Zero Chippenham

09/10/2026

This looks a very useful event for anyone worried about energy bills and the help that's available. This Saturday in Calne...

05/10/2026

Our friends Rooted Chippenham Community Tree Nursery have a wide range of trees available for only £1 (incl. a protector tube). Have a look at the post below to see what is available and get your order in!

🌳 A tree for £1? Yes, really!

Our Community Tree Nursery is bursting with saplings ready to find new homes, all locally grown by our volunteers. Now’s your chance to plant something special and help make our local area greener.

🌱 Order online now to collect your tree on 7 November, between 10am and 12pm, from Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre (other dates will be available this Winter).

Choose from:
🍎 Crab apple
🍐 Wild pear
🌿 Elder
🌳 Rowan
🌸 Cherry plum
🌰 Hazel
🌱 Silver birch
🍒 Bullace

🌳 Just £1 per tree, including a tree protector tube

Each one planted boosts local biodiversity and nature, and provides valuable shade in summer.

Order yours now! https://rootedchippenham.org/community-tree-nursery

05/10/2026

The cost of heating your home this winter can be worrying for many people. Having seen some hard sell tactics employed on the High Street today please remember there is a lot of FREE help and advice available from Wiltshire Council and the Centre for Sustainable Energy, as well as our own signposting and case studies
-We sign post Home Energy advice and case studies on our Zero Chippenham Home Energy Advice page https://www.zerochippenham.org/energy-efficiency/
-From November our own Free Thermal Camera loan scheme opens for Chippenham residents to borrow and see where their home is losing heat
https://www.zerochippenham.org/zero-chippenham-thermal-camera-loan-scheme/ell
- The Warm & Safe Wiltshire project offers free and impartial advice to residents across Wiltshire or Swindon. It aims to help resident’s heat their homes in an affordable way. It does this across a range of advice topics such as financial support, home improvement grants, energy bills, tariffs, benefits, and mould. It also offers in-depth casework support to residents dealing with energy supplier disputes or energy debt.
https://www.cse.org.uk/my-home/advice-projects/warm-and-safe-wiltshire/
Telephone 0800 038 5722
- The SMEAPs (Smart Energy Action Plan) project offers free and impartial advice about smart energy technologies and offers that can benefit vulnerable individuals. To make sure they are not left out of the renewable energy transition in the UK. This project covers advice from solar panels and heat pumps to new tariffs and shifting schemes that residents can benefit from. You can refer clients online through the referral form here including a self referral.
https://www.cse.org.uk/my-home/advice-projects/smart-energy-action-plans/
- The Energy Choices Tool is an online website that helps people navigate relevant smart energy options for them in their circumstances. This creates an automatic plan that they can read over.
https://www.cse.org.uk/news/new-energy-choices-tool-helps-navigate-smart-energy-options/
-Futureproof is an impartial retrofit advice service offered across Wiltshire or Swindon. This offers free phone consultation, retrofit surveys both in person and online for a cost as well as more specialised services (Such as Heat Pump surveys).
https://www.futureproof.uk.net/
For a summary of all this information https://www.zerochippenham.org/2026/10/05/where-to-find-free-help-and-advice-if-youre-worried-about-heating-your-home-this-winter/

03/10/2026

What a fantastic second Chippenham Repair Cafe we had today at the The Cause Venue, Chippenham Here are some of our volunteer Claire Robinson's fabulous photographs. So many bicycle, sewing, electrical and general repairs we didn't stop! Plus fabulous homemade cakes with Bettina Hollis burning the midnight oil making cakes and pizza rolls. Thank you to Chippenham Big Bike Revival for organising and funding bike repairs and seeding our cafe with Cycle Repair tools and stand, with a generous donation of consumables from Spindles Bikes which Peter and Adrian made great use of. Cycling UK funding and support for the has been invaluable.
A big thank you to all our volunteers and Julian at Share and Repair for fabulous support, mentoring, and borrowing a PAT tester from another cafe. Our volunteers offered their time and expertise for free and we were all sharing experience and knowledge.
My personal favourite of the day was the 1950's Champion Juicer which really was made to last and be repaired! The moment when Andy Chapman fixed a stereo and Glen Miller burst out across the room was pretty special - a few people spontaneously started dancing.
https://www.zerochippenham.org/2026/10/03/october-repair-cafe-success/

30/09/2026

Zero Chippenham is really proud to have hosted one of these screenings. Links to lots of resources about how to host your own in this post. Let us know in the comments if you are planning one?

More than 3,000 screenings of the People's Emergency Briefing have now taken place in communities and workplaces across the UK - and beyond.

Enormous thanks to all those stepping up to inform the public whilst we wait for the government to act.

To host the film: https://www.nebriefing.org/host-the-film

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29/09/2026

If you haven't seen the Rooted Chippenham Community fridge at the Wiltshire and Swindon history centre do pop down and take a look. Open today (Tuesday). Check the Rooted page for opening days and times.