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WEAct have organised a screening of the People’s Emergency Briefing film on Wednesday 22nd April (which is also Earth Day).

This will be at the WWF Living Planet Building from 6.30 – 8.30pm.

The film is about 45 minutes and will be followed by a discussion. We are also inviting candidates for the local election to join us.

Tickets are free – please book your place here

WEAct have been involved with other groups across Surrey and with the Surrey Climate Commission to develop this pledge. It covers 5 interlinked priorities

We will be asking all the candidates in the May local elections to sign it.

By supporting it we want to show the candidates how important these topics are to local residents. We’ll hold them to account after the elections also.

Read more here

The Woking Library of Things launched on Friday 6th February. This partnership with Woking Library allows local residents to borrow useful household items for free.

We were joined at the launch by Will Forster, Woking’s MP and Lance Spencer, Surrey County Councillor who helped to provide funding for the WLoT via his Your Councillor Community Fund.

To find out more click here

Surrey County Council have two tree planting sessions at Moor Lane Farm, Woking.

Volunteers needed to please help restore ancient hedgerows. Details and sign up here

Bring your family and friends to a Board Games afternoon at Andy’s Cafe, St Andrew’s Church, Goldsworth Park, GU21 3LG from 2-5pm. Children over 12 welcome.

As an extra twist, we’d like to invite you to bring some yummy baking along to share and since it’s Veganuary, we’d be really excited if you could try out some Vegan Baking. See links here and here for some scrumptious ideas!

Entrance is free although donations welcome to cover tea/coffees/room hire.

We have awarded funding to 3 local schools to support their Eco-Projects. Read more here

Come along and join us for a fun social evening at Woking Superbowl. Meet at 7pm for 7.30pm start. Tickets £10 each, click here to book

Anyone interested in how we can work together to target local decision makers to do more on climate and nature is welcome to join the next meeting of our Climate Action Group. With local government reorganisation coming up maybe this is a good time to influence the focus/set up of the new Surrey Unitary Authorities?

Online meeting 8th October, 7.30- 8.30 pm see details on our Diary page.

Join us for a free online workshop at 8pm where we’ll be sharing tips to help you reduce energy and water usage, save you money and help the planet!

Use link https://www.zoom.us/join with meeting number 9940615536

On 9th July WEAct went to London to meet our MP, Will Forster, to lobby him about key issues relating to climate and nature. We were delighted that a group of students from St John the Baptist (SJB) School in Woking were there also. This was part of the largest Mass Lobby event ever organised.

The WEAct Annual General Meeting (AGM) was a great opportunity to hear about WEAct’s activities, our impact in the local community and plans for the next year. We had a really good turnout and our external speaker, Alistair Young, Scientist and Trustee with the River Wey Trust,  was very interesting. Alistair talked about why the Trust started 40+ years ago, how it has developed, and the work and projects they get involved with alongside other river and ecology groups.

One of our members Agathe Montagnon, is a graphic recorder and she has very kindly provided the fantastic illustration below showing what was discussed at the AGM.

Agathe is Woking based and is available for illustrating talks live. Check her website: 
https://www.agathemontagnon.com/portfolio-live-illustration

Please click here to see the events that took place during Woking Big Green Week 2025. We included both one-off events and events that run on a regular basis as we are keen to help promote these. We also extended the week to run from 2nd to 15th June to include a couple of events that were being held just before the national Great Big Green Week! In total we had 18 events listed which is fantastic! Thanks to all the local organisations who agreed to let us include their activities.

We prepared 2 plots at Mayford Meadows. See this page for more information and how to get involved in future plantings.

With the help of 57 local people including the Mayor and our MP we planted 420 trees in Woking over the weekend of 8/9th March. See this page for more information and more photos.

Please take your donations directly to Judith Doney , 1 Firwood Close, Woking, GU21 8UQ.
For other recycling/repurposing, check out our Recycling Tips page.