SHOW THE LOVE 2024 – NEW DATE

£1 in person, free on Zoom

We will have a stellar array of exciting speakers for you again for this year’s Show the Love. If you attended in February 2023 or in previous years you will want to come back. Please bring your friends, this meeting is open to non WI members.  

10.00am Welcome Chair Lord Deben
10.10am Keynote address Chair
10.25am Government Net Zero policies title tbc
Vicky Ford, MP for Chelmsford
10.40am Essex County Council net zero initiatives – Councillor Peter Schwier, ECC Climate Czar
10.55am Battling the bullshit: media and political narratives on net zero – Jess Ralston, Head of Energy, Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU)
11.10am Climate Voters: leveraging the power of the climate majority – Dr Doug Parr, Chief Scientist and Head of Policy, Greenpeace UK
11.25am Questions and Panel Discussion
11.50am Summary Chair
12 noon Tea/coffee and exhibition viewing, including:

WI Craftism: Green Hearts and so much more!
Gill Hathaway Elsenham WI, FEWI Climate Ambassador
Please bring your Craftism, especially Green Hearts, to display for the day,
the best will feature on Essex WI News front cover!
Climate and environment book display and swap – Nikki Saunders, Hadleigh Afternoon WI, FEWI Climate Ambassador
Please bring your climate and biodiversity books to recommend or swap. We
will have some of our favourite books available for you to borrow and pass on
WI Members electric vehicle display, find out what they are really like!

1.00pm Close.

Please bring your homemade Green Heart to display, we will vote on who has created the most beautiful/unusual/inventive ones, and they will feature on the front cover of Essex WI News to inspire us all.

Climate change is hotting up, with 2023 set to be the warmest year ever recorded. What can we do to prepare ourselves for more frequent extreme weather events? This year, Show the Love is especially important in the run up to the General Election, and is your opportunity to find out what climate policies we need to protect us and for our prospective Parliamentary candidates to put forward. We can also put together a list of question to ask them if we get an opportunity.

Non members welcome