Following up on the Say NO to Plastic Bags campaign, Park Street Stores has decided to stop providing plastic carrier bags altogether. Customers who arrive without their own re-usable bags will be offered a cardboard box to take away their groceries - and this serves another purpose - it cuts down the amount of cardboard rubbish that the shop has to chuck out each day! (more…)

Websites of the well known wildlife and environmental non governmental bodies and charities:

• British Trust for Ornithology
  A trust that promotes bird conservation through volunteer-based surveys. You, too, could join.
• Compassion in World Farming
  Along with celebrity chef and chicken welfare champion Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall this organisation advances the wellbeing of farm animals worldwide.
• Friends of the Earth
  A pressure and campaign group that has been around since 1971 and is now an information source for the media on anything environmental.
• Green Drinks
  The watering hole for greens - a loose, changing network for people with green agendas to meet informally and connect.
• Greenpeace
  Well known green activists that use direct action to publicise green issues and help bring pressure on politicians to act.
• Plantlife
  A wild plants conservation charity
• Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
  A popular organisation that protects british birds and their habitats - over a million members and 13,000 volunteers.
• The Wild Life Trusts
  With 726,000 members, they are the largest UK voluntary organisation dedicated to conserving the full range of the UK’s habitats and species.
• Womens Environmental network
  This group focuses on making women are aware of their ability to change the environment for the better and enable them come together to do so.

Early in 2007 it became clear that our two local post offices were at risk of closure.  The Village Green Teams therefore launched a campaign, collecting  the views of more than 500 local people.  With the support of our local MP Tim Yeo, a meeting was set up for three representatives from the villages to talk to Mr. Jim Fitzpatrick, the then Minister responsible for Post Office policy.  As well as the heartfelt comments of local people we provided him with examples of 6 government (more…)