Chester World Development Forum

Wed 12th May - ‘Mary taught her son a lesson that day’ Women’s voices in the Bible
2021-05-12 19:30 - 21:00 UTC | St Mary’s Without-the-Walls, Overleigh Road, Handbridge, Chester, CH4 7HL
An in-person event for Christian Aid in CA Week, an evening of storytelling, poetry and music. People are invited to reserve seats in the church, and it will also be available on Zoom and Facebook.
Trevor will draw upon his young people’s Bible, The Book of Books, on four of his published collections of stories and poems, and on a story preached in Lichfield on Easter Day in 2013. Michael Reynolds, the organist and choirmaster at St Mary’s and another local musician will provide some inspiring and uplifting music.
We will not be selling tickets, but for those who come to the church there will be a chance to put donations to Christian Aid in envelopes, while those who watch the evening on Zoom or Face Book will be able to give online.
If you wish to reserve seats in St Mary’s, please email Trevor on trevordennis11@gmail.com or ring him on 01244 638441. He will need your email address and your telephone number, and if you are coming with others, please tell him whether you can sit together, or will need to be socially distanced.

Tues 11th May - CWDF Forum-by-Zoom (AGM)
2021-05-11 19:00 - 21:00 | Zoom Session
Tues 11th May – CWDF Forum-by-Zoom (AGM)
7.00pm Speaker Henry Sidsaph on the theme Miténgo coffee, – tree planting through ethical coffee?
Henry is a PhD researcher at the Business Research Institute at the University of Chester.
Further details TBA. The AGM is an important opportunity to consider the overall work of the Forum and to appoint/ confirm membership of the Forum committee

10-16 May - Christian Aid Week: Virtual / hybrid events
2021-05-08 08:00 - 2021-05-18 17:00 | Zoom Session
10-16 May – Christian Aid Week: Virtual events
In, around and beyond CA Week, virtual or “hybrid” events include:

‘Mary taught her son a lesson that day’ Women’s voices in the Bible

This was held as a live event on Wednesday 12th May in St Mary’s-without-the-Walls, Handbridge, but still available to view on YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCHvzYJ1wjdH8XXy_gtovCBQ
Trevor Dennis drew upon his young people’s Bible and his collections of stories and poems. Michael Reynolds, the organist and choirmaster at St Mary’s and another local musician provided some inspiring and uplifting music. Donations to Christian Aid.

Song of the Prophets Join us on Wednesday 9 June 7-8pm to witness the debut performance of a new orchestral work Song of the Prophets: A Requiem for the Climate. There will be an address from Dr Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury, and a panel discussion with climate campaigners. Christian Aid has collaborated with Chineke! Orchestra – Europe’s first majority-BME orchestra – and St Paul’s Institute, on this new piece of music based on Christian Aid’s climate change work.

Further details: www.christianaid.org.uk/appeals/key-appeals/christian-aid-week/virtual-events
Here is the link for the Chester Christian Aid Group’s Just Giving page, set up because the usual collections during Christian Aid Week were curtailed again this year. Please circulate in case there are people who would like to make a donation:
https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/chesterchristianaidgroup2021

Tues 4th May – “Tellus”: Eco-Communities Crowdcast
2021-05-04 19:00 - 20:30 | Virtual
Every Tuesday 7pm – “Tellus” : Eco-Communities Crowdcast

Chester FoE run Eco Communities TV on Tuesdays 7pm each week. If you have something you want to say, a community project you’re involved in, or you want to talk about or anything in the eco/ sustainable world you think people should know about get in touch. You can follow our Eco Communities TV Channel on Crowdcast- click here
The Tellus TV May episodes:

4th –Ashton Hayes on Going Carbon Neutral, (Prof Roy Alexander UoC) why the Wombles came to Chester and more
11th – Green Infrastructure and Habitat Creation (Roger Goulding, CWAC) and for Vegetarian Week – Charlotte talks about growing your own (10xGreenerCH1)
18th – Nelson Reyes, Project Columbia and how it connects people across the world for better business innovation and sustainability.
25th – Carbon Footprint Friends and No Mow May update

Every Tuesday 7pm – “Tellus” : Eco-Communities Crowdcast
2021-04-27 19:00 - 20:30, 2021-04-20 19:00 - 20:30, 2021-04-13 19:00 - 20:30 | Zoom Session
Chester FoE run Eco Communities TV on Tuesdays 7pm each week. If you have something you want to say, a community project you’re involved in, or you want to talk about or anything in the eco/ sustainable world you think people should know about get in touch. You can follow our Eco Communities TV Channel on Crowdcast- click here The Tellus TV April programme:

6th April – We look at the issues of palm oil, Chester as a Sustainable Palm Oil City and why more areas need to get involved. We will be joined by Faye Sherlock from Chester Zoo
13th April – Reasons to be Wild – Three sisters raising awareness of British wildlife through art and engagement. #LeftForNature, 10xGreener and #OneAcreaMeadow
20th April – Climate Change – We have Martin Land to talk about the Liverpool Tidal Project, plus more.
27th April – Then we are all about one of our favourite wild animals, the Hedgehog, we will be hearing from Hannah Khwaja, Field Conservation Assistant and look at Chester Zoo’s Hedgehog Project.

Mon 12th Apr - 'Mekong River' – Zoom talk by professional photographer Jim Holmes
2021-04-12 19:00 - 20:00 | Zoom Session
7.00 – 8.00pm Jim’s illustrated talk is about the Mekong river and how climate change and hydro dam construction is affecting the livelihoods and sustainability of this great river and the people who rely upon it for their living and survival. For the Zoom link please email bernard.payne691@btinternet.com

This is the first of a number of potential Zoom events to be held on dates between the CWDF bi-monthly full Forum sessions. They will include presentation and discussion, plus a brief AOB item rather than full business agenda.

Every Tuesday 7pm – “Tellus” : Eco-Communities Crowdcast
2021-04-06 19:00 - 20:30 | Zoom Session
Every Tuesday 7pm – “Tellus” : Eco-Communities Crowdcast
Chester FoE run Eco Communities TV on Tuesdays 7pm each week. If you have something you want to say, a community project you’re involved in, or you want to talk about or anything in the eco/ sustainable world you think people should know about get in touch. You can follow our Eco Communities TV Channel on Crowdcast- click here The Tellus TV April programme:

6th April – We look at the issues of palm oil, Chester as a Sustainable Palm Oil City and why more areas need to get involved. We will be joined by Faye Sherlock from Chester Zoo
13th April – Reasons to be Wild – Three sisters raising awareness of British wildlife through art and engagement. #LeftForNature, 10xGreener and #OneAcreaMeadow
20th April – Climate Change – We have Martin Land to talk about the Liverpool Tidal Project, plus more.
27th April – Then we are all about one of our favourite wild animals, the Hedgehog, we will be hearing from Hannah Khwaja, Field Conservation Assistant and look at Chester Zoo’s Hedgehog Project.

Wed 24th Mar – Stories, poems and music for Passiontide
2021-03-24 19:30 - 21:00 | St Mary’s Without-the-Walls, Overleigh Road, Handbridge, Chester, CH4 7HL
With Trevor Dennis, Michael Reynolds and Sarah Jessop. Proceeds to Christian Aid.
We are able to invite people to attend in person in the church while also enabling others to attend remotely via Zoom or watch it on YouTube afterwards. If you wish to reserve a place in church (ticket numbers are limited), or for the Zoom link details, please ring Trevor on 01244 638441, or email him on trevordennis11@gmail.com

Tues 23rd Mar - Chester City of Sanctuary Group meeting via Zoom, with Guest speaker
2021-03-23 19:00 - 21:00 | Zoom Session
7.00pm We are pleased to welcome Shantele Sutherland, Director of CHAWREC who will be talking about the valuable work of CHAWREC with Refugees and those seeking Asylum in this locality.
Our AGM will follow. If you would be interested to hear Shantele speak please contact Rose Johnson via info@chester.cityofsanctuary.org for the Zoom link.
CHAWREC = Cheshire Halton & Warrington Race & Equality Centre

Tues 23rd Mar - "Tellus": Eco-Communities Crowdcast
2021-03-23 19:00 - 20:30 | Crowdcast session
Every Tuesday 7pm – “Tellus” : Eco-Communities Crowdcast
Chester FoE run Eco Communities TV on Tuesdays 7pm each week. If you have something you want to say, a community project you’re involved in, or you want to talk about or anything in the eco/ sustainable world you think people should know about get in touch. You can follow our Eco Communities TV Channel on Crowdcast- click here The Tellus TV remaining March programme:

Tuesday 16th – Why we should all keep up the shopping local habit. Keep our small independents in our villages, towns and cities in business
Tuesday 23rd – Our Green Jobs Special

Further information: Helen helenchesterfoe@hotmail.com

Wed 17th Mar – ICAHD Webinar: ‘Critical young Israelis speak about the future’
2021-03-17 17:00 - 19:00 | Webinar session
Webinar at 5.00pm. Recently a group of 60 Israeli students have refused to join the army and have written a very powerful letter calling on all young people in Israel to follow their lead. It is also a letter to the rest of the world to support them. In their letter to fellow High School Seniors they say “ So long as Palestinians live under an occupation, which deprives them of Human Rights and National Rights, we can never achieve peace”.
Read the letter Here
To register for the webinar go to https://icahd.org/2020/07/0 9/icahd-uk-webinars-2/
ICAHD = Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions

Tues 16th Mar - "Tellus": Eco-Communities Crowdcast
2021-03-16 19:00 - 20:30

Tues 9th Mar - CWDF Forum-by-Zoom
2021-03-09 19:00 - 21:00 | Zoom Session
Our Forum meeting will include a talk by Martin Evans, Honorary Research Fellow, Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience, Coventry University:
“Development interventions and social realities in paddy rice farming, South Senegal” –
Email bernard.payne691@btinternet.com for Zoom link

Every Tuesday 7pm – “Tellus” : Eco-Communities Crowdcast
2021-02-23 19:00 - 21:00 | Zoom Session
Every Tuesday 7pm – “Tellus” : Eco-Communities Crowdcast
Chester FoE run Eco Communities TV on Tuesdays 7pm each week. If you have something you want to say, a community project you’re involved in, or you want to talk about or anything in the eco/ sustainable world you think people should know about get in touch. You can follow our Eco Communities TV Chanel on Crowdcast- click here Further information: Helen helenchesterfoe@hotmail.com
23rd Feb – we start with a talk from the planned Sustainable Chester Centre, with John Egan and Niall MacFadyen.

Mon 22nd Feb – Sun 7th Mar - Fairtrade Fortnight
2021-02-22 - 2021-03-07
Mon 22nd Feb – Sun 7th Mar – Fairtrade Fortnight
For two weeks each year at the end of February and start of March, thousands of individuals, companies and groups across the UK come together to share the stories of the people who grow our food and drinks, mine our gold and who grow the cotton in our clothes, people who are often exploited and underpaid.
In Fairtrade Fortnight 2021, we will highlight the growing challenges that climate change brings to farmers and workers in the communities Fairtrade works with. The facts are straightforward. Farmers and workers in countries such as Kenya, Ethiopia and Honduras, who have done the least to contribute to climate change, are disproportionately affected by it.
For local information contact Heather Swainston: heather@cheshiredec.org

Every Tuesday 7pm – “Tellus” : Eco-Communities Crowdcast
2021-02-16 19:00 - 21:00 | Zoom Session
Every Tuesday 7pm – “Tellus” : Eco-Communities Crowdcast
Chester FoE run Eco Communities TV on Tuesdays 7pm each week. If you have something you want to say, a community project you’re involved in, or you want to talk about or anything in the eco/ sustainable world you think people should know about get in touch. You can follow our Eco Communities TV Chanel on Crowdcast- click here Further information: Helen helenchesterfoe@hotmail.com
16th Feb – following on from our Active Travel special, we have brought in an expert – Rachel Aldred, Professor of Transport and Director of the University’s Active Travel Academy, University of Westminster, London.

Sun 14th Feb - National Cycling Day of Action,
2021-02-14
This event seeks to give voice and presence to the pro-cycling lobby. Sean Anglish of Greenpeace is coordinating this for Chester: s.anglish@yahoo.com

Thurs 11th Feb - Achieving Global Justice in International Debt
2021-02-11 19:30 - 21:30 | Zoom event
7.30pm Zoom session
Global Justice Shropshire is hosting a public talk by Revd Canon John Nightingale, Chair of Jubilee Debt Campaign Birmingham, for a virtual talk and Q&A on ‘unjust debt’ in February. The coronavirus pandemic has brought debt in developing countries into sharp relief. Members of Chester World Development Forum and friends would be very welcome to attend.
For Zoom details email suzanne.freegard@gmail.com

Every Tuesday 7pm – “Tellus” : Eco-Communities Crowdcast
2021-02-09 19:00 - 21:00 | Zoom Session
Every Tuesday 7pm – “Tellus” : Eco-Communities Crowdcast
Chester FoE run Eco Communities TV on Tuesdays 7pm each week. If you have something you want to say, a community project you’re involved in, or you want to talk about or anything in the eco/ sustainable world you think people should know about get in touch. You can follow our Eco Communities TV Chanel on Crowdcast- click here Further information: Helen helenchesterfoe@hotmail.com
9th Feb – Kriss Kazmierrski from ExsqueezeMe tells us why he felt it was important for his business to invest in an electric van for deliveries. Then Stephen Savory from Chester Community Energy, will be on to talk about the successful community solar in the region.

Tues 2nd Feb & every Tuesday – “Tellus” : Eco-Communities Crowdcast
2021-02-02 19:00 - 21:00 | Zoom Session
Chester FoE run Eco Communities TV on Tuesdays 7pm each week. If you have something you want to say, a community project you’re involved in, or you want to talk about or anything in the eco/ sustainable world you think people should know about get in touch. You can follow our Eco Communities TV Chanel on Crowdcast- click here Further information: Helen helenchesterfoe@hotmail.com
2nd February Tellus programme:
We look at reducing your carbon footprint and going flight free in 2021, with Anna Hughes, Flight Free UK. Do you understand Hydrogen power? If not join us and hear from John Egan and Niall MacFadyen on the Cheshire West HyNet project.

Tues 12th Jan - CWDF Forum-by-Zoom
2021-01-12 18:45 - 21:00 | Zoom event
Speaker Ciara Hogan, on her work as Community Participation Cooordinator for CAFOD – the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development. Ciara’s responsibilities cover the Catholic Diocese of Shrewsbury, (extending from Birkenhead in the north down to Telford in the south) fostering the work of local groups.
Please email bernard.payne691@btinternet.com for Zoom joining details.

Sat 19th Dec - Chester Friends of Palestine Vigil: Against Arms to Israel
2020-12-19 14:00 - 15:00 | The Cross, Chester
2.00 -3.00pm The Cross, Chester
We will not be holding our usual vigil at the end of November but if it’s possible we hope to have one on this, the Saturday before Christmas, with placards on a Bethlehem theme. To let us know you are coming, and for further information please email: chester4palestine@gmail.com

Wed 16th Dec 2020 - Stories, Poems, and Music for Advent and Christmas
2020-12-16 19:30 - 21:00 | St Mary’s Without-the-Walls, Overleigh Road, Handbridge, Chester, CH4 7HL
‘Do you want to hold him for a moment?’
Stories, Poems, and Music for Advent and Christmas, with Trevor Dennis and Friends
We really need Christmas this year, but whether our churches will be able to hold the usual carol services remains doubtful. So this Christian Aid event may be particularly important. A ray of hope!
Trevor Dennis will introduce and read seven of his published stories and poems on the themes of Advent and Christmas, while Brian and Claire Heald from Wesley Church will provide some wonderful music.
Unless more severe Covid restrictions are imposed, about 100 people will be able to attend. You will need to reserve a place by emailing Trevor on trevordennis11@gmail.com with your name(s) and phone number, or by ringing him on 01244 638441. Christian Aid envelopes will be put out on the socially distanced seats.
Alternatively you will be able to attend remotely via Zoom, and then you will have a chance to donate to Christian Aid through a JustGiving page, or by sending a cheque to the St Mary’s Centre.
Should Covid make it impossible for so many to meet in the church, we still plan to go ahead on Zoom.

For Christian Aid

Thurs 10th Dec - International Human Rights Day
2020-12-10 | Virtual
Human Rights Day is celebrated annually across the world on this date every year. The date was chosen to honour the United Nations General Assembly’s adoption and proclamation, on 10 December 1948, of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

“Write for Rights”: In December 2019 Chester & Wrexham Amnesty International Group held a successful event at Storyhouse. We are unable to hold a public event this year, but we do hope that you are still able to support Write for Rights 2020 by sending messages in support of those either suffering human rights abuses or working for human rights justice. The Write for Rights booklet can be downloaded from amnesty.org.uk/write-rights-2020-get-started It gives feedback from last year’s campaigns and details how to participate this year. Write for Rights 2020 runs until 31 December 2020. Further information from Mike Johnson, Chair Chester & Wrexham Amnesty International Group mikerj51@hotmail.com

Wed 9th Dec - Chester Friends of Palestine: Zoom session
2020-12-09 18:30 - 20:00 | Virtual
Wed 9th Dec – Chester Friends of Palestine: Zoom session
6.30pm Our next meeting is in the form of a Zoom call with Hala Rashed, an associate professor at Bethlehem University. Hala will talk about life in Bethlehem today, particularly relevant as we approach Christmas.
For further information or to get the Zoom link for the meeting please email Brian on brian.r.rowe@gmail.com

Sat 28th Nov – Sustainable Christmas: Virtual Eco Fair
2020-11-28 10:00 - 17:00 | Virtual
Friends of the Earth and Eco Communities’ Winter Fair is usually face to face, but like the Virtual Eco Fair held in June they are taking this event on line.
For programme details go to https://chesterfoe.co.uk and follow the link, or email: helenchesterfoe@hotmail.com

9th -16th Nov - Exhibition and Conference “Our Journey to Sustainability” POSTPONED TO 2021
2020-11-09 - 2020-11-16 | Chester Cathedral, St Werburgh Street, Chester, CH1 2DY
By putting on this exhibition with Chester Cathedral, the Chester Sustainability Forum aims to display the wide range of responses to the climate emergency that are being planned and implemented by the many faith groups, environmental groups, businesses, and political parties which share the common objective of improving the environmental sustainability of Chester and its surrounding area.

Associated event ,“All Creation Waits” A dance theatre piece created by Claire Henderson Davis. See clairehendersondavis.com/all-creation-waits

Please note that these events were originally planned for May 2020 but provisionally postponed to these November dates in light of the Covid-19 pandemic. The Cathedral and the Chester Sustainability Forum have now taken the decision to postpone again, possibly to May 2021, but the situation will be reviewed again in January 2021. CSF has duly notified the event supporters and exhibitors.

For further information please contact Diane Williams, djw0417@btinternet.com

Tues 3rd Nov - CWDF Forum-by-Zoom
2020-11-03 19:00 - 21:00 | Zoom Session
Please note this date is one week earlier than the Forum’s traditional 2nd Tuesday slot.
Prior to the Forum business meeting Stephen Maund will be giving us an update on his work in Malawi with the Capacity Foundation. Their activities are focussed on northern Malawi, and seek to end aid dependency by enabling people to educate themselves and to make a living. The unique locally-run Social Action Fund replaces unreliable aid with a sustainable-funding model.
For Zoom joining details please email bernard.payne691@btinternet.com
