Events

A climate activist’s enforced retreat Our next speaker is Reverend Tim Hewes, a climate activist, retired dentist and priest, who in his seventies was accused of conspiring to bring the M25 motorway to a standstill. On a quiet Sunday afternoon his home in rural Oxfordshire was raided by eight officers from the territorial of the Metropolitan police. Tim was handcuffed and taken to court from where he was imprisoned on remand for six weeks. Find out what happened next by coming to the next meeting of the Witney Eco Forum on Thursday 12 June, at St Mary’s church on the Green, Witney. Bar opens at 7.00pm, speaker starts at 7.30pm.

Exploring psychological responses to the climate crisis to strengthen relationships and resilience for a just future. Our next meeting is on Thursday 8 May when we’ll be hearing from Rebecca Nestor, the Chair of the Climate Psychology Alliance (https://www.climatepsychologyalliance.org/). Rebecca will be exploring the emotional and relational ways in which we respond to the climate crisis: why it’s so difficult to talk about it and what we can do about that; how we all move in and out of ‘soft’ denial and why that is to some extent necessary – but how it gets weaponised by bad actors – and how being in community with others helps and in what ways. PLEASE NOTE NEW START TIME, WE WILL BE STARTING LATE BECAUSE OF VE DAY CELEBRATIONS IN WITNEY Thursday 8 May 2025, at St Mary’s church on the Green, Witney, OX28 4AW. Bar opens at 7.30pm, speaker starts at 8.00pm