SOS CIO News - Save Our Shropshire

Saving money and the planet

March 23, 2023March 23, 2023 SOSWatkins

The Shropshire Star featured our Telford and Wrekin talks about how to save money through improving our diets, changing our energy usage, and using electric vehicles. It showed how households could save £ thousands as well as reduce their carbon footprint. Do come along to the next workshops at 7 (more…) Read More

Shropshire Live features our workshops

January 17, 2023January 17, 2023 SOSWatkins

The online newspaper Shropshire Live has provided an editorial on our grant from the Telford and Wrekin Climate Change fund. It illustrates how householders can save money by following what is required to improve our diets, heating and so on to save the planet. Click on the following to see (more…) Read More

Shropshire Star feature our new grant

January 6, 2023January 11, 2023 SOSWatkins

Following our award from Telford and Wrekin’s Climate Change fund, the Shropshire Star announced this on Jan 4th. A great start to the New Year. We will shortly be announcing a series of practical workshops to be held across community centres like Newport, Leegomery, Wellington, Ironbridge, Oakengates and Dawley to (more…) Read More

Carbon Literacy Action Day certificates awarded

January 5, 2023January 5, 2023 SOSWatkins

On November 7th 2022 Save Our Shropshire ran a one-day workshop for the general public to coincide with the start of the global “Conference of Parties” COP27. It was part of a series of meetings, the last of which was COP26 held in Glasgow. It established a commitment to help (more…) Read More

Telford and Wrekin Grant

December 15, 2022December 15, 2022 SOSWatkins

Save Our Shropshire is delighted to announce that Telford and Wrekin have awarded us a grant of £ 10,000 to deliver education across the borough during 2023. We will be using this grant to provide practical workshops across Telford and Wrekin, helping consumers to understand how they can both tackle (more…) Read More

Shropshire duo tackle climate change

July 5, 2022July 6, 2022 SOSWatkins

Shropshire Star also feature an article on Allan Wilson and Richard Watkins, on how they set up Save Our Shropshire to tackle the climate change by addressing behaviour change through education. It describes the need to change lifestyles and change habits, which requires people to change their mindsets. Click on (more…) Read More

Shropshire Magazine

July 5, 2022July 12, 2022 SOSWatkins

Matthew Panter from the Shropshire Magazine interviewed Allan Wilson and Richard Watkins about how and why they founded Save Our Shropshire, and how we can al live well for the planet. The article describes our belief that the required behaviour change needs education to give people the desire to change (more…) Read More

SLCC Parish Council Course

June 28, 2022June 28, 2022 SOSWatkins

Founded in 1972, the SLCC has gone from strength to strength, starting with just 50 members and now representing clerks to over 5,000 councils in England and Wales. As the professional body for local council clerks and senior council employees, they ensure that their members are equipped with the necessary (more…) Read More

Shropshire Live Features Shropshire Council Training

May 17, 2022May 17, 2022 SOSWatkins

We are delighted that the Shropshire Council have featured the training for the Shropshire Council. It is great to see https://bit.ly/3wylxFh. (more…) Read More

Shrewsbury Mayors’ awards

April 30, 2022April 30, 2022 SOSWatkins

Save Our Shropshire received an award from the Mayor of Shrewsbury for their contribution to the education of people in Shrewsbury and Shropshire on the Climate Emergency. We were thrilled to get the award., particularly since we have only been in operation since August 2021. Here is a picture of (more…) Read More

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