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Nominations still being accepted for the Test Valley COVID-19 Unsung Heroes Award
Local Test Valley community service centre, Unity, alongside their Youth Ambassador and local Youth Member of Parliament, Dmitrijs Meiksans MYP, continue to accept nominations for residents based in the Borough of Test Valley, that have gone above and beyond for their local community during the Coronavirus pandemic.
“We have had just under 100 nominations across the Borough, and we are continuing to source your nominations for those that have gone that extra mile during such a challenging time,” Dmitrijs said. The awards scheme is being run with the support of Andover Town Council, Romsey Town Council, The Lifestyle Card, Love Andover and Test Valley Borough Council. It has been running since the 1st March, with every week having seen two recipients awarded the unsung heroes award, for seven weeks, so far. “Whilst we are reaching the end of the scheme, we are still continuing to accept nominations because whilst only a select few will receive the award itself, we want to recognise everyone nominated as it has been a crucial effort on everyone’s part within the borough.” Dmitrijs continued. There are, at the time of writing, three weeks of the scheme left, and members of the public are invited to nominate their unsung hero by visiting www.testvalleycuha.co.uk/nominate.
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Individuals from Andover and the surrounding villages are being asked to take action and contribute to a new environmental citizen science project. Andover, 29 March 2021 - Developed by local environmental charity, Andover Trees United, the Nature In Harmony: Citizen Science project, which launches on 10th April, will work with ordinary people, of all ages, to carry out wildlife surveys at Harmony Woods in Andover. Citizen science is a branch of scientific research conducted by non-scientists; by enrolling the help of volunteers into scientific research the capacity of the scientific community is improved and the public’s understanding of the science is increased. Nature In Harmony: Citizen Science has two goals: Firstly, to enhance current scientific understanding of the 44 acres of new woodland, located between Augusta Park and close to Enham Alamein. Secondly, to give individuals who take part the opportunity to take action in their own community and improve their understanding of ecology and conservation. The charity is looking for 12 members of the community to act as recording assistants to take part in regular wildlife surveys. No experience is required as training will be given in field survey techniques and species identification by the project ecologist. Over the next 3 months, Andover Trees will also be running an exciting programme of events to complement the scientific research activity. Funded by the Nineveh Charitable Trust, the events, which are open to all, will include a bat detecting walk, pond dipping activities and wildflower identification workshops. A full list of events will be published on the website soon. The project marks phase 2 of the organisation’s Nature In Harmony programme. Alex Marshall, project Ecologist explains “a baseline database of the existing state of the site has already been collected; this includes a range of wildlife surveys on both plants and animals”. She continues, “The data participants collect is so important and will give policymakers, researchers, and the public alike more accurate information about our local environment and biodiversity.”
Wendy Davis, Andover Trees United founder and manager, said, “Although it had been our intention to increase community involvement in data collection before now, the pandemic has prevented this. However, we have worked hard to bring in Covid-secure measures and procedures to protect our staff, volunteers and participants and with all the events taking place outdoors the risk of infection is very low.” For more information on how to get involved please visit www.andovertrees.org.uk/naturein-harmony.
Confessions of a food waste campaigner
Reflecting on a week long campaign as part of the inaugural #FoodWasteActionWeek at the beginning of March, I am amazed at how easy it should be to reduce food waste, especially in the home. It sounds simple enough – measure portions, freeze leftovers/ batch cook and the most obvious is to plan your meals so you only buy what you need. This is the advice that I heartily promoted as part of Incredible Edible Winchester’s campaign. So, I am really embarrassed to have to confess that I am the worst when it comes to meal planning, and I rarely take a shopping list when I go shopping. But does that mean I waste lots of food? No, I don’t. What it does mean, is that for a couple of days before I do my big shop, I simply eat what I have in the fridge and freezer, like a supper meze. Yes, I sometimes have weird combinations or end up eating variations of chilli for 3 days (because I also forgot to freeze it in smaller portions) but that works for me. Meal planning isn’t the only way to reduce food waste. So, now I’ve made my confession, why am I still so passionate that food waste is taken seriously when it comes to climate change? Food production, when you consider farming, transport, processing etc, equates to 26% of all CO2 (equivalent) emissions and uses 50% of the world habitable land (source: https:// ourworldindata.org/environmental-impactsof-food) yet almost 30% of food produced is not eaten. There are a variety of reasons why this food is not eaten, but I am going to focus on the bit that we can all change; food waste from the home. The average UK family throws away £60 of edible food a month (Source: WRAP - Food-surplusand-waste-in-the-UK key-facts-Jan-2020. pdf ) and on a worldwide scale food waste equates to the same amount of emissions as 3 times that of aviation emissions. Most of you reading this blog are thinking, well I’m really careful, I don’t throw away that much food. So, I challenge you to really look at what you do throw away. And do you throw it in the black bin, or are you able to compost it? Could some of the things you throw away, actually be eaten? Do you “complEAT”? Do you peel veg, or do you just give it a good wash, and eat the skin? Think of all the time you’d save and all that extra fibre you’d consume if you didn’t peel potatoes, carrots and parsnips, or saved those broccoli stalks for soup. I’d never heard of “complEAT” before the #LoveFoodHateWaste campaign; I just thought I was a time effective cook (aka lazy). change how we talk about food waste; we need to separate edible food from non-edible food. Non-edible food is those bits that we truly can’t eat, and we should look at effective ways to compost this (maybe for a later blog), but edible food should never be called food waste. If we could reduce edible food waste, the United Nation estimates there would be enough food for 2 million people (source: http://www.fao.org/home/en). We all sometimes buy too much, plans change or our garden/allotment produces a glut, I would implore you to consider ways to share that surplus with your friends, neighbours or community food hubs. Incredible Edible Winchester is helping promote food sharing apps such as OLIO, neighbourly or TooGoodtoGo, for people to share surplus food, and the Winchester Food Partnership has created a #shareoursurplus directory.
Some of you may say that sharing a few surplus apples from your tree isn’t going to fix climate change, and I’m not saying it will. But, changing the way we think will. Food is relatively inexpensive, and we can sometimes forget that sometimes wasting the cheapest things has the biggest environmental impact. Rethinking food, and its value will contribute to larger behavioural change and will help people take more difficult decisions e.g reducing the amount of meat and dairy, that does have a significant impact on climate change, but I’ll leave sustainable food choices for another day.
Sam Watts, Chair of WinACC’s Food Action Group
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