Clothes Swaps can be a great way of finding new clothes and reducing your carbon footprint. The fashion industry is responsible for almost 10% of greenhouse gas emissions (UNECE, 2018), for example 3,000 litres of water are needed to make one cotton t-shirt....
Following the success of our first Apple Day in 2023 we repeated it at St Margaret’s Church on Saturday October 5th 2024. It proved to be another busy and successful event. An amazing 677 kilograms of Apples were donated which would otherwise have gone to waste. Many...
All things energy were up for discussion on 7th September – an afternoon of power saving ideas, hints, tips and practical solutions, ranging from simple ideas to full and serious retrofit options, including insulation, solar panels, heat pumps and home energy...
HCA was delighted to take part in the 10th Walk of Art, hosted by the Grove Church. We put a green spin on the overall Walk of Art theme ‘Things that Go’, and turned it into ‘Things that Make the Green World Go Round.” The exhibition included some beautiful...
On Saturday 3rd February Horsforth Climate Action started their HCA Saturday activities early. A small team, working with Plastic free NW Leeds went out armed with temporary chalk paint to spray a message around the drains of Horsforth. An important message that any...
For several years now, Kidical Mass events have been running all around the world in an attempt to encourage children and their parents to be confident cycling around their towns. Thanks to a collaboration between HCA and Leeds Cycling Campaign, we organised our first...
