Our next Zero Chippenham meeting will be in person – Thursday 8th May 2025, 7-30pm, at the Good Energy Offices, Chippenham. Good Energy have kindly allowed us to use their fabulous offices for our meeting. Entry will be at the Monkton Hill Council offices Entrance, Monkton Park. Agenda to follow… Zero Chippenham is a voluntary […]
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The National Self Build and Renovation Centre, Swindon, has it’s latest Home Energy Eco Workshop taking place Saturday 5th April 2025. It’s FREE to book and these are always excellent with an opportunity to meet suppliers and walk around their demonstration houses. ‘Whether your motivation is saving the environment or saving money, our programme of […]
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The latest results for Chippenham Air Quality February 2025 are now in… Unfortunately our Wood Lane Air Quality Monitor has been out of action due to a wifi router change, but will hopefully be back in action in a few days. Our Rowden Hill monitor has also missed a couple of weeks due to flat […]
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At our last Zero Chippenham meet-up new member and Chippenham resident Colin Smith expressed his frustration at the complexity of supermarket packaging, and the inability to recycle much of it. We asked Colin if he’d like to write a post for our Zero Waste project. Here it is… I am sure that i am not […]
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Chippenham Town Council in Partnership with Good Energy are running a FREE Sustainable business and networking opportunity on Thursday 4th March. As part of their Climate Strategy, Chippenham Town Council wants to help our local businesses to become more sustainable. The evening event is in partnership with Good Energy and Severn Wye agency to share […]
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If you’ve never used the Too Good To Go App in Chippenham before – what are you waiting for? We first started using the Too Good to Go app six months ago. It’s easy to use, download the app to your phone and allow it to use your current location. You will immediately see Food bag […]
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Our next Zero Chippenham meeting will be in person – Thursday 13th February 2025, 7-30pm, at the Good Energy Offices, Chippenham. Our first in person meeting for 2025! Good Energy have kindly allowed us to use their fabulous offices for our meeting. Entry will be at the Monkton Hill Council offices Entrance, Monkton Park. We’ll […]
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In this post we take a quick analysis of Air Quality across Chippenham in the December 2024 to early January 2025 time period. Specifically we look at small particulate pollution PM2.5 in the four monitoring locations across Chippenham. What are the standards? The Air Quality standards 2010 state that an annual average for PM2.5 shouldn’t […]
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Background In October 2024 we finally replaced our Worcester Greenstar combi boiler with an Octopus Heatpump installation of a Daikin Altherma 3 monoblock Airsourced Heat-pump and 180 litre hot water tank. So two months on how well does it work? Is it keeping the house warm? Is it costing more or less money to run? […]
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In this case study Kev Matthews tells us how he’s navigated the Wiltshire Planning system on his journey to install an Air Source Heat Pump in his Calne home… …With the Boiler Upgrade Scheme from the UK government contributing £7500 (England and Wales) towards the cost of installation, it’s never been a been a better […]