CASaV whole group gathering with shared festive fare – Tuesday 16th December
Tuesday 16th December 7:30 – 9:00pm, The Globe Community Library, North Road, Stokesley. All are welcome to a pooled festive buffet with mulled wine. No formal meeting, just a chance to reflect on and celebrate our year of eco action and look ahead to the next. Bring along something sweet or savoury to share, mulled drinks will be provided.
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CASaV Update – December 2025
Welcome to December’s Update from Climate Action Stokesley & Villages Supporting local action for a sustainable, greener and more resilient Stokesley & surrounding villages. December brings a flurry of festive events and convivial gatherings for you with nature and sustainability in mind – eco / upcycled crafting, Christmas jumper swaps, sustainably seasonal market stall, our eco tree on display, monthly Repair Cafe and our whole group festive gathering plus we look ahead to a revitalising nature walk on New Year’s Day. We wish you all…
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CASaV Update – November 2025
Welcome to November’s Update from Climate Action Stokesley & Villages Supporting local action for a sustainable, greener and more resilient Stokesley & surrounding villages. This month world leaders are meeting for the United Nations Climate Action Conference COP30 to focus on the need to limit the global temperature increase to 1.5°C with the presentation of new national action plans and you can catch up on these and more news as it happens at our COP30 information display at our monthly Repair Cafe. The clocks have gone back bringing earlier…
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Invasive Species Management and monthly CASaV meeting
Tuesday 18th November, 7:30 – 9:00pm, The Globe Community Library, North Rd, Stokesley This month all are welcome to our environmental action talk by Chloe Lawrence, Tees River Trust, on how non native species have colonised our local river, the Leven, severely affecting biodiversity. She will also explain what actions are being taken to manage this and how everyone can help. We will then spend a short time on updates of activities.
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CASaV monthly meeting – 21st October 2025
Our October monthly meeting will be on Tuesday 21st October in The Globe Community Library, North Road, Stokesley from 7:30 – 9:00pm. We will discuss different ways other organisations are engaging with their local communities so that we can share across Stokesley and Villages area the work we undertake linked to our wider aim, find out who else is taking action in our area and encourage others to take action on existing or new activities.All welcome.
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CASaV Update – October 2025
Welcome to October’s Update from Climate Action Stokesley & Villages Supporting local action for a sustainable, greener and more resilient Stokesley & surrounding villages. There’s a chill in the air this month so keep warm with a free draught excluder from the Repair Cafe, work up a sweat at the Yatton House Community garden working party, wrap up warm and venture out at night to a dark Skies Fringe Festival event or try a slice of spicy apple cake, the October recipe of the month. …
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Recycle Week
Monday 22nd – Sunday 28th September 2025 Come and see Climate Action Stokesley and Village’s recycling displays this week in the Globe Library in Stokesley and Discovery Centre Library in Great Ayton. You can find links and information from the displays below. Why? We need to conserve the earth’s limited natural resources, decrease pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, save energy and money, and minimise waste sent to landfills & energy from waste plants. Powerful ways we can all do this are by reducing, reusing &…
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CASaV monthly meeting – Tuesday 16th September 2025
Everyone is welcome to our monthly whole group meeting in the relaxed surroundings of the Globe Library, North Rd, Stokesley, starting at 7:30pm. This month there will be a short presentation on taking part in the Big River Watch, a national citizen science project run by the Rivers Trust, followed by updates from the sub groups. All welcome to come and chat – apple cake too! Leave a bit of extra time to get to the library as the High Street end of North Rd…
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Apple pressing 2025
This year, CASaV will be running a couple of public apple pressing sessions in Faceby. The sessions are a bit earlier than usual due to the weather this summer. For further information, contact Caryn Loftus tel. 0777 3048250 or email. We no longer loan out our equipment for use elsewhere. There is a suggested contribution of £5 per slot to cover costs and you will need to bring your own bottles. If you would like to help run the sessions please get in touch.
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CASaV Update – September 2025
Welcome to September’s Update from Climate Action Stokesley & Villages Supporting local action for a sustainable, greener and more resilient Stokesley & surrounding villages. September has arrived with apples aplenty so book a slot at our apple pressing session this month or next to get your crop pressed into juice and save waste. Whilst you’re in the gardening mood consider Seed Gathering for cultivating in the future or lend a hand at the Yatton House Garden Working Party. Another chance for some great citizen science with the Big River Watch later in the month…
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CASaV monthly meeting – 19th August 2025
Everyone was welcome to our monthly whole group meeting in the relaxed surroundings of the Globe Library, Stokesley, 7:30pm. The garden / allotment produce sharing table at the library was available again so we encourage people with a glut of veg or fruit to share, to bring these along or to help yourself to the fresh, local produce. We had a talk from employees of Labman about their allotment initiative and heard updates from the subgroups and plans for activities for the autumn and beyond. Attendees: Fred, Caroline, Jenny, Kate, Pete,…
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CASaV Update – August 2025
Welcome to August’s Update from Climate Action Stokesley & Villages Supporting local action for a sustainable, greener and more resilient Stokesley & surrounding villages. One great way of making the most of August’s warm days is tending to and harvesting your own grown crops – and also a valuable way of reducing carbon emissions. Allotments enable so many of us to access own grown food and this month Allotment Week celebrates this valuable resource. August’s warm nights are a perfect time to be outside after dark and observe bats…
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Big Butterfly Count in Great Ayton’s Floodplain Meadow
On Wednesday 30th July, come and help members of Climate Action Stokesley and Villages count butterflies, with the support of Martin Partridge Chair of Yorkshire Branch Butterfly Conservation, as part of the Big Butterfly Count. Recently Martin surveyed the meadow and identified two butterflies that had not been recorded in this area before. Meet at 11 am by the picnic benches in the Floodplain Meadow, if it is not raining. If you can’t make it but would like to know more about butterflies you can…
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CASaV Update – July 2025
Welcome to July’s Update from Climate Action Stokesley & Villages Thank you for your role in taking urgent action globally and locally on climate breakdown and biodiversity loss. July welcomes the start of the Butterfly Conservation’s Big Butterfly Count, a key Citizen Science project to not only monitor these beautiful insects but to also track how climate change is impacting on wildlife generally. We have an opportunity to join in a group count locally as well as counting in your own garden or nearby green space. Plastic Free July invites…
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