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PART OF A NATIONAL WEEK OF EVENTS
CELEBRATING ACTION ON CLIMATE
CHANGE
FIND AN EVENT NEAR YOU
Walks and cycle events
Food events
خوش آمدید- வருக - Bem-vindo - સ્વાગત છે
Welcome - Mile widziany -
Watford and Three Rivers Great Big Green Week Events Calendar
Times 18-Sep 19-Sep 20-Sep 21-Sep 22-Sep 23-Sep 24-Sep 25-Sep 26-Sep
Family Fun at RefillAbell Family Fun at RefillAbell
Family events at Woodoaks farm
Big Green Book Swap at The Green Stores
Free Beryl
Bike Day
All day
0900
A Climate
1000 Cassiobury 7 mile cycle Conversation at Litter pick -
Fun, physical, Fun, physical, Litter Pick -
Park Litter round Webinar and the Random Café Knutsford
practical practical Farm Walk at Farm Walk at West Watford
Pick Watford conversation on (inc. children's Playing Fields
conservation conservation Woodoaks Woodoaks
Local activities) Community
1100 sessions at sessions at farm farm
Community Giveaway - Chess Valley River Colne
Knutsford Knutsford
Climate Abbots Challenge – Guided Tour
Playing Fields Playing Fields
Resilience and Langley Wildlife Trust
Live cooking
Deep Walk
class from
1200 Adaptation
the most
wasted
Abbots Webinar: vegetables as Pop up Croxley
Langley Cutting edge seen in the market at Common
Autumn of Food Love your Woodoaks Moor
1300 Festival Farm volunteer
waste: Tips Leftovers
and tricks on Cookbook taster session
Butterfly
reducing
Walk with Litter pick -
Film showing kitchen waste
Friends of Bushey
- The Lorax
1400 Cassiobury Arches
Park
1500
Watford
allotments - food
1600
and wildlife walk
1700
1800
Webinar:
Does Film Screening:
Sustainable David
Fashion exist? Attenborough -
1900
A Life on our
Planet
2000
Key:
Walks and cycle events Conservation work/ volunteering Litter Picks Click on the links for further details on each event or look through our events booklet for the details of all
Film showings Community events Climate focused events Food events Great Big Green Week events.
An interactive map of events can be found at: https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1vT5B3XqXdRRoU6--rhfewIyzXF-9dfUi&usp=sharing
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Events don’t stop at the end of the week on the 29 September 6.30-8pm join the Herts. WasteAware Webinar: Plastic in our bins - A look at Hertfordshire’s rubbish. Register here:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/plastic-in-our-bins-a-look-at-hertfordshires-rubbish-tickets-161756507067?aff=erelpanelorg
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Family Fun at
RefillAbell
WHEN: Saturday 18th and Monday 20th
– Saturday 25th September 2021
Join the team at RefillAbell for a week of family
WHERE: RefillAbell, 4 Haydon Road, fun activities at the shop, including:
Oxhey Village, Watford, WD19 4DD • Children’s art activities
• Creating a sustainability tree
TIME: Monday-Wed/Fri 9-6 pm and
• A post box recycling game
Thursday 12-7 pm, Sat 10-4 pm
RefilllAbell will also be offering a small reward or
www.abbotsautumnfest.uk green gift to shoppers spending over £35 during
Green Week.
www.refillabell.co.uk,, Facebook RefillabellWatford,
or Instagram @refillabell_watford
✓FREE ✓ALL AGES
✓WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE
WHEN: Monday 20th – Saturday 25th September 2021
WHERE: Woodoaks Farm, Denham Way, Maple Cross,
WD3 9XQ
TIME: 10am – 5pm
Come along to Woodoaks Farm to learn more about
how to be more sustainable, showing how the food ✓FREE
you choose to buy and consume can save the planet.
✓ALL AGES
Go to www.woodoaksteashack.com and Instagram ✓WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE
@theteashackwoodoaks for more information.
Big Green Book Swap
WHEN: Monday 20th - Friday 24th SEPTEMBER 2021
WHERE: The Green Stores, 125 New Road, Croxley Green, WD3
3EN
TIME: Monday – Wednesday 9.30am-3pm, Thursday 11am-4pm
and Friday 9.30am-4pm
Two of my passions, reading and reusing!
Please bring your books, that you have read,
loved and are in good condition, to our store.
We will have a table outside with labelled
boxes for you to pop them in. Take home a
different book or 2 to enjoy. Adults, kids or
baby books no one is too young or old.
www.thegreenstores.co.uk + Insta –
the.green.stores + facebook -
✓FREE ✓ALL AGES @TheGreenStoresCroxley + Twitter
✓WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE @thegreenstores
Park Litter Pick
WHEN: Saturday 18th SEPTEMBER 2021
WHERE: Hub, Cassiobury Park, Watford
WD17 3AR
TIME: 10am – noon
Make a difference! Litter picking is a
healthy and fun way to keep the park
clean and create a better environment for
us and the local wildlife.
If really bad weather it will be called off
and notification will be via social media
(facebook).
www.friendsofcassioburypark.org.uk and
✓FREE ✓ALL AGES
https://www.facebook.com/FriendsOfCas
✓WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE sioburyPark
CYCLE the WATFORD GREEN RING
WHEN: Saturday 18th SEPTEMBER 2021
WHERE: Meet outside Watford Town Hall
TIME: Starts at 10am (finishes
approximately at noon)
This event is a cycle ride around the
proposed 7-mile Watford Green Ring.
SPOKES have proposed the Green Ring
route for walking & cycling. Many of
the routes on the proposed local
cycling network will connect to the
Green Ring.
✓FREE ✓ADULT ONLY
BOOKING REQUIRED – via info@spokesgroup.org.uk giving name + contact details
Heavy rain may require cancellation.
Abbots Autumn Fest
WHEN: Saturday 18th SEPTEMBER 2021
WHERE: School Mead, Abbots Langley, WD5 0LA
TIME: 11am – 4pm
www.abbotsautumnfest.uk
The annual Abbots Autumn
Fest is a fun event with a
focus on local - foods,
crafts, and community
groups, with traditional
games and entertainment.
✓FREE
✓ALL AGES
✓WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE
Heavy rain may require
cancellation.
The LORAX
WHEN: Saturday 18th SEPTEMBER 2021
WHERE: Watersmeet Theatre, High St, Rickmansworth, WD3 1EH
TIME: Doors open at 1.30pm, film to start at 2pm (finishes at 3.30pm)
Come and join us for a FREE viewing of the
Dr. Seuss story The Lorax - a children’s film
with a powerful environmental message
on the importance of trees and nature in a
world where everything is artificial and
even the air is a commodity.
✓FREE
✓AIMED AT CHILDREN
✓WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE
BOOKING REQUIRED – via Watersmeet
Box Office: 01923 711063
Butterfly Walk in the Park
WHEN: Sunday 19th SEPTEMBER 2021
WHERE: Cassiobury Park and Whippendell Woods, Gade
Avenue, WD18 3BD (entrance opposite Langley Way)
TIME: 2pm - 3.30pm
Take our guided butterfly walk on Sunday 19
September at Cassiobury Park, and learn more
about these incredible insects, their habitats and
what you can do to help them flourish.
BOOKING REQUIRED –
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/great-big-green-
week-guided-summer-butterfly-walk-tickets-
170437194236
✓FREE ✓SUITABLE FOR ALL AGES
Webinar: Does Sustainable
✓FREE ✓ALL AGES
Fashion exist?
WHEN: Monday 20th SEPTEMBER 2021
WHERE: Online – book at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-sustainable-is-
your-wardrobe-tickets-169848737145
TIME: 7pm-8pm
If you would like to find out more about
sustainability and fashion, this is the event for you.
Hear from someone with over 20 years’
experience working for UK fashion brands with a
focus on reducing their environmental impact and
improving their social sustainability.
We will also be sharing tips for a more
environmentally friendly wardrobe.
If you have questions about any aspect of this
topic, there will be plenty of time in which to
answer them too.
Fun, physical, practical ✓FREE
conservation sessions ✓ADULT ONLY
WHEN: Tuesday 21st SEPTEMBER 2021
WHERE: Meet at Watford Rugby Club, Knutsford Playing Fields, Radlett Road, WD24 4LL
TIME: 9.45am to 1pm
From pruning and weeding to scything and
coppicing. Participate at your own pace, what
you choose to do is up to you. Help us improve
Watford’s green spaces.
Event will go ahead unless torrential downpour
(call 07935989890 if need to confirm)
www.facebook.com/watfordgreengym
Watford allotments:
Food and wildlife
WHEN: Tuesday 21st SEPTEMBER 2021
WHERE: Paddock Road allotments, Paddock Road, Oxhey, Watford, WD19 4AW
TIME: 4.30pm – 5.30pm
A guided walk to demonstrate how important
allotments are for people growing food and for
biodiversity at Paddock Road allotment, meet at
trading shed at entrance.
✓FREE ✓WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE
✓SUITABLE FOR ALL AGES
In case of poor weather contact 07884 410161 to
confirm if the event will go ahead.
David Attenborough’s
‘A Life On Our Planet’
WHEN: Tuesday 21st SEPTEMBER 2021
WHERE: Watersmeet Theatre, High St, Rickmansworth, WD3 1EH
TIME: Doors open at 6.30pm, film to start at 7pm (finishes at 9pm)
Come and join us for a FREE
viewing of David Attenborough’s
hit documentary - a powerful
first-hand account defining
moments of his career,
humanity's impact on nature, and
a message of hope for future
generations
BOOKING REQUIRED – via
✓FREE ✓WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE Watersmeet Box Office:
✓AIMED AT THOSE OVER 12 Years + 01923 711 063
Webinar: Cutting edge of food waste:
Tips and tricks on reducing kitchen waste
WHEN: Wednesday 22nd SEPTEMBER 2021
WHERE: Online webinar TIME: 1pm – 2.30pm
Veolia in partnership with West Herts College in Watford
present recipes from the ‘Love your Leftovers Cookbook’
created by 18 and 19 year old trainee chefs. There will be
recipe demonstrations from the most wasted vegetables and
we will show you how you can save the planet one bendy
carrot at a time! We will share five key behaviours that will
help you save money and cut down on food waste.
The session will be informative, fun, interactive and a must
for those that want to take climate action in the comfort of
their kitchen! Our session host will be the Herts WasteAware
Partnership.
BOOKING REQUIRED – www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cutting-
✓FREE edge-of-food-waste-tips-and-tricks-on-reducing-kitchen-
✓SUITABLE FOR ALL AGES waste-tickets-163173495317
FREE BERYL BIKE DAY
WHEN: Wednesday 22nd SEPTEMBER 2021 ✓FREE
WHERE: The Parade, Watford Town Centre, Watford ✓SUITABLE FOR ALL AGES
TIME: Bike usage all day, stall in The Parade 10am-3pm
Access will be free to users on the day
without the use of a code, for the
entire day, with unlimited riding for
each journey up to 60 mins on a pedal
bike or 30 mins on an e-bike -
https://beryl.cc/bikeshare/riders
There will be a stall held on the Parade
(by the pond), promoting and
providing information about the Beryl
Bike scheme.Fun, physical, practical ✓FREE
✓ADULT ONLY
conservation sessions
WHEN: Thursday 23rd SEPTEMBER 2021
WHERE: Meet at Watford Rugby Club, Knutsford Playing Fields, Radlett Road,
WD24 4LL
TIME: 9.45am to 1pm
From pruning and weeding to scything and
coppicing. Participate at your own pace, what
you choose to do is up to you. Help us improve
Watford’s green spaces.
Event will go ahead unless torrential downpour
(call 07935989890 if need to confirm)
www.facebook.com/watfordgreengym
Webinar and conversation on Local Community
Climate Resilience and Deep Adaptation
WHEN: Thursday 23rd SEPTEMBER 2021
WHERE: Online webinar TIME: 11am - 1pm
This conversation is for anybody who is deeply
concerned about the climate and other
interconnected predicaments – and is curious to
learn more about what they and their local
community could be doing NOW to prepare and
adapt for what may be a very different way of life.
✓FREE ✓ADULTS ONLY
BOOKING REQUIRED –
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/local-climate-resilience-
and-deep-adaptation-great-big-green-week-tickets-
166145703271A CLIMATE
CONVERSATION
WHEN: Friday 24th SEPTEMBER 2021
WHERE: Random Café, Meriden Gardens, 24a
Garsmouth Way, Watford, WD25 9DR
TIME: 10am - noon
Have you always wanted to help the
environment but had no idea where to start?
Come to Climate Conversations, a place where
you can chat about positive solutions and
ways in which we can all make a difference.
There will be activities for children, space to
talk as well as refreshments available.
✓FREE ✓WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE
There will be inside and outside areas to allow
✓SUITABLE FOR ALL AGES for social distancing and plenty of fresh air.
Farm walks at
Woodoaks Farm
WHEN: Friday 24th SEPTEMBER 2021
WHERE: Woodoaks Farm Denham Way Maple Cross, WD3 9XQ
TIME: 11am (approx. 1 hr))
Explore Woodoaks Farm and see how the food
you choose to buy and consume can save the
planet.
BOOKING REQUIRED –
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/woodoaks-
farm-walk-tickets-168716492571
✓FREE ✓WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE
✓SUITABLE FOR ALL AGESLove your Leftovers LIVE Cooking Show &
Love Recycling Stall
WHEN: Friday 24th SEPTEMBER 2021
WHERE: Watford Market, The Parade, Watford (in front of Nandos)
TIME: 11am – 3pm
Veolia in partnership with West Herts College
in Watford are hosting a live cooking recipe
demonstration from the Love your Leftovers
Cookbook. The plant-based recipes were
created by 18 and 19 year old trainee chefs
from West Herts College in Watford. There will
be recipe demonstrations from the most waste
vegetables and we will show you how you can
save the planet one bendy carrot at a time!
✓FREE ✓WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE Veolia will also host a Love Recycling Stall
✓SUITABLE FOR ALL AGES which will be informative, fun, interactive and
full of competitions to win on the spot prizes.
LITTER PICK – Bushey Arches
WHEN: Friday 24th SEPTEMBER 2021
WHERE: Century Park / Lower High Street / Bushey Arches – meet
location confirmed when booking
TIME: 2.30pm – 4pm
Be a wildlife saviour and help care for our local
environment by supporting a litter pick near you!
Discount for those taking part
on hot drinks afterwards at
the Tasty Bean Café
Please register at the link below to ensure we
✓FREE have enough equipment:
✓SUITABLE FOR ALL AGES (children https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/litter-pick-
must be supervised) century-park-lower-high-street-bushey-arches-
✓WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE tickets-168808040393LITTER PICK – Knutsford
Playing Fields
WHEN: Saturday 25th SEPTEMBER 2021
WHERE: Knutsford / Colonial Way / Reeds Estate –
meet location confirmed when booking
TIME: 10.30am – noon
Be a wildlife saviour and help care for our local
environment by supporting a litter pick near you!
Discount for those taking part on hot drinks
afterwards at the WRFC Bar and Coffee House.
Please register at the link below to ensure we
have enough equipment:
✓FREE ✓WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/litter-pick-
✓SUITABLE FOR ALL AGES (children knutsford-colonial-way-reeds-estate-tickets-
must be supervised) 168809266059
✓FREE
Abbots Langley ✓WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE
✓SUITABLE FOR ALL AGES
Community Giveaway
WHEN: Saturday 25th SEPTEMBER 2021
WHERE: Abbots Langley village. See website for giveaway map
TIME: 11am – 1pm
Download the giveaway map via the website and come for a walk round Abbots
Langley to see what residents are giving away. Like a free car boot at people’s front
doors. Will you find clothes, books, plants, produce or something else ????
http://abbotsintransition.org/ or https://www.facebook.com/AbbotsInTransitionPop up Market at ✓FREE
✓WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE
Woodoaks Farm ✓SUITABLE FOR ALL AGES
WHEN: Saturday 25th SEPTEMBER 2021
WHERE: Woodoaks Farm Denham Way Maple Cross, WD3 9XQ
TIME: 11am – 5pm
Come along to the pop-up market at Woodoaks Farm
and sample the local products on sale.
Farm walks at Woodoaks Farm
WHEN: Saturday 25th SEPTEMBER 2021
WHERE: Woodoaks Farm Denham Way Maple Cross, WD3 9XQ
TIME: 11.30am (approx. 1 hr)
Explore Woodoaks Farm and see how the
food you choose to buy and consume can
save the planet.
BOOKING REQUIRED –
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/woodoaks-
farm-walk-tickets-168716492571
✓FREE ✓WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE
✓SUITABLE FOR ALL AGESChess Valley Challenge 2021
WHEN: Sunday 26th SEPTEMBER 2021
WHERE: Rickmansworth. Wildlife Trust staff will greet
attendees over the footbridge located near the railway station
and Waitrose, where the Chess Valley Walk begins.
TIME: starting from 9am
✓SUITABLE FOR ALL AGES Challenge yourself, friends and family to
walk the 10-mile Chess Valley Challenge
and raise funds for Herts and Middlesex
Wildlife Trust on this sponsored walk. This
route follows a public footpath which has
stiles and steps.
Registration is required (£15 adult, £5
child, £35 family, £75 team of 6):
https://www.hertswildlifetrust.org.uk/che
ssvalleychallenge
LITTER PICK – West Watford
WHEN: Sunday 26th SEPTEMBER 2021
WHERE: West Watford / Ascot Road / Holywell – meet location
confirmed when booking
TIME: 10.30am – noon
Be a wildlife saviour and help care for our local
environment by supporting a litter pick near you!
Discount for those taking part on
hot drinks afterwards at the Premier Inn.
Please register at the link below to ensure we
have enough equipment:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/litter-pick-west-
watford-ascot-road-holywell-tickets-
✓FREE ✓WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE
168810993225
✓SUITABLE FOR ALL AGES (children
must be supervised)River Colne Guided Tour
WHEN: Sunday 26th SEPTEMBER 2021
WHERE: Start at Tesco – final details sent when booking
TIME: 11am – 12.30/1pm
As restoration efforts surrounding the River
Colne are underway, you can receive a guided
tour of the river and its surrounding areas –
giving you a better understanding of the
unique ecosystem, and what we’re doing to
help..
BOOKING REQUIRED –
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/great-big-
green-week-river-colne-guided-tour-tickets-
170440315572 ✓FREE ✓ SUITABLE FOR ALL AGES
Volunteering taster
session on Croxley
Common Moor Croxley Common Moor is a local nature reserve
WHEN: Sunday 26th SEPTEMBER 2021 with exceptionally rich wildflower diversity. To
WHERE: Croxley Common Moor, Mill preserve that, it needs to be actively managed. A
vital part of that management is conservation
Lane, Croxley Green WD3 3EW (only
work by volunteers.
pedestrian and cycle access, no vehicle
access) Come along to find out how and why the Moor is
managed and have a taste of the volunteering
TIME: noon – 4pm work.
Terrain and activity would be difficult for some
forms of disability.
Please email friends@croxleycommonmoor.org.uk
if you are interested so there is an idea of
numbers.
✓FREE ✓ADULT ONLYINDEX
Walks and cycle events Food events
• 18/09 – 7-mile cycle round the
Watford Green Ring • 22/09 - Webinar on tips and tricks to
• 19/09 – Butterfly Walk in Cassiobury curt food waste
Park • 24/09 – Live cooking class in Watford
• 21/09 – Watford Allotment: food and Market
wildlife walk • 25/09 – Pop up Market at
• 23/09 – Free Beryl Bike Day Woodoaks Farm
• 24/09 and 25/09 – Farm walks at
Woodoaks Farm
• 26/09 – Chess Valley Challenge
• 26/09 – Colne Valley Guided Tour
Community events
• 18/09, 20-25/09 – Family events at
RefillAbell
Film showings • 20 - 25/09 – Family Fun at
Woodoaks Farm
• 18/09 – The Lorax – at Watersmeet • 20-24/09 – Big Green Book Swap at The
• 21/09 - David Attenborough - A Life on Green Stores
our Planet – at Watersmeet • 18/09 – Abbots Langley Autumn Fest
• 25/09 – Community Giveaway – Abbots
Langley
Litter picks Climate focused events
• 18/09 – at Cassiobury Park • 20/09 – Webinar: Does Sustainable
• 24/09 - near Bushey Arches Fashion exist?
• 25/09 - near Knutsford Playing Fields • 23/09 - Webinar and conversation on
• 26/09 - near West Watford Local Community Climate Resilience
and Deep Adaptation
• 25/09 - A Climate Conversation at the
Random Café (inc. children’s activities)
Conservation work/ Volunteering
events
• 21 and 23/ 09 – Green Gym at
Knutsford Playing Fields
• 26/09 – Croxley Common Moor
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