Green Drinks networking events are a great initiate but why is it so important to Kingshill House to host them?

Hosting Green Drinks demonstrates Kingshill House Creative Centre's commitment to engaging with the local community and fostering connections within the environmental space. We are aiming to becomes a hub for environmentally-minded individuals to gather, exchange ideas, and collaborate on initiatives that benefit the community, and our first commitment is providing a venue for these events.

Come to the first Green Drinks Wednesday 24th May 2023, 7:30pm which will become a monthly event and a central meeting place for professionals, activists, and individuals interested in environmental issues. This is in partnership with the Cam and Dursley Climate Action Network (C&D CAN) and everyone is welcome. It will be chance to meet like-minded people in an informal setting. We want to helps create a supportive and collaborative network where attendees can find potential partners, mentors, or resources for their environmental projects.

Kingshill House is at the beginning of its sustainable journey and we are excited to start planning our response to climate action both in the team, the building and our community. We want to establish and strengthen partnerships with local environmental organizations, businesses, and government agencies because we see that there is strength in working together. Collaborating with these entities can lead to shared resources, joint initiatives, and a collective effort towards addressing local environmental challenges. 

Take a look at the Green Drinks Code which states that

Green Drinks are Agenda Free

• Green Drinks is not a channel to circulate announcements or news about environmental issues. Green Drinkers are already deluged with information from thousands of other sources. Green Drinks is a place to go to get away from all that.
• It's OK to have speakers for 20-30 mins or so or to have a theme for the evening to help stimulate discussion, but the bulk of the evening should be freeform and random.
• The host venue itself creates some slant inevitably but must be gracious and open; independent venues such as bars or restaurants are preferred.
• Green Drinks as an entity will never endorse or have a position or stance on an environmental topic.
• There will be no non-Green Drinks-related content or messages or appeals or ads circulated to the city organisers or appearing on the greendrinks.org website.

We would like to encourage people to share ideas of how they see the Green Drinks developing in the future, what sort of speakers you would like to hear and suggestions of how to turn discussion into action. We are hoping that by hosting events such as this we are reducing the amount of doubling-up on work and acting blind to what others doing. 

Networking is at the heart of creating a community, so our first event will be Green Drinks at Kingshill House Creative Centre on the 24th May with 7:30pm as ringing of a bell as a start time. This is intended as an entirely inclusive social get together for all and everyone wanting to find out about or engage with, making Cam & Dursley a sustainable place to live where nature thrives. 

Hope to see you there. 

Images are from our Permaculture Community Garden and our large garden to the side of the House which we hope to develop soon. 

Author; Georgie White Winter

Business Development Manager at Kingshill House, believes that collectively we can make a difference and work together as a community to reduce climate change.