Sustainable Brailes: March News
Repair Café:
Thanks to everyone who came and supported our Repair Café in February. It was our busiestyet. Amongst other things we fixed lamps and bikes, and the tabletop swap was a great success. Our next one is on Saturday 11th April, 10-12 Pavilion.
Water Testing
If you are a regular reader of our column, you’ll know that we have been testing the water in Sutton Brook for some time now. When we started testing in Oct 24 we picked two sites – above and below the CSO in Lower Brailes. Having reviewed our data we have found that there is a low level of variation between the data sets at both recording points (High Street, Lower Brailes and New Barn Farm, Brailes), so we have decided to drop to one sample location (High Street, Lower Brailes) as it is not anticipated that this would affect the quality or meaningfulness of the data. Brailes Parish Council have agreed to continue funding the test strips/sachets for a further 12 months at the one site and we would like to thank them for their continued support. We’d also like to thank Kirsty Righton and family for allowing us access to Sutton Brook from their land. We’ll continue to feed our data feed into the Safe Avon Project. If you’d like to see a copy of our findings then this is available on the Brailes Village Website.
Litter Picking
Keep Britain Tidy’s “The Great Sprong Clean” is back again this year from 13th to 29th March 2026. If you’d like to get involved then go to their website at www.keepbritaintidy.org/
With that in mind we’d like to know if you would be interested in doing a bit of regular litter picking around the Parish? We’re looking to source some free pickers and are lookers for some volunteers. We’d like to “allocate” parts of the parish which you’d be happy to be responsible for litter picking once or twice a month, at a time that suits you, with the support of a group. If people are happy to take it to the next level we could even photo/weigh the collections to record progress. Please email us or come along to the next Repair Café for more details.
Recycling Station at The Village Hall – Update:
So we are now able to put batteries out with recycling – pop them in a separate bag and leave them on top of the bin
We now have the following bins:
• 2 x blister bins as these have proved popular (you can recycle these in some Aldi stores)
• 1 x bin for cans (please no foil, just cans)
• 1 x bin for foil (no cans just foil)
• 1 x bin for cables (these get taken to Shipston dump)
We’d like to thank the Village Hall for their ongoing support with this project.
Jo, Louise and Sue
The group is open to everyone in the parish. If you would like to join, or find out more please email su*****************@***il.com