Community Climate and Energy Day in Matlock

Saturday 25 February, 9:30am to 4pm Member's Room, County Hall, Matlock DE4 3AG Marches Energy Agency (MEA) and the Local Authority Energy Partnership (LAEP) are joining forces to host a Community Climate and Energy Day. Beginning with Climate Fresk training, a powerful tool for providing a quality climate education that is accessible to anyone and can be quickly scaled up in any organisation or community. Hosted by Rina Jones, LAEP. The afternoon will be an opportunity for local climate energy projects and campaigns to be shared and to foster collaboration and networking. We want to encourage you to talk about your projects, successes, struggles and lessons learnt. Facilitated by Becky Hughes, MEA. The event is for climate groups across Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire. Please bring your own lunch, to reserve a spot visit bit.ly/climatematlock

If you'd be happy to host group discussions in the afternoon please email ccan@mea.org.uk

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Come & Sing

Chesterfield Co-operative Choral Society are starting 2023 with a “Pay What You Can” Come and Sing event on Saturday 11th March at Rose Hill United Reformed, Chesterfield from 10am to 4pm.

The day will consist of rehearsing Vivaldi’s joyous masterpiece 'Gloria', culminating in an informal performance at 3:30pm. Singing can have huge health and wellbeing benefits, so if you are considering joining a choir, this is a great way to try us out!

For further details and to reserve your place, visit: chesterfieldchoir.com

Highfield Bowls Club

Did you know there is a crown green bowls club at the back of The Highfield Pub on Newbold Road?

We wouldn’t be surprised if you said no, even people who have lived in Newbold all their lives might not be aware of it, even though it’s been there over a hundred years.

The club is looking for new members and is open to everyone; men, women and youngsters of all abilities and we would welcome new members with no previous bowls experience.

All you really need to get started is a pair of flat shoes, like trainers or pumps – The club can provide everything else, bowls, jacks, and some tuition and when you get more proficient and want to buy some bowls of your own then your fellow club members will be on hand to offer advice on what to buy. There are lots of decent second-hand bowls on the market at very reasonable prices. Membership is £55 for the year (reduced for Youngsters) and the bowls season runs from March to the end of September.

For anyone interested in competitive bowls the club has several teams in local leagues but there is always plenty of opportunity to just use the green for social bowls or practice, for those who do not want to play in a league.

The Highfield is a friendly and welcoming club, and we are lucky enough to share our site with a friendly, welcoming family orientated pub too –which is a great bonus.

So, if your New Years resolution was to get outdoors a bit more, get some exercise or just to try a new sport, we would like to recommend you try crown green bowls at The Highfield. For further enquiries please contact the secretary on 07966 373984.