Wednesday 19 May 2021

Logo competition winner

Burton Joyce Climate Action & biodiversity Group

Logo Competition

The winning entry of the logo competition (see earlier posts below) was chosen by Lord Vernon of Gedling. 

The top three were all from children at Burton Joyce Primary School:


First place was entry C4 (Time is running out):

****  MILLIE in class NH/K1  ****


Second place was entry E2 ("Poorly planet"):

Amelia in Miss Brodie’s class


Third place was entry D1 ("Light bulb"):

Sadie in class JS/56

Time is Running Out:



Poorly planet:


Light bulb:



Congratulations and a big Thank you to everyone who submitted an entry

Action Group April Report

Minutes 

Burton Joyce Climate Action meeting 

April 2021

on zoom, 19-4-2021

Present: Paul S, Phil C, Julia D

Apologies: Bobbie

1.     Logo competition

Closing date to design a logo for the group was April 1st

Paul informed Scouts, Brownies and primary school. 

Over 30 entries, 

Phil has posted them on our Facebook page. 

Paul has contacted Vernon Coaker who has a greed to judge them. Paul may be able to sort a prize with Lowdham Book Shop voucher as he knows the owner.


We discussed how spellings may need correcting and small adjustments made to pictures to make them bolder. Plan is to use logo on posters, village magazine etc.

 

Julia will write to the villages magazine to let them know about the competition.

 

2.     Monthly meetings

Enquiry on FaceBook about whether our meetings were closed or not. Phil will post the date of the next meeting on our socal media and also to the group email list and ask people to email Paul if they’d like a zoom invite.


3.     Flower planters

Paul has made the flower planter and has some flower seed and will take it down to Coop and ask them to water it. Julia to write an A4 poster to display with it, including thanking the Coop in advance for watering it, and send it to Paul.


4.     Parish Council environment plan 

Cadent have agreed to pay for replanting of the area near the Millenium sundial which will go ahead in the autumn when its better to plant things. Some pollinator friendly plants, shrubs and small trees have been requested. 

The Parish Council are interested in getting some volunteers to manage this area as it’s not Parish Council land. 

They are going to seed the newly created beds in the cemetery as they haven’t yet set up how they will offer them to volunteers yet.


5.     Banner 

Phil isn’t sure how many people photographed themselves with the "BACK THE CLIMATE AND BIODIVERSITY BILL" banner displayed outside the Community Church in Meadow Lane, but reported that Anna Alls the vicar did and put it on her FaceBook page. He is going to put it up again now that Easter is over, for the local elections.

 

6.     Local elections

There is a Gedling hustings on 29-4 on Zoom on Climate and Nature, FOE would like us to encourage the candidates to pledge support for the CEE bill. Julia is going to attend and will send the link for posting on our social media to Phil.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gedling-149155294501

We discussed how it would be good to contact the candidates about areas we are interested in-CEE bill, cycle paths, etc. Phil will do this if he has time.


7.  Friends of the Earth    

Phil and I are thinking of attending an FOE social media course in June-no dates set yet though.

 

Any other business:

Phil has found some reasonably priced wild flower seed from Boston seeds ltd called Landlife seeds. 

 

Next meeting on Monday 17th May 2021 on Zoom. 

Contact ps66paulsmith@gmail.com to get a zoom invite.

 

Wednesday 12 May 2021

Monthly Zoom meeting

Monday 17th May 2021, 2pm 

A few of us have been meeting recently, via Zoom, to discuss things and keep the group going. If you would like to join us for our next session on Monday 17th May at 2pm, get in touch and I can send you the joining details

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