Wenvoe Forum – Considering Today And Tomorrow

WENVOE FORUM – CONSIDERING TODAY AND TOMORROW

A big thank you to those of you who completed our survey or sent us comments. We need to get many more replies to make sure we are really hearing the views of the whole village but those who have been kind enough to give us a few minutes of their time seem to confirm that we are thinking along the right lines, with a high percentage interest in environmental issues.

As a next step we have set up a community meeting

Act today so that we can bequeath our children and grandchildren clean water, fresh air and a healthy environment in which they too can thrive. Tomorrow will be too late. Join our meeting to plan what we, the Wenvoe Community can do.

Zoom Meeting

Achieving Zero Together

Thursday 1st July

7.00 – 8.30pm

  • Vale of Glamorgan – Project Zero, what the LA can do, how we can help
  • Wenvoe residents – Your ideas for projects, activities and actions
  • Next steps – We’ll need help to move forward with the priorities

E-mail Gwenfo.Forum@gmail.com with ZERO as a title to book your place (limit 100 connections)

The need to tackle climate change is pressing. According to its website “Project Zero is the Vale of Glamorgan Council’s response to the climate change emergency. Project Zero brings together the wide range of work and opportunities available to tackle the climate emergency, reduce the Council’s carbon emissions to net zero by 2030 and encourage others to make positive changes.”

It is an ambitious wide ranging plan that covers buildings and energy use, sustainable travel and transport, a green infrastructure plan, waste management and promotion of a circular economy and more. You can read more on the Vale of Glamorgan website and at the above meeting on Zoom, Tom Bowring, Head of Policy and Business Transformation will give an overview of Project Zero and what it will mean for Wenvoe, how we can help the local authority meet its carbon emission aims and how it can help us with our projects to tackle climate change.

Another idea that scored highly with survey respondents was helping to reduce food miles by making sustainably produced, low waste, food available to buy easily in the village, particularly fresh products.

We will be setting up a social media presence for the forum so that people can link with us more easily, so look out for Gwen Fo on Facebook ( https://www.facebook.com/gwen.fo)

The need to tackle climate change is pressing. According to its website “Project Zero is the Vale of Glamorgan Council’s response to the climate change emergency. Project Zero brings together the wide range of work and opportunities available to tackle the climate emergency, reduce the Council’s carbon emissions to net zero by 2030 and encourage others to make positive changes.”

It is an ambitious wide ranging plan that covers buildings and energy use, sustainable travel and transport, a green infrastructure plan, waste management and promotion of a circular economy and more. You can read more on the Vale of Glamorgan website and at the above meeting on Zoom, Tom Bowring, Head of Policy and Business Transformation will give an overview of Project Zero and what it will mean for Wenvoe, how we can help the local authority meet its carbon emission aims and how it can help us with our projects to tackle climate change.

Another idea that scored highly with survey respondents was helping to reduce food miles by making sustainably produced, low waste, food available to buy easily in the village, particularly fresh products.

We will be setting up a social media presence for the forum so that people can link with us more easily, so look out for Gwen Fo on Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/gwen.fo

More opinions needed please

If you haven’t completed the survey please, please do, it only takes 2 minutes. You will find it at this address:

https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/7Y2G95H

or on our Facebook page.

We particularly want to hear from younger residents, under 25s, students at school, college or university after all it’s your future we are thinking about.

Anyone who would like to join the Forum for its on-line meetings will be very welcome, please contact us at  Gwenfo.Forum@gmail.com  and we can tell you more.