Crookham Village Parish Greening Campaign

The Greening Campaign is a “Community Interest Company” that promotes and facilitates community-led, community-focused action on energy use and climate change.
Their blueprint has been successfully applied in towns and villages across the South of England to empower us to make simple yet effective lifestyle changes that are accessible to all.

Their stated aims and objectives are as follows:

  1. To demonstrate that small actions, when taken together, make big savings
  2. To create a sense that tackling climate change is possible
  3. To stop people feeling isolated and depressed about climate change
  4. To galvanise the community behind taking action against climate change

Objectives

  1. To get as many people as possible in the community to make small changes in their energy behaviours at home
  2. To identify the monetary and environmental savings made by the community

Crookham Village Parish Council and Hart District Council have already made a commitment to reducing their carbon footprint and helping to achieve Hampshire County Council’s goal of being a carbon-neutral county by 2050. All of the energy used to power street lighting and community buildings is obtained from 100% sustainable sources. This conscious decision is a positive action on a large scale to combat climate change, but we can all play our part in our own homes too.

Greening Crookham Village Parish

aims to inform and advise every household of simple, cheap and effective behavioural and lifestyle changes that they can make to not only reduce their carbon footprint, but also to save them money.

Being community-led, these lifestyle changes are decided by those who wish to make them – you. We will decide which changes are most suitable in our own lives and make a commitment to action as many as possible. By sharing our successes, we can not only spur on our friends and neighbours to join us, but also count to overall savings that we have made in terms of CO2 emissions and more tangibly – money in our pockets.

Our website address is www.greeningcvp.co.uk and we’ll use it to keep everyone up to date.

Regular updates on all things ‘Greening’ can be found on our Facebook page. This includes helpful suggestions about energy use and the future of sustainable energy, contributions from schools, and news on events and action related to the progression of the campaign itself.

The first event of ‘Greening Crookham Village Parish’ will be held later this year and, due to ongoing restrictions, is likely to be a virtual meeting.