Dear friends, 

Thank you so much for your support for the project.

The auction just closed and the land was sold for £116,000, so we were outbid by a huge margin. 

We're so sad about the result but so glad that you were so amazing in your response.  Raising £59,000 in just a few days was truly spectacular.

It's certainly heartening to know that there are so many people who care so much for wildlife that they're willing to help a little community, sometimes from the other side of the world! We'll do what we can to work with the new owners to protect the site.

We will close the crowdfunder in a moment and your fantastic pledges will be refunded. The crowdfunder site says that refunds should be processed within 5 working days, so please keep an eye out.

Thanks again for your support. It's made us all the more determined to do what we can to make our little patch of the world greener.

Best wishes,
"Greener Great Coxwell"
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Dear friends,
 
Thank you for your wonderful support so far! 
 
We've reached £30,000 in pledges in just a few days, so we're half way to our target.
 
We'd like to invite you to an informal online Q&A about our proposals on Monday 24 May (next Monday), 8.00-9.00pm. We'll report on progress, answer questions, and we'd love to hear your ideas. Just click here to join: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81418894165 
 
Alternatively, you can find our contact details in the attachment if you'd like to talk separately. Please do let us know if you'd like to support the project.
 
Thank you again.

You can find out all about the project here.​

Please take time to read the attached which provides full details of the opportunity for the village to acquire some green space, more information can also be found on the crowd funding page.
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We may be locked down, but there are no borders for birds and thank goodness! The warblers with their wonderful voices are arriving back in Great Coxwell, some from as far away as Southern Africa.

One easy one to hear is the Chiffchaff. They'll sit in the treetops, tweeting out the rhythm of life: "chiff chaff chiff chap chiff chaff" for hours on end. Listen here: ♫ Chiffchaff - song / call / voice / sound.

The best place for warblers in the village is the scrubby bit up beyond the big oak in the field beyond the Barn. You'll hear blackcaps and willow warblers and, on a sunny day, the chiffchaff is a safe bet.

My biology teacher would often cry "it's a chiffchaff, chaps", wherever we were and whatever we were doing, much to the mortification of the class. Now, of course, so do I. 

GARDENING TIP
As this wonderful weather stays and we might look to growing flowers or vegetables here is an amazing fact about PEAT:

There is a lot of carbon locked up in peat. Peatlands are the largest and most concentrated global store of carbon. They contain twice the carbon of all the global forests even though they only cover 3% of the planet. They are energy balls of carbon. Peatlands can take thousands of years to form. Once they're dug up for us to use in our gardens, the carbon they've locked away for millennia is released and contributes to climate change.

So let's protect our peatlands and keep it in a bog by taking care not to buy peat based composts. 

From the Great Coxwell Sustainability Group

Great Coxwell Green/Sustainability Group
(We don’t have an official name yet)
 
We had our first meeting and we have started to identify and develop some sustainability projects such as:

• Supporting wildlife and wild flowers in our parish
• Village orchard
• Build awareness of energy saving and green energy generation

 
In addition, we would like to build a network of like-minded people and supporters, and also plug into any available expertise or funding from Vale or the County Council.

If you are interested contact us via the newsletter or email Annabelle at annabelle.zinovieff@gmail.com
 
Are there any tips and resources on environmentally friendly actions you have taken and can share? 
BBC iPlayer have a new series about Greta Thunberg called ‘A Year to Change the World’ about her year off school travelling the world, meeting people - David Attenborough included and trying to get world leaders to act on the science around global warming.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p099f5k2/greta-thunberg-a-year-to-change-the-world-series-1-episode-1
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