Local Eco Groups
Our list of Eco Groups was updated in January 2025.
Please email [email protected] if you would like to be included, or have your details updated.
For recording and wildlife groups across the whole of Berkshire and Oxfordshire, please visit the Thames Valley Environmental Records Centre 'Get involved' webpage.
Please email [email protected] if you would like to be included, or have your details updated.
For recording and wildlife groups across the whole of Berkshire and Oxfordshire, please visit the Thames Valley Environmental Records Centre 'Get involved' webpage.
BBOWT is concerned with all aspects of nature conservation. Sign up to our newsletter to get the latest news, tips about how you can help wildlife, plus information on how you can get involved.
Cold Ash Parish Greening Group was formed about 15 years ago to promote green issues within the parish of Cold Ash, helping individuals and the community reduce their use of non-renewable energy.
Events have included swap shops, litter picking, films and EV demonstrations. We publish regular articles in the Parish News.
Events have included swap shops, litter picking, films and EV demonstrations. We publish regular articles in the Parish News.
East Garston Eco Group (EGEG) was set up in 2022 to find out more about the connection between carbon footprints, climate and nature, and our choices around the food we eat, how we heat our homes, how we travel, and the stuff we buy.
Please email [email protected] for more information, or follow us on FaceBook.
Please email [email protected] for more information, or follow us on FaceBook.
Eco Friends West Berkshire aims to help everyone, including business and community groups in the area reduce their single use plastic and carbon footprint, by bringing together all aspects of reduce, reuse, repair and recycle.
Please email us for more information, or follow us on FaceBook.
Please email us for more information, or follow us on FaceBook.
Five A Day Market Garden is situated in the beautiful village of Englefield, West Berkshire.
The aims of Five a Day are to improve the well-being of everyone in the local community by managing a growing space to provide horticultural education, horticultural therapy and to access healthy, naturally grown produce.
The aims of Five a Day are to improve the well-being of everyone in the local community by managing a growing space to provide horticultural education, horticultural therapy and to access healthy, naturally grown produce.
Great Green Bedwyn is a community climate action group, just across the border in Wiltshire, who work closely with HEAT and the Hungerford Repair Cafe.
They bring local community together to share ideas and take action to reduce community and individual carbon footprints.
They bring local community together to share ideas and take action to reduce community and individual carbon footprints.
Newbury & Thatcham Green Gym is an active, free voluntary group that combines staying fit with carrying out conservation work at various locations around the Newbury & Thatcham.
Please visit our website to find out more.
Please visit our website to find out more.
Hickson Hedgerows is a small Community Orchard and Green in Great Shefford. We manage a laid hedge, bug hotel (created by almost 100 school children), wildlife areas and spring bulbs. Follow us on FaceBook.
Hungerford Environmental Action Team is a group of local people who care passionately about the environment and want to protect it. Each year HEAT lays out objectives during the AGM in January with the aim of stimulating a reduction in Hungerford's carbon footprint through positive action.The Monthly Action Meeting is held on the last Wednesday of the month, 7-9pm, and we warmly welcome anyone wanting to find out more.
Hungerford Food Community is a community organisation that believes that the choices we make about the food we buy, cook and eat can have a huge affect on our health (mental and physical), our environment and our local economy. We support the reduction of food waste, excess food packaging and eating less, but better, meat chicken, fish and dairy. We run cooking projects with local schools and community groups.
Hungerford Repair Cafe is a free community event where skilled, friendly volunteers work alongside visitors to repair clothes, furniture, electrical items, electronics, garden tools and toys.
For more information, please email [email protected].
For more information, please email [email protected].
The Lambourn Environmental Group is on a mission to help alleviate climate change, increase biodiversity and enhance the vibrancy of the village of Lambourn and its surrounding countryside through engaging and enjoyable initiatives.
If you would like to be on their mailing list about future planting of hedges, trees and wildflowers, please email: [email protected]
If you would like to be on their mailing list about future planting of hedges, trees and wildflowers, please email: [email protected]
The Newbury Community Resource Centre operates a furniture and household goods re-use service, aka the Community Furniture Project. This Project enables people to donate items, knowing that they will be put to good use in helping others to improve their living conditions and benefiting the most vulnerable members of our local community.
Newbury Friends of the Earth is a local group of national Friends of the Earth campaigning community - pushing for change on causes which matter to our area, the UK and beyond!
Contact us today to find out how you can help us protect our local area and make it more climate-friendly.
Contact us today to find out how you can help us protect our local area and make it more climate-friendly.
Newbury and Thatcham Repair Cafe holds monthly events to help local people to repair electrical items, electronic gadgets, clothing and textiles, toys, other household objects and garden tools. Our skilled and enthusiastic volunteers will do their best to repair your items, reducing waste and saving you money. Please follow us on Facebook or email [email protected] for more information.
Pangbourne & Whitchurch Sustainability Group is a collective endeavour aimed at nurturing a green ethos and encouraging the adoption of sustainable practices within our local community.
Follow us on Facebook.
Follow us on Facebook.
Penny Post Eco Podcast for West Berks & surrounding areas spotlights inspiring local green initiatives, and local views on global issues.
Presented by Penny Locke, the shows are first aired on 4legsradio.org.
Sign up here to follow the podcast and receive an email with link to each new show after it airs.
Sponsored by Sheepdrove Organic Farm and Sustain Insurance Brokers.
Presented by Penny Locke, the shows are first aired on 4legsradio.org.
Sign up here to follow the podcast and receive an email with link to each new show after it airs.
Sponsored by Sheepdrove Organic Farm and Sustain Insurance Brokers.
Pop down to your local People Planet Pint meet-up to find more about what’s going on locally with sustainability and how you can get involved.
Small99 provides carbon reduction plans for micro and small businesses. With a simple measurement tool and practical actions broken down into 10 minute to-do lists, Small99 empowers the 99% of businesses to start on their sustainability journey, and win more customers while doing so.
Small99 provides carbon reduction plans for micro and small businesses. With a simple measurement tool and practical actions broken down into 10 minute to-do lists, Small99 empowers the 99% of businesses to start on their sustainability journey, and win more customers while doing so.
Sheepdrove BeeWalk is part of a national recording scheme to monitor bumblebees on transects across the country. Every month from March to October we walk a fixed route of about a mile and, with expert help, record the number and type of bumblebees. Please email [email protected] for more information or to join our next walk.
Spokes is a voluntary organisation representing all cyclists across West Berkshire. By joining Spokes, you will become part of a great local cycling community. Membership is free for life and brings a great range of benefits.
To become a member, simply complete and return a membership form.
To become a member, simply complete and return a membership form.
Sustainable Bucklebury was launched in July 2024 by a group of enthusiastic parishoners wanting to promote and engage more people in sustainable initiatives locally.
Please do get in touch if you would like to know more or be involved.
Please do get in touch if you would like to know more or be involved.
TuXchange exchanges pre-loved school clothes in the Newbury and Thatcham area, helping to 'Reduce, Reuse, Recycle' in an affordable way.
We are a non-profit organisation, run entirely by volunteers, based at 38a The Mall, Kennet Centre, RG14 5EN.
Please visit our Facebook page, or email [email protected] to check when we are next open or to volunteer.
We are a non-profit organisation, run entirely by volunteers, based at 38a The Mall, Kennet Centre, RG14 5EN.
Please visit our Facebook page, or email [email protected] to check when we are next open or to volunteer.
Environmental political groups in West Berkshire
- Visit GOV.UK to register to vote.
- Contact your MP via the UK Parliament Webpage.
- Visit the Climate Change Committee website to find out about their independent government advice.
- Follow the legal work of eg, Friends of the Earth and ClientEarth on upholding and improving our environmental laws.
- Find out about the environmental work of local political groups, including West Berkshire Green Party, West Berkshire and Newbury Liberal Democrats, the Labour Party, and West Berkshire Conservatives.
