This year’s AGM will take place via Zoom on Monday 10th August at 7.30pm. Please email secretary@ludlow21.org.uk if you would like to attend and have not yet received an invitation.
Papers for the meeting are available to download here:
Reports from Chair and Friends and Family Groups
Nomination form for election to the Board
Places still available – book now! Click here to view the full Conference Programme
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XR Ludlow and Leominster invite you to join them in an action at 11 am in Castle Square to mark the start of 2 weeks of action in London from 7th October.
XR L&L rebels will be travelling to London on Sunday 6th to make sure our voices are heard. Show them your support by bringing your voice on Saturday 5th.
Plan – to read the Declaration of Rebellion in Castle Square, with drums & banners.
Time – meet 10.50am for an 11am start
Place – meet at the cannon outside the castle in Castle Square
Bring – smile, big voice (umbrella!!), picnic lunch ( – see below), placard – if you can
Finish – expected to end by midday – then go to Millennium Green for coffee/ picnic lunch if weather is good
If you haven’t got a placard, now is the time to make one! For ideas, search on Student Strike or April XR London Action.
We like:
There’s no planet B
Cut down on clothes, cows & cars
Stop denying, the earth is dying
As part of the international Food for Change campaign Slow Food Ludlow Marches invites you to a special talk by Shane Holland, Executive Chair of Slow Food in the UK at Ludlow Methodist Church, Broad Street – 7pm on Wednesday 16th October.
All welcome to this free event.
The Future of Food: Good Food Doesn’t Have to Cost the Earth!
With the global population forecast to approach 10 billion by 2050 and the planet in the grip of a climate emergency, how can we feed ourselves in a sustainable way? Newspapers scream that plant milk is better for the environment than animal milk, yet is this always true? Are faux-meat burgers better for our health? Shane Holland will answer these questions in his interactive lecture, touching on subjects as diverse as the Arab Spring, pollinators, gut health, the US Dust Bowl and why speaking English as a second language can give you diabetes. His solutions are compelling, simple and timeless: food should be good, clean and fair.
Shane Holland is the Executive Chairman of Slow Food in the UK. He speaks extensively on sustainable food issues and is a regular talking head on BBC radio discussing issues as diverse as vegan v meat-based eating, sustainable farming and whether insects will be our protein source of the future. He has given evidence to Parliament, guest lectures at a number of universities and speaks about food issues at the Climate Coalition. He was named by TED as an “Architect of Tomorrow” and, in addition to Slow Food, he chairs Eat Club, an organisation that teaches food skills to young people, and is past Chair of Plan Zheroes, the platform that connects good surplus fresh food with charities and people in need.
Shropshire Council are pushing ahead with the Shrewsbury North West Relief Road despite objections.
Papers for the AGM can be downloaded here:
The AGM is open to all. Ludlow 21 members may vote on motions and to elect new Directors.
Input from new Board members is extremely welcome. Any member may stand for election to the Board if nominated and seconded by two other members. Nomination forms can be downloaded here:
Following the formal business of the meeting, there will be a 21st birthday celebration on the theme of ‘Ludlow 21 – 21 years and counting’. Cakes and refreshments will be served.
Shropshire Council’s consultation on changes to bus services closes on 6th May.
Specifically to Ludlow there is a proposed reduction to the 701 service. If all users of the service add their voices in objection, the Council are much more likely to listen. Please send an email to passtrans@shropshire.gov.uk and/or to steve.davenport@shropshire.
The email might well read as follows:
“There’s a proposal to reduce the frequency of the 701 Ludlow Town service from a 30 minute frequency to every 45 minutes. This is a service which requires very little subsidy per passenger and therefore why it is being included in proposed service revisions? The proposal would still require a one bus/driver per day and hence the savings would be marginal by reducing the service from 20 to 15 trips per day. I consider this to be a travesty when there are other options available. ”
More details about the proposed cuts are available here:
Fair trade
Spring Fair
Saturday 4th May
10am – 4pm
Ludlow Mascall Centre
Lower Galdeford
Entrance Free
Buy right
and help make a difference by
empowering producers through trade
Last week's BBC Countryfile was all about the Shropshire Hills and in particular a new project called Stepping Stones. Led by the National Trust, it's a partnership between several groups including Natural England, DEFRA, Shropshire Hills AONB Partnership, NFU, Shropshire Wildlife Trust and landowners, with the aim of creating nature and wildlife corridors between Long Mynd and Stiperstones. Really great to see some leadership and joined-up thinking in Shropshire!
Countryfile - Shropshire Hills
Ellie and Tom visit an ambitious project to create a nature corridor in Shropshire.A different way to learn about growing your own food, locally
