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

FromeFM
2025-03-24 20:00 - 21:00 | frome.fm
On Frome.FM our monthly radio show on the 4th Monday of the month at 8pm.
You can listen anytime to previous shows here
https://www.frome.fm/programmes/sustainable-frome
Get in touch if you would like to be involved in the show.

A Food & Health Conversation
2025-06-05 18:00 - 20:00 | Frome Medical Practice, Enos Way, Frome, somerset, BA11 2FH, United Kingdom
A Food & Health Conversation
We know that what we eat affects our health, our communities and the environment. Join us for a vibrant evening of conversation.
How can what’s on our plate infuse our world and our own health? In a time of rising chronic illness, pressure on the NHS and a rapidly changing climate, the link between what we eat and how we feel has never been more urgent. Our food choices affect not only our bodies but also our communities and the health of the planet.
That’s why we’re coming together for an evening of insight, inspiration and open conversation at Frome Medical Practice.
We’ll hear from an expert panel—Dr Helen Kingston (Frome Medical Practice), Lesley Harper (Somerset NHS Integrated Care Board), Tasha Stevens-Vallecillo (Land Food Medicine), and Hugh Thomas (Frome Food Network)—hosted by Charlotte Carson (Frome Medical Practice) to explore the powerful connection between food, health and environment. We’ll open up to general conversation and exchange after the panel have spoken around the subject.
Expect fresh perspectives, thoughtful discussion and rich takeaways. Stick around after the talks for free nibbles and a chance to connect with others, share ideas, and keep the conversation going.
Spaces are limited—reserve your spot early!
Layout of the evening
Frome Medical Practice – Upstairs Boardroom (make your way straight upstairs)
Doors open 5.45pm
Talks start 6pm – 7.30pm
Nibbles 7.30
Event ends 8pm
This event will take place in the upstairs Boardroom, accessible by stairs or public lift.
Please make your way straight upstairs and sign in on the door rather than going to the Medical Centre reception.
Please note that this event will be audio recorded for use on local radio and our project websites.
This event is hosted by Frome Medical Practice in partnership with Future Shed and Sustainable Frome. It 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.

Frome FM: Dirty Rivers
2025-09-22 20:00 - 21:00 | frome.fm
For the next 3 months our monthly radio show on Frome.FM, we will be featuring a series of podcasts about rivers. Seen through the lens of the River Tone that flows through Taunton, each podcast episode is a riverside conversation with someone who has a specific personal or professional relationship to water and the river, building a broad base of knowledge from many distinctive perspectives.
Dirty Rivers
Focused on river pollution, the first episode looks at sewage, farming, pharmaceuticals and chemicals, discusses solutions and pays special attention to otters.
It features extracts from Feral Practice’s interviews with:

Matt Wheeldon of Wessex Water,
Helen Wakeham of the Environment Agency,
Gideon Amos MP,
Dr Liz Chadwick of the Cardiff Otter Project,
Jo Pearse of the Somerset Otter Group,
Neil Ogilvie of Somerset Council
Joanna Uglow of the Somerset Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group.

For more details visit tonal-uk.com

Film: The Flight of the Swans with Q&A
2025-10-02 19:00 - 21:00 | Merlin Theatre, Bath Road, Frome, BA11 2HG, United Kingdom
‘Adventures of a human swan – turning the impossible into the UNSTOPPABLE’. Join Arctic flight adventurer Sacha Dench – ‘the Human Swan’ – on an astonishing journey.
Sacha paramotored over arctic tundra from Russia to the UK, following the Bewick’s swans along their migration flight path, crossing 11 countries to discover why their numbers were in decline and having remarkable encounters with people along the way. This story is one of astonishing bravery and marvellous adventure. It is a story of hope for our planet that will touch even hardened hearts.
Sacha is a conservationist, biologist, environmental artist, storyteller, ex freediving champion, Britannia Trophy award winner, Guinness world record holder and UN ambassador to the Convention on migratory birds. She is the founder and CEO of ‘Conservation Without Borders’ with supporters Sir David Attenborough and patrons Sir Ranulph Fiennes and Dame Judi Dench.
Sacha’s film ‘Flight of the Swans’ will be screened followed by a Q&A with her.
This event is a fundraiser for Conservation Without Borders, Sustainable Frome, and the Merlin Theatre.
If you are not able to attend the event but you would like to donate to our fundraiser please click here:
https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/cwb-sf
Rated: PG
Running time: Film 52 minutes, with interval followed by Q&A 45 minutes
Tickets: £7.50 Book Now! https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/merlin-theatre-trust-ltd/the-human-swan/e-dyaypl
SACHA DENCH: THE HUMAN SWAN

Frome FM: Let it Flow
2025-10-27 20:00 - 21:00 | frome.fm
On our monthly radio show on Frome.FM, we will be featuring a series of podcasts about rivers. Seen through the lens of the River Tone that flows through Taunton, each podcast episode is a riverside conversation with someone who has a specific personal or professional relationship to water and the river, building a broad base of knowledge from many distinctive perspectives.
The second episode is all about flow and constriction – how water management like weirs, canalisation and urbanisation affect wildlife, with a special focus on eels and salmon.
Listen to previous episodes here:
https://www.frome.fm/programmes/sustainable-frome

FromeFM: River Being
2025-11-24 20:00 - 21:00 | frome.fm
On our monthly radio show on Frome.FM, we will be featuring a series of podcasts about rivers. Seen through the lens of the River Tone that flows through Taunton, each podcast episode is a riverside conversation with someone who has a specific personal or professional relationship to water and the river, building a broad base of knowledge from many distinctive perspectives.
River Being
The final episode delves into our human relationship to waters and river. If rivers are indeed alive, can they be seen as persons, or are they sacred beings? How might we belong to a river?
Listen to previous episodes here:
https://www.frome.fm/programmes/sustainable-frome
For more details visit tonal-uk.com

POWER STATION film screening
2026-02-28 19:00 - 21:00 | Merlin Theatre, Bath Road, Frome, BA11 2HG, United Kingdom
Lights on for local power as film screening comes to Frome
Frome Town Council invites the community to an inspiring evening of film and conversation as POWER STATION heads to the Merlin Theatre on Saturday 28 February at 7pm, followed by a thought-provoking Q&A panel.
POWER STATION is a bold, funny and heartwarming documentary about what happens when neighbours come together to take power – quite literally – into their own hands. Set in Walthamstow, the film follows artists Hilary Powell and Dan Edelstyn as they attempt to turn their street into a solar-powered energy station, kickstarting a grassroots energy revolution inspired by lockdown mutual aid.
Directed by the duo, the film captures a turbulent journey filled with big ideas, setbacks and unexpected moments of joy – from rooftop campouts and community meetings to fundraising challenges and a surprise bid for a Christmas number one single. At its heart, POWER STATION is a celebration of local action, shared ambition and the belief that change can start right outside your front door.
Following the screening, audiences are invited to stay for a Q&A panel exploring the themes of the film and what community energy, creativity and collaboration could look like in Frome.
This event forms part of Frome Town Council’s ongoing commitment to supporting community-led responses to the climate and ecological emergency, while creating welcoming spaces for conversation, inspiration and connection.

Day of Transition Practice (online)
2026-04-24 07:00 - 23:30 | Online
Join this free unique online gathering of collective wisdom, action, and transformation hosted by Transition Network International and fueled by members of this larger global movement of changemakers. Hear from Transitioners and Transition groups who’ve succeeded in making changes in their communities. Learn more about the practices and conditions which supported this and what they learned along the way. Explore how to apply these practices and learnings in your own context.
Programme Overview
This event is a labor of love, bringing together visionaries, activists, artists, and leaders to explore regenerative practices that nurture our communities and our planet. We will come together in connecting, co-learning and celebration, through shared experiences, deep conversations, and creative expression. We will explore themes, practices and perspectives that are so urgently needed in these times. You can get a sense of the schedule and timings below:

Join this beautiful co-creation of energy and intention.
Whether you’re stepping into Transition work for the first time or have been engaged for years, your presence matters.
Register for the Day of Transition Practise 2026
https://events.transitionmovement.org/day-transition-practise/dotp2026/

Past, present and future Frome: us, our place, our climate
2026-05-07 19:00 - 21:00 | Rye Bakery, Whittox Lane, Frome, BA11 3BY
What does the past tell us about the present? How are we making the future?
This event brings together people and ideas to explore where we are, and what can happen going forward.
What will happen?
A few speakers will call the focus in the room to start us off:
– a brief history of climate and green action in Frome from the 1980s to now, including Sustainable Frome
– Dr Michael Howcroft and Dr Ellen Bishop from the Civic Imaginaries Partnership will join us to talk about some of their interim findings from their research in Frome around how people collectively reimagine and reinvent their places.
Then we will open out to conversation and discussion.
Hot drinks will be available, as part of Rye Bakery.
Who is this for?
Anyone new to Frome who wants to orientate themselves, and for those wanting to find out more or be involved in what’s coming.
What’s it about?
As Green and Healthy Frome comes to an end, having grown out of partnerships including with Sustainable Frome, there is a real opportunity for Frome to consider ‘What’s Next?’
A small group of people have come together, currently convened by Sue Palmer and Peter Macfadyen, passionate about action around climate and regenerative futures. We want to open the space in which those concerned can rejuvenate citizen-led climate and green action in Frome by transforming the legacies of Green and Healthy Frome and Sustainable Frome into a renewed, shared entity with a new identity and a strategic relationship with the Town Council.
We can build on the past while making space for the future. We imagine a living network where connections flow between people and projects, responsibilities are held and then passed on across generations, and diverse voices unite around climate, resilience, and social justice. This approach will strengthen climate resilience in Frome while deepening social cohesion and wellbeing.
The intention is to develop a culture and ethos together which is inclusive, urgent, and hopeful. We will actively bring new and established voices into the movement, make space for difference, serve local needs while contributing to the wider climate movement, and balance seriousness with joy.
Over the coming year, we will engage key stakeholders, convene professionally facilitated community meetings at accessible times and locations, and host inspiring public talks to galvanise participation. We have applied for funding to support this work through the rest of 2026. This event is part of this movement building!

People's Emergency Briefing: a film
2026-05-21 19:00 - 21:30 | Cheese and Grain, Market Yard, Frome, BA11 1BE
You are invited to attend a screening of the People’s Emergency Briefing.
An eye-opening film featuring nine leading UK scientists and experts updating us on the latest in the climate and nature crisis and its impacts on everyday national life, including:

extreme weather
food security
health
cost of living

Based on the National Emergency Briefing in Westminster, as covered by ITV, C4 and The Times. Followed by a short open discussion about what we can do and what it means locally.
The film features Chris Packham, Deborah Meaden and surprise guests.
Watch the trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tLUnWHkGG4
Tickets cost £3 towards climate action initiatives in Frome, with a free ticket option for unwaged/students.
Book your ticket here:
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/frometowncouncil/2174882
