Calling all members – Please do come and join us on Saturday 30th for our first ever AGM! This will be held at Chippy Town Hall and on Zoom. If you have been to any of our events or are interested in what we do please come along. After the Read more…
Join our informal group of ‘Cotswolds Foragers’ – people who enjoy exploring and learning what wild foods are good to each, how to engage responsbibly in using wild foods, and just appreciating the amazing local surroundings where they grow! You can find some brief notes about foraging in this document: Read more…
By getting safely into cycling, we can make our town and neighbourhoods more fun, healthy, friendly and safe! Our vision and strategy document, written for the Town Council, can be found here, along with a number of other useful resources in this folder. We need more people to join our Read more…
“Nothing ever changes in Chippy”. Disillusioned locals have said this for decades. Yet 400 years ago, the small settlement of Norton won its independence and transformed itself into a citizen-run enterprise zone. ‘Chipping’ comes from an Old English word referring to commerce. It speaks of economic enterprise – using and Read more…
Great to see so many people and such enthusiasm at the Town Meeting on the Climate and Ecology Emergency last Wednesday. Here is Dr Karsten Haustein’s very stimulating talk: the future of our climate is in our hands! Lots of great suggestions too from the discussion time – here’s the Read more…
A newly re-vitalised Action Group, ‘Clean Air for Chippy’, will pursue effective action to keep dangerous and polluting HGVs out of our town centre. There’s a link to a very clear presentation describing the problem, here. You can sign a petition, here. A very active and determine group has already Read more…
There’s a town meeting on this; 7:30pm Wednesday 19th June, in the Methodist lower hall. With recent ‘climactic’ events in parliament, media and public, many things previously unthinkable, now suddenly seem achievable! Change in our emissions, environment and communities is now urgent, but our concern and ambition have also dramatically Read more…
Concern about the harmful consequences of our waste is very topical today; almost daily we see new studies showing the level and impacts of waste plastics in the land and marine ecosystems which provide our food and sustain our lives in many other ways. To thrive in the 21st century, Read more…
We are a community group for the Chipping Norton area, promoting and developing Local Solutions for Sustainable Communities – actions that help our local communities to thrive and be resilient in the face of challenges and changes to our climate, environment, economy and society. We recognise that it is our natural Read more…
We have now started work developing our new Community Allotment – plot 59B on the William Fowler allotments, by the school, almost opposite Glyme Hall. We want our community allotment to be a place that will encourage and help people who are new to or unsure about growing their own Read more…