Royston Environmental Group
Working towards a sustainable future
Sustainability
Giving you the know-how to pursue a greener lifestyle.
Each autumn the Royston Environmental Group aims to organise a special event which provides an opportunity for the people of the town and its surrounding area to learn about how lifestyles can change to encourage a more sustainable future.
The inaugural event in 2021 had modest beginnings. The 2022 event was much more ambitious and provided an opportunity for various local organisations and companies to display their goods and services, and to provide helpful advice on how they can help the transition.
Sustain-Ability 2023 - 30th September
Gala in the Gardens
This year the event again took place in the Priory Memorial Gardens and was part of Creative Royston. The theme was “A Force of Nature” and was sponsored by Johnson Matthey, who generously helped us with our 2022 event.
Event Sponsor
Tentshare
Sharing our resources is one of the many ways that Tentshare is reducing pressure on the planet. Tentshare is committed to supporting the local community and economy to create a sharing, caring, carbon reducing, camping community.
You can list tents and camping kit and earn money by making them available for others to use.
Green Heat Coop
Green Heat Coop is a non-profit, co-operative company focused on the transition away from fossil-fuels to low carbon, high comfort home heating.
We can help you understand and navigate the options for your home, including heat pumps and energy efficiency measures.
Friends of Therfield Heath
The Friends showed that Therfield Heath is important to climate change. How you can help support this beautiful environment that is right on our doorstep.
Climate Conversations
Climate Conversations are an open, inclusive space in which people to get together to talk and act on climate change.
They are informal where everyone is welcome to join the conversation and get involved. They can bring people together from across communities, work places and campuses to focus on solutions. People find them inspiring, positive places to go along to.
Tentshare
Sharing our resources is one of the many ways that Tentshare is reducing pressure on the planet. Tentshare is committed to supporting the local community and economy to create a sharing, caring, carbon reducing, camping community.
You can list tents and camping kit and earn money by making them available for others to use.
Green Heat Coop
Green Heat Coop is a non-profit, co-operative company focused on the transition away from fossil-fuels to low carbon, high comfort home heating.
We can help you understand and navigate the options for your home, including heat pumps and energy efficiency measures.
Friends of Therfield Heath
The Friends showed that Therfield Heath is important to climate change. How you can help support this beautiful environment that is right on our doorstep.
North Herts Friends of the Earth
North Herts Friends of the Earth is part of a movement to create a safer climate, flourishing nature, and healthy air, food and water. They want to improve the local environment for everyone in our community to enjoy – as well as supporting local and global efforts to protect the planet.
Conservators of the Therfield Heath and Greens
The Conservators of Therfield Heath are elected by the local population and by those with special interest in the heath to help maintain the special nature of its environment, prevent misuse and ensure it's is a natural resource available for all to enjoy.
Royston Repair Café
The Repair Café holds regular sessions at Coombes Community Centre and helps to revitalise once treasured possessions which may otherwise become discarded.
Horsebox Coffee Shop
Coffee and more was available throughout the day from Jenny at the Horseox Coffee Shop, one of our Plastic Free Champions. Just the thing to warm you up if the weather turns a little chilly.
Nappy Library
A free drop-in sling and cloth nappy library, come along for friendly chat and to try out or hire slings and carriers from a wide selection of styles and sizes.
Shepreth Hedgehog
Find out more about the importance of hedgehog rehabilitation and conservation, the clinical activities at the hospital or get involved and sponsor a hedgehog to support your local hedgehog population.
Cambridge Carbon Footprint
Our mission is to inspire people to engage with climate change and empower them, individually and within their communities, to move towards low carbon living.
Be Sustainable articles archive
Be Sustainable articles archive
Each month we publish an article in The Listing, a magazine available throughout Royston and its surrounding villages. Each article covers something topical for the time of year.
Here is a link to The Listing's archive which gives you access to the most recent articles.
Sustain-Ability 2022
Here are some of those who helped make last year's event so successful
Climate Café
A Climate Café is an open, inclusive space for people to get together to talk and act on climate change.
Climate Cafés are informal where everyone is welcome to join the conversation and get involved. Cafés can bring people together from across communities, work places and campuses to focus on solutions. People find them inspiring, positive places to go along to.
Tentshare
Sharing our resources is one of the many ways that Tentshare is reducing pressure on the planet. Tentshare is committed to supporting the local community and economy to create a sharing, caring, carbon reducing, camping community.
You can list tents and camping kit and earn money by making them available for others to use.
Green Heat Coop
Green Heat Coop is a non-profit, co-operative company focused on the transition away from fossil-fuels to low carbon, high comfort home heating.
We can help you understand and navigate the options for your home, including heat pumps and energy efficiency measures.
Friends of Therfield Heath
The Friends showed that Therfield Heath is important to climate change. How you can help support this beautiful environment that is right on our doorstep.
North Herts Council
North Herts Council were represented by local Councillors and shared information on their climate change strategy, what environmental actions are being taken by the Council, and what actions individuals can take to help reduce the district’s emissions.
More information is available via the Council’s website.
Horsebox Coffee Shop
Coffee and more was available throughout the day from Jenny at the Horseox Coffee Shop, one of our Plastic Free Champions. Just the thing to warm you up if the weather turns a little chilly.
Mantles KIA
Our local KIA outlet brought their EV6 all electric cross over vehicle so you could explore the future of motoring.
You were able to vew the veicle, speak to Mantles' sales staff and arrange a test drive.
North Herts Friends of the Earth
North Herts Friends of the Earth is part of a movement to create a safer climate, flourishing nature, and healthy air, food and water. They want to improve the local environment for everyone in our community to enjoy – as well as supporting local and global efforts to protect the planet.
The Wildlife Trust
Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust is a local conservation charity working to protect wildlife and help people to connect with nature. With a team of volunteers, they care for wild places so that nature can thrive. They help people experience the wildlife on their doorsteps and to take action to protect it.
North Herts Beekeepers
Where would we be without bees and other pollinators that ensure plants can continue to thrive and multiply. And provide delicious honey into the bargain.
Here was an opportunity to find out more about beekeeping and to obtain some of the fruits of their labour.
Early Connections
A free drop-in sling and cloth nappy library, come along for friendly chat and to try out or hire slings and carriers from a wide selection of styles and sizes.
Website design
Michael Wright
Copyright
The content of this website
© Royston Environmental Group except the REG logo © Adshots Digital Studio