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17/04/2026

The man behind the project Dave Green says the town needs to look at alternative energy sources.

12/04/2026

Chris Packham’s jaw-dropping and vitally important new film about the climate and nature crisis is coming to Bishop’s Castle this week, with 3 showings to choose from on both Friday 17th & Saturday 18th April at The Stars Shop, BC.

Nine leading UK scientists and experts share the latest evidence on critical issues like:

🍞Food security

🌧 Extreme weather

🏥 Health

💷 Cost of living

The film will be followed by a discussion about what we can do locally to ensure our politicians are taking this national security threat seriously.

You can watch the trailer here: https://youtu.be/JaI-dHgh65Q

The film is free and no booking is required.

29/03/2026

Lightfoot will be showing the Peoples' Emergency Briefing film on Friday 17th & Saturday 18th April at The Stars Shop in BC, at 3 different times to ensure as many people as possible can view the film and take part in the discussion after.

*The film is free and no booking is required.

The aim of the showings is to both generate community awareness of these issues, and to also put pressure on political representatives - who will hopefully be present - so they can then persuade the government to show the film as a televised emergency broadcast to the whole country.

More details on the poster below.

And you can read more about the film here: https://www.nebriefing.org/

18/03/2026

Curious about Heat Pumps, how they work, the benefits and challenges of having one fitted?

Take a listen to this Radio 4 series.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002sg1c/episodes/player

Available episodes of Evan Davis's Heat Pump Challenge

18/03/2026

Please consider nominating local BC charity 'Light Foot Enterprises' for one of these awards, it takes just a couple of minutes to do.

Thank you!

16/03/2026

🌿 Got a wildlife gardening question?

Submit it for our Wildlife Gardeners’ Question Time panel!

Experts in wildlife gardening, ecology and botany will answer selected questions live on the night.

📅 Tuesday 14 April
⏰ 7–9pm
📍 Bishops Castle Church Barn

📩 Send your question to:
[email protected]

⏳ Deadline: 1st April

16/03/2026

The new mini “Seed Library” by the Bishop’s Castle Community Seed Bank will now be available at the Bishop’s Castle Library at Enterprise House!

The Seed Bank is an initiative of Food Forward BC and Shropshire Good Food to build community food resilience through free access to open pollinated seed, with resources and info.

The main seed bank (with a broader selection of seeds) will remain available at the Town Hall monthly farmers’ market.

Seed Saving training and support is available at Little Woodbatch - next session on March 15th. See link via www.littlewoodbatch.co.uk ‘what’s on’ for registration.

Please get in touch if you’d like to donate seed to help keep the Mini Seed Library well-stocked 🌱

Thanks to local growers and Garden Organic for the donation of some of our beautiful seeds from the Heritage Seed Library, and Enterprise House and the Library for hosting this initiative.

Contact [email protected] for more info

16/03/2026

If you shop online using "Give As You Live", this week until 22nd March you can give Double Donations on anything you purchase with the participating stores, via the link below.

Find out more below and also see the pinned post at the top of this Page to learn more about signing-up for GAYL. It's a super easy, quick, no-fuss way to donate to charities like Light Foot and at absolutely NO extra cost to you! You simply shop and the store donates!

Shop the latest offers and vouchers with Give as you Live Online and raise money for your favourite charity.

12/03/2026

Lightfoot is going to be showing the National Emergency Briefing film in Bishop's Castle in the next month or two.

We're still finalising the details, so watch this space.

The National Emergency Briefing was commissioned to present the latest evidence, and build an irresistible call for the Government to stage a televised emergency briefing.

And the key goal of showing the films to local communities is to both inform people of the very real issues and challenges we all face, AND so that more people can then put pressure on the government via their local MPs who attend, in order to achieve the aim of a televised emergency briefing.

https://www.nebriefing.org/

National Emergency Briefing | The UK’s leading climate and nature experts brief MP's on the risks, impacts and solutions to the climate emergency

03/03/2026

The Big Plastic Count

For one week in March, thousands of people will be counting every piece of plastic packaging they throw away. Together, we’ll uncover the true scale of the UK’s big plastic problem and call on the government to do more about it.

Count your plastic for one week from 9 to 15 March.

Sign-up here to take part: https://thebigplasticcount.com/sign-up/

And please share with your family, friends, school, business or organisations you're involved with.

08/02/2026

Did you know that you can give regular donations to Light Foot Enterprises when you shop online for groceries or many other things online, at no extra cost to you whatsoever?!

Via 'Give as You Live' - you simply do your regular grocery or other shop and the store sends Light Foot a donation, at absolutely no extra cost to you!

It's a great way to support local charities in their valuable work for your community, without spending an extra penny.

It's very easy to sign-up and use, you simply click the button when you visit your stores and the rest is all taken care of for you! (Just make sure you download the browser extension after joining).

Find out more & sign-up here:

Shop and raise > https://www.giveasyoulive.com/join/lightfoot?utm_source=charitytoolkit&utm_content=184257&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=CTGroceryShoppingCampaign

Many thanks for supporting us and the vital nature, widlife, climate, food resilience & green energy projects Light Foot is delivering for Bishop's Castle.

26/01/2026

It's more important than ever to bring people together to learn, grow, share and skill up.

Inspired by .community.collective in Yorkshire, we're launching a 'Grow Club' at Little Woodbatch for 2026.

The need for building resilience in our food system goes hand in hand with building community: Action is the antidote to despair. Through local Action we can come together in practical ways and rethink how we can show up for each other, nature and Earth systems.

If you are local to Bishop's Castle & surrounding area and are interested in joining, please get in touch! Limited to 10 spaces.

[email protected]

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