The next meeting of Global Justice Calderdale (fka World Development Movement) will be on Tuesday 11th November at 7.30pm in the White Lion, Hebden Bridge.
All are welcome.
Here is the agenda: Continue reading
Straw Works, the leading UK company for strawbale building and design, has launched the School of Natural Building (SNaB) in Todmorden following an increase in demand for their training courses.
Natural materials include strawbales, timber, lime, clay, hemp, sheepswool, woodfibre board, brick, stone and other materials. Many are plant based materials, usually wi.th low-embodied energy because they are not very processed and often available locally. Continue reading
Come and celebrate the beginning of the 2014/15 tree planting season with Treesponsibility at their Autumn gathering Friday 31st October – Sunday 2nd November.
Bookings are still open for two nights’ free accommodation at the beautiful, green, 17th century Height Gate farmhouse, great food, fun, tree planting and workshops. Continue reading
The Board of Monitor (the Ofgem of the NHS, ie the quango that promotes “competition” in the NHS “market”) met on 29th October to deliberate in secret about re-commissioning NHS community services like Locala’s in Kirklees.
Agenda item 7 asked the Monitor Board to note, in secret, “significant developments with regard to the work of the Co-operation and Competition directorate.”
They say if the public knew what the directorate had found, this would “inhibit the free frank disclosure of information.” Continue reading
Joe Mobbs – recently seen in St George’s Square Hebden Bridge handing out Stop TTIP leaflets – is calling a meeting on Sunday 2nd November, 5 – 7pm, at the 3 Wise Monkeys, Water Street, Todmorden, to present the idea of a climate festival in Todmorden. All are welcome.
Saturday 7th March 2015 is a climate day of action, so that’s the date Joe when aims to hold the Todmorden climate festival. Continue reading
Calderdale Councillor James Baker is worried because his neighbours, the new owners of Stocks Hall in Mytholmroyd, have cut down a tree with a Tree Protection Order on it and may be about to fell more protected trees.
Yesterday a Calderdale Council Tree Officer sent a letter telling HBB Relocation Services to stop, but today Cllr Baker can still hear chainsaws buzzing and the Tree Officer has told him that work has already taken place that needed planning consent.
Who owns the recently auctioned property?
To complicate matters for Calderdale Council, it turns out that HBB Relocation Services were just handling the auction of Stocks Hall and don’t own it now.
So it’s possible that the new owner hasn’t even received the letter from the Council Tree Officer.
Cllr Baker is appealing for information about who now owns Stocks Hall. You can email him at Councillor.JBaker@calderdale.gov.uk. Continue reading
GPs’ Conflict of interest was an issue at the 1st October meeting of N.Kirklees Clinical Commissioning Group (NKCCG) Governing Body meeting, when the Governing Body approved its own member GPs’ Business Cases for:
Written in 2012, updated in 2013 and now re-posted. Sorry comments have been lost in the process.
Calderdale’s Energy Future (CEF) strategy expects householders to cut 25% of their carbon emissions by 2020, based on 2005 levels. To achieve this target, the Council will encourage households to buy in to the Green Deal.
This is despite the fact that even the government’s own advisers on the Climate Change Committee have calculated that the Green Deal won’t work, and recommend instead that the Big Six energy companies should pay for insulating homes across the country, on a street by street basis. Continue reading
Calderdale 38 Degrees NHS Campaign Group meets monthly and welcomes new and existing members who want to support the campaign to save our NHS.
If you would like to become a member, please email calderdale38degrees@gmail.com
Calderdale 38 Degrees NHS Campaign are developing some new campaign ideas to save our NHS, that they will present at the meeting. They need support to carry this through. Continue reading
HUddersfield KONP invite anyone who mourns NHS cuts and sell offs to meet at Market Cross, Huddersfield on Sat 1 November at 11.00 am.
This is the gathering point for a dignified funeral march round town stopping off at sites where companies involved in privatisation have a high street presence: Boots, Specsavers, Virgin etc. Continue reading