Fearon Hall is celebrating the seasons with a host of sustainability events to help you through the darker nights. After nine successful Upcycle Your Life events, things are growing. New organisations are coming on board every month, to help share how you can save money and love Loughborough (and the planet) at the same time.
For the autumn/winter season, groups taking part in Upcycle Your Life include Wastenot Leicestershire; Leicestershire Community Closet; Transition Loughborough; Leicestershire Wildlife Trusts; The Crop Club;Charnwood Chai; Love Food, Hate Waste; Friendly Bench; and other local sustainability organisations.
In addition to meeting stallholders and finding out how you can live more sustainably (and cheaply), there are free activities at all the Upcycle Your Life events including toiletry making, crafting activities galore and eco gift wrapping as the festive season draws nearer.
All events have hot food available from the Café in the Hall, who ensure no food goes to waste. The Co-op (Barrow on Soar) are kindly providing food and beverages for the events and Co-op Funeralcare are also supporting the events.
go green at fearon hall this festive season
Home Hygge: Get cosy this winter
15th Dec , 11am-2pm
It’s harvest time and that means it's time for some autumnal celebration. Make pumpkin decorations; learn about Potato Day with Transition Loughborough and place your orders for next year's Potato Day; bring food for the Harvest Festival display;and enjoy lunch with food from the community allotment and Co-op Food Waste scheme
Embrace the darker times by planting a seed for a loved one. Chat about grief, life, death and happy memories with Co-op Funeralcare mortality café
Enjoy autumn nature crafts including wildlife-safe fairy door making and traditional Halloween decorations and outfits; and learn how to make wildlife habitats to keep animals as cosy as people over the autumn and winter months. Meet people from Transition Loughborough, GrowEatGift.com, LAGs, Leics Wastenot, Leicestershire Community Cupboard, Fairtrade and more
Winter can be hard, particularly for people with chronic conditions, and the elderly. It can also be expensive. Upcycle Your Life will help you stay warm and cosy as the nights draw in. Celebrate the season on a budget.
Learn how to make cushions from old jumpers and draught excluders from old socks. Style your disability aids: make decorative ankle and wrist supports, classy compression wear, easy body warmers and a sparkling cane.
Or keep someone else warm by making a plastic underblanket from recycled bags for someone who is sleeping outdoors, (bring any spare plastic bags to use); or donating scarves, hats, socks and gloves - wool donations also gratefully received. Bring your solo woolly gloves too – and learn how to turn them into toys. You can also buy Pay It Forward vouchers to pay for a meal for someone in need.
Keep animals cosy over the festive season by making wildlife habitats. Create warming aromatherapy blends to make bathtime bliss as the nights draw in. Bring books, gifts, wrapping paper and festive finery to swap with Wastenot Leics, and enjoy a tasty nut milk cocoa in the vegan friendly hot chocolate bar.You can also enjoy tasty drinks from the Club Soda non-alcoholic bar.
Add in creating toiletries in luxury packaging for Christmas treats; eco-friendly festive decoration making: nature crafts and creating sustainable stocking fillers from recycled treasures plus ‘Grow Your Own’ Cracker making with Groweatgift and The Crop Club, and you should have all you need for a heart-warming winter.
Buy plastic-free Fairtrade presents and upcycled gifts, plus festive stocking making for people in need. There will also be an upcycled gift wrapping service, and stalls from Transition Loughborough, GrowEatGift.com, LAGs, Leicestershire Wastenot, Leicestershire Community Cupboard, Fairtrade, Love Food, Hate Waste, and more. Free entry – bring a gift to get a gift – and maybe meet Santa and his elves.
Harvest Feastival: Share Nature’s Bounty - and celebrate the season
27th October,10am- 2pm