Green Watford

The Green Watford Market takeover
2022-11-06 10:00 - 15:00 (Europe/London) | Watford Market, The Parade (in front of Nandos), Watford
A fantastic way to draw the Great Big Green Week to a close. Discover stalls on all things to do with sustainability, including food, waste, travel, nature and wildlife organisations, and local community groups. Ask questions, seek advice and come away with loads of ideas and info to help you stay green all year round!
| Wheelchair accessible | All-age |

Waste food shop and plant sales
2022-11-05 10:00 - 14:00 | Random Cafe, Meriden Gardens,24a Garsmouth Way, Watford, WD25 9DR
All food is eaten on a pay-as-you-feel basis (where you offer a donation of money, time or skills to the project based on what you feel a meal is worth).
| Pay-as-you-feel | Wheelchair accessible | All-age |

A Climate Conversation
2022-11-04 19:00 - 21:30 | Watford Quaker Meeting House, 150 Church Road, Watford, WD17 4QB, United Kingdom
“If working apart we are a force powerful enough to destabilise our planet, surely working together we are powerful enough to save it.” David Attenborough COP26
Join us for our climate conversation – an informal drop in space where we can share ideas, chat about positive solutions and discuss how we can work together to make a difference.
A chance to meet new people and support each other to do more than we could as individuals.
There will be activities for children and plenty of space to talk as well as light refreshments available.
Contact sustainableswherts@greenwatford.uk if you have any queries.

Play Rangers - South Oxhey Playing Field
2022-11-04 16:00 - 18:00 | South Oxhey Playing Fields, WD19 7PU
Join the Play Rangers as we go back to nature. A variety of activities including den building, camp fires, rope swings, team games and sporting activities. Play Rangers will be “Going Green” this week.
Meet at Ashburnham Drive entrance |
Info: Free | Children (Years 1-6 only)
Book: https://app.upshot.org.uk/signup/814487c4 (only for first session)
The Play Rangers sessions are fully inclusive – organisers can be contacted for more details.

Croxley Green Health Walk
2022-11-04 09:45 - 11:30 | Croxley Green Morrisons, Ascot Road, Watford, WD18 8AA
Enjoy the countryside and local green spaces with free walks led by qualified
leaders. This walk will take up to 90 minutes.
| Meet at the green space by the supermarket cafe | Adults only |
Arrive 15 minutes early for your first walk

Hertfordshire Health Walks are free and aimed at adults – the 18 year olds and over
Children can come on the health walks accompanied by an adult
Walkers do not need special equipment just suitable shoes for walking and waterproof clothing for walking in wet weather

Outdoor Volunteering and Compost Club
2022-11-04 09:00 - 13:00 | Woodoaks Farm, Woodoaks Farm, Denham Way, Maple Cross, WD3 9XQ
Help Woodoaks move towards a sustainable food and farming hub. Learn
everything you need to know about composting (bring raw food scraps – no
meat, used animal bedding, garden waste).
9-11am (volunteering) or 12-1pm (Compost Club)
| Not wheelchair accessible | All-age |

Play Rangers - Leavesden Country Park
2022-11-03 16:00 - 18:00 | Leavesden Country Park, College Road, WD5 0AX
Join the Play Rangers as we go back to nature. A variety of activities including den building, camp fires, rope swings, team games and sporting activities.
Meet at Woodlands Cafe
Info: Free | Children (Years 1-6 only)
Book: https://app.upshot.org.uk/signup/814487c4 (only for first session)
The Play Rangers sessions are fully inclusive – organisers can be contacted for more details.

Crafternoon Tea Social Group
2022-11-03 12:00 - 14:00 | Random Cafe, Meriden Gardens,24a Garsmouth Way, Watford, WD25 9DR
Meet and talk about anything craft-related. Food is eaten on a pay-as you-feel basis (where you offer a donation of money, time or skills to the project based on what you feel a meal is worth).
Cafe open from 12noon-2pm.
Pay-as-you-feel | Wheelchair accessible | All-age

Abbots Langley Health Walk
2022-11-03 10:00 - 11:30 | Car park entrance at side of Abbots Langley Pharmacy, 78 High Street, WD5 0AW
Enjoy the countryside and local green spaces with free walks led by qualified
leaders. There are two walks: the shortest is 45-60 mins and the longer
walk takes up to 90 minutes.
Arrive 15 minutes early for your first walk

Hertfordshire Health Walks are free and aimed at adults – the 18 year olds and over
Children can come on the health walks accompanied by an adult
Walkers do not need special equipment just suitable shoes for walking and waterproof clothing for walking in wet weather

Conservation volunteering - Green Gym
2022-11-03 09:45 - 13:00, 2022-11-01 09:45 - 13:00 | Watford Rugby Club, Knutsford Playing Fields, Radlett Road, Watford, WD24 4LL
All welcome to join the Green Gym volunteers to help transform meadows and woodland along the Colne River.
Fun, physical, practical conservation sessions
Everyone is welcome just come dressed for outside work and we provide everything else.
From pruning and weeding to scything and coppicing. Participate at your own pace, what you choose to do is up to you. Help us improve Watford’s green spaces.
It’s a great way to keep fit and connect with nature.
Info: Free | Not wheelchair accessible | Adults only |

Play Rangers - King George V Playing Fields
2022-11-02 16:00 - 18:00 | King George V Playing Field, Mill End, WD3 8JN
Join the Play Rangers as we go back to nature. A variety of activities including den building, camp fires, rope swings, team games and sporting activities.
Meet at children’s play area
Info: Free | Children (Years 1-6 only)
Book: https://app.upshot.org.uk/signup/814487c4 (only for first session)
The Play Rangers sessions are fully inclusive – organisers can be contacted for more details.

Mill End Health Walk
2022-11-02 11:00 - 11:30 | Mill End Community Centre, Church Lane, WD3 8HD
Enjoy the countryside and local green spaces with free walks led by qualified leaders. This walk lasts up to 40 minutes and is taken at a slow pace.
Arrive 15 minutes early for your first walk.
| Adults only | Limited places (call 01992 555 888 to book)

Illustrated Talk and Bird Walk
2022-11-02 10:30 - 12:30 | Education Room, The Hub, Cassiobury Park, Gade Avenue, Watford, WD18 7LG
An illustrated talk about the birds to be found locally (with some bits of folklore) followed by a walk in Cassiobury Park.
All-age

South Oxhey Health Walks
2022-11-02 10:00 - 11:30 | All Saints Church car park, Gosforth Lane, South Oxhey, WD19 7AX
Enjoy the countryside and local green spaces with free walks led by qualified leaders. Choose from a beginners’ 20-30 minute walk or an hour-long walk.
Arrive 15 minutes early for your first walk

Hertfordshire Health Walks are free and aimed at adults – the 18 year olds and over
Children can come on the health walks accompanied by an adult
Walkers do not need special equipment just suitable shoes for walking and waterproof clothing for walking in wet weather

Play Rangers - Croxley Hall Woods
2022-11-01 16:00 - 18:00 | Croxley Hall Woods, Harvey Road WD3 3BS, Harvey Road, WD3 3BS
Join the Play Rangers as we go back to nature. A variety of activities including den building, camp fires, rope swings, team games and sporting activities. Play Rangers will be “Going Green” this week.
Meet at pedestrian entrance on Harvey Road
Info: Free | Children (Years 1-6 only)
Book: https://app.upshot.org.uk/signup/814487c4 (only for first session)
The Play Rangers sessions are fully inclusive – organisers can be contacted for more details.

Waste food shop and plant sales
2022-11-01 10:00 - 14:00 | Random Cafe, Meriden Gardens,24a Garsmouth Way, Watford, WD25 9DR
All food is eaten on a pay-as-you-feel basis (where you offer a donation of money, time or skills to the project based on what you feel a meal is worth)
Info: Pay-as-you-feel | Wheelchair accessible | All-age |

Play Rangers - Scotsbridge Playing Fields
2022-10-31 16:00 - 18:00 | Scotsbridge Playing Fields, Rickmansworth WD3 1AT, Scotsbridge Playing Fields, Rickmansworth, WD3 1AT
Join the Play Rangers as we go back to nature. A variety of activities including den building, camp fires, rope swings, team games and sporting activities. Play Rangers will be “Going Green” this week.
For: Children (Years 1-6 only)
Book here: https://app.upshot.org.uk/signup/814487c4 (only for the first
session)
Meet in the car park.
The Play Rangers sessions are fully inclusive – organisers can be contacted for more details.

Film: The Ants and the Grasshopper
2022-10-30 17:00 - 19:30 | The Pump House, 5 Local Board Road, Watford, WD17 2JP, United Kingdom
Travelling from Malawi to California to the White House, Anita sets out on a journey to persuade Americans that climate change is real…
Anita Chitaya has a gift; she can help bring abundant food from dead soil, she can make men fight for gender equality, and she can end child hunger in her village. Now, to save her home from extreme weather, she faces her greatest challenge: persuading Americans that climate change is real.
She meets climate skeptics and despairing farmers. Her journey takes her across all the divisions shaping the US, from the rural-urban divide, to schisms of race, class and gender, to the thinking that allows Americans to believe they live on a different planet from everyone else. It will take all her skill and experience to help Americans recognize, and free themselves from, a logic that is already destroying the Earth.
See event website below to book
Free | Wheelchair accessible | All-age |

Alkaline Market Garden Volunteering
2022-10-30 10:00 - 15:00 | Woodoaks Farm, Woodoaks Farm, Denham Way, Maple Cross, WD3 9XQ
Learn about how farming can work without chemicals and pesticides! Be part of the movement to reduce air miles and shorten the distance from farm to fork, plot to plate!
Time 10am-12pm or 1-3pm
See event website below to book
Free | Not wheelchair accessible | All-ages |

Black Earth: Resistance, Anti-Racism and the Environment
2022-10-30 09:00 - 17:30 | Cassiobury Park, Gade Avenue,, Watford, WD17 3AR
A series of walks, led by Zoë Palmer, where we will explore our connection with the environment, discuss mental health, herbal remedies and a decolonial relationship with nature.
Time 9am, 11am, 2pm and 4pm (each walk lasts 90 minutes)
Numbers limited, see event website below to book
Free | Outdoors and step-free | All-age |

All About Butterflies
2022-10-29 14:00 - 16:00 | The Hub, Cassiobury Park, Cassiobury Park, Watford, WD17 3AR
Find out about the butterflies that inhabit the Watford area and how to make your garden more butterfly friendly.
Book (see event website below) for one or both talks:

Butterflies of the Watford area 2 – 3 pm
How to attract butterflies into your garden 3 – 4 pm

Free wildflower seeds!
Free | Wheelchair accessible | All-age |

Waste food shop and plant sales
2022-10-29 10:00 - 14:00 | Random Cafe, Meriden Gardens,24a Garsmouth Way, Watford, WD25 9DR
All food is eaten on a pay-as-you-feel basis (where you offer a donation of
money, time or skills to the project based on what you feel a meal is worth).
Pay-as-you-feel | Wheelchair accessible | All-age |

Join us at this years South West Herts Great Big Green Week
2022-10-29 - 2022-11-06
This exciting community festival taking place across South West Herts between 29 October and the 6 November 2022. It is being coordinated by Watford and Three Rivers Friends of the Earth, in partnership with Hertsmere, Three Rivers and Watford Councils. This is a celebration of community action to tackle climate change and protect nature – we hope you will join us.
The Great Big Green Week (GBGW) is organised by members of our community and is a celebration of everything people across South West Herts are doing to improve our local environment and tackle climate change, with a wide range of events, hosted by a number of organisations.
We are sure you will find something to enjoy.

A Climate Conversation
2022-10-07 08:00 - 17:00 | Watford Quaker Meeting House, 150 Church Road, Watford, WD17 4QB, United Kingdom
Have you always wanted to help the environment but had no idea where to start? Come to Climate Conversations, a place where you can chat about positive solutions and ways in which we can all make a difference.
There will be activities for children, space to talk as well as light refreshments available.

Where Your Food Waste Goes - Sustainability Workshop! Don't let trash destroy our planet
2022-07-14 18:00 - 20:00 | Meriden Community Centre, Garsmouth Way, Watford, WD25 9ET, United Kingdom
Learn more about the complete waste process and its impact on our environment and meet other like-minded eco-warriors in the local area.
MEET WITH OTHERS IN THE FEEEDINGOURFUTURE NETWORK, JOIN A GROWING MOVEMENT TOWARDS MAKING A ‘WASTE FREE WATFORD’
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/…/where-your-food-waste…

Creating a Community-Resilient Future Now
2022-06-25 12:30 - 17:00 | St. Albans Musuem
Why not join the HEART Community at their special event on Creating a Community-Resilient Future Now

Come and listen to Prof Rupert Read and other experts share an inspiring vision for how we can adapt to a changing world.
Join the conversation and share your views.
Explore themes that matter to you.
Come away energised and clear about how you can be part of shaping our future now

Litter Pick - The Moatfield, Bushey
2022-06-25 10:30 - 12:00 | The Moatfield, Bushey
Be a wildlife saviour and help care for our local environment by supporting a litter pick near you!
Please register at the link below to ensure we have enough equipment: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/d/united-kingdom–watford/litter-pick-bushey/

✓ FREE ✓ WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE
✓ SUITABLE FOR ALL AGES (children must be supervised)

Where Your Food Waste Goes - Sustainability Workshop! Don't let trash destroy our planet
2022-06-12 08:00 - 17:00
Learn more about the complete waste process and its impact on our environment and meet other like-minded eco-warriors in the local area.

About this event

With figures updated for 2022, join us for a fascinating talk to uncover what the county throws away, how it’s sorted and where it goes.
Let the Hertfordshire Waste Partnership, responsible for collecting and disposing of our household waste, guide you through which items we throws away, what happens to each waste steam – with a focus on the importance of avoiding food waste
Meet with others in the FeeedingOurFuture network, join a growing movement towards making a ‘WASTE FREE WATFORD’

Litter Pick - Knutsford playing fields/ Radlett Road playing fields
2022-04-10 10:00 - 11:30 | Watford Rugby Club, Knutsford Playing Fields, Radlett Road, Watford, WD24 4LL
Be a wildlife saviour and help care for our local environment by supporting a litter pick near you!
Discount for those taking part on hot drinks afterwards at the WRFC Bar and Coffee House.
Please register at the link below to ensure we have enough equipment: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/litter-pick-knutsford-playing-fields-radlett-road-playing-fields-tickets-305291885247

✓ FREE ✓ WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE
✓ SUITABLE FOR ALL AGES (children must be supervised)
