Sustainability was celebrated at Green Weekend
- Gitte Louise Lamb
- Jun 17
- 2 min read
Thank you to everyone who came to the Green Weekend 14-15 June 2025! This year, we had something for everyone with the clothes swap in St. Mary’s Hall, signing up to the pollinator pledge outside the Community Centre, fresh veggies and rock painting at The Community Kitchen Garden, Junk Jodie with her Tree-Tastic show, mindfulness walk at the churchyard, bees and bugs at Little Meadow and river dipping at Flashetts.
Thankfully, the weather behaved itself and we were able to meet you outside the Community Centre to introduce you to the Pollinator Pledge campaign which we are hoping to extend into all the lovely gardens of Overton. The pollinators need our help and the good people of Overton who came out marked their gardens on our big map of Overton promising a patch for the local pollinators. Thank you and we look forward to hearing back from you.
St. Mary’s Hall saw an overwhelming number of people queuing to swap their ought-to-wear for definitely-will-wear clothes at the Clothes Swap. A huge thank you to the Overton Guides and their leaders who helped out for the whole day as well as selling tea and cake in aid of Cancer UK. We’d love to know if this is an event you would like us to bring back next year - direct feedback from attendees was very, very positive. Let us know your thoughts and give us your feedback - your thoughts are also valid and useful to us if you DIDN’T attend: www.sustainableoverton.org.uk/clothes-swap
All the different events specifically aimed at the younger audience like Junk Jodie at the Community Centre, rock painting at the Community Kitchen Garden, bug hunting at Little Meadow and especially the river dipping at Flashetts were very well visited and the little people of Overton looked to be having a great time.
