Taking your first steps as a community changemaker can be exciting and rewarding – but also daunting and confusing! Toolkits rarely share the real life details of how other people have got started, or offer … Read more...
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Read Hot Poet Chris Redmond’s improv poem performed live at the Green and Healthy 2025 Conference
On a tour of Frome Medical Practice I meet a Japanese data scientist here to learn how the NHS can be more sustainable. Her bilingual 20-month-old wrinkles her nose, smiles, tells me she’s learned something … Read more...
Health, Action, Equity, Participation: Charlotte Carson’s Reflections on How Partnerships and Collaboration Can Make Things Happen
What does the Hippocratic Oath – one of the oldest and most enduring foundations of medical ethics, still echoed in the pledges many doctors take today – mean by “do no harm” when the systems … Read more...
Experiencing Green & Healthy Frome: Solène Quandalle’s Account of a Town Taking Action
The climate crisis will be resolved through governance, rather than government. Many researchers argue the need for non-centralised measures and interconnected networks beyond the state to tackle a global problem which transcends state boundaries. There … Read more...
Growing Hope in Real Time: What the G&H Conference Revealed About Frome’s Future
There are moments when a town quietly shows you what it’s capable of. The Green & Healthy 2025 Conference felt like one of those moments – not because of any single announcement or headline, but … Read more...
Green and Healthy Conference 2025: Exploring How Climate Action Improves Health
What if action on climate is also the best way to improve our health? That’s the central question behind the Green and Healthy Frome 2025 Conference, taking place on Monday 3rd November 2025 at Wesley … Read more...
Could Linking Climate Action and Public Health Save the NHS Billions?
It’s easy to feel like you’re swimming against the tide when you care deeply about climate change. You cycle instead of drive, reuse instead of replace, support local producers – but sometimes it feels like … Read more...
Join us at Green Hacks Day
Drop in at Rook Lane Chapel on Saturday 14th June, 1 – 4 pm for a day filled with eco-friendly inspiration and innovation. Whether you’re just starting out on your eco-journey, you want to save … Read more...
Students Unite in Support of the Plastic Free. Period. Movement!
A small group of year 8 students from Frome first heard about period poverty and the environmental and health cost of menstrual products, something clicked. Inspired by talks from Green and Healthy Frome’s Plastic-Free Periods … Read more...
Don’t Miss the Plastic Free. Period Pop-up Events on the 5th March
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