WELCOME TO RIPON TOGETHER

Bringing people together to make the City of Ripon a better place

WELCOME

We are a not for profit partnership organisation which brings people together to work on projects and activities to make the city of Ripon a friendly and thriving place to live and a welcoming place to visit.

We were established in 2016 as a Community Interest Company, with support from Ripon City Council. We are a membership organisation and have a board of directors which is recruited from the membership. The directors represent many of the various sectors of the community including the voluntary sector, churches, businesses, the BID, the City Council, culture, tourism, the environment and the disability forum.

We currently have around 150 individual members and would like to boost this to at least 500. Anyone who lives or works in the city is eligible to apply to join.

March 2024 Update

Global Recycling Day – Monday 18th March 2024

Giving a shout-out to Ripon Community Scrap Fund

The fund has raised several thousand pounds over the last 6 years, all of which has been distributed to local charities such as St Wilfrid’s Procession,  Mens Shed and Christmas Tree Lights.
if you take your scrap to K A Andersons Metal Recycling on Dallamires Lane and tell them that you would like your money to go into the Ripon Community Scrap Fund, it will be done.
Please spread the word to all your family and friends. Anything from a bag full of drinks cans to a washing machine to a car would be great. You can always ask what the total is so far when you go in too.
PS
Anderson’s dont accept empty pill packets as there is too much plastic attached to them. Anything you think is aluminium should scrunch up and stay scrunched, if it doesn’t then it’s not aluminium and is not recyclable
PPS
This is money for old rope….well old metal … join in!!

 

Big Plastic Week 11th – 17th March

The Big Plastic week takes place 11th-17th March. Nearly 100 billion pieces of plastic packaging are thrown away by UK households every year, and just 12% is recycled in the UK.  It’s time the government got serious about tackling the plastic crisis. You can help by taking part in The Big Plastic Count!

Thousands of schools, households, community groups and businesses will be coming together to count their plastic waste.

Details of how to join in are at this link: https://thebigplasticcount.com/

While taking part, you might feel like the plastics crisis is your fault. It’s not. Only governments, brands and supermarkets have the means to provide accessible alternatives. Your evidence will persuade them to do that.’

If we all do the little bit that we can, together we can make the difference needed.

Ripon Together Environment Group Welcomes the Ripon Cathedral Lent Eco-Fest

 Films will be shown on four Wednesdays in Lent in Thorpe Prebend, High St. Agnesgate, Ripon HG4 1QR

Refreshments from 6.30pm. Film at 7pm.

 21st February – Brother Sun Sister Moon is a 1972 film directed by Franco Zefferelli. It explores the main events of the life of St Francis of Assisi (1181 – 1226), especially his conversion from a wealthy Italian playboy to a follower of Christ.

28th February – A Man of his Word is a 2018 documentary film directed by Wim Wenders. It was made five years after Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected Pope and chose the name Francis. The film focuses on the life and goals of Pope Francis to help the poorest people in our world and to raise awareness of he environmental and climate crises.

6th March – The Letter – Pope Francis’ Message for Our Earth is a 2022 documentary film developed with the help and participation of Pope Francis.

13th March – Demain (Tomorrow) is a 2015 French documentary film, Made in the same year as the Paris agreement on Climate Change. It has an optimistic message. It identifies initiatives that have proven themselves in ten countries as examples of solutions to environmental and social challenges of the twenty-first century in agriculture, energy, economy, education and governance

Ripon Walk to School Days – Friday 15th March

The next Walk to School Day and Car Free Friday for the secondary schools, is Friday 15th March. This is also Red Nose Day, so schools may allow or encourage children to dress up and walk to school. Then 10th May and 14th June.

Global Recycling Day – 18th March

Every year, the Earth yields billions of tons of natural resources and at some point, in the not-too-distant future, it will run out. That’s why we must think again about what we throw away – seeing not waste, but opportunity

The mission of Global Recycling Day, as set out by the Global Recycling Foundation, is twofold:

  1. To tell world leaders that recycling is simply too important not to be a global issue, and that a common, joined up approach to recycling is urgently needed.
  2. To ask people across the planet to think resource, not waste, when it comes to the goods around us – until this happens, we simply won’t award recycled goods the true value and repurpose they deserve…..

Historical Map of Ripon. Details on the historical map of Ripon have been sent to the cartographer and we are looking at a late spring / early summer launch date.

Summer FunFest 2024.  We are planning for five days, Monday 19th to Friday 23rd August, at Studley Royal Cricket Club (Mon, Tues, Thurs) and one or two other Ripon venues (Wed, Fri), 10am-4pm. We will have cricket and athletics coaching, some football, table tennis and the giant inflatable obstacle course, we’re pursuing rugby, tennis, netball, croquet, crazy golf, rounders and have options for circus skills, tug of war, sumo wrestling, air rifles and archery. Inspire Youth are provisionally booked for two days and we hope to provide lunches, healthy snacks and drinks, working with Squid & Tonic and asking the supermarkets to support us they have in previous years.

Everything will be free for the children and young people, we had over 400 attend the three days last year and with more people involved, we are aiming at 1000 this year. We will promote to schools and use the banners in early summer and as soon as we can confirm events people will be able to book through the RT website.

 

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    Ripon Together is a Community Interest Company • Registered in England, Company number: 10187305