OUR COMMUNITY GROUPS
Throughout our community and parish, we have lots of climate action groups who are all working towards the same goal – to save our planet!
Listed below are our friends from around the area:
Lindfield Fairtrade Village
Lindfield has been a Fairtrade Village since 2018.
Fairtrade Lindfield maintains this status by raising local awareness of Fairtrade-labelled products, encouraging local retailers, cafes, schools and businesses to sell and stock these items. The Fairtrade movement is promoted through community events such as running a stall at the annual Village Day and organising workshops at local schools.
Fairtrade Lindfield has the support of Lindfield Parish Council. All Saints Lindfield, the parish church in Lindfield, is a Fairtrade Church.
Greener Lindfield
Nicky Holbrook, our Steering Group member, also represents Fairer World Lindfield with Greener Lindfield, which is a community led group whose aim is championing sustainable gardening in our community.
Recent successes and projects with Greener Lindfield have been supporting the Weald to Waves Gardens & Greenspaces initiative https://www.wealdtowaves.co.uk/get-involved/gardens-and-greenspaces/ and Seedy Saturday swapping pots, seeds and seedlings at the Lindfield Repair Cafe.
Find out more here
Lindfield Repair Café
Lindfield Repair Cafe is a non-profit initiative run for the community, by the community.
Open on the first Saturday of each month, a group of talented volunteers will fix your broken items for a small donation, helping you save money and keep waste out of landfill.
The cafes take place between 10am and 1pm at Lindfield United Reformed Church. Each month they welcome a different community group to their lounge area, inspire the next generation of repairers at their kids’ activity table and collect used candles for recycling.
Visitors can also enjoy a range of tea, coffee and homemade cake!
Greener Cuckfield
We are a small group of people who love our village and want to do what we can to make it a place where people encourage nature to flourish and cut down on waste and energy use. We started as a small number of enthusiastic individuals in late 2019 and brought on other like-minded people during the pandemic through our social media posts. Since 2023 we have organised:
- Plastics recycling collections at community centres, schools, and pubs.
- Free lectures on topics in nature recovery and sustainability (Small Talks).
- Campaigns to promote wildlife-friendly gardening and management of public green spaces.
- Community litter picks.
Fill Good
Fill Good is part of the #refillrevolution in Mid Sussex, delivering goods to your doorstep without the packaging, refilling your own containers. Earth friendly gifts and ideas to encourage a less wasteful lifestyle.
Check out Fill Good here
Share Haywards Heath, a “Library of Things”
Share Haywards Heath, a “Library of Things”, is a local charity serving everyone in the local community. What’s a Library of Things, you ask? It’s an easy, affordable, and sustainable way for you to borrow items for as little as £1 per week, saving you from having to buy and store items you’ll only ever use a few times a year and helping to save the planet as well! You can find us every Tuesday (9.30-11) and Saturday (9-10) at the Lindfield Scout Hut. Pop in to collect or return items, or simply to find out more! Check out our full collection of items and register to borrow things on our website here
Greener Hassocks & Ditchling
Formerly HKD Transition, Green Hassocks & Ditchling are residents of Hassocks, Hurstpierpoint, Keymer and Ditchling acting together on the climate emergency for us and future generations. We are part of the international Transition Network, a global movement of thousands of communities in over 50 countries coming together to reimagine and rebuild our society within the limits of natural resources and with respect for the natural world.
Find out more here
Grove Garden Hawyards Heath
Grove Garden are a creative ‘Social Prescription Hub’ for over 50’s in the centre of Haywards Heath. Designed as a safe space for socialising, open air activities, exercise, making friends, for morning coffees and afternoon teas. Come along for some: gardening, laughter Yoga, talks. Board games like: Scrabble, Chess, Dominoes. Singing, chatting – chilling. Friendship and a very warm welcome.
Find out more here
Scaynes Hill Sustainability Group
A community group keen to make a difference by coming together to share experience and love of the natural world, to support a resilient community and to raise awareness of the precious nature of our planet and the more sustainable choices we can all make to help preserve it. Over more than ten years our projects have ranged from such things as woodland events, plant surveys and a focus on waste to renewables, a regular fruit and veg share, and the Scaynes Hill to Lindfield cycle/walkway project. All are welcome to our meetings and events, whether from the village or further afield and we welcome collaboration with other local groups.
For more information contact Cilla: cdelandelong@btinternet.com
01444 831364 or visit www.sustainability.scayneshillvillage.co.uk
Scaynes Hill to Lindfield Cycle/Walkway scheme (SHLAT) https://scayneshillvillage.co.uk/shlat/
SECA
The South East Climate Alliance (SECA) is a coalition of local environmental, community and faith groups from the South East of England uniting for urgent action on climate change and biodiversity loss. It acts as an informal umbrella group and has been set up to share ideas and coordinate action.
Find out more here
Sussex Green Living
Sussex Green Living is a multi award-winning charity that provides a network and facilitates initiatives for the benefit of our local community and the planet. They provide ideas that prove living an environmentally friendly lifestyle, respecting nature and reducing that all important carbon footprint is exciting, energising, saves you money and helps provide more peace of mind to live and enjoy a sustainable future.
Sussex Green Living are passionate about connections, communications and education to inspire and empower Sussex people, consumers, communities and businesses to live green, play green and work green.
Find out more here
Weald to Waves
We are a network of farmers, land managers, councils, researchers, wildlife charities, schools, gardeners and community groups. Together we are establishing a nature recovery corridor from the High Weald to the Sussex coast and revived seas, encompassing over 20,000 hectares of contiguous habitat.
We are establishing a 100-mile nature recovery corridor across Sussex. Connecting our fragmented landscape will boost biodiversity, capture carbon, enhance food production and enrich our rural economy.
Find our more here