Worthing & Adur · 9–26 April 2020
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PLUS GREAT Eco Open FRINGE Houses EVENTS! Worthing & Adur · 9–26 April 2020 See our community in action – people and organisations using less fossil fuel, saving water, creating less waste and taking better care of our world! www.ecoopenhouses.org Organised by Transition Town Worthing Welcome! elcome to our fifth Eco small part of the solution, rather than WOpen Houses event across be part of the problem. Worthing and Adur spanning nearly Whether you think man-made climate three weeks in April from 9th to change is a hoax or not, perhaps you 26th. Transition Town Worthing is care about pollution of our air, water, delighted to be supported by our coastline, green and urban spaces, sponsors – The Rampion Fund at or that micro plastics have now Sussex Community Foundation and entered our food chain. You might be Worthing Homes, as well as our team concerned about local surface water of partners. flooding or the rising cost of water and Everybody’s talking about fuel bills. This event looks at all these climate change issues and more. Do we feel overwhelmed by it all? We hope you will find this event As individuals, how can we make a interesting, informative, inspiring, difference? Will it help the bigger helpful and fun. From complex picture? How can we be the change systems to simple changes anyone can we wish to see in our world? make, there’s something for everyone. This event is about ordinary people Fringe events this year include in Worthing and Adur just getting on an electric vehicle show, talks, with the job, often having fun (it can visits and a workshop – all in be!) and inspiring others to take small, addition to the twelve eco open achievable steps towards resilient, homes. For more details about environmentally friendly lives. They the open homes see our website don’t have all the answers, but they worthing.greenopenhomes.net – have made a commitment to be a or visit the houses! Contact the Transition Town Worthing Eco Open Houses team at [email protected] 2 3 Whats On Fringe events Eco open houses Thursday 9 – Sunday 26 April Saturday 25 – Sunday 26 April All fringe events are free apart from the boat trip and David Attenborough live Open houses do not have to be booked in advance but some have tours that start on screening, but all need to be booked in advance (except the Repair Café). See booking the hour. See the house page for details details on the event’s page. page page Visiting and opening times 13 Visiting and booking information 6 Energy and water saving features 14–15 Thu 9 April Site visit to Biffa Mechanical Biological Treatment Centre, Map of houses 16–17 Horsham 6 1 46 Beechwood Avenue, Worthing, BN13 2HS 18 Sat 11 April SNUG draughtproofing workshop, Sidney Walter Centre 7 2 Maybridge Keystone Centre, Raleigh Way, Worthing, BN12 6JD 19 Tue 14 April Site visit to Viridor Recycling Plant at Ford 7 3 30 Pevensey Road, Worthing, BN11 5NS 20 Wed 15 April Talk on sustainable tree planting by Tony Whitbread, retired CEO 4 Henry House, 189 Heene Road, Worthing, BN11 4NN 21 of Sussex Wildlife Trust at Emmanuel Church Hall, Worthing 7 5 51 Northcourt Road, Worthing, BN14 7DT 22 Thu 16 April David Attenborough live screening at Connaught Theatre, 6 62 Northcourt Road, Worthing, BN14 7DT 23 Worthing (book via Worthing Theatres) 8 7 39 Downlands Ave, Worthing, BN14 9HD 24 Sat 18 April Site visit to EPIC wetlands project, Sompting 8 18 Archibald Road, East Worthing, BN11 2SL 25 and then on to Sustainable Sussex site, also in Sompting 8 9 62 Sompting Road, Lancing BN15 9LD 26 Sun 19 April Boat trip to Rampion Wind Farm 9 10 Rena, The Street, Shoreham-by-Sea, BN43 5NJ 27 Mon 20 April Site visit to Splashpoint Pool, Worthing 9 11 325 Upper Shoreham Road, Shoreham-by-Sea BN43 5NB 28 Wed 22 April Talk by Sarah Kemp from Eskay Architects at Shoreham Centre 10 12 14 Juniper Walk, Shoreham-by-Sea, BN43 6JE 29 Thu 23 April Talk by Francesca Iliffe, Adur & Worthing Council Strategic Sustainability Manager, Worthing Town Hall 10 Other information Fri 24 April Site visit to Splashpoint Pool, Worthing 9 Zero waste 30–31 Sat 25 April Meet the repairers at Worthing Repair Café 11 The Eco Open Houses team and Thanks 32–33 Sun 26 April Electric Vehicle Show with stalls from community groups and eco organisations, Lancing Beach Green 11 Sponsors 34 4 5 processes in the whole of the UK. We are Fringe events WORKSHOP sure you will find a visit to Viridor’s site at Snug Draughtproofing Ford really interesting. For information on Apart from the Repair Café, all fringe Sat 11 April · 10am – 12noon what happens to residents’ recycling, see events need to be booked in advance. Sidney Walter Centre, Worthing the website www.recycleforwestsussex. See the Eventbrite link below for most of org/ford-mrf/ the event booking details. The EV show Booking and details on Eventbrite The tour can take up to 14 people and if has its own Eventbrite page and the Transition Town Worthing will be demand is there, we can organise more Connaught Live Screening needs to be delivering a free draughtproofing than one visit later. (Not suitable for booked via Worthing Theatres. See their asthma sufferers or disabled, due to dust TOUR workshop in this Victorian building, pages for details. teaching practical skills and using a range particles and narrow walkways – sorry.) Biffa Mechanical and of different draughtproofing materials so Visiting Biological Treatment you can select the best material for the TALK job. Please see details listed under each event Facility Trees: to plant or not to for information about that event, the Thur 9 April · 11am – 1pm Draughtproofing your home is likely to site, etc. We go into more detail on the save around £20 a year on energy bills. plant, that is the question booking page on Eventbrite, which you Brookhurst Wood Warnham, near Horsham Safely blocking disused chimneys can Wed 15 April · 7.30pm – 8.30pm can read before making your booking. save an additional £15 a year. Emmanuel Church Hall, Please do read all information very Booking and details on Eventbrite carefully as some sites have specific rules The workshop will be hands on, with Worthing the opportunity to practice installing about who can or cannot be part of that What really happens to all that black bag Booking and details on Eventbrite tour, for example. rubbish? draughtproofing on the community centre’s draughty windows, helping them A talk about sustainable tree planting by For all booked events, you will not be On this free tour of Biffa’s waste to lower their costs and carbon footprint. Tony Whitbread, retired CEO of Sussex admitted unless you have proof of your treatment site at Brookhurst Wood you Spaces are limited, and this workshop will Wildlife Trust. There will be 30 minutes for booking with you (phone or paper copy can find out where your waste goes. be most beneficial to homeowners with discussion afterwards. please). We need this for health and West Sussex has some of the most state- draughty timber framed windows and/ safety reasons. of-the-art waste and recycling plants or doors. Carbon offsetting with trees is something and processes in the UK, which help to many people do these days, but it’s not Once you have made your booking, dramatically reduce the volume of waste actually that simple and one can destroy please take note of any requirements for going to landfill. Some of us took this TOUR precious existing eco systems by planting visiting that site. Wheelchair friendly sites tour two years ago and found it really trees inappropriately. will be indicated by this symbol: Ford Materials Recycling interesting and informative. The tour can Facility Tony will give a bit more background to If you need to cancel your booking take up to 20 people and if demand is forest ecology before going into why, please give us as much notice as possible, there, we can organise more than one Tue 14 April · 10am – 12noon how and where it’s good to plant trees, or as there may be people on a waiting list visit later. Ford Road, Ford not, to help mitigate climate change. who can fill your place – some of these For information about the waste site, events have very limited places. Booking and details on Eventbrite You can read more on Tony’s views on go to: www.biffa.co.uk/about-us/waste- the subject on his website: Once you’ve put your recycling in the bin, journeys/mechanical-and-biological- tonywhitbread.blogspot.com EVENTBRITE BOOKING treatment where does it really go? www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/ West Sussex have some of the most state- transition-town-worthing of-the-art waste and recycling plants and -29435819407 6 7 Credit TOURS EPIC and Sustainable Sussex Projects Saturday 18 April 10am –1pm (arrive 9.30am) Sompting Booking and details on Eventbrite These two very sustainable land-based, community projects sit very near to each BOAT TRIP SITE VISIT LIVE SCREENING AND Q&A other in the landscape at Sompting so Rampion Wind Farm Splashpoint Leisure Centre, David Attenborough: A life this tour will cover both sites, as well as Sunday 19 April Worthing on our planet the work of Plastic Free Worthing, as EPIC are currently working on plastic pollution 10am – 1pm or 2pm – 5pm Mon 20 April · 7.30pm – 8.30pm Thurs 16 April · 7.15pm issues.