Lightfoot
Lightfoot is a not for profit organisation and its principal activity is to promote sustainable use of the Earth’s resources for the benefit of the public and environment.
Lightfoot
Lightfoot is a not for profit organisation and its principal activity is to promote sustainable use of the Earth’s resources for the benefit of the public and environment.
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FRIENDS OF LIGHT FOOT
We introduced our plan to start a ‘Friends of Light Foot’ Group at our AGM in November. Now we want to design the Friends group you want, so would be very happy if you could answer the (very) few questions in the attached form. We hope we will have a Friends group that works for everyone. Please complete the attached form and send it to info@lightfootenterprises.org
BC Heat Network
BISHOP’S CASTLE HEAT & WIND PROJECT GETS SOME WIND IN IT’S SAILS The Bishop's Castle Wind Turbine-powered Community Heat project has been awarded a substantial grant to carry out further studies. The work will include Ecology and Technical studies, and obtaining...
Household Energy Surveys
Household energy surveysOur household energy survey provides detailed impartial information and advice on how to make your home more energy efficient.Household energy surveysOur household energy survey provides detailed impartial information and advice on how to make...
Energy Diary
Energy DiaryThe Energy Diary is an activity for primary and secondary school children to discover what energy is used at home. Energy DiaryThe Energy Diary is an activity for primary and secondary school children to discover what energy is used at home.About the...
‘Going Wild in BC’
GOING WILD IN BISHOP'S CASTLEPROJECT CO-ORDINATOR SELECTED Dan Hodgkiss has been recruited from amongst many excellent candidates to lead the project. Bishop’s Castle Receives £238k from The National Lottery Heritage Fund for local nature projects Going...
Kids’ Club
Going Wild in BCKids' ClubKids Club update Feedback from the youngesters involved in the Connexus-sponsored Summer Activities Workshop, and their parents was for the project to become a monthly activity.One of the aims is to encourage young people to learn about and...
Climate Action
CAP QUARTERLY REPORT The Climate Action Group's April 24 Quarterly Report to the BC Town Council can be read hereBC CAP April 24 Quarterly Report Climate Action Initiatives Follow us at:...
‘Food Forward BC’
@food_forwardbcFood Strategy, Seed Bank, Local Food, Food Bank and related initiativesFrom Little Acorns . . . Daphne du Cros, the author of Bishop's Castle's Food Resilience Strategy, recently took part in a NALC Environment and Climate committee call, and took the...
Community-based
We operate in the Welsh Marches area covering parts of Powys, Herefordshire and Shropshire. There are many local community initiatives that operate within this area and one of our aims is to share and spread ideas and good practice across the whole region.
Action Orientated
We support local actions that increase knowledge and understanding of the Climate and Ecological Emergency that we all face. We do this through; outreach to schools, providing help and support to individuals who wish to reduce their carbon and ecological footprint and sharing resources and ideas to build local resilience.
Practical tools for change
- Measuring your own Carbon Footprint
- The Household Energy Survey – helping people to make the changes to their energy use in the home.
- The Energy Diary – A resource for young people to understand how energy is used in their home.
- Fight the Plastic
- BC Food Resilience Plan
- Repair Café Toolkit
Our Projects
Woodlands & Young People
We work with students from Bishops Castle Community College. Groups of students go into forest settings to learn about the diversity there and how they may be managed sustainably.
Carbon Calculator
There are many carbon and ecological calculators to be found on the web. Which one is best for you?
Energy Diary
The Energy Diary is an activity for primary and secondary school children to discover what energy is used at home. The Diary was designed as a teaching activity to help busy families to cut down their energy use.
Household Energy Survey
Our household energy survey provides detailed impartial information and advice on how to make your home more energy efficient.
Community Action
Lightfoot has worked on supporting Community Action on transport, food, energy efficiency and biodiversity in Powys.
The Bishops Castle Climate Action Plan is based here.
Information Hub
Information on energy efficiency and renewable energy. Links to many other websites to find out what other people are doing and get ideas for what you could do.
Sharenergy
Renewable Energy
Shropshire Hills AONB
Powys Association of Voluntary Organisations
Zero Carbon Shropshire
Marches Energy Agency
Lightfoot Enterprises was an initiative of the Bishop’s Castle based Wasteless Society, which itself was founded in the mid-1990s.
Lightfoot Enterprises was incorporated in 2008 and became a registered charity in 2013. Lightfoot’s main thrust is to reduce carbon emissions by carrying out household energy surveys, informing and advising households on energy efficiency and renewable energy measures they could take. It has expanded its initiatives to cover the climate and bio-diversity crises.