VEG

Verwood Environmental Group

Anne Hayden(previously a Verwood GP) and Elaine Harland, simultaneously created Your Planet Doctors and partner organisation,VEG, in November 2019. They work together closely, sharing the same vision of a carbon free future, and a world full of self sufficient, sustainable, caring and resilient communities, intent on creating equal opportunities for all.

VEG’s aims are:

• To inform people of the startling reality of climate change and the effect that their actions have on the planet.
• To engage the community, and to hopefully join up with those who are already engaged in similar activities, in a range of environmental projects that teach green living and sustainability to children and adults, who are not totally aware, to minimise the impact humans have on the planet.
 • To build friendship groups within the community to share skills and knowledge that allow us to live in greater harmony with our environment to the best of our ability.  
• To be inclusive of all age groups, race and gender
• To encourage interaction between all these groups.
• To act as a referral centre for individuals suffering from climate change anxiety and grief

VEG’s projects will be, First and foremost to invoke community spirit, we wish to build an environmentally friendly log cabin, utilising the labour and skills of the people of Verwood. We will be approaching local builders merchants for building materials and local tradesmen for specialist skills, but essentially this is a community build with the hard labour being done by the members. The cabin would be of the size required to hold about 20 people at a time. It will be powered by solar power and other sustainable means.

We will run Climate Change educational talks and be available to answer environmental questions.
We will interact with the local schools and empower them to set up child friendly eco groups, many of which, have started to embark on the challenge already.
We will plant a community allotment and share the produce. Skills can be shared between all members and these skills can then be translated into a home setting should climate change put pressure on our food resources.
We will run a repair café, utilising the repair skills of our members and teaching them to those who use the café. We aim to stop items ending up in landfill. There will be a variety of genres such as mechanical, textile and furniture repair cafes.

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We will have guest speakers on a range of environmental issues.
We will have sustainable energy discussion groups and work together in improving our homes. Some of us will take part in The Green Living Project and I am in contact with Rachel Lamb who is running this.
We will engage in rewilding projects wherever possible, sowing wildflower meadows, planting trees and building ponds. We will approach local landowners for spaces they cannot utilise.
As a result, and when successful, we will be known as TRANSTION VERWOOD, a community with greater self sufficiency, sustainability and resilience to meet the inevitable challenges that lie ahead.
With all of us pulling together, WE CAN DO THIS.

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