Green Ilminster

We want to reduce our impact on the planet and create a more sustainable environment and economy.

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Monday, 10 February @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Green Illminster Share and Repair shop

18 silver street

Ilminster

Green Ilminster share and repair shop. We opened our doors in February 2022, with the aim of…

About our group

Green Ilminster is all about making our local community more resilient and thinking about how we are going to look after not only our natural world but each other – our friends and families – as we start feeling the impact of climate change. We want to reduce our impact on the planet and create a more sustainable environment and economy.

How are we doing this?

We believe the key will be in thinking globally but acting locally, engaging with and involving the Ilminster community in issues such as:

  • Our local environment
  • Community Resilience
  • Fostering community & wider relationships
  • Sustainability
  • Tackling the climate emergency

Our Projects 

  • Share & Repair Shop – Started in Feb 2022 in Silver Street, we have a team of shop volunteers and repairers working to stop things going unnecessarily to landfill, offering a repair service for items such as vacuum cleaners, lamps, clothes, lawn mowers, musical boxes, irons, power tools, etc. We also accept items as donations to sell at the shop with the aim of becoming self-sustaining, and finally we are aiming to stock items for local people to borrow. We want to make the most of the emerging ‘circular economy’ to benefit us all.
  • Tree Group – A key activity that has been running since 2019. So far, the Tree Team have planted over 3000 trees in and around Ilminster and given away many more with the help of local businesses during 2022.
  • River Isle Water Testing – The health of our rivers is a hot topic nowadays and at Green Ilminster we’ve been looking at ways in which we can make a difference. We’ve decided to team up with Westcountry Rivers Trust (WRT) to monitor the water of our local River Isle. WRT call it Citizen Science Investigations (or CSI) and we will be joining volunteers across the southwest, adding out data to create a meaningful and valuable picture of our rivers’ health. We plan on having a team of people sampling and testing water, on a monthly basis, at a number of crucial sites on the Isle from Combe St Nicholas to Puckington. Testing kits are provided along with a narrative description, we will be recording temperature, phosphate levels, the water’s turbidity and dissolved solids level.  The results will be input by the volunteers directly into the WRT database.

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A picture of a community allotment. wooden planters are in neat rows with small paths between them. Within the planters are different green leafy plants of varying heights. In some planters are canes growing peas. All plants appear to be seasonal summer vegetables. To the back right of the image are some sheds and the community allotment continues right through the image