FPA are planning a half day online conference entitled "Making Green Come True". The idea is to give residents an opportunity to highlight the gap between green promises and reality, share experience, build alliances, and add to pressure for accountability in housing (this first event) and in heating (a second one in the new year). There are many aspects to this, including what is happening with the Green Homes Grant, disastrous cavity wall insulation retrofits, new requirements mooted for the…See More

This could be the biggest climate education conference ever. It aims to go a short distance towards bridging the current education crisis and long-term gap in the teaching of climate change. In this unprecedented time, where many young people all over the world lack access to climate education. Teachers and students have worked in challenging circumstances to rapidly improvise the use of online learning. As a response to this educational deficit, and utlising the fact educators and learners are…See More

Join us at the welcoming and comfortable Hackney Salvation Army restaurant and shop to sample and buy Fairtrade goods during our 2020 Fairtrade Fortnight event there.Taste olive oil and herb dips, cover banana slices or marshmallows in fairtrade chocolate from our fountain, buy tickets for fair trade raffle or buy fairtrade coffee, tea, jam, black pepper or other goods at reduced rates.Enjoy coffee, snacks and meals from the Salvation Army restaurant while you are there - we'd all love to see…See More

Hackney Learning Trust are now beginning to promote the Eco schools programme.Join us at Orchard Primary School, Hackney's ONLY Green Flag Eco school, for a meeting on the Eco School's programme and Climate Teaching in Hackney Schools.We will be discussing the Eco schools 7 stages, 10 topics and getting sustainability into the everyday life of the school as well as into the curriculum, sharing ideas and experiences and the best way to take the programme forward.As our young people keep…See More

Hackney Learning Trust are now beginning to promote the Eco schools programme.Join us at Orchard Primary School, Hackney's ONLY Green Flag Eco school, for a meeting on the Eco School's programme and Climate Teaching in Hackney Schools.We will be discussing the Eco schools 7 stages, 10 topics and getting sustainability into the everyday life of the school as well as into the curriculum, sharing ideas and experiences and the best way to take the programme forward.As our young people keep…See More

Last minute Christmas fairtrade shopping at Hackney Service Centre on Wednesday 18th December. Biscuits, cake, chocolate, christmas cards and other goodies for sale - come and join us - enter our raffle and buy well with growers in other parts of the world in mind.See More

Join Hackney fairtrade Group in the Service Centre (behind the Town Hall) to celebrate 25 years of the Fairtrade Mark.There will be coffee tasting, olive oil and herbs, sweets, chocolate and many other fairtrade delights.Come and join us!See More