Working together as a community to reduce our environmental impact

Welcome to Green Wedmore

Monthly meetings are something we have always been committed to, and from these meetings come our ideas and inspiration. At present, these take place on Zoom, 7.30pm on the last Monday of the Month. Get in touch here to make sure you receive the link.

We focus on ACTION and keeping it LOCAL. 

Our Facebook page has been very busy recently, here is a snippet of what we have been talking about and what we have coming up!

We welcome anyone to join us, ensure you receive our monthly update and link to the next meeting by signing up to our mailing list here.

Here is a taster of the things we have acheived in the last few years, take a look around the website to see some of our current projects. 

• We’ve set up regular Free Cycle Days,25 to date.

• During Covid we held popular door step freecycle weekends

• Our Vice Chair Sonya awarded an MBE for contributions in renewable energy. 

• Held 5 Produce Markets in the village,

• Encouraged and supported Wedmore Community Co-Op, and the 1MW Solar Paddock

• We’ve improved recycling. 

• We ran renewable energy switching deals.

• We have held 7 Repair Cafe’s.

• Bulk Purchasing of renewable equipment. 

• Encouraged local food and shops through two cookbooks ‘Is It Local’ ‘Close to Home’. 

• Launched a plastic bag free village.

• Held a Green Fair and Energy Evening. 

• Held many movie nights.

• Been a source of environmental support and advice. 

• Developed two community woodlands,a community orchard, and more recently Worthington Woods Food Forest.

• We took part in the Mendip Open Eco Homes Scheme. 

• Co-organised the Fruit Trees for All Scheme, bulk purchasing and selling fruit trees.

• Supported the Wedmore in Bloom scheme. 

• Encouraged local school initiatives to produce renewable energy.

• We bought and distributed 1000 Oak Trees

• Started a ‘pass it on books’ scheme for environmental books.

• Purchased Eco meters for households to check electricity usage.

• Held 15 litter pick up days

• Produced renewable energy information sheets.

• Developed this website providing information for the community. 

• Made important linkages with other community groups to share information and support.   

• Covid 19 gave us an opportunity to lend out our equipment for litter picking.

• Written over 40 articles for the village magazine showing how a life can be more eco-friendly. 

• ​Spoken at local schools and churches on environmental topics. 

• Rolled out our Zero Carbon Wedmore project in 2019. 

• We installed solar on our village hall, bowls club and tennis club. 

• W​e installed a Tesla battery in the village hall too. 

• Wild for Wildlife in Wedmore campaign to encourage nature friendly gardening

• Our Green Wedmore Solar Challenge 1000 project incentivising domestic PV installation

Join our Facebook group for lots more information.