other Events and Campaigns

Noticeboard—Events and campaigns:

Dorset Reduction and Recycling Group. Campaign event on food packaging. How to use fewer resources and save the environment. March 16th Lower Bond Street, Weymouth. Monday, March 22nd at Asda, Weymouth.
Friday 12 March, at 7 p.m. for 7.30 p.m. at St. Aldhelm’s Church, Spa Road – off Dorchester Road, Weymouth    Chaired by Dorchester Town Crier Alistair Chisholm,    Hear from South Dorset parliamentary candidates:    Berny Parkes from Dorset Respect, Ros Kayes Liberal Democrats, Brian Heatley, Green Party and Richard Denton-White, the Citizens’ Party.    Other main parties invited.
http://www.fairvotesfordorset.org.uk/ Link to a voting reform campaigning group.

http://www.nope.org.uk/index.html Link to the palm oil campaigning group

http://www.oxfam.org.uk/get_involved/campaign/climate_change/ Link to Oxfam climate change site.

http://www.christianaid.org.uk/whatwedo/issues/climate_change.aspx Link to climate change campaign.

Steering Group Meetings

The Steering Group consists of the 20 or so of the most active members. are open to all, but are normally in private houses, and so those who have not attended before are asked to contact the secretary on 01305 815965.

Meetings are normally monthly and are business meetings. During 2010 they will be held at 7.30 p.m. on 3rd Thursday of each month: 21 Jan, 18 Feb, 18 Mar, 15 Apr, 20 May, 17 June… The 21 Jan meeting will be at Robbie Robertson’s house in Preston – phone him on 01305 832931. Phone David on 01305 815965 for future venues.