Eco Homes Show

Are you interested in making your home more energy efficient, from simple measures like draught-proofing to other fabric measures, and technology like solar, batteries and heat pump.

This coming Tuesday (10th November 2026), homeowners, landlords and tradespeople are invited to the Eco Homes Show at The Sub Rooms, Stroud, from 10am to 4pm.

Free and everything under one roof!

This is a free community event – bringing together around 20 local businesses, specialists and community support groups who can help you make your home warmer, more energy-efficient and cheaper to run.

Whether you’re just beginning to explore sustainable home improvements or you’re ready to start a project, you’ll find plenty of inspiration, expert guidance and practical tips at the show.

You will be able to chat directly with local exhibitors covering a wide range of eco-friendly solutions, including solar panels, heat pumps, insulation, rainwater harvesting, EV chargers, e-bikes, eco-landscaping, water-saving technologies and much more. We’re also planning a few informal workshops.

We know that one of the biggest challenges is understanding what support is available. That’s why we’ll have experts on hand to explain grants and funding opportunities.

NailsworthCAN is a supporter of this event, organised by Transition Stroud, and will be providing Buyer's Guides for insulation, solar and heat pumps.

The Eco Homes Show is driven by our shared commitment to helping local people build greener, more resilient homes and communities, and save on energy bills.

Looking forward to seeing you there!

Retrofit Buyer’s Guides

The most common question we are asked when people are thinking about home ‘retrofit’ is “how can I ensure someone competent will do the work?”. We have produced practical lay person’s guides to answer this question. These distill practical advice from multiple sources gathered into succinct, accessible guides. Go to ‘Our Work’ Retrofit page to learn more and access the guides.

Community Climate Gardens

NailsworthCAN is delighted to have been awarded another small grant from Stroud District Council’s Climate and Nature fund! This is to create 3 small ‘climate gardens’ to enhance some of the bare green spaces around the town with planters filled with low maintenance, drought-resilient and pollinator-friendly mediterranean herbs such as bay, rosemary, sage, thyme, hyssop and chives. Each space will also be planted with a specimen tree that is climate hardy.

The aim of the project is to show how gardens can be future-proofed against hotter, drier summers and unpredictable weather and still be productive, nature friendly and beautiful.

They’ll be located in spaces that currently have low nature diversity and where they can be easily accessed, seen and enjoyed by members of the community.

We would like to invite local residents to take part in planting and aftercare and to harvest herbs for your own use, so if you’d like to be involved in this project, please get in touch with us at nailsworthcan@gmail.com

People's Emergency Briefing

The Nailsworth Society, with support from NailsworthCAN, hosted a screening of the National Emergency Briefing film on 1st June, which was attended by about 90 people, and an interesting discussion ensured.

The UK faces a growing climate and nature emergency. Yet most people have never been fully briefed on what it means for our lives, our economy and our future.

Last year, leading experts set out the evidence on the climate and nature crisis in a formal briefing to national decision-makers. A version of this has been made into a film, designed for screenings in communities. This new film from the National Emergency Briefing sets out the risks facing the nation - and the credible, positive responses available.

Read more about the Briefing here, and you can find other screening as they come up if you missed this one: https://www.nebriefing.org/the-film

Repair Cafe

The Nailsworth Repair Cafe is held at The Nailsworth Community Workshop usually between 10am and 1 pm designated Sundays.

It covers electrical, mechanical, woodwork repairs and tool sharpening. To find dates and make a booking (which is essential) go to bookwhen.com/nrc

Climate Corner - Nailsworth Library

Nailsworth CAN’s Climate Corner is on the first Friday of every month, from 1030 to 1230am, at Nailsworth Library. The next one being Friday 7th August 2026.

Activities & Other News …

Current Active Projects

• Climate & Nature in Nailsworth initiative

• Community Energy prospects

• Growing ‘Our Stories’

• Arkell Centre veg garden

• Swift projects

Project ideas welcome

We are interested in proposals for projects / events that further the aims of NailsworthCAN from any supporter in the localitywho is willing to take on a leading role. We have created a simple form to allow such ideas to be captured, so they can be reviewed by our Steering Group. The aim is to support each other and engage in local, positive action on climate and nature. You can register / offer up a project idea here.

Nailsworth Green Directory

This is currently undergoing a refresh, and a new version will be posted in due course.

Find out about all of the businesses in Nailsworth that are making a conscious effort to be more sustainable. From the chef who switched to compostable take-away boxes to the computer shop that fixes and recycles, there are lots of people in Nailsworth trying to change the way we live, work and shop.

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