Our Changeprint
Our Changeprint can be measured by the impact of our projects across five sub-groups: Food; Energy & Housing; Refuse, Reduce, Repair, Recycle; Carbon & Nature; Transport
Food. Supporting food banks, producing local food for veg boxes, promoting regenerative agriculture and launched a Land Share scheme.
Energy & Housing. Supporting Wedmore Community Power Co-Op, retrofitting homes and community buildings, installed PV on all eight of its community and sports buildings.
Refuse, Reduce, Repair, Recycle. Improving recycling schemes, repair cafe events, organising Freecycle days (car boot sales where no money changes hands).
Carbon & Nature. Planted three local community woodlands, launched "Wild for Wildlife" and "Wilder Wedmore" to engage people and increase biodiversity.
Transport. Promoting a volunteer-led community bus service, bike repair services, "20's Plenty" 20mph speed limits to increase road safety and reduce noise/pollution.
Our story
Wedmore village in Somerset has a population of 3,000 and is working towards becoming a zero carbon village. "Green Wedmore" was established in 2006 as a response to a growing recognition of the rapidly increasing threat posed by the climate emergency. Their aim is to develop and implement initiatives to encourage and facilitate sustainable living in Wedmore and surrounding villages.
Green Wedmore has been following the Zero Carbon Britain project that was the brain child of the Centre of Alternative Technology. In 2018 the village fundraised to produce their own comprehensive and detailed zero carbon report for the village.
In 2019, Wedmore launched its ZC report as an event at the church with Paul Allen from the Centre of Alternative Technology. From 2019, Wedmore has focused on six main sub groups to help achieve its zero carbon goals: Energy, Food, Transport, Wellbeing, Housing, Carbon and Nature.
Since 2013 Wedmore Solar Farm (a community owned enterprise) has been generating clean energy, with many of the community building also having solar arrays.
Our advice
When it comes to tackling climate change, everyone needs to play their part: individually, by making small, everyday changes like swapping their energy supplier to a green supply; together, by joining community projects that can make an even bigger difference.
