PETERSFIELD FESTIVAL HALL PLAYS HOST TO FAMILY CLIMATE ENGAGEMENT & NETWORKING EVENT
TUES 14 FEB 2023 FROM 12 NOON
As part of The Climate Coalition SHOW THE LOVE campaign
"Building a sustainable future, one event at a time"
12:45 – 13:15
13:45 – 14:45
15:15 – 16:15
17:30 – 19:10
Tree Talk by Guest Speaker Robin Hart
Film – Climate Change ‘The Facts’ *WALK IN*
Biodiversity Talk
Film – Before the Flood *BOOK FOR FREE*
Is your business making a difference to PLANET PETERSFIELD? Why not SHOUT ABOUT IT by sharing your business card on our TRADE POST?
We’re inviting children to translate their ideas about climate into WORKS OF ART!
Sparkleface face-painting will be offering FREE animal, flora and fauna designs.
Local storyteller Faye Thompson brings her Orangutan’s Lemonade & Daisy to talk about the Rainforests.
The word ‘Orangutan’ means ‘Person of the Forest’.
Meet Coombes friendly environmental team (left to right – Elizabeth Boxall, Joanna Eastman, Craig Mills, Gareth Ainscough ACIEEM and Dr Sam Kelly MCIEEM)
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Local resident, Tree Warden and nature enthusiast Robin Hart,
gives a talk about Trees at 12:45pm
We wholeheartedly welcome this publication, distilling as it does the years of experience with our trees into a readable and fascinating document. We commend it to all.
Pricinpal Ecologist at Coombes UK
Sam has been working in ecology for over 20 years and has worked on projects spanning the UK and India. She studied her PhD at Liverpool University, which looked at the impacts of invasive pond weed on newt breeding and has gone on to specialise further in bat, dormouse and reptile ecology, especially the European adder. She is a passionate advocate for ecological sustainability and engagement and connectedness with the natural world, is a trustee of ARG UK and an active member of several local conservation groups.Â
I work as Principal Ecologist for Coombes UK, where I specialise in protected species and botanical surveys across the south of England. I am a passionate naturalist, with particular interest in the conservation of adders and other native reptiles, although my roots lay in aquatic botany and amphibian breeding conservation. I have been a trustee of Amphibian and Reptile Groups of the UK (ARG UK) since 2019 and am Secretary of Sussex Amphibian and Reptile Group (SxARG), with whom I engage in research into adder conservation, public engagement and connectedness to nature.
Catering provided by The Plump Duck!
Our friendly cafe The Plump Duck, based at the beautiful Petersfield Heath, will be on hand with an offering of tea, coffee, cakes, cookies, sausage rolls and ice cream!.
