Sustainable Frome

Monthly Meeting
2025-03-06 19:00 - 21:00 UTC | The Good Heart, 7 Palmer Street, Frome, BA11 1DS, United Kingdom
We meet most months on the first Thursday of the month at the Good Heart, Palmer Street, Frome.
Meet at 7pm to share food together with the meeting starting at 7.30pm

The power of a good story
2025-02-06 19:00 - 21:00 | Town Hall, Christchurch Street West, Frome, BA11 1EB
James Turner, Creative Director leads this session hosted by Future Shed as part of Green & Healthy Frome’s focus on storytelling and communications.
James is a creative campaigning expert who has over two decades’ experience with organisations like Greenpeace, Amnesty, Patagonia and his own company Glimpse.
He specialises in using humour and entertainment to make big issues like climate change or refugee relief feel more relatable.
His session will focus on the power of a good story to create a successful campaign.
This session is for anyone interested in storytelling – it will help you connect with new audiences on an emotional level, and understand how to put your work in a wider context which gets people excited and engaged.
You’ll hear lots of real world examples and have the chance to try out some of these techniques on your own work or projects. And there will be cats.
The event is free but please reserve a ticket:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-power-of-a-good-story-with-james-turner-creative-director-tickets-1112026734899

Future Shed is part of Green & Healthy Frome, a partnership programme of Edventure Frome, Frome Medical Practice and Frome Town Council taking action on health and climate funded by the National Lottery’s Climate Action Fund. Future Shed is part of Edventure Frome. Future Shed is about ideas and connections, collectives and enterprise – we support groups and ventures to make real change around climate and wellbeing. This is a space to meet up, connect and build relationships to effect change.
edventurefrome.org

FromeFM
2025-01-13 20:00 - 21:00 | frome.fm
On Monday 13th January at 8pm the Frome.FM Sustainable Frome show has

People for Packsaddle talking about the latest developments in their campaign to protect the community space and
Frome Town Council Resilience Officer Jo Morris talks about the Healthy Homes project and the free advice they offer on keeping your home warm whether you are a homeowner or a renter

Plus some positive news and some winter music.
Monday at 8pm, and then anytime on MixCloud

Film Night: The Last Ice Age
2025-01-02 19:00 - 21:00 | The Good Heart, 7 Palmer Street, Frome, BA11 1DS, United Kingdom
Start the new year with sharing food followed by this reflective film: The Last Ice Age.
As storyteller Andri Snær Magnason puts it, climate change is like a black hole: so big it’s larger than language. We understand it not by looking straight at its center, but by looking at its edges.

On a journey retracing his grandparents’ annual spring pilgrimage to Iceland’s Vatnajökull glacier, Andri searches for the stories that lie at the edges of our climate crisis in both scientific data and his family’s memories.
Witnessing the inevitable decline of Europe’s largest ice cap with his son Hlynur, Andri pulls on the ties of love that connect past and future generations to grasp what the immense changes he has seen in just one lifetime will mean for the future of the planet.

You can watch the trailer here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMbm4afAibU

Monthly Meeting
2024-12-05 19:00 - 21:00 | The Good Heart, 7 Palmer Street, Frome, BA11 1DS, United Kingdom
Join us at the Good Heart for shared food from 7pm. The meeting will start at 7.30pm

Alternative Economics
2024-11-12 19:30 - 21:30 | Town Hall, Christchurch Street West, Frome, BA11 1EB
Alternative Economics
Tuesday November 12, 7.30 pm – 9.30 pm at the Town Hall. This event is free but please book a place here
https://buytickets.at/sustainablefrome/1419291
Diana Finch will give a talk based on her new book, ‘Value Beyond Money’. There will also be short presentations on Degrowth and Doughnut Economics.
Drawing on the lessons learned as the Bristol Pound’s managing director, Diana examines the theory and practice behind many new economic ideas. What really is ‘money’? Can we imagine an economic system that prioritises non-financial value? Can we create a post market economy?
Finch’s work on the Bristol Pound and her experience in the non-profit sector led her to believe that the economic system is the cause of many environmental and social challenges. She wants to see changes made through grassroots initiatives that encourage people to think differently.
You can listen to an interview with Diana Finch on the Sustainable Frome show on Frome FM Monday 14 October and available to listen the day after on MixCloud herew:
https://www.frome.fm/programmes/sustainable-frome

FromeFM radio show - The Sound of the Wild
2024-11-11 20:00 - 21:00 | frome.fm
Our monthly radio show. To celebrate Our Earth Week the theme is THE SOUND OF THE WILD
Tune in for sounds and music closely connected with nature, some messages from the wild and interviews with some of the species that live in the ground,and the river.
Listen to previous shows here
https://www.mixcloud.com/FromeFM/playlists/sustainable-frome/

FromeFM radio show
2024-10-14 20:00 - 21:00 | frome.fm
Our monthly radio show.
This show includes an interview with Diana Finch and her new book, ‘Value Beyond Money’.
Listen to previous shows here
https://www.mixcloud.com/FromeFM/playlists/sustainable-frome/

Sustainable Frome October meeting: FILM - Six Inches of Soil
2024-10-03 18:30 - 21:00 | Town Hall, Christchurch Street West, Frome, BA11 1EB
FILM – Six Inches of Soil, Thursday 3rd October,
6.30pm to 9.30pm Frome Town Hall
Six Inches of Soil tells the inspiring story of young English farmers standing up against the industrial food system and transforming the way they produce food – to heal the soil, our health and provide for local communities.
Doors and bar open at 6:30pm, screening starts at 7pm.
There will be a Q&A session after the film screening with local farmers, food producers and environmentalists:

Ben Still – Loop Frome
Caroline Wajsblum – Field 2 Fork
Jeremy Padfield – Foss Farms
Sue Padfield – Foss Farms
Ed Green – Chesterblade Hills

This event is hosted by Frome Wild Bunch, Sustainable Frome and Future Shed Frome, in association with Frome Town Council.
This event is Sold out!

Sustainable Frome September meeting
2024-09-05 19:00 - 21:00 | The Good Heart, 7 Palmer Street, Frome, BA11 1DS, United Kingdom
Laura Tyley, Transition Network Connector for the Southwest, will be talking about new phase of our Transition movement building project for groups based in Wales and England.
“We want to find out more about your work, how we can support your group’s vision, and explore ways to weave deeper supportive connections between us all. This project will culminate in a Transition Assembly in February, an invitation for Transition groups across Wales and England to come together in one place, explore the big challenges and opportunities in our work, and forge a greater movement for change.”
https://transitiontogether.org.uk/meet-your-network-weavers/
Join us at the Good Heart for shared food from 7pm. The meeting will start at 7.30pm

Sustainable Frome August meeting
2024-08-01 19:00 - 21:00 | The Good Heart, 7 Palmer Street, Frome, BA11 1DS, United Kingdom
Details coming soon …
Join us at the Good Heart for shared food from 7pm. The meeting will start at 7.30pm

Sustainable Frome July meeting
2024-07-04 19:00 - 21:00 | The Good Heart, 7 Palmer Street, Frome, BA11 1DS, United Kingdom

Sustainable Frome June meeting
2024-06-06 19:00 - 21:00 | The Good Heart, 7 Palmer Street, Frome, BA11 1DS, United Kingdom

Sustainable Frome May meeting
2024-05-02 19:00 - 21:00 | The Good Heart, 7 Palmer Street, Frome, BA11 1DS, United Kingdom

Sustainable Frome April meeting
2024-04-04 19:00 - 21:00 | The Good Heart, 7 Palmer Street, Frome, BA11 1DS, United Kingdom

Sustainable Frome March meeting: TALK, GROW, THRIVE Frome
2024-03-07 19:00 - 21:00 | The Good Heart, 7 Palmer Street, Frome, BA11 1DS, United Kingdom
TALK, GROW, THRIVE Frome — A Health and Wellbeing Programme
Tanya Slater is coming to share with us her plans to create a health and wellbeing programme to reduce stress/anxiety and depression for individuals, families and communities in Frome that is inclusive and free/low cost to access. A beautifully simple programme that will bring the community together by teaching the Human Givens, Needs Model of Wellbeing. To understand what their human needs are and how to effectively communicate to others what they need at any given moment. The project is called TALK, GROW, THRIVE Frome. The vision is a community wide language of wellbeing that aims to reduce health inequalities and empower individuals to take ownership of their own health and wellbeing while having less impact on our planet and saving money too.
Join us for a fun and interactive conversation and introduction to our own Human Given Needs.
Join us at the Good Heart for shared food from 7pm. The meeting will start at 7.30pm

Potato Day and Seed Swap 2024
2024-02-18 10:00 - 14:00 | Cheese and Grain, Market Yard, Frome, BA11 1BE
The Cheese and Grain will be packed with wonderful stalls with seed potatoes, seeds, plants, local community groups and growing projects, plus the community seed swap.
Plus a series of FREE talks and workshops: details and booking here.
Entry is £3 for adults (kids free)

Sustainable Frome Febuary meeting -- Film showing: Imprint
2024-02-01 19:00 - 21:00 | The Good Heart, 7 Palmer Street, Frome, BA11 1DS, United Kingdom
Join us at the Good Heart to watch the film Imprint.
What can one person do? What can a group of people do? What do we want to leave behind? In the film “Imprint” we visit 13 projects in 13 different places where committed groups work for a vibrant future. A personal and poetic depiction of what it means to be fully human in the age of the Anthropocene. A co-production between Campfire Stories and the Swedish Transition Network. Watch the trailer here
Join us from 7pm for shared food; meeting and film from7.30pm

Tech Amnesty -- Donate your unused equipment
2024-01-28 10:00 - 13:00 | Town Hall, Christchurch Street West, Frome, BA11 1EB
Frome Town Council are hosting a tech amnesty with Somerset CIC Donate IT at Frome Town Hall on Sunday 28th January from 10am to 1pm. Donate IT collect, refurbish and redistribute phones, laptops, tablets and other digital devices to people who need them.
Anyone with devices to donate can bring them to the drop-off point in the town hall car park to hand to Donate IT volunteers.

Frome FM radio show
2023-12-11 20:00 - 21:00 | frome.fm
Listen on 96.6FM around Frome, or online at frome.fm online, or on your smart speaker.
Broadcast on the 2nd Monday of every month, with previous shows available on

Sustainable Frome December meeting - cancelled
2023-12-07 19:00 - 21:00 | The Good Heart, 7 Palmer Street, Frome, BA11 1DS, United Kingdom
Our usual December meeting is replaced by the Big Green Meet up on Tuesday 5th December

Big Green Festive Meet Up
2023-12-05 19:00 - 21:00 | Town Hall, Christchurch Street West, Frome, BA11 1EB
A festive invitation from Green & Healthy Frome and Sustainable Frome
to our community to celebrate all the great work from 2023.
Let’s come together for a green festive meet-up! After a busy 2023 where Frome’s community has once again outdone itself when it comes to actions to create a greener and healthier future admirably tackled in the face of some mighty local and global challenges, this meeting will offer a chance to relax and celebrate all of the achievements of the past 12 months. And of course, there will be mince pies!
The list of the year’s achievements by voluntary groups and individuals in Frome is certainly long – from reducing food waste, to starting new community gardens, the launch of Transition Streets in Frome, another incredibly successful Great Big Green Week, a plethora of inspiring events to support Sustainable Fashion Week, a smashing Pumpkin Day and becoming a certified Bee Friendly Town. And to make sure 2024 can live up to this, this will be a chance to informally start discussing what comes next.
Make sure to arrive by 7pm to enjoy free food from Lungi Babas.
Please make sure you are booked on before the 24th November otherwise we cannot guarantee there will be food for you too!
Book here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/big-green-festive-meet-up-tickets-745975752557

The Life Cycle: exploring biodiversity on Kate Rawles’ 8,000 mile bike ride
2023-11-26 19:30 - 21:30
‘For me, the question has become not so much what to do as how to be’
Former university lecturer turned eco-adventurer, Kate Rawles, cycled the length of South America on a bamboo bike she built herself. En route she explored biodiversity: what it is, what’s happening to it and why losing it amounts to as great a threat as climate change. Join us to hear about the brilliant and brave activists Kate met; the highs and lows of the journey; and above all, what we can do.
Tickets: £6 in advance here, or £8 on the door

Frome FM radio show
2023-11-13 20:00 - 21:00 | frome.fm
The edition will hear about the framework for a new town council strategy and a town-wide explorations of Donut economics ; biodiversity and Wild about Frome; and more

Listen on 96.6FM around Frome, or online at frome.fm online, or on your smart speaker.
Broadcast on the 2nd Monday of every month, with previous shows available on Mixcloud:
https://www.mixcloud.com/FromeFM/playlists/sustainable-frome-fm/

Sustainable Frome November meeting
2023-11-02 19:00 - 21:00 | The Good Heart, 7 Palmer Street, Frome, BA11 1DS, United Kingdom

Pumpkin Day, Harvest Swap and Food Festival
2023-10-29 10:00 - 15:00 | Cheese and Grain, Market Yard, Frome, BA11 1BE
Part harvest swap, part hyperlocal food market, and part eating festival, the event will be full of inspiration around how climate and health can be used in food and in growing.
There will be workshops, talks, kids’ activities, community groups and a communal eating experience in the Cheese & Grain cafe, featuring a 10-mile menu.
Frome Field 2 Fork, Frome Food Network and Future Shed Frome (Green and Healthy Partnership) are working in partnership on this year’s Pumpkin Day.
Entry by donation: £3 adults. Free for kids, OAPS, low-waged and students
If you would like a stall please contact Caroline Wajsblum on 07857437608 asap, as space is limited and will be allocated on a first come first served basis

The Recent Independent History of Frome
2023-10-17 19:00 | Welsh Mill Hub, Park Hill Drive, Frome, BA11 2LE
Do you want to know more about the recent ‘independent history’ of Frome?
Would you like to hear directly from some of the people who have helped build the foundations for this town being an inspiring place to live?
Then this is your chance to join the dots between then and now. Maybe you’ve recently moved to Frome and want to learn about what has gone before. Or maybe you just want to hear a story or two again.
Come to this informal evening chat with some of those who helped change Frome’s Green, Political and Artistic offerings over the last 30 years.
Annabelle Macfadyen, Peter Macfadyen, Katy Duke, Cordelia Rowlatt, Chris Smaje & Sheila Gore will set the scene and share how it started, and what happened. The chat will be facilitated by Future Shed Lead Sue Palmer, with plenty of time for questions and discussion.
Limited number of tickets available — Book your place HERE

Sustainable Frome October meeting
2023-10-05 19:00 - 21:00 | The Good Heart, 7 Palmer Street, Frome, BA11 1DS, United Kingdom

Sustainable Frome September meeting
2023-09-07 19:00 - 21:00 | The Good Heart, 7 Palmer Street, Frome, BA11 1DS, United Kingdom
Planning Meeting
Various organisers and representatives from Green and Healthy Frome will be attending to discuss Sustainable Frome’s role as a coordinating hub for all sustainability / green / climate activities / campaigns / groups in Frome to make sure there is no duplication or wasted efforts. How can Sustainable Frome best fulfil that role?
Join us at the Good Heart for shared food* from 7pm. The meeting will start at 7.30pm
*You can either bring food to share OR contact Namdi in advance to order your curry – 07908 139244.

Sustainable Frome Picnic, August 2023
2023-08-03 19:00 - 21:00 | Rodden Meadow, Frome
Picnic in Rodden Meadow, at the town end near Willow Vale, from 7pm
All welcome — Bring food to share if you can
