St Neots Friends hold climate crisis event
Quakers in St Neots have sponsored a climate emergency event in the town
Five St Neots Quakers sponsored a climate emergency event this month attracting between 150 and 200 people.
The event ‘The Time is Now’ at the United Reformed Church on 2 November was inspired by St Neots Town Council unanimously voting in February 2019 to declare a climate emergency and to take steps to lower their carbon footprint.
David Bales, assistant clerk of St Neots Meeting, told the Friend that the event was a good example of ‘how a small Meeting can get something moving. We wanted to have a central space in town and create a buzz with stalls and speakers, and people talking about being more green and what holds us back’.
The day included twenty-two stalls and talks from: Quaker Ben Foley; conservation director John Comont; Lottie Taylor from Christian Aid, who has just returned from Ethiopia and saw the reality of climate change; and fourteen-year-old Rose Coggins, who has done plastic collections on the Suffolk coast.
