It’s Bingo for June’s meeting!
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For May’s meeting, we have something pretty special planned. We welcome record-breaking adventurer Sarah Outen to our zoom!
In November 2015 Sarah Outen completed an epic 4.5 year World expedition, London2London a mammoth attempt to row, cycle and kayak 25,000 miles around the Northern Hemisphere. She is also a bestselling author, award-winning filmmaker and motivational speaker as well as a proud ambassador and patron of a number of charities.
We’d love to see as many of our members as possible online so will send instructions and details of how to get onto the meeting (via Zoom) to members only nearer the time, by email and on our Facebook Group.
Find out more about Sarah Outen here:Â http://www.sarahouten.com/
Picture credit: Sarah Outen.
We hope that you are all safe and well. As we all live through these challenging times we felt it was important for our WI to stay connected and sociable so we are now moving our monthly meetings and clubs online until further notice.
For April’s meeting, we will have a general catch up with everyone and find out how you’ve been coping plus we will re-do the planned March meeting, with our local Bristol indoor plant specialists, Fancy Plants. They will be available on the call to answer all your houseplant needs – and now you’ll be able to show them on screen too!
We’d love to see as many of our members as possible online so will send instructions and details of how to get onto the meeting (via Zoom) to members only nearer the time, by email and on our Facebook Group.
Find out more about Fancy Plants here:Â www.fancy-plants.co.uk/Â Instagram:Â @hellofancy_plants
Photo credit: Photo by Jackie Tsang on Unsplash
With Fancy Plants
We welcome Fancy Plants, our local Bristol indoor plant specialists who are coming along to answer all your houseplant needs.
Please bring along any cuttings you can donate for swapping, and if you have a plant that’s in need of some TLC, either bring it along for to our plant surgery or please take a photo you can show to get some advice.
Find out more about Fancy Plants here: https://www.fancy-plants.co.uk/
Instagram: @hellofancy_plants
Photo credit: Photo by Jackie Tsang on Unsplash
We welcomed new members and renewals and also had an informative and fun session from Friends of the Earth participating in their Money for Good Workshop.
For anyone who attended the session and is looking for further information then Friends of the Earth helpfully provided the following info.
Info from Friends of the Earth
Firstly, a huge thank you to everyone who took part! For more on getting started aligning your finances with your values:
- Check out this blog from Mary, which summarises a range of resources for finding out more and taking action.
- Mary mentioned Good With Money specifically a couple of times – you can find them here: https://good-with-money.com/
- There’s also this Radio 4 link, where Mary talks about climate-friendly finance on BBC’s Money Box.
- For more on our Own It pilot, you can read about the findings from our first trial on our website – if you missed the chance to sign up but would like to get involved, you can also get in touch with us that way!
On the Bristol specifics:
- The Avon Pension Fund story is complicated: despite Bristol City Council voting to divest in 2015 the current administration has been pursuing a policy of engagement (with limited success) and recently voted to water down a motion that would have required APF to be more proactive in making the transition.  For more info contact https://www.facebook.com/bristolfoe/
- You can read more about this issue in this Bristol Cable article on Avon Pension Fund.
- You can also show support by telling your councillor to use their influence to end Avon Pension Fund’s fossil fuel investments.
Finally, if you’re passionate about making your community more climate-friendly, you can join our network of climate action groups – the nearest is in BS7.
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