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Richmondshire Green Week

Richmondshire Climate Action Partnership is coordinating a week of environmental activities in Richmondshire including a Repair Cafe, an environmental Fair at The Station, Richmond and book talks by environmental authors in partnership with Richmond Walking and Book Festival.

Any other organisations in the area who would like to participate either enter an event on the Green Week website and link it to our local week in Richmondshire or email us barbara@richmondshireclimateaction.org .

Anyone who would like to get involved as a volunteer at any of the events please contact us at barbara@richmondshireclimateaction.org.

Greenweek Organizer

Richmondshire Climate Action Partnership

Wednesday 5 June - Sunday 16 June 2024

Richmond, North Yorkshire, UK

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Event Listing:

Emma Johnson's Orchestra for the Environment Thu 6 Jun

The top-drawer string ensemble, directed by leading clarinet soloist Emma Johnson, plays Puccini’s Crisantemi, Vaughan Williams Fantasia, Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for Strings and Emma’s poignant new piece Tree of Life, which was prompted by the climate emergency and draws inspiration from nature and from the hope that-by acting together-we can mitigate...

in person event
Richmondshire Green Week
  • Ticketed event
  • Disabled toilet
  • Toilets on site
  • Wheelchair accessible
  • Disabled Access

St. Mary's Church, Station Road, Richmond, DL10 4LB

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Save Our Swale Public Meeting Sat 8 Jun

Save Our Swale and guest speakers are holding their 2nd public meeting in order to inform the community of the results of the campaign’s water quality monitoring programme, to share the key objectives for 2024/ 2025 and to promote ongoing awareness of the continuing pollution of the Swale.
This is a ticket only free event.

in person event
Richmondshire Green Week
  • Free event
  • Ticketed event
  • Disabled toilet
  • Toilets on site
  • Wheelchair accessible
  • Disabled Access

Richmond Town Hall, Market Place, Richmond, UK

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Can monastic life at Easby Abbey teach us anything about sustainability? Sat 8 Jun

Many people have stressed the need to re-assess the way we live in order to create a sustainable way of living on Earth. Join us on this volunteer-led tour, where we will be explaining how the monks went about things and how they saw things- which might give food for...

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Richmondshire Green Week
  • Free event
  • Outdoor event
  • Ticketed event

Easby Abbey, Richmond, UK

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Can monastic life at Easby Abbey teach us anything about sustainability? Thu 13 Jun

Many people have stressed the need to re-assess the way we live in order to create a sustainable way of living on Earth. Join us on this volunteer-led tour, where we will be explaining how the monks went about things and how they saw things- which might give food for...

in person event
Richmondshire Green Week
  • Free event
  • Outdoor event
  • Ticketed event

Easby Abbey, Richmond, UK

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Elegy for a River - Tom Moorhouse Sat 15 Jun

Tom is an ecologist and author, who for over twenty two years worked for the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, Oxford University. His authorial career comprised a number of children’s books, including The River Singers, The Rising, and Trickster, all of which drew on ecological knowledge of water voles and rats,...

in person event
Richmondshire Green Week
  • Family friendly
  • Food / refreshment available
  • Ticketed event
  • Disabled toilet
  • Toilets on site
  • Wheelchair accessible
  • Disabled Access

Richmond Town Hall, Market Place, Richmond, UK

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Eco Day at The Station, Richmond Sat 15 Jun

Celebrate community action tackling climate change and protecting nature, as The Station hosts a community focussed Eco Day on Saturday 15th June.
We will be joined by a number of local environmental groups who will be here to share their work in helping to save the environment. Come along as say...

in person event
Richmondshire Green Week
  • Family friendly
  • Food / refreshment available
  • Free event
  • Baby changing facilities
  • Disabled toilet
  • Toilets on site
  • Wheelchair accessible
  • Disabled Access

The Station, Station Yard, Richmond, DL10 4LD

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Eco Day at The Station Sat 15 Jun

Celebrate community action tackling climate change and protecting nature, as The Station hosts a community focussed Eco Day on Saturday 15th June – part of The Great Big Green Week.
We will be joined by a number of local environmental groups who will be here to share their work in...

in person event
Richmondshire Green Week
  • Family friendly
  • Food / refreshment available
  • Free event
  • Baby changing facilities
  • Disabled toilet
  • Toilets on site
  • Wheelchair accessible
  • Disabled Access

The Station, Station Yard, Richmond, UK

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Roger Morgan-Grenville Across a Waking Land Sun 16 Jun

In the spring of 2022, nature writer, Roger Morgan-Grenville, walked alone for 1,000 miles through Britain northwards from Lymington at the pace of the advancing season. He wanted to see for himself at slow pace the state of nature in his country, and the efforts that were being made to...

in person event
Richmondshire Green Week
  • Family friendly
  • Food / refreshment available
  • Ticketed event
  • Disabled toilet
  • Toilets on site
  • Wheelchair accessible
  • Disabled Access

Richmond Town Hall, Market Place, Richmond, UK

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