Newsletter – April 2025
Next Repair Cafe on Saturday 17 May, project updates, recycling home computers, and eco-friendly cleaning products…
Newsletter – Feb 2025
Christmas mulled wine discussing ideas for 2025, revamping the conservation area in North End, the Bassingbourn bat survey, and more…
Countryside Notes – Dec 2024
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 you into the spirit of Christmas! 2023 was a “Waxwing winter” when many thousands flew in from Scandinavia, rather than the usual few hundred. This unusual migration is called an […]
Newsletter – Dec 2024
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…
Countryside Notes – Nov 2024
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 now know, is a cue, accurate or not, that pushes your mind and body into a flight or fight or freeze state, through a recollection of something in your past […]
Newsletter – Oct 2024
An update on the chalk stream project, Eco Home visits with Cambridge Carbon Footprint, and more…
Countryside Notes – Oct 2024
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 or melancholy one might feel at the news of the use of chlorine gas in the Second Battle of Ypres in 1915, or even the deployment of tanks, en masse, […]
A First For Bassingbourn
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 finish the quilt early next year once each of the Repair Cafés in the county has provided their blocks. Barbara Isherwood designed and quilted our block. As usual the Repair […]
Repair Cafe on Sat 7 September
The next Repair Cafe is on Saturday 7 September at 2-5pm at the Old School Community Centre
Annual Parish Meeting 2024
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 looks forward to projects in 2024/25… General After discussions with the Environment Group and the Zero Carbon Collective, it was agreed that the two groups would merge. Our […]