News And Events

‘To mark this year’s national Tree Dressing weekend, in Gheluvelt Park on Friday 2nd December, we will be sharing in a social celebration of our park trees.

Over the coming weeks we aim to create a community art expression of everyday nature by using the tradition of knitting and french knitting to draw attention to the trees we take for granted.

From October 15th when we celebrate the 5th Birthday of the Pump House based ‘United in Knitting Group’, we will have french knitting ‘dolls’ and wool at the Centre.

From this date onwards we invite young and old, professional and amateur to ‘drop in’ and make a stretch of knitting to create a glade under our favourite Beech Tree in the formal part of the park.

We will honour the tradition of knitting by creating a scrap book of thoughts and memories that everyone involved can add to, sharing their experiences.

The City Council Tree Team will be involved in hanging the knitted creations on December 2nd. All are welcome to watch them scale the trees with harnesses and ropes to hang our creations.

The Transition Worcester Food Group are organising a “glut” cookery evening with Bromsgrove chef Anita Sharma-James on Saturday 15th October.

The event will involve bringing your surplus homegrown or local veg, watching and helping Anita turn them into delicious Indian-inspired vegetarian dishes, and sharing an informal meal.

The evening will be free, with any donations going towards room hire.

The venue is provisionally the Blakefield Room at St. John-in-Bedwardine Church, St. Johns, between 5:30 and 8:30 pm.

If this event is for you, please let Transition Worcester know by the evening of Monday 3rd October, so that they can confirm the room booking!

Please reply to this email address – transitionworcester@gmail.com or phone 01905 722056

The Big Switch Off is this Friday- the 23rd September- between 16.30 and 18.30 when we can all make a combined effort to switch off those unused electrical items and see how much energy we can save. Western Power Distribution will be monitoring the switch off and in previous years there has been a 2.8% reduction in electricity consumption.

Switching off not only reduces energy consumption and CO2 emissions but can also save you money!

For more information see  http://www.warmerworcestershire.com/

On 16th October the  regular monthly rides around Worcestershire will start again.

They are led rides mainly using quiet roads and cycle paths. No one gets left behind as we ride to the pace of the slowest rider. For more details check out the choose cycling website or Choose Cycling on Facebook.

Worcester Leisure Rides are a collaboration between Sustrans and Choose Cycling