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Next Repair Cafe on Saturday 17 May, project updates, recycling home computers, and eco-friendly cleaning products…

Christmas mulled wine discussing ideas for 2025, revamping the conservation area in North End, the Bassingbourn bat survey, and more…

Last year’s RSPB Christmas cracker gave me the following “joke”: When should you buy a bird?  When it is going cheep!  Well, I hope that has got

Inviting you to our Mince Pie and Mulled Wine event on Monday 16 December at 7-9pm in the Old School Community Centre, and more…

A “glimmer” was a term coined by a clinical social worker, Deb Dana, in 2022, and it is the opposite to a “trigger”.  A trigger, we

An update on the chalk stream project, Eco Home visits with Cambridge Carbon Footprint, and more…

In 1917, Max Weber, sociologist and philosopher, named “disenchantment” as the distinctive “injury of modernity”. You would think he might be referring to a disenchantment

The Cambridgeshire Repair Café Network Quilt was shown for the first time at the Bassingbourn-cum-Kneesworth Repair Café on 7 September 2024. The hope is to

The next Repair Cafe is on Saturday 7 September at 2-5pm at the Old School Community Centre

The following report was delivered to the Annual Parish Meeting on 21 May, 2024.  It summarises ZCC activities from April 2023 to March 2024 and

The following report was delivered to the full Parish Council meeting on 25 July, 2023.  It summarises ZCC activities from April to June March 2023…

Introducing the new Bassingbourn Tree Trail – a walk around the village to discover some of our fantastic trees! Suitable for all ages. Why not take a

The big news is that Libby’s veggie box scheme will be running again this year. It will start in June/July (as soon as we have

The following report was delivered to the Annual Parish Meeting on 30 May, 2023.  It summarises ZCC activities from April 2022 to March 2023, looks

The majority of properties in Bassingbourn and Kneesworth were built before 1985 and so almost certainly have levels of insulation that are a long way

Sixty years ago, in her seminal book, Rachel Carson invited us to imagine a “Silent Spring”. Carson presented “A Fable for Tomorrow”, one in which

National Nest Box Week, organised by the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO), takes place every year from 14th-21st February. The aim is to encourage people

In the Old School Community Centre and yard for the first time, there was a continual stream of people making their way to the Repair

Nearly 100 billion pieces of plastic packaging are estimated to be thrown away by UK households every year, with just 12% likely to be recycled

To coincide with COP26, we invited parishioners of all ages to submit work in any medium that would encourage people to think about climate change