Welcome to the SinCH website
Sustainability in Colwich and the Haywoods (SinCH) is a community group which has grown out of the local Plastic Free group. Our focus is on helping people to:
Live a Sustainable Lifestyle
Go plastic-free
Repair, re-use and recycle
Reduce our carbon footprint
Support local businesses
Connect to Nature
Improve the bio-diversity of our landscape
Garden for wildlife
Grow your own
Enjoy, protect and enhance our green spaces
Learn and act together
Social events
Share ideas
Work as a group on projects
Support each other
Focus on well-being and positivity
We share a world which is facing multiple environmental challenges.
If we keep going down our current route - burning fossil fuels, over-consuming, degrading the environment and undermining biodiversity - we keep piling unsustainable pressure onto the Earth’s resources and ecosystems.
It’s easy to feel daunted but SinCH is optimistic that we can find creative ways to transform the way we live.
By taking personal responsibility, supporting each other and acting together within our community we can find a way to live in balance with the planet that sustains us without compromising the future of generations to come.
To see what we are doing please see the links at the top of the page for more info, but in a nutshell:
Our monthly coffee and cakes event at the Lamb & Flag
- Enjoy the coffee and cakes and a good chat with people.
- Buy plastic free goods and local food.
- Buy produce from local businesses.
- Bring your difficult to recycle items.
- Get information about how to reuse and upcycle.
- Swap plants, seeds and share information.
Our monthly Green Drinks Evening social event
- Enjoy a drink and a catch up.
- Join a network of people who share our perspective and want to explore what sustainable living means.
- An opportunity to raise questions, learn together and to hear outside speakers.
Support local businesses and keep money circulating locally
- Check out our directory of local firms who working to be sustainable.
- Let us know about other local firms we need to include.
Grow your own and garden to encourage wildlife
- Learn more about how to make this happen.
- Share your knowledge and skills.
- Swap plants and seeds.
Improve local biodiversity
- Work together to improve the bio-diversity within our landscape.
- Identify areas to plant trees, hedgerows, wildflowers and encourage wildlife.
- Work with landowners to identify and deliver improvement projects.
- Protect and enhance our green spaces.