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Fairer World Lindfield are awarded a Fairtrade Community Award
Lindfield became accredited as a Fairtrade Village in 2018 with support from our Lindfield Parish Council. From this initiative was born Fairer World Lindfield Climate Action Group in 2019. In April 2024, Fairer World Lindfield applied for reaccreditation with the Fairtrade Foundation and are delighted that we achieved this! The Fairtrade Foundation has recently changed their criteria, so instead of Fairtrade Village it is now granting Fairtrade Community awards. This is more inclusive as it is about communities working in various ways with local groups to raise awareness of Fairtrade as well as climate change and how this will affect our world and food systems.
We are proud of the Fairtrade Lindfield’s work since we started in 2017 and are all looking forward to continuing to raise awareness of the climate crisis in our community.
Fairer World Lindfield support Lindfield Repair Café in May
FWL supported May’s Lindfield Repair Café with fun activities to generate awareness. In the kid’s room James and Maggie were on hand to help the kids to plant seeds to take home with them. In the waiting room, FWL had generated a short, engaging quiz for people to complete in order to win a piece of Fairtrade chocolate.
Fairer World Lindfield receives Highly Commended at the Mid Sussex Applause Awards
Climate and Environmental group Fairer World Lindfield was nominated for the 2024 Mid Sussex Applauds Award in the new category of Environment and Climate Champion. There were six contenders and Fairer World Lindfield received Highly Commended coming second after winners Greener Hassocks & Ditchling. Well done to Greener Hassocks & Ditchling (formerly HKD Transition), which has been championing climate issues since 2010. It was a great event seeing so many local volunteers getting recognised for their community work in Mid Sussex. A big thank you to MSDC for organising.
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Climate Talks across our local schools
Fairer World Lindfield has also been busy recently giving talks at Great Walstead School and Lindfield Primary Academy on the topic of climate change and Fairtrade. The sessions are very interactive and fun and help the children to understand how they can contribute to a more healthy environment for us and our planet. If you’d like to know more about how to get your school involved just email us at: fairerworldlindfield@gmail.com
Climate Change Awards
The Council has awarded Fairer World Linfield with a Climate Change Award recognising the fantastic world that we do in our local community.
FWL has consistently championed ways to encourage recycling, renewing and developing practices that will lead to a more sustainable world. They helped to start the Repair Café. They have organised events both virtual and in person to explain ways to promote fairer, more sustainable living. They have been at the forefront of helping people to find ways to mitigate rising energy costs in environmentally friendly ways.
Interesting articles
Weald to Waves: Making space for Nature in Sussex
By Nicky Holbrook (Greener Lindfield) & Amy Hurn (Gardens & Greenspaces Coordinator, Knepp Wildland Foundation)
Our local nature needs your help to survive and thrive!
Do you have a green space that you look after – your garden, balcony, school field, allotment etc.? Could you pledge some of this to nature recovery? Without swift action, we will continue to see a fall in the diversity and abundance of nature across the UK and the loss of all the ecosystem services they provide.
The good news is that we can reverse this trend
and we can ALL make a difference. Beneath our patios and goalposts and all our gardens are part of ancient ecosystems that can provide crucial stepping stones for pollinators, small mammals, amphibians and birds.
Here in Sussex, Weald to Waves is a great project coordinated through the Knepp Wildland Foundation to create an initial 100-mile nature friendly corridor from the High Weald and Ashdown Forest, through the Low Weald and over the South Downs National Park, along the river catchments of the Arun, Adur and Ouse to the coast at Climping, Shoreham and Newhaven and out to the kelp forests of Sussex Bay (see map). Its ambition is to tie together a wide community of land managers and owners, farmers, conservation organisations, councils, schools, businesses, local community groups and individuals working for nature recovery across Sussex.
The Weald to Waves project is mapping and supporting efforts of all sizes and is a leading national example of how nature’s recovery can coexist and support sustainable food production alongside our cultural and social lives. The nature recovery corridor will enhance habitats and support species, allowing our wildlife to survive and thrive across our local areas. Key to this success is engaging and connecting people and communities across Sussex by creating new opportunities to understand, enjoy and protect nature.
We can all be part of this great project as last year Weald to Waves launched their Gardens & Greenspaces project. Everyone in Sussex can register and pledge their green space and you can contribute to extending this nature friendly corridor right now! This doesn’t mean abandoning your gardens but rather working
with nature. The ambition is to create something truly remarkable; a community-led nature corridor extending across Sussex which will demonstrate landscape-scale recovery in action.
Our gardens are important because they make up the largest block of land in the Weald to Waves corridor. When we add in our parks, playgrounds, allotments, balconies and verges, this amounts to more land than Ashdown Forest!
In Lindfield our Wilderness Field is pledged to this project by Lindfield Parish Council. When you register and pledge your green space, with your agreement, it will appear as a dot on a digital map. Wouldn’t it be fantastic to start linking up dots all over Lindfield? Could you leave a hole under a fence, plant some climbing plants or a native tree so nature can fly, jump and scurry between nature friendly spaces?
Signing up to the Gardens and Greenspaces project will offer you ideas and practical guidance for nature recovery, as well as opportunities to connect with others and share knowledge and experience. You will learn
about species and habitats and can take part in monitoring and recording what we have outside our back doors.
So are you involved with a school playground, a scout hut, community orchard or an allotment group? Are you part of a community group managing a green space such as a churchyard, burial ground or a community garden? Are you a gardener trying to make changes in your garden or window box? The Weald to Waves Garden & Greenspaces project urges you to SIGN UP and PLEDGE your space. Let’s link up with different communities across Sussex. We know Greener Cuckfield and Steyning are all encouraging the same too!
To read more and sign up, go to the ‘Get Involved’ page on the Weald to Waves website www.wealdtowaves.co.uk
Information on Greener Lindfield can be found on Facebook at www.facebook.com/groups/ greenerlindfield or email greenerlindfield@gmail.com.
Resources & useful links
In this section we would like to provide you with quick links to sites and topics which will help you in your day to day. From local green initiatives, to information to help reduce through to supporting you through this cost of living crisis, we would like you to use it as a resource guide when needed.
Top tips on how to survive the cost of living crisis
As we all try to navigate the cost of living crisis, it may become necessary for us to take steps in order to survive the impending winter season. Not only will it be significantly more expensive to heat our homes, it will be harder to feed our families as the cost of goods appears to be rising on a weekly basis.
At Fairer World Lindfield, we wanted to provide you with some easy links in order to help…
Here’s a link to The Good Shopping Guide
Here’s a great link from the money saving expert with over 90+ tips
Here’s some tips for students
Find you are cooking and wasting food which could help others? Join Olio
Or try cooking for less, here’s tips on how
Have stuff that you could fix or upcycle? then come along to the Lindfield Repair Café
Let’s all reduce waste, put it on Freecycle
Here’s some tips on how to save energy
Don’t see what you are looking for or think we are missing anything which would help our community? Please click here and send us an email so that we can add to this resource area – thanks so much!
Media coverage downloads
Shining the light on ‘resilience’ to our community Jul 2024 | Mid Sussex District Council celebrates local heroes at Applauds Awards Jun 2024 | FWL receives Mid Sussex Applauds Awards May 2024 | Climate group get commended May 2024 | Environmental passions are well-supported in Lindfield Apr 2024 | Fairer World Lindfield launches new event Jan 2024 | Green UP!, at The Stand Up Nov 2023 | Fairer World Lindfield gains award from council Oct 2023 | Green Extravaganza was a success Jul 2023 | Fairtrade comes to Lindfield Mar 2023 | Pupils ask ‘What does Fairtrade mean’ Mar 2023 | Repair Café First Anniversary Nov 2022 | How to save your shekels Nov 2022 | Meet Isabel at the café May 2022 | Green Heart for MP Apr 2022 | Third Lindfield Repair Café another resounding success Mar 2022 | Climate campaigners share Green Hearts Mar 2022 | FWL Making a Difference Mar 2022 | Lindfield Repair Café another resounding success Mar 2022 | Lindfield’s Great Big Green Week Nov 2021 | The Great Big Green Week in Lindfield Oct 2021 | Great Big Green Week Sep 2021 | Get ready for Great Big Green Week Aug 2021 | Making your money matter Zoom talk Feb 2021 | Virtual screening of climate change film Jan 2021 | Fast fashion debate Nov 2020 | Online screening of the climate film 2040 Oct 2020 | Climate Café online meeting Sep 2020 | Virtual Climate Café Aug 2020 | Lindfield eco group hosts virtual events Jul 2020 | Celebrating Fairtrade Fortnight Mar 2020 | Caring for god’s creation Jan 2020 | Lindfield villagers take action on climate change Jan 2020 | Your Climate Your Choices Nov 2019 | Lindfield celebrated Fairtrade Fortnight Apr 2019 | A “Fairer World” Brunch Feb 2019 | Fairtrade Fortnight coming up Feb 2019 | Lindfield achieves Fairtrade status May 2018 | Lindfield to become a Fairtrade Village Apr 2017