Zero Waste Community Leadership training
Date: Tuesday, 11th March, 2025
Location: online. Register here.
This course is designed to empower community-minded Barnet residents with the skills and knowledge needed to galvanise their communities to reduce waste with easy-to-execute initiatives and small events. How to encourage people in your community to share their knowledge and hobbies with others. All Barnet residents are welcome to join, even if they don’t currently belong to an organised community.
Past Events
Zero Waste Community Leadership training
Friday, 17.01.25, 11:30am-2pm, Finchley Church End Library
This course is designed to empower community-minded Barnet residents with the skills and knowledge needed to galvanise their communities to reduce waste with easy-to-execute initiatives and small events. How to encourage people in your community to share their knowledge and hobbies with others. All Barnet residents are welcome to join, even if they don’t currently belong to an organised community.
In-person (2.5hr)- how to galvanise the community to reduce waste. 17.01.25 11:30am-2pm (Finchley Church End Library, register).
Zero Waste Festive Craft Market
Date: Sunday, 1st December, 11am-3pm
Location: Friern Barnet Community Library, Friern Barnet Road, N11 3DS
Eco Show and Tell is joining the Friern Barnet Festive Craft Market, with a variety of hands-on creative, eco-friendly workshops. Our sustainable creatives will help you use upcycled materials to make Christmas decorations, cards, gifts, fabric gift wraps – learn the Japanese method Furoshiki & more
Zero Waste Community Leadership training
This course is designed to empower community-minded Barnet residents with the skills and knowledge needed to galvanise their communities to reduce waste with easy-to-execute initiatives and small events. How to encourage people in your community to share their knowledge and hobbies with others.
In-person (2.5hr)- how to galvanise the community to reduce waste.
6.11.24 5pm-7:30pm, Finchley Church End Library
13.11.24 5:30pm-8pm Middlesex University
Zero Waste Webinar
11th November, 12:30pm-2pm
This is a FREE webinar which teaches how to reduce waste and consumption. It focuses on Barnet and London, UK. Join us on the above date. Learn:
What is the circular economy and the 5Rs of waste reduction ; The five reasons to reduce our consumption and our waste ; How to prioritise your waste reduction efforts and ways to reduce waste in eight waste streams: Food waste, food packaging and storage, apparel, electronics, home care, personal care, parties/festivals and young families.
Eco Show and Tell – Air Quality Day
National Clean Air Day (20th June) is a day dedicated to highlighting the impact of air pollution on
our health and the environment. The day aims to educate, raise awareness, and mobilise collective
action to improve air quality for the benefit of all.
As Clean Air Day falls during Barnet Climate Action Month we are inviting people from across Barnet
to come together to explore how to take action to help improve our air quality and make Barnet
more sustainable.
The Eco Show and Tell event will have a variety of stalls with information and activities.
Eco Show and Tell Sustainability Fair @ East Barnet Festival
An eco-friendly fair within the East Barnet festival, showcasing some great local initiatives around protecting nature, reducing waste and living more sustainably, this will include displays, workshops and activities. There will also be sustainable artists selling their goods made from upcycled materials.
Funded by North London Waste Authority.
Gift Swap & Launch
Welcome to the Finchley Sharing Spaces Launch & Gift Swap event! Join us at the Finchley Church End Library for a fun-filled evening of sharing and swapping second-hand gifts with your community. This in-person event is the perfect opportunity to connect with neighbours, make new friends, and exchange unique second-hand gifts. Don’t miss out on this exciting event where you can discover hidden treasures and spread joy through sharing. See you there!
You’ll also have the option to make natural dye from food waste, and help make bunting to decorate our new space with artist Sharon Mitchell @leafthiefprints.
Sustainable Fashion/ Home/ Personal care
Our 2nd Sharing Space session will focus on sustainable fashion and home-care. The eve nt will include a clothes swap so bring any unwanted clothes (in great condition!) and take some lovely new pieces. Learn how to sell your pre-loved clothes on Vinted – by Penny Salman (@threadsforpenny).
Learn to knit or crochet a coaster from… plastic bags! With Ceci Montero. Limited spaces, booking info coming soon.
Let’s cook together @ JVS
Community vegan cooking demonstrations and tasting, focussing on main dishes. You’ll be able to join in the cooking, as the venue has lots of cooking stations.
There will be 3 dishes cooked, showcasing the borough’s diverse cultures. In this event we will cook: Chilli No Carne, a Mexican dish, with Paloma. Rajwadi Khichdi, a Gujarati dish, with Krupal of North London Tiffins. Golders Bean with Philip.
We will also host a kitchenware swap, so bring any kitchen item in good condition, and choose a new-to-you item to take home.
Get your creativity flowing by using natural dye (made from onion skins) or use flowers to create beautiful decorations, with Sharon Mitchell, @leafthiefprint.
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/861989101607
Green Parenting/ children
Second-hand Toy & clothes swap: bring second-hand toys, take some home and Eco Warriors: learn how children can help fight climate change… from home! Register: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/863244787397
Parent/carer+ child: gender-inclusive sewing: make a pyjama/ sleeping gown for your teddy/ stuffed toy. By Adding Creativity CIC The Sewing Club. Limited spaces, register: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/863185841087
Make a magical garden in an upcycled jar. By @forthefunof.art register: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/873912765607
Sustainable Fashion/ Homecare
Make natural cleaning products with Kerlyn, Impact Store. Learn about how to use a refill shop.
Mending & alterations: Bring a loved garment that needs mending to the Sharing Space and LivingWayMinistries will do their best to sort you out.
Make an origami rubbish bin for your bathroom’s recyclables with Taki; Crochet ‘display’ and demo with Elizabeth, Black Girls Dolls House Club
Register to the above activities plus more: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/877361280207
Make beeswax wraps: reduce plastic food packaging by using a reusable bendy wrap made from fabric and beeswax. It keeps your food fresh and can be washed to be reused again. Lucie @mieldelucie is a local beekeeper who donates all her earnings to the food bank. Register: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/873935493587
Fashion swap + Repair café
We have an electrician, a chair repair and textile mending+ tailoring repair stations. Bring in small electrical appliances, clothes that require mending or alterations as well as chairs with any issue! FREE! Register: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/877797655417
Fashion swap: bring up to 10 second-hand fashion items (clothes & accessories) in great condition, and swap them with beautiful new-to-you items! Register: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/890829213157
Creative upcycling: Make miniature Japanese cakes from upcycled materials. Age 14+. By Elizabeth, Black Girl Dolls House Club Register: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/881363069667
Let’s cook together @JVS
Let’s cook vegan main dishes together, showcasing Barnet’s diverse cultures.
Let’s cook chickpeas chaat with Priyanka; an aubergine Persian dish with Lida; a dish with Anastasia. Make salads and snacks with Justyna.
Learn about reducing food packaging, and avoiding food waste, with Shiri.
Finchley’s Nature
4pm-5pm Let’s plant at Albert Place N3! In collaboration with Barnet Council’s Finchley Central Town Team. Help us add pollinator-friendly plants and mount a bee hotel to liven the town centre.
5pm-7pm at the library: come to share your knowledge, and learn from your neighbours including representatives from Finchley’s community gardens and open spaces. Including Finchley Central Energy Garden; Coppetts Wood Conservationists ;Finchley Pollinator Project and Cherry Tree Wood and Barnet Green Spaces.
Plants & seeds swap – bring and/or take surplus gardening materials
Green market: local jams from Miel De Lucie, treats from Impact Store, free seed paper and free refreshments.
Sow seeds and take the pot to grow. Enjoy a display of nature art.
Are you sporty? Join Paul from Good Gym for a stretch at the library, and then run to the nearby Tiny Forest @ Mutton Brook
Gift Swap
Join us at the Finchley Church End Library for a fun-filled evening of sharing and swapping second-hand gifts with your community. Exchange unique second-hand gifts, as well as arts & crafts supplies, and small-businesses materials such as unused packaging.
Don’t miss out on this exciting event where you can discover hidden treasures and spread joy through sharing. See you there!
Register: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/894437575867
We have cancelled the Green Energy event that was previously planned for this date, due to low registrations.
Parenting/ children
Reusable nappies workshop with Real Nappies for London
Breastfeeding advice with Eszter Bove.
Swap: Baby/ young child toy and clothes swap
Arts & crafts from upcycled materials with Alison, Re.New Crafts
“Sustainable parenting hacks” talk with Teresa Due.
Let’s cook together @JVS
This session is all about food, and how to make our consumption more sustainable. There will be vegan cooking demonstrations and tasting, focussing on main dishes.
Let’s cook hummus with Sasha from Finchley Now
Sweet potato and red lentil curry with Lisa from Bread & Butter CIC
A Caribbean bean stew with Anita, Allotmentz
A summery black bean & mango salad with Shiri
Luggage Rummage & The Great Big Party
This is the 12th and last event at the Finchley Sharing Space event, so let’s make it a party celebrating everything we’ve achieved.
We are still planning the event, so far we have the following:
- Luggage Rummage – this is the eco-friendly version of car boot sale! You can apply for a FREE spot to sell your second-hand items: forms.gle/dxtjH8mFEiYhf9CA9
- Japanese fabric gift wrapping workshop – furoshiki – we will show you how to get FREE fabrics too
- Free food and a Low waste vegetarian potluck (for those who love cooking, but no need to bring anything! Just come as you are)
Eco Show and Tell 