly affected by the heat wave, while another 41% described themselves as somewhat affected. A lot of participants

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Tunbridge Wells Repair Cafe

Henry — Mon, 10 Oct 2022 09:05:58 +0000

Tunbridge Wells Repair Cafe is a volunteer-led community event where people with repair skills help mend items that no longer work. This helps prolong the item’s life and ideally prevents them being thrown away unnecessarily. The repair stations cover a wide range including household and gardening electrical items, mechanical, jewellery, textiles / clothing, small furniture / wood, bicycles, IT / Computers, knife sharpening and miscellaneous.

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KM Charity Team: Green School Awards 2022

Henry — Thu, 16 Jun 2022 10:38:26 +0000

The Green School Awards have been created to celebrate and promote the amazing environmental initiatives children and young people in Kent have been doing over the past year.

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Active Travel survey – have your say!

Henry — Tue, 07 Jun 2022 10:31:14 +0000

Switching to active travel is an easy way to improve your carbon footprint. Take our active travel survey to have your say. These responses will help us better support increased active travel use across the borough! Active Travel survey

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TWBC Parks and Green Spaces – latest news!

Henry — Wed, 04 May 2022 08:49:19 +0000

Sustainability is a key objective for TWBC parks. The TWBC Parks team along with Tivoli are fully committed to environmental management of the parks and opportunities are taken wherever possible to ensure green options are considered. Here is an update from our parks team on all the work they have done/are doing this year!

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Advice for new gardeners: How can you garden more sustainably?

Henry — Wed, 04 May 2022 08:34:56 +0000

Our Research and Insight team took part in the launch of Tunbridge Wells in Bloom (alongside the Parks team) to ask residents how they use their parks and green spaces, and if they have any advice for new gardeners who want to garden more sustainably! The team received lots of input from residents who

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