Road Closure July 2023 Cantley Limpenhoe and Southwood NTRO6860 PT (Short Notice)
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Veolia’s Sustainability Fund – sponsorship
🌱 Veolia’s Sustainability Fund ♻️
Transforming local communities and environments.
Do you have a project idea that will help transform your local community or environment?
We want to hear from you!
The Sustainability Fund will provide cash sponsorship, in-kind resources or staff volunteers to support not-for-profit organisations and community groups to transform their local community or environment.
A successful project will provide evidence of one or more of the following:
- Enhancing biodiversity
- Promoting sustainable waste behaviours (reduce, reuse and/or recycle)
- Protecting or preserving resources and the environment
- Its use of recycled, reused or reclaimed materials
Veolia’s team looks favourably at projects that have considered long-term or ongoing benefits for the community and will consider all projects based on merit.
⏰ The application deadline is 29th September 2023!
We funded them last year:
- Scrapbox is a charity in Reepham which reclaims waste materials from local businesses, commerce and individuals which would otherwise end up in landfill. These are re-purposed as resources for art and crafting activities within the local community. Thanks to the funding, they have made their warehouse more energy efficient and replaced old signage.
- The Papillon project is an educational charity that promotes sustainable living and environmental awareness for young people, through secondary schools and sixth-form colleges in Norfolk. In 2023 they will be teaching students how to grow their own food and with the support of the Sustainability Fund they have sourced new gardening tools to get digging!
- Brundall Community River Watch, led by the Brundall Men’s Shed in Broadland, will see that the River Yare is kept clean through regular litter picks to save the river from pollution and contribute to their local community. The funding has been used to purchase new tools for the Men’s shed and litter-picking equipment.
👉 Visit our website for more information and to apply: veolia.co.uk/sustainability-fund
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Greater Norwich Green space consultation
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Postwick Park and Ride
Postwick Parish Council has set up a petition on the 38 Degrees website calling for the reinstatement of the Postwick Park and Ride service.
The link is attached:
If you prefer a paper version:
Reinstatement of Postwick Park and Ride Petition (002)
Reinstatement of Postwick Park and Ride Petition (002)
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clothes swap
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Voluntary Norfolk
Last year we launched an exciting new volunteer platform Get Involved Norfolk. This has become the go-to place for Norfolk charities and organisations to advertise a huge variety of opportunities, from Craft Workshop Volunteers, Hedgehog Carers, Trustees, Events Volunteers, Digital Champions, Board Game Club Leaders and a huge amount more – there are currently over 400 roles and something to peek everyone’s interest!
It has also become the go-to place to search for a volunteering role. One of the charities advertising here has reported doubling their volunteers since advertising on this free platform.
So this may not be ‘New News’ to you…but what is new is the Corporate Volunteering page – LIVE THIS WEEK!
We thought you may have opportunities within your local area suitable for teams. Maybe a community garden that needs clearing? This is the ideal place to advertise a ‘project’ that could take a team maybe a day or 2 to complete or at least make a significant impact. Many organisations now offer their staff Employer-supported volunteering (ESV) – paid time during their working hours to volunteer. To meet the need for enquiries, we’ve created this addition to the Get Involved Norfolk site. Maybe have a chat with your teams or local community groups to identify an area that could benefit from ESV support.
The other new page is The Big Help Out. We want to take this opportunity to encourage residents to think about coming together as a community, meet like-minded people and make meaningful connections.
If you have events arranged for The Big Help out, we would like to support you in advertising these via our social channels. You can either tag us in or send the details to [email protected]
