Lord Mayor visits Whiteladies Market
Sunday, September 18th, 2011
We were delighted to welcome the Lord Mayor of Bristol, Cllr Geoff Gollop, to our Whiteladies Market, on Saturday 17 September – or Bristol Independents Day! Read more…»
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Our first AGM at the Community Farm
Sunday, September 18th, 2011
About 50 members of The Community Farm gathered in a windswept giant Tipi at the farm on Saturday 17 September for the first ever Annual General Meeting. This is a ‘community supported agriculture’ project that Sustainable Redland has Read more…»
Bristol Independents
Monday, September 12th, 2011
We have lots of independent local shops in Redland. If we support them they can survive, and so can the crucial wholesale markets on which they depend. So visit the new Bristol Independents website, take the Good Food Pledge, enter the competition and tell all your friends. Do it now!
Community Farm 2nd Share Offer
Wednesday, September 7th, 2011
Sustainable Redland has been involved in The Community Farm for 3 years now, helping to get it set up as a Community Benefit Society with good farming, for local people, as its aim. Our first share offer got it off the ground with 22 acres now being cultivated. Our second share offer is now launched, closing date 30 November. The ‘Offer Document’ tells you the details, and the one page application form can be printed off. Or if you would like us to post you the document and form then email us via our susred contact page and we’ll post one to you (dont forget to tell us your address!)
Bristol’s community energy projects mapped
Wednesday, September 7th, 2011
Here is a google map showing Bristol’s community energy projects, produced by Centre for Sustainable Energy – lots going on.
Transition Conference
Wednesday, July 20th, 2011
Several of us from Bristol were at the Transition Network conference in Liverpool on 8 to 11 July. In short, it was brilliant. There was a good mixture Read more…»
Bristol Energy Cooperative
Wednesday, July 20th, 2011
At our July susred meeting we heard from Emilia about the progress being made in setting up a community cooperative to raise share investment and install solar PV on rooftops in Bristol. The idea is Read more…»
Charcoal from restored coppice
Tuesday, July 12th, 2011
One of our susred members is involved in restoring an Alder coppice, so has some bags of charcoal for barbecues that they have made from the coppiced wood. It is £6 a bag, email us via the contact form and Alex will get back to you.
Keep W’ladies Local Campaign launched
Sunday, June 5th, 2011
A new campaign group has formed to defend our independent shops and to oppose the damaging further growth of the Big4 multiple chains. They have a Keep Whiteladies Local website.
Here are the notes from the 26 May Public Meeting. mtng notes 26.5.11
S’burys alcohol license
Thursday, June 2nd, 2011
The planned Blackboy Hill Sainsburys (in the former Woolworths) has applied to sell alcohol from 7am to 11pm seven days a week, and potentially the store could be open 24 hours a day. There is already a large Sainsburys at Clifton Down, which is about 4 minutes walk away. Whereas the Clifton Down store has purpose-made delivery lorry access at the back, the Blackboy Hill store is on a narrow bottleneck in a main commuter route, Read more…»