Nature Friendly Gardening

Nature Friendly Gardening

Whatever the size of your outdoor space, you can help nature by making some additions to your garden or changing the way you look after your space. 17 percent of Horsforth is made up of private gardens, so we can all make positive changes to improve things for the...
Where does all your recycling (green bin) rubbish go?

Where does all your recycling (green bin) rubbish go?

A group of people from Horsforth recently had an interesting tour of HW Martin, this is the place where all our recycling from the Leeds green bins go to be sorted. Some points that came out of it were: Leeds recycles more types of materials than many cities, such as...
The results of our Healthy Street® Audits are in!

The results of our Healthy Street® Audits are in!

Horsforth Street Surveys Transport is the largest emitting sector of greenhouse gases in the UK. By encouraging walking, wheeling and cycling we can help reduce this source of emissions. Over the summer of 2024 Horsforth Climate Action carried out three surveys of...
Horsforth Repair Cafe – Carbon Capture Success!

Horsforth Repair Cafe – Carbon Capture Success!

Horsforth Repair Cafe runs the first Saturday of the month from 1:00-4:00pm at St Margaret’s Parish Centre in Horsforth. Since the cafe started the volunteers at the cafe have repaired a huge variety of items, from electrical equipment such as hoovers, hair...
Land Art on Drury Field

Land Art on Drury Field

There have been two areas in Horsforth where the HCA Nature group have worked with the Climate Energy and Green Spaces dept. of Leeds City Council to develop suburban meadow-like areas to increase biodiversity: these are Cragg Hill Recreation ground and Drury Field....
Horsforth Community Composting Collective – Drury Field

Horsforth Community Composting Collective – Drury Field

We are excited to announce that Horsforth now has a second Community Composting site, on Drury Field, to add to the successful one at Inspirations Nursery/West End School. The first Drury Field bin was built by local residents on 18th August, funded by Horsforth...
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