As a group of volunteers, we are working to decarbonise Chippenham through practical projects to help Chippenham residents. We work in the areas of energy, air quality, transport, waste, tree planting, and community outreach.
If you live in Chippenham or surrounding areas, our volunteer run Community Solar Scheme makes it easier and cheaper for you to get solar panels installed on your home or business. We’ve vetted trusted local solar installers, with guaranteed work, and competitive pricing. Click through to our Community Solar Buying scheme page to find out more and fill out the form for a no obligation quote.
We’re also happy to provide FREE no obligation advice on solar, batteries, and EV chargers.
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If you live in Chippenham you can borrow one of our thermal cameras for FREE to find out how energy efficient your home is.
Where are you losing heat, where do you need to insulate?
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Tackling the Climate emergency and ending the suffering caused by cold homes go hand in hand. Our Home Energy Efficiency project provides information and case studies on energy saving measures and sign posts help and advice for Chippenham residents. Start your journey to keep your home warm and save money from simple low cost hints and tips, to financial help and grants, to more complex home retrofits.
There is help and funding available for Chippenham businesses to improve energy efficiency in your premises, reduce costs, and reduce your carbon footprint..
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To raise awareness and help people understand what they can do, we have a programme of community engagement activities, teaming up with local schools, and exhibiting at events such as school fetes.
Why not add your thoughts to our Chippenham Imagination tree?
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Air quality is a major concern nationally and in Chippenham we are no exception. Air quality is a health and climate emergency which is why we have fundraised to install four Citizen Science Air Quality Monitors. Find out more and view our Live Air Quality Dashboards for Langley Road, Marshfield Road, Rowden Hill, and Wood Lane.
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Our Zero Waste group explores how Chippenham residents can reduce waste and keep materials in circulation from composting to uniform swaps.
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This project involves local farmers and landowners collaborating with Zero Chippenham to enable trees to be planted on less productive or unproductive areas of land.
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We are working to decarbonise Chippenham through Power, Heating and Energy efficiency, Transport, Land use, Air Quality, and Zero Waste.
Here are some of our achievements so far…
Community Solar Panel Scheme with over 50 domestic installations in Chippenham and surrounding villages
Thousands of trees planted in Chippenham and in partnership with surrounding land owners resulting in a Civic Society Award
Organising the first sustainability conference in Chippenham attracting leading international authors, an MEP, and delegates from across North Wiltshire
Introducing a free Thermal Camera loan scheme for Chippenham residents to assess the energy efficiency and heat loss of housing.
If you want to build a flotilla of ships you don’t sit around and talk about the carpentry. You set the saws ablaze with visions of exploring distant shores – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
This interesting case study is written for us by Mark Harris of Melksham. It demonstrates [...]
It’s been a beautiful sunny month in Chippenham and a great month for solar generation. [...]
Join us Saturday 17th May 2025 in Monkton Park for the FREE Wiltshire Wildlife Trust [...]
Our Air Quality readings for April 2025 are now in for Langley Road, Rowden Hill, [...]
Our next Zero Chippenham meeting will be in person – Thursday 8th May 2025, 7-30pm, [...]
The National Self Build and Renovation Centre, Swindon, has it’s latest Home Energy Eco Workshop [...]
The latest results for Chippenham Air Quality February 2025 are now in… Unfortunately our Wood [...]
At our last Zero Chippenham meet-up new member and Chippenham resident Colin Smith expressed his [...]
Chippenham Town Council in Partnership with Good Energy are running a FREE Sustainable business and [...]
If you’ve never used the Too Good To Go App in Chippenham before – what are [...]
Our next Zero Chippenham meeting will be in person – Thursday 13th February 2025, 7-30pm, [...]
In this post we take a quick analysis of Air Quality across Chippenham in the [...]
Background In October 2024 we finally replaced our Worcester Greenstar combi boiler with an Octopus [...]
In this case study Kev Matthews tells us how he’s navigated the Wiltshire Planning system [...]
We hope you enjoy this post from Zero Chippenham’s James Bradbury on how he’s saving [...]
Mechanical Ventilation and Heat Recovery (MVHR) is technology that’s typically only installed on highly air-tight [...]
Our home is a 1970’s 4 bed in Monkton park (extended from 3-bed in the [...]
Back in 2021 our friends at Wiltshire Wood Recycling made Zero Chippenham this beautiful tree, [...]
Our four thermal cameras are now open to hire for FREE (Chippenham Residents only) for [...]
Our Octopus Heat Pump journey started in late October 2023. We’d been with Octopus Energy [...]
Our friends at Wiltshire Climate Alliance are once again helping to coordinate Wiltshire and Swindon’s [...]
Our Chippenham Air Quality Statistics are in for September 2024. One of the most interesting [...]
Our next Zero Chippenham meeting will be in person – Thursday 19th September 2024, 7-30pm, [...]
Introduction July and August has been an interesting month for Chippenham Air Quality. With London [...]
Our next Home Energy workshop will take the format of a drop in session at [...]
Zero North Wiltshire was founded in Chippenham in 2023 by a small group of individuals dedicated to speeding up the transition away from fossil fuels and the greenhouse gas emissions that damage our climate.
Here are some informative posts on Climate Change, Ocean acidification, Sustainability and Economics…
For almost all of us we rarely have the opportunity to change the fabric of [...]
Ocean acidification is often referred to as the evil twin of Climate change. But what [...]
United Nations Sustainability goal 14 looks at life below the water (1). The UN goals [...]
“[The unchecked burning of fossil fuels] would have a sort of greenhouse effect”, and “The [...]
Right now, we are facing a man-made disaster of global scale. Our greatest threat in [...]
So what is GDP and how did it become so important? Gross Domestic Product or [...]
We are a voluntary group that aims to meet once a month in Chippenham, sometimes in person, sometimes via Zoom. We usually meet the last Thursday every month.
We welcome new members!
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