Greener Orkney attends Co-op community event

by | Nov 24, 2023 | Uncategorized

Greener Orkney was invited to an event at the Stromness Co-op on 18th November.  Also present were the charities currently benefiting from Co-op funding as well as other groups that have been involved with the Co-op Community Partnership over the last year. Greener...

AGM Presentation

by | Oct 23, 2023 | Uncategorized

At the AGM on 7th October, Jessica Mather, Marine Litter Development Officer – Northern Isles for SIF, gave a talk on the importance of recording the type as well as the amount of beach litter gathered on our beach cleans. You can download the presentation...

Closeout of slow cooker project

by | Oct 7, 2023 | Uncategorized

Greener Orkney’s Slow Cooker Project is now formally closed.  Between November 2022 and March 2023, we distributed more than 300 slow cookers (including 56 to the isles) and 140 recipe books. This was made possible by an £8,000 grant from the Community Led Local...

Greener Orkney AGM

by | Oct 3, 2023 | Uncategorized

We do hope you will be able to come and join us for the Greener Orkney AGM on Saturday 7th October 2023 at 4.30pm at the King Street Halls in Kirkwall. It has been an exciting year and we plan to do more going forwards to help Orkney reduce its climate footprint....

Bag the Bruck 2023

by | May 24, 2023 | Uncategorized

Greener Orkney helped organise Bag the Bruck in April this year. In total over 820 bags of bruck were collected and over 1,000 pairs of gloves were distributed in addition to 19 groups providing their own gloves. There were also some bags of items for recycling...