Dear Sustainable Hayfield Supporter

Our AGM, and tha talk by Professor Kevin Anderson, is coming up fast, just a week away, next Thursday, September 16th, starting at 7.30p.m. We hope to see you there!

For your convenience, here's the Zoom link to gain access to the evening.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83538496436?pwd=a3l3SFU5ZDlsWXdEdTFPL0o1eU9UUT09
If you need them, here are the relevant codes: 
Meeting ID: 835 3849 6436
Passcode: 220931
and the poster for the evening:
https://mcusercontent.com/fc162238463119eb834ab2a9c/files/2734940b-eab3-0ec0-6059-652c36c078f4/draft_AGM_Poster_2021.1.01.pdf . 

Specific to the AGM, here's the agenda:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yKEEZyTRv5CLYDSZJJdgy3kJUdRnWkX2JRrW6ILGeGU/edit?usp=sharing
and the minutes of the last meeting:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fkIn49h_nN8X8HkHu6xVgGTJDRTkQb8CulIezGyhFRk/edit?usp=sharing
and the treasurer's report/statements of accountstatements of accounts:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MMINvr06PAsbRiSg41BKFIKW-8SdFKKcslloRH7ucMQ/edit?usp=sharing:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1j1VNmHNguBLvF4zzwNE0crJhhSUXCuye/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=104417028021748818931&rtpof=true&sd=true

Best wishes

The Sustainable Hayfield Team

 Dear Sustainable Hayfield supporter

By this email, we're advising you of our forthcoming AGM and an exciting presentation to follow.

We'll be holding our 2020-21AGM, regulations permitting, on Thursday September 16th, starting at 7.30p.m. It will be accessible by Zoom or Zoom-alike facilities. If the technology allows, we may also be able to have a face-to-face element to proceedings, based at The Royal Hotel. 

Yes, we know….....AGMs aren’t especially exciting or full of drama –which is why we usually aim to complete our business in about 20 minutes, and move on to something with wider appeal, and this year is no exception! We’re delighted to confirm this year’s AGM will be followed by:

                                AN ILLUSTRATED PRESENTATION ON COP26

                                BY PROF KEVIN ANDERSON (Manchester University)

in which Kevin, a world-renowned authority on the climate and ecological emergency facing us all, and an inspiring speaker, will talk about what the science is now saying we need to do to halt climate change, and what we can expect from the UN COP (Conference of the Parties) 26 gathering in Glasgow, in November.

Kevin is Professor of Energy & Climate Change in the School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering at Manchester University, and is a former Director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research. An engineer by background, he has published research in Climate Policy, Royal Society journals, Nature and Science. He engages widely across all tiers of government; from reporting on aviation-related emissions to the EU Parliament, advising the Prime Minister's office on Carbon Trading and contributed to the development of the UK's Climate Change Act.

This COP26 gathering is seen by many experts as the ‘last real chance’ for nations to agree on measures to halt the risk of irreversible change which will create mass migrations of displaced peoples, sea leverl rises and inundations, and ever-increasing frequency of extreme weather events.

Kevin has spoken previously in Hayfield, to a ‘sell out’ audience and we expect similar this time around. So keep the date in your diary. We’ll supply more information when we have it.

But one last thing – if you’d like to join our Committee because of your passion and skills around living more responsibly, reply to this email supplying a few details and we’ll be in contact.

 

Thanks, and regards

 

Laurie James

for Sustainable Hayfield

Winter 2021 Newsletter

Our winter newsletter is available to download here. For obvious reasons, we're light on 'events' but there's plenty of news to update you on. We hope you find the time to peruse its pages. And, if you've anything you'd like to see us look at, do get in contact.

In this issue...

• THOUGHT FOR OUR TIMES?
• REASONS TO BE OPTIMISTIC?
• GOVERNMENT 10 POINT GREEN PLAN
• CLIMATE EMERGENCY –WORK WITH COUNCILS
• SOLAR FARM UPDATE
• BECOMING A CHARITY
• TOP FOOD TIPS FOR 2021
• NEW MILLS ZERO WASTE SHOP
• HAYFIELD BUSINESS CHANGES
• THE HEAT’S ON – WOODBURNING STOVES
• TRANSPORT TOP-UP 2021
• HOW BAD ARE BANANAS?
• ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS COURSES
• OUR AMAZING WORLD...

Alternative Local Shopping Options

In the midst of the pandemic, many voices are arguing that we must learn lessons, seize opportunities and ‘build back’ our economy and society ‘better’ than it was previously, with its emphasis on conspicuous and often reckless consumption, waste and lack of thought for the future. And we are definitely amongst them. Even the government is using this language. But deeds are more important than airy words.

So we thought we’d just mention a few local options worth considering as you contemplate your shopping this season, and beyond.

1. Getting fruit and veg locally. Why bother travelling miles, when a variety of veg box schemes (e.g. Riverford Organics, Cain and Abel) deliver to the village, Hayfield News and The Village Store stock a range delivered frequently to store, and Village Greens do home deliveries and ‘stand’ with pre-ordered boxes, for collection, at the Pack Horse every Saturday morning?

2. Sourcing you books carefully. With apologies to anyone who might work for the incredibly efficient Amazon, but this company’s financial muscle threatens a huge range of small, local bookshops where you can (ordinarily) browse your selections. This is even more so in the pandemic, when bookshops have had to close their doors during ‘lockdowns’, but Amazon is allowed to carry on. Now, though, the Booksellers’ Association – the trade organisation for local bookshops – has set up its own home delivery service, with part of the proceeds going to the local bookshop you want to support. And personal use confirms it works!

   So, if you’d like to avoid using Amazon, as many of us do, you’ve now another alternative. Using Bay Tree Books in Glossop as an example, if you know what book(s) you want to order and have delivered to your home, place your order via uk.bookshop.org/shop/baytreebooks and it should happen!

3. Buying individually-crafted goods for someone special For obvious reasons, this year Handmade Hayfield is not able to run its Xmas Gift Fair outside and inside The Royal Hotel as normal.. But it’s still up and running!

   It’s moved ‘the fair’ online November 27th and 28th, but participating craftworkers are always ready to take orders and can arrange delivery. Go to www.handmadehayfield.com and see what’s on offer!

4. Shopping Zero Waste We’re delighted to advise the opening of a new ‘zero waste’ shop in New Mills, called, very appropriately, ‘Millers' Refillers’, who opened earlier this month.

   As with all such shops, it aims to help people reduce the amount of plastic and other packaging they send to landfill by selling a wide range of unpackaged/’loose’ goods and providing an affordable refill outlet. Goods are ethically sourced, and comprise a mixture of organic/non- organic, with all clearly marked.

   It's started out selling pulses, grains, pasta, nuts, snacks, herbs, spices, seeds, cereals, dried fruit, gluten free options, sugars, flours, baking ingredients, teas, coffee, beans, vinegar, vinegars, shampoo, conditioner, cleaning liquid, laundry liquids, eco-friendly soaps, and lots of other bits.

   If you’d like to try their range, Millers’ Refillers is at 34 Market Street, New Mills. They’re open seven days a week (most days 9-5, but 9-8 Thursdays and 10-4 Sundays). They’d be very pleased to see you! We wish them very well.

We hope you find these ideas helpful.

John McCall Obituary

By Neville Kirk
4th November 2020
The Guardian

My friend John McCall, who has died aged 75 from cancer, was a leading architect who was committed to the green environment, social housing and civic provision. John designed pioneering low-energy and sustainable homes in north-west England.

He was also involved in a successful campaign to prevent slum clearance in Longsight, Manchester, and to save the homes instead. In Hayfield, High Peak, Derbyshire, he was centrally involved in refurbishing the Memorial Square, reviving a neglected central part of the village.

John was born in Glasgow, the only child of George McCall, a decorator, and Edith (nee Davis), a factory worker. The family moved to Hyde, Edith’s home town, while John was a baby. John attended Stockport school, a state grammar. He studied architecture at Liverpool University, gaining a first-class honours degree in 1969. He retained teaching and examining connections with the university up to his retirement.

John met Susan Hotchkiss, a student at Liverpool Art College, and they married in January 1971. Sue became an established artist. From 1973 to 1991 John was a key figure in Michael Hyde and Associates in Manchester. Between 1991 and his retirement in 2010 he was head of John McCall Architects, based in Liverpool and Hayfield.

In the 1970s John was involved in a campaign that prevented the demolition of many homes and communities in Longsight, as part of Manchester City Council’s slum clearance programme. As a key member of the Manchester and Salford Housing Action group, formed by radical architects and other professionals, he pioneered more democratic ways of working with residents.

They carried out surveys of targeted properties, costed the options and concluded that it would be preferable to save and improve the existing houses and preserve the strong sense of local community and identity than bulldoze the properties. They produced information for residents, including material in Urdu. They made their case to the slum clearance hearings and were successful. Seven out of the nine proposed slum-clearance areas in Manchester were saved and became general improvement areas.

In 1977 John and his colleagues, working under the auspices of the Help the Aged Housing Association, won a Civic Trust award for their provision of the first sheltered housing scheme in Norman’s Place, Altrincham.

In Hayfield, High Peak, he was centrally involved in environmental and civic projects, including the Sustainable Hayfield Energy Group, which secured funding to help villagers improve the energy efficiency of homes. The creation of an eco-friendly environment, including social housing and strong communities, underpinned John’s philosophy and practice.

John was a generous, caring and optimistic person with a passion for fairness and social justice. He was sociable, enjoyed the pub and music and had great joie de vivre. John played cricket, the drums in his own band and, unusually, supported both Liverpool and Manchester City. He actively promoted local fell-running and believed in wider access to the hills. He designed his boat, Muddy Waters, on which and he and Sue spent happy holidays.

John is survived by Sue, his children, Katy and Jim, and grandchildren, Arthur, Anna, Johnny, Etta and Rose.