Envirolution 2015 spring newsletter

The Future!

Big love from the Envirolution team X

BUT WE NEED YOUR HELP! We would love to hear from you about what local environmental concerns you have, or what actions you think need to be taken in YOUR neighbourhood.

Festival 2015 th 30 May Platt Feilds Park

Just get in touch with one of the Envirolution team. Look out for events popping up at the Boathouse on Platt Fields Park, and of course there’s the ENVIROLUTION FESTIVAL on the May 30th 2015, so look out for Fun-raisers and Uprisings!

Join us!

February Newsletter 2015 on leaps and bounds – Platt fields Bike Hub is alive and kicking and we’re really excited to see what the future holds.

Envirolution and Platt Fields Bike Hub are constanly looking for funding and new ideas to futher develop the Boathouse - so please get in touch if you have any ideas or want to get involved

Volunteer Opportunities

Envirolution will be playing a big part in a new great event in July, and we need more helpers onboard to help make it as magical as we know it can be!

It’s going to be an amazing year with Envirolution.

We’ve got loads of ideas and projects we would like to get going, but we need YOU to help us!

Sooo whats new?

No matter what you think you can do & how much time you can give, it all counts!

Here’s the Year in Brief You’ll never believe that the last year has been terribly exciting!!

Please give us a shout and get involved. The more of us there are, the more impact we can have!

Up and Coming Events 5 Feb

Manchester FoodCycle presents: Soul Kitchen

15 Feb

Volunteer Day 1pm@Platt Fields Park

1 Mar

Boathouse Spring Cleanathon

Please find us and like us at www.facebook.com/EnvirolutionUK

6 Mar

Everything’s Gone Green

8 Mar

Holi Festival of Colour

Theres also a film or two on the page you might want to see.

15 Mar

Volunteer Day 1pm@Platt Fields Park

30 May

Envirolution Festival 2015!

volunteer@envirolution.org.uk Thanks!

A big huge thank you for supporting us and the work we are doing.

Here’s to a fantastic 2015!

Please look out for our events, come along, get involved and join the Uprising!

& The Big Malarkey – Watch this Space Please see our facebook page for more details

A trip to the friendly folk at Holi fair festival in early august for more magical happenings...

Just before running the The Green area at Audio Farm festival...

September saw den building and Envirolution festival 2014 was a fun in the woods at Festival numblustery success – Over 500 peo- ber 6 ple braved the elements to take part in a fun packed day of music, workshops and entertainment.

July kicked off with Beat Herder Festival where we ran the kids area - seed bombs a plenty...

Certainly a busy summer. It’s amazing that we found time to apply for more funding and to organise more Greeniversity workshops.

Get in touch if you would like to be part of team Envirolution at The Big Malarkey https://www.facebook.com/EnvirolutionUK

An Update from one of our Greeniversity Teachers..

by Elly Using my love and passion for Textiles I shared a variety of my craft skills through running Greeniversity workshops.

Three during Christmas 2013 including recycling jam jars to transformed into Sparkly Snow Globes and Recycled Rag Wreaths, and a further six in December 2014 creating advent calenders from loo rolls, embellished Christmas cards...

Skill- sharing I believe is someThe Boathouse project is coming thing that enables you to try

February Newsletter 2015

February Newsletter 2015 something new and engage with others within your local community.

Anybody can be a teacher and share a skill they love whether it be something they do day-to-day or something they have recently learnt.

Not only is it a fun way to learn new skills but it is also a fantastic chance to meet like-minded people.

As well as attending the sessions we are always looking for new ideas for classes so please get in touch if you have any suggestions or would like some support startPlus, as a special New Year’s ing your own classes. treat, anyone who signs up to Greeniversity as a new member Sign-up today and become a memGreeniIt’s not till you stand back and or takes part in a class during ber of the growing look that you realise everybody January and February will be in versity community in your area: with a chance of winning a wonderful hamper of your choice from www.Greeniversity.org.uk/sign-up Moss Side community allotments This goes for teachers running their classes too!There’s never been a better time to join the green skills sharing network.

has many skills to share :) I love being a Greeniversity teacher seeing the enjoyment people get from the classes and knowing people are going away having learnt something new.

Well it’s time to drop that ‘throw away’ attitude and give your items

Karma Coffee is founded on the idea of karma, letting people pay

I have taken my foot of the gas from the frenetic work of Envirolution in the UK. I have missed working with the

I have been enjoying being married and soaking up all the scents and flavours of this mystifying land. Although, the journey has not been completely without incident.

My first outing was into an energised little fair-trade coffee

providing solutions through direct interaction with members of the local community, through non-judgmental, holistic events and workshops that are open to people from all walks of life.

By developing partnerships with community organisations who are making a real difference, giving them a platform to engage more people, we hope to help create a positive impact and a more sustainable future.

‘Grow The Green’ Is a exciting new growing project led by Colin Bennett.

what they feel their experience was worth. This attracts an eclectic mix from NGO workers to artists.

I supported the owner for my initial months in her attempt to establish a truly ethical brand of coffee.

Share skills with Greeniversity to be in with a chance of winning ...!

a new lease of life at one of our What better way to shake off the upcycling classes.

New Year blues than to get yourself along to one of our great skillWe will be running a variety of sharing classes. sessions across the region and we would love you to get involved!

course, a school Fashion Show, workshops at some of Kathmandu’s orphanages and teaching eco-based lessons.

The diary of our Envirolution Volunteer in Nepal:

After the dust settles from Christ- The Envirolution revolution in Nemas you may find yourself faced pal has mainly been going on inwith the clear-out of unwanted or side my head! unused possessions.

New year, new skills, new you!

shop close to where I am living in Patan (which I think of as the Salford of Kathmandu).

Envirolution Family and this has slowed my activism down.

However, I am now building up new networks and I have some very exciting ideas burning away to burst into life! Watch this space for some updates coming soon.

I was lured away from Karma by by Matt Rowe the international school that my Based on the former bowling wife works at to become the Eco https://tbsecoblog.wordpress. green in Platt Fields park the com Schools Coordinator. project aims to develop a selffunding permaculture project, and I’ve been won over by the stu- Link to karma - https://www.fa bring together community work, dents I teach and the communi- book.com/karmacoffeenp research and social enterprise ties that we interact with through for the benefit of the park and the the school abroad ranging charity communities who use it.

A little about what we programme. h t t p s : / / w w w. f a c e b o o k . c o m / do.. groups/GrowTheGreen/?fref=ts Highlights so far have been the gardening club I run initiated Envirolution aims to raise awarefrom an in-school Permaculture ness of environmental issues,