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Please see @PlasticFreeHarp for further updates about Harpenden's work to stem the tide of single use plastics.

We're joining @theclimatecoalition to flood social media with good news today. #ShowTheLove. Our Sustainability Festival takes place 23rd May - 6th June and will feature over a hundred events put on by local community groups, schools & businesses. Join in! sustfest.org

We all need to half our net greenhouse gas emissions by 2030. So, how could our fairly normal UK household achieve such a radical reduction? sustainablestalbans.org/2021/02/11/the…

It's #WorldPulsesDay. Use it to think about food events for #SustFest21! Could your group: #cookvegan online or share a meal & chat about climate on zoom? organise a foodbank collection? Your business: create a #SustFest21 takeaway menu? run a course? Sustfest.org

HTC is hosting a competition to help us design new anti-litter signage for our town. Multiple winners will be chosen & they will each have their designs made into permanent signs that will be placed around our parks and green spaces! harpenden.gov.uk/litterinharpen…

@BarclaysUKHelp @AnimeIndy Just got my cheques accepted by the Barclays app after failing with repeated CP001 errors - help came from. @BarclaysUKHelp (thanks guys). Turn your screen brightness up. Really!!! Don’t ask me how that could possibly help but it works. Unbelievable.

@AnimeIndy Hi there, I'm sorry that you're having some trouble paying in a cheque using our app! I'd like to see if I can help. Do you see any error codes or messages when you try to do this? Paul

Great to see that @Barclays still haven't managed to fix the cheque paying in on the mobile banking app. Told to try it as my branch is closing and now just get 'Something went wrong' every time. Useless system @BarclaysUK Any more ideas? CP029 CP031

FizzBug, who many of you will know from providing after-school care and holiday clubs, have launched a new initiative to help ensure all local children have access to laptops, equipment and data for remote-learning so that no child is left behind... mumsguideto.co.uk/harpenden/arti…

#Homemade jumpers for #ChristmasJumperDay this year rather than buying new thanks to encouragement from @CrabtreeJnr. #reuse #upcycle @savechildrenuk

Preparing our #FestiveStreets window display using cellophane wrapping from a bunch of flowers, a black delivery bag and tissue paper. #upcycle #homemade @PlayingOutStA

@CrabtreeJnr @LetsGetWaterFit If you see one of the chalk drawings, photo it, post it and tag #save10aday and they will donate £1 to charity. Then sign up to getwaterfit.co.uk for your water-saving freebies to save 10 lites of water a day and save the River Ver!

With the switch to delay phase of the Government plan to combat Covid-19 likely, we've teamed with @TNLComFund, @EndLonelinessUK, @Nextdoor_UK, @N_Watch, & @ecoattractions to form a Community Action Response encouraging everyone to support their communities. #CommunityResponse

Don't forget this Friday (6th) in Harpenden. Information sessions: 10am #StreetParties; 11am #PlayingOut. Free, no need to book. At the @HarpendenArms - with thanks to them. @HarpendenTown @mumsguideto @WhampsteadPC

Read all about it! Sustainable St Albans News: March 2020 - mailchi.mp/28ba3e7a4584/s…

Fantastic initiative all about #streetparties and #playingout. Harpenden session is at the @HarpendenArms on Friday (6th) at 10am (street parties) and 11am (playing out). Why not go along and find out more!

Organise a Playing Out scheme or a street party now and bring sustainability to your street! Come to one of our free information session across St Albans District and find out how! sustainablestalbans.org/2020/02/25/roa…

Yay! Page 6 of this week's printed @hertsad. Wonderful #sustainability story about #plastic reduction at a #Harpenden infants school plus great plug for schools to get involved in #SustFest20. hertsad.co.uk/news/pupils-di…

Lovely case study for #Sustfest20 and schools. “Harpenden infants school ditches plastic milk cartons to help the environment” hertsad.co.uk/news/pupils-di…. Not too late for schools’ #sustfest20 sign-ups. Sustfest.org/schools-youth

Read the latest #PlasticFreeHarpenden #schools newsletter: Beating plastic - school milk, pens and #SustFest20 - mailchi.mp/4e076f6527c6/b… @CrabtreeJnr @SJLecoschools @Roundwood_Park @KWSHarpenden @HighBeechesAL5 @ saunceywood @GroveJnr @GroveInfant @RoundwoodPS @MissB_at_StGs

Harpenden! Join us on our next climate strike on Friday 14 February. We're spending our Valentine's Day striking for the thing we love most - our planet! #climatecrisis #climatestrike #ClimateAction

Great news: We have been awarded the Plastic Free School status by the charity Surfers Against Sewage. This means we have cut out at least three items of single use plastics. Thanks to Ms Logan and the eco/trashmob team on our journey so far. @sascampaigns @PlasticFreeHarp