Helping to Decarbonise Chippenham

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.

Zero Chippenham team with pastel tree

Reduce Your Bills with Community Solar

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.

Find out more about community solar

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Borrow a Thermal Camera for Free and find out where you’re leaking money and heat

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?

Find out more about thermal camera hire
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Home Energy Efficiency

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.

Find out how to keep warm and save money in your home

Business Energy Efficiency

There is help and funding available for Chippenham businesses to improve energy efficiency in your premises, reduce costs, and reduce your carbon footprint..

Energy Help for Chippenham Businesses
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Community Engagement

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?

Find out more about Community engagement
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Air Quality

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.

Find out more about Air Quality
Chippenham Air Quality Map

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Zero Waste

Our Zero Waste group explores how Chippenham residents can reduce waste and keep materials in circulation from composting to uniform swaps.

Find out more about Zero Waste Chippenham
Green Johanna Food Composter

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Tree Planting

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.

Find out more about tree planting

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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

North Wilts Sustainability day 2018

Organising the first sustainability conference in Chippenham attracting leading international authors, an MEP, and delegates from across North Wiltshire

CW Thermal Camera Demonstration

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

Case Study – Solar, Batteries and a Power Diverter – Melksham

This interesting case study is written for us by Mark Harris of Melksham. It demonstrates [...]

How to maximise solar usage and reduce your bills

It’s been a beautiful sunny month in Chippenham and a great month for solar generation. [...]

Wiltshire Wildlife Trust Country Comes to Town day – Saturday 17th May – Monkton Park, Chippenham

Join us Saturday 17th May 2025 in Monkton Park for the FREE Wiltshire Wildlife Trust [...]

Chippenham Air Quality April 2025

Our Air Quality readings for April 2025 are now in for Langley Road, Rowden Hill, [...]

Zero Chippenham meeting – Thursday 8th May 2025, 7-30pm – Good Energy Offices

Our next Zero Chippenham meeting will be in person – Thursday 8th May 2025, 7-30pm, [...]

Home Energy Eco Workshop Saturday 5th April 2025 NSBRC Swindon

The National Self Build and Renovation Centre, Swindon, has it’s latest Home Energy Eco Workshop [...]

Air Quality Chippenham February 2025

The latest results for Chippenham Air Quality February 2025 are now in… Unfortunately our Wood [...]

The Problem with Packaging

At our last Zero Chippenham meet-up new member and Chippenham resident Colin Smith expressed his [...]

Free Sustainable Business and Networking opportunity in Chippenham Thursday 4th March

Chippenham Town Council in Partnership with Good Energy are running a FREE Sustainable business and [...]

Too Good To Go – Chippenham – Save Money save Food Waste

If you’ve never used the Too Good To Go App  in Chippenham before – what are [...]

Zero Chippenham Meeting 7-30pm Thursday 13th February Monkton Hill Good Energy Offices

Our next Zero Chippenham meeting will be in person – Thursday 13th February 2025, 7-30pm, [...]

Air Quality in Chippenham December 2024

In this post we take a quick analysis of Air Quality across Chippenham in the [...]

How much does it cost to run a heat pump vs gas?

Background In October 2024 we finally replaced our Worcester Greenstar combi boiler with an Octopus [...]

The Journey to Air Source Heat Pump – Navigating Wiltshire Planning – Calne

In this case study Kev Matthews tells us how he’s navigated the Wiltshire Planning system [...]

Load Shifting Energy Use to Save Money and Carbon

We hope you enjoy this post from Zero Chippenham’s James Bradbury on how he’s saving [...]

DIY install of an MVHR on a 1930s Semi-detached House

Mechanical Ventilation and Heat Recovery (MVHR) is technology that’s typically only installed on highly air-tight [...]

How a home in Monkton Park Decarbonised through a Heat Pump, Solar and Battery, and EV charging

Our home is a 1970’s 4 bed in Monkton park (extended from 3-bed in the [...]

Growing a climate friendly Chippenham with our new online tree

Back in 2021 our friends at Wiltshire Wood Recycling made Zero Chippenham this beautiful tree, [...]

Zero Chippenham Thermal Cameras now available for FREE hire Autumn 2024

Our four thermal cameras are now open to hire for FREE (Chippenham Residents only) for [...]

Octopus Heat Pump Retrofit 1930s Semi Detached Langley Road

Our Octopus Heat Pump journey started in late October 2023. We’d been with Octopus Energy [...]

Green Open Homes 9th to 17th November 2024

Our friends at Wiltshire Climate Alliance are once again helping to coordinate Wiltshire and Swindon’s [...]

Rowden Hill Temporary lights cause increase in localised Air Pollution

Our Chippenham Air Quality Statistics are in for September 2024. One of the most interesting [...]

Zero Chippenham meeting – Thursday 19th Sept 7-30pm Good Energy Offices

Our next Zero Chippenham meeting will be in person – Thursday 19th September 2024, 7-30pm, [...]

Air Quality Monitoring Update August 2024 -London Road Works

Introduction July and August has been an interesting month for Chippenham Air Quality. With London [...]

Home Energy Drop in Session – Chippenham Community Hub – Thursday 19th September 10am – 12

Our next Home Energy workshop will take the format of a drop in session at [...]

Coming Soon – Zero North Wiltshire

A Sustainable Community Energy Enterprise

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.

Find out more about Zero North Wiltshire
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Here are some informative posts on Climate Change, Ocean acidification, Sustainability and Economics…

How do we build Zero Carbon?

For almost all of us we rarely have the opportunity to change the fabric of [...]

Life Below Water – Ocean Acidification

Ocean acidification is often referred to as the evil twin of Climate change. But what [...]

Life Below Water – Plastic Pollution

United Nations Sustainability goal 14 looks at life below the water (1). The UN goals [...]

What is Climate Change?

“[The unchecked burning of fossil fuels] would have a sort of greenhouse effect”, and “The [...]

What is Sustainability?

Right now, we are facing a man-made disaster of global scale. Our greatest threat in [...]

The Circular Economy

So what is GDP and how did it become so important? Gross Domestic Product or [...]

Want to get Involved?

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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