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Welcome to the March edition of Green Steps! This month there are events to help improve your practical skills for growing plants and fixing things. There are also tips that could reduce your energy bills by around £100!
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Want to grow flowers, vegetables or herbs but everything you try just withers and dies? Get down to the Petersfield Seed Sway on Saturday 14 March from 10am-12.30pm at Winton House, Petersfield for advice from experts and inspiration for the year ahead.
The event will also include free workshops during the day.
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We are often too quick to throw away broken things like clothes, electrical appliances and toys when – if we had the skills – they could be fixed.
Repair cafés are free meeting places focused on repairing things, together. Take along your broken items from home. Together with the specialists, you can start making repairs and learn how to do them for yourself.
Alton Repair Café will take place on 21 March from 10.30am-12.30pm at Alton Assembly Rooms.
Petersfield Climate Action Network (PeCAN) has set up a new repair café in Petersfield, which runs on the last Saturday of each month at the Avenue Pavillion. The first session will take place on Saturday 28 March from 1.30-3.30pm.
If Alton and Petersfield aren’t convenient, there might be another repair café near you, visit the Restart Project website for other locations.
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The GOV.UK Clean Energy campaign has three tips to reduce your energy bills by around £100:
- Reduce your combi boiler flow temperature to 60C
- Find and fix draughts around your home
- Turn radiators down, not off, in rooms you’re not using
For more detail on the tips and other clean energy ideas, visit the GOV.UK website.
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