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If you haven’t already received the newsletter through your front door you can download it here. The newsletter for this quarter contains: Tube noise: the rumblings of change? Clint Eastwood’s visit and details on filming in the area Call for ideas on how to spend ASSA community £s Rubbish collections and bins in Albert Square [...]

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There will be a ‘Draught Busting Day’ at 6 Wilkinson Street on Saturday, November 21st from 10am to 1pm. Anyone from Albert Square, St Stephens Terrace, Aldebert Terrace, Wilkinson Street or surrounding area is welcome. The focus is on Victorian and Edwardian properties. A Draught Busting Day is an opportunity to learn how to make [...]

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Re-use, Recycle & make Revenue: Clear out unwanted items from your loft, cupboards and drawers before winter and sell them earning £££’s for yourself while helping the environment. Have you got stuff you don’t want but haven’t got round to putting on eBay or that’s just too good to throw away? Why not sell it [...]

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The ASSA Climate Action Network (ASSA CAN) has now gone live! If you would like to take part, please contact Chris Morrison on 07971 198555 As residents in Albert Square, St Stephens Terrace, Aldebert Terrace and Wilkinson Street, you will be only too aware of the energy inefficiency of old houses and their large carbon [...]

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For those of you not familiar with the ASSA Climate Action Network (ASSA CAN), it is an innovative way to collectively reduce our domestic energy use through an increase in energy efficiency and the the use of renewables. The best thing about it is that it it will cost you nothing because the money you [...]

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I went to Brixton’s ‘Great Unleashing’ last week – don’t worry its not a cue to run for cover… It is the launch of Transition Town Brixton. It was a huge success with a packed town hall of people from Brixton and the surrounds wanting to make a difference and starting at home. Put simply, [...]

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The need for better home energy As residents in the Albert Square, St Stephens Terrace, Aldebert Terrace and Wilkinson Street, you will be only too aware of the energy inefficiency of old houses and their large carbon footprint. There are myriad ways to make our homes more energy efficient and reduce our emissions; ranging from [...]

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ASSA has entered the Big Green Challenge competition with the object of reducing the CO2 emissions of the community by 60% in an innovative, scalable and replicable way. We are already down to the last 100 in the competition and will find out in July if we have made it to last ten and get [...]

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