How can we help our earth
Thame Repair Café
Repair Cafés are free community events where skilled volunteers help people fix their own items to save them from going to waste. The focus is on skill-sharing and an enjoyable ongoing learning process.
Knowing how to fix things is a skill quickly being lost to our modern society and with a Repair Café invaluable practical knowledge is passed on. Items are being used for longer and don’t have to be thrown away. This reduces the volume of raw materials and energy needed to make new items. It cuts CO2 emissions for example, because manufacturing new products and recycling old ones causes CO2 to be released.
Details of Thame Repair Café: https://21stcenturythame.co.uk/2023/05/05/new-repair-cafe-thame/
Thame Community Larder
Community Larders are membership schemes open to anyone (no means testing), aimed at providing an affordable way to access healthy staple food, reduce food waste and improve the wellbeing of residents in the local area. The food is all surplus from supermarkets and is within ‘use by’ or 'best before' date.
The Thame Larder is held in the main hall at Christchurch URC/Methodist church in the Upper High Street, every Thursday afternoon from 2.30pm to 4.30pm, including a free community café.
More information here: https://www.sharinglifetrust.org/community-larder
Sustainable Development Goals
For reflections on the Sustainable Development Goals from a Christian perspective see these resources:
https://wea-sc.org/en/biblesdgs
Climate Stories
Click these links to watch short films about the effects of climate change around the world and some of the activists involved in fighting for change
https://www.one.org/stories/climate-crisis-africa-documentaries-movies/
Thame Green Living
Adopted unanimously by Thame Town Council in July 2020, the Green Living Plan is a ten-year plan for a cleaner, greener Thame.
You can make a pledge here as a great way to start thinking and acting in a Green Living way:
