Cholsey Environment Champions
Cutting greenhouse gas emissions and protecting the natural world in Cholsey.
Cholsey Parish Council declared a climate and environment emergency and employed an Environmental Coordinator to oversee local activities and events to cut carbon emissions. CHEC formed to work towards significantly reducing greenhouse gas emissions and to promote the protection and restoration of the natural world.
The group runs five activity areas:
- food and growing;
- transport;
- wildlife;
- carbon footprint education;
- community renewable energy.
Each group meets regularly and has its own plan of action. There are plans for new groups on:
- domestic energy reduction;
- waste reduction, recycling, repair and reuse.
The Community Energy group is working with the primary school to install solar panels on the roof. The Transport group is developing a cycle path to link Cholsey and Wallingford.
The Food and Growing group has built and filled five planters with herbs and vegetables for sharing, and created a community orchard. They also ran a free soil and seed event to get local children growing their own food.
