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Welcome
to the website for Hillingdon Friends of the Earth. We
are located in West London and meet on the third Tuesday of each month from
7:45pm until 9:45pm in Christ Church, Redford Way, Uxbridge UB8 1SZ. Click here for map of venue.
Please
come and join us ! Our next meeting is on Tuesday 17th
January 2012. We will be planning our activities for the year. Click
here to download the report of our activities between Sept 2009 and
August 2010, as presented at our previous AGM in October 2010. |
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In March 2011 we visited
Transition Heathrow and gave them a cheque to help with their gardening
projects.
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On 19 March 2011 we joined other local groups in asking David Cameron to talk half as much rubbish.
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On Saturday 17th July 2010 we
were invited to the first Eastcote House Gardens open day and picnic.
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On Saturday 10th July 2010 we had a very busy afternoon at Hayes Carnival on a very hot day!
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On Saturday 19th June 2010 we participated in the Ickenham Festival by entering the carnival procession and holding a stall. . |
On
Sunday 9th May 2010 we had a stall at the Ruislip Woods Festival with feely
boxes and information leaflets.
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On Saturday 5th 2009 December we joined 50,000 climate
campaigners in The Wave March in support of action on climate change at
Copenhagen. |
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On
Saturday 4th 2009 July we had a stall at Yiewsley Community Fun Day, where
they were celebrating the 50th Anniversary of St Matthew's Church along with
the local community and school. Our climate change themed feely boxes
attracted a lot of attention.
The
following Saturday, 11th July 2009 we had a fund raising stall at Hayes
Carnival. |
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Climate
March Saturday 6th 2008 December On
Saturday 6th December we joined NOTRAG and many thousands of others and
marched from Grosvenor Square to Parliament Square in London. The themes were
NO to new coal and airport expansion and YES to renewable energy. Click here for more details. The many
inspiring speakers included Caroline Lucas, Nick Clegg and john McDonnell MP
for Hayes and Harlington. |
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FOE
Renewables Day Of Action On
Saturday 25th 2008 October we set up a stall in Hayes Town Centre and asked
people to sign postcards requesting the government keep to its target for
renewable energy. We also had a petition opposing the proposed third runway
at Heathrow and the threat to Cherry Lane cemetery. We were interviewed by Hayes FM. Click here
to listen to the interview. Say
NO to Heathrow expansion We
said NO to Heathow expansion on Saturday 31st May
2008. Click here to see
the human NO at Sipson.
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We performed a short play with the message
'Renewables + Third Runway = Nonsense! John McDonnell, the MP for Hayes and
Harlington filmed this and you can view it by clicking here. He also interviewed
us and you can view this by clicking here.
Ickenham Festival 7-15 June 2008 In June we
participated in the Ickenham Festival. We entered the carnival procession, and held an information
and lucky dip stall at the Gala.Click here for the
Festival website. Our
group organised the Festival Treasure Hunt with a green/natural history
theme. Click here
to download the answers as a pdf, or here to download
as a word document. The winner of the short route was Lucy Roach of 6th Ickenham
Brownies, and the winners of the longer route Max and Kirstie
Fullerton.
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FOE
Big Ask Day of Action On
Saturday 5th April 2008 we set set up a stall in
Hayes Town Centre. We invited our borough MPs (John Randall and John McDonnell)
who support the Big Ask Campaign to visit us, but we also had a suprise visitor who bore a striking resemblance to our
PM. What was he doing with that aeroplane ? |
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We
asked people visiting our stall to sign postcards asking for the Climate
Change Bill to include aviation and shipping emissions. We also had a
petition opposing the Third Runway and 6th Terminal at Heathrow. Showing
our view of the government's plans for airport expansion. |