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Post 1 of 2: 🚌 Children aged 5-15 (incl.) can travel free on most local buses in England for the whole of August. No card or app needed - just hop on and ask for a free child fare. Check your local operator for included routes. #FreeBusTravel #Tewkesbury

Post 1 of 4 Tewkesbury, 2025: Severn Trent discharged untreated sewage into our waterways 504 times, for 4,691 hours. That is six and a half months of continuous spilling in one year. Worst site in the constituency? Tewkesbury Sewage Treatment Works itself - 668 hours into the Mill Avon. 🧵

🌿 Your Weekly Green Fix (1/2) Tewkesbury Goes Wild's final week: bird feeders and maypole dancing BWPA exhibition opens at Nature in Art £9m raised to rewild Northumberland moorland UK Tree of the Year shortlist revealed Search any story in your favourite browser to find out more 🔍

Fast fashion keeps prices low, but the cost shows up elsewhere via emissions, landfill, workers, and quality. Tewkesbury's got: Charity shops Textile banks at Rails Meadow car park/Winchcombe's Back Lane Free Salvation Army postal donation scheme. Swap, repair, upcycle or resell before you bin ♻️

1/2 🌲 Miyawaki forests: dense native mini-woodlands springing up worldwide. Up to 20x more wildlife, more carbon absorbed than standard plantations - and they work in a very small area. The Woodland Trust's Urban or Wildlife pack would be ideal for Tewkesbury 🌳 See 2/2 for links to more info

🦋 11 walkers (3 kids!) joined the Big Butterfly Count near Tirle Brook, Morrisons, and Carrant Brook - a great summer holiday activity. Spotted Peacock, Red Admiral, Meadow Brown, Whites, Common Blue, Comma, Gatekeepers. Runs till 9 Aug: click on the link for downloadable charts.

250 million acres globally farmed regeneratively, up from near zero a decade ago. UK's Groundswell Festival just marked 10 years, with 56% of UK farmers surveyed on board. An Amazon Prime documentary Groundswell, the third in a trilogy after Kiss the Ground and Common Ground, tells the wider story.

Free trees for schools, a group of neighbours with gardens they want to fill up with trees and community groups! The Woodland Trust has 8 pack types (15-420 saplings) for hedging, wildlife, orchards, woodland and more. Apply now: www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/plant-trees/...

Free Trees for Schools and CommunitiesWe’re giving away hundreds of thousands of treeswww.woodlandtrust.org.uk

🌿 Good Green News w/e 20 July 2026 (1/2) 🦋 Newtown Butterfly Count was yesterday! 🦋 Big Butterfly Count open til 9 Aug - join in! 🏘️ Tewkesbury Garden Communities: green-led growth 🌱 Glos first biodiversity net gain site launches 🔗 facebook.com/TewkesburyGreenParty <-click for full source links

🏠 Struggling with food/energy costs? The Hub, on Queens Road, GL20 5EY, supports anyone in Tewkesbury not just Priors Park. 📅 Open Tue/Fri 9-4: 🛒 vouchers, 🔥 energy advice, 📦 emergency parcels, ☕ warm space, wifi. Is there a food bank closer to you? Check on -> tewkesbury.foodbank.org.uk

Tewkesbury Goes Wild continues! Here's what's on from Fri 17 - Fri 24 July (butterfly counts covered separately). Thread below. (1/3)

Two chances to join Tewkesbury's Big Butterfly Count this week, part of Tewkesbury Goes Wild. Sun 19 July, 2.30pm: guided walk from Newtown with Cllr Hilarie Bowman. Mon 20 July, 2pm: count at the Nature Reserve with Butterfly Conservation's Ken. Free, limited spaces. (1/2) ALL AGES WELCOME!!

Post 1 of 2 🏛️ Tewkesbury East councillors' June report: TBC backed a "shadow" model for any future Gloucestershire unitary authority, a leaner Council Plan (45 actions cut to 17) went to Full Council, and a new 3-tier planning enforcement system is out for consultation. 🧵

Gloucestershire launched its Green Skills Strategy 2026-2030 last week - training for clean energy and nature recovery jobs. Greens have informal influence on the council that shaped it. www.raikesjournal.co.uk/p/plan-revea...

Tewkesbury Friends of the Earth brought nature to the Medieval Fayre - Gardening for Wildlife Awards, wormeries, "pile up and leave" composting, and a river experiment showing bendy rivers hold more water than straight ones (slower flow = less flooding). Great stall, Helen Carver and team!

🌿 Good Green News w/e 12 July 2026 (1/2) 🦋 Tewkesbury Goes Wild - events all July! 🌿 Gloucestershire Green Skills Strategy launches 🦅 UK: £90m Wild Again species recovery package 🏆 UK: 3rd in world for environmental performance 🔗 facebook.com/TewkesburyGreenParty

🌿 Good Green News w/e 12 July 2026 (1/2) 🦋 Tewkesbury Goes Wild - events all July! 🌿 Gloucestershire Green Skills Strategy launches 🦅 UK: £90m Wild Again species recovery package 🏆 UK: 3rd in world for environmental performance 🔗 facebook.com/TewkesburyGreenParty

🌿 Good Green News w/e 12 July 2026 (2/2) ⚡ 2025 electricity growth met entirely by renewables 🔋 Ireland's CO2 battery - no lithium, no cobalt 🪸 Jordan reef nominated for UNESCO status 🌿 Mangroves growing again for first time in decades 🔗 facebook.com/TewkesburyGreenParty

Who is Geoff Sallis(back R)? Ex-Deputy Chief Fire Officer for Glos, founder of Safe Avon in 2023, recruited 90+ citizen scientists to test Avon water quality, 2.5k+ samples, mostly high pollution. Reports findings to local councils inc Tewkesbury. Want to help test? Message us for more info.

🌿 Good Green News w/e 5 July 2026 🦋 Tewkesbury Goes Wild - free events all July! 🌿 Cerne Abbas Giant re-chalked, 138 hectares protected! ✨ Glow-worms reintroduced to South Downs 🌬️ Europe's air has been cleaner every year since 2010 🦈 New walking shark found off Papua New Guinea