Sustainable Wantage

Strengthening the community and caring for nature in Wantage

Sustainable Wantage is a community action group. It creates local opportunities for people to cut their carbon footprint, shares information to help people take action, and works with local councils and organisations on their response to the climate crisis.

The group’s home is The Mix Community Space on Mill Street, in the centre of Wantage. It holds Green Drinks meetings there at 7.30pm on the last Wednesday of each month. The Mix is also home to its repair cafés and community fridge.

Its projects include a market garden run with Oxfordshire County Council and Style Acre. It gives people with learning disabilities a space to build skills, grow their own food and become more independent.

The group also took over the lease and management of Pewit Woodland from the Woodland Trust. Through community projects, it looks after the woods and opens them up as a haven for wildlife and a place for local people to enjoy.