Chester World Development Forum

Write for Rights
2021-12-18 10:00 - 13:00 UTC | Storyhouse, Hunter Street, Chester, CH1 2AR
Saturday 18 December 2021 from 10am to 1pm: Chester & Wrexham Amnesty
International Group “Write for Rights” in the Kitchen at Storyhouse.
Our local Amnesty group warmly invites you to join hundreds of thousands of Amnesty
supporters around the world taking part in our annual “Write for Rights” campaign. We will be writing cards to show our solidarity for 10 people and organisations enduring human rights abuses. Our Amnesty group will arrange for all the cards to be posted.
For further details please click on the link below which will take you to the appropriate pageon the Storyhouse website:
https://www.storyhouse.com/event/write-for-rights
We will be located at the far end of the Kitchen area, near to the entrance to the theatre, but as the theatre production starts later in the afternoon it should be a quiet area.

CWDF Social and Networking Evening
2021-12-14 19:00 - 21:00 | The Unity Centre, Cuppin Street, Chester, CH1 2BN
We hope to have an informal evening, with a film, drinks and mince pies.
Further details to follow.

Northwich incinerator protest
2021-11-21 10:30 - 12:00
https://stoptheburnnorthwich.weebly.com/march-sunday-21st.html

Chifundo Christmas Fair
2021-11-20 10:30 - 14:30 | Hoole URC, Hoole Road, Chester, CH2 3NT
Christmas Craft Fair with refreshments, held in aid of Chifundo UK – Empowering girls and women in Malawi
Admission free

CWDF Meeting COP26 Analysis and Aftermath
2021-11-16 19:00 - 21:00 | The Unity Centre, Cuppin Street, Chester, CH1 2BN
**Tuesday 16 November at 7pm: CWDF Meeting: COP26 Analysis and Aftermath**
We have booked The Unity Centre for an open forum event. We have invited local groups who are actively campaigning on climate change to come and join us. We will discuss the decisions and implications of the COP26 conference, with the hope of stimulating local action. We hope to be joined by representatives of Chester Sustainability Forum, CPRE, Eco-Communities / Friends of the Earth, GreenPeace, the Green Party, Transition Chester, and others.
Please note that this meeting will be on the third Tuesday of November, not the second.

Sat 13th Nov - Sustainable Chester Winter Fair
2021-11-13 10:00 - 17:00 | Rowton Hall Hotel & Spa, Rowton Lane, Chester, CH3 6AD
Saturday 13 November: Sustainable Chester Winter Fair at Rowton Hall Hotel
As this is an indoor event, admission is by ticket only at:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sustainable-cheshire-fair-tickets-165099173071

Sat 6th Nov - Chester Cathedral Sustainability Exhibition
2021-11-06 10:00 - 17:00 | Chester Cathedral Cloisters
Saturday 06 November: Chester Cathedral Sustainability Exhibition
Chester Sustainability Forum originally planned this for May 2020 with Chester Cathedral. The exhibition will be open from 10am to 5pm in the cloisters, with a parallel program of presentations and demonstrations in the Chapter House.
Chester COP 26 Exhibition (2)

Mon 1st-Fri 12th Nov - COP26 UN Climate Change Conference
2021-11-01 08:00 - 2021-11-12 17:00 | Various venues
Monday 01 to Friday 12 November: COP 26, the 2021 UN Climate Change ‘Conference of Parties’ in Glasgow
There are sure to be various local and national events while COP26 is running, and our regular Forum meeting on Tuesday 08 November falls within its duration. We may be able to have an on-the-spot progress report if any of our members have been to Glasgow …
We hope that there will be a high profile public meeting in Chester following COP26 to look at its implications both globally and locally.

Deep Water Rising
2021-10-30 16:30 - 18:00 | Old Dee Bridge, Chester, Chester
Saturday 30 October, 4:30 – 6pm at The Old Dee Bridge Chester: “Deep Water Rising”
Members of the community are invited to come and make a noise as part of a family friendly global rally before the start of the COP26 conference, to encourage politicians to do the right thing. There will be drumming and singing from 4:30 to 5:30, then torches and candles will shine out on to the bridge and the river. At 5:55, there will be a countdown to a 2-minute silence tlo allow people to reflect on the lives lost due to climate change, and the damage done to our precious planet. At 6pm, church bells will ring out across the country in the Church of England “Ring for the Climate” initiative, and everybody is invited to make a noise wherever you are. You’ve clapped for the NHS, so now “Clang for the Climate”.
Deep Water Rising

Public Prayers for Climate Justice
2021-10-26 12:00 - 12:30, 2021-10-12 12:00 - 12:30, 2021-10-05 12:00 - 12:30, 2021-09-28 12:00 - 12:30, 2021-09-21 12:00 - 12:30, 2021-09-07 12:00 - 12:30 | Chester Town Hall Square, Northgate Street, Chester, United Kingdom
People concerned about climate change may come together to pray for all those suffering from climatic changes and for those in power who need to make decisions necessary to stabilise and protect our climate.
A small group from Christian Aid and Churches Together in Chester is holding weekly prayer meetings in public over the period leading up to the COP26 conference in Glasgow in November.
The Meetings start at 12 noon each Tuesday in front of the Town Hall, praying there, then moving to repeat the prayers at The Cross at 12.15. Please join us in this important act of Christian witness in Chester. For further information please contact Brian Rowe on 07752 949 832.

Sat 23rd Oct - Youth Climate Conference
2021-10-23 13:30 - 15:30 | Chester Cathedral, St Werburgh Street, Chester, CH1 2DY
Saturday 23 October, 1:30 to 3:30pm at Chester Cathedral: Youth Climate Conference
Chester Youth Climate Change Conference is an opportunity is to raise awareness of Climate Change Issues in Cheshire, and to give a platform for under 25’s to engage with the issues by hearing from international and local speakers of a variety of ages.
Free event but booking essential : https://chestercathedral.ticketsolve.com/shows/1173613302
Chester Youth Climate Conference

Public Prayers for Climate Justice
2021-10-19 12:00 - 12:30 | Chester Town Hall Square, Chester

Ceilidh for Colin
2021-10-09 19:30 - 22:30 | St Columba’s Church Hall, 1 Newhall Road, Plas Newton, Chester, CH2 1JJ
Saturday 09 October, 7:30 to 10:30pm at St. Columba‟s church hall: “Ceilidh for Colin‟
Catherine Green Watson has organised an evening in honour of her husband Colin Watson.
There will be memories of Colin, dancing to live music from “A Band on Ship‟, and a light
vegan supper provided by Chester Tandoori. Bring your own beer! Friends of Colin and
people who worked alongside him on various environmental and justice issues can register
at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ceilidh-for-colin-registration-169864269603

18-26 Sept - Climate Coalition’s ‘Great Big Green Week‘
2021-09-18 - 2021-09-26 | Various venues
18-26 September: the Climate Coalition’s ‘Great Big Green Week‘
Communities across the UK will join together for the ‘Great Big Green Week’. It aims to be the biggest event for climate and nature ever held in the UK, taking place just five weeks before COP26 is held in Glasgow. There are plans for a Great Big Green Week in Cheshire West and Chester, to raise the profile of groups taking action on climate change and to encourage more, from communities and politicians alike.
The ‘Great Big Green Week’ will link up with some existing events, such as the annual Chester Zoo Wildlife Connections on 18 &19 September. The Sustainable Chester Fair is being planned the following weekend in Grosvenor Park. Northwich will have art installations around the town, and more.
CWDF would like to hold an event of our own, and is open to suggestions from members – contact us by email at chester1wdf@gmail.com. We might, for example, lobby at local branches of the major banks that are still heavily involved in financing fossil fuel projects and driving global warming, even though their stated investment policies have branded such activities as “unsustainable”.
If you’d like to be involved in our local ‘Great Big Green Week’ or want more information, please send an email to helenchesterfoe@hotmail.com.

God Treads Softly Here
2021-09-15 19:30 - 21:00 | St Mary’s Handbridge Centre, Overleigh Road Handbridge, Chester, CH4 7HL
‘God Treads Softly Here: You do not Hear Her Coming’
An evening of words and music for Christian Aid
Trevor Dennis, Brian Heald and Lionel Clarke,
St Mary’s Handbridge, Wednesday, September 15, 7.30pm – 9.00pm

This is the fourth and last in a series of evenings of words and music that have been held in St Mary’s Church, Handbridge for Christian Aid since the middle of last December. We’ve had evenings to do with Christmastide, Passiontide, and Women’s voices in the Bible. This time the theme is simply God!
Trevor Dennis will read six of his published stories or poems on that theme, while Lionel Clarke and Brian Heald, two highly celebrated Chester musicians, will be playing six pieces for cello and piano. The mood will be less sombre this time – it will be quietly reflective at times, at others positively playful. And Trevor assures everyone that this programme will easily fit within the 90 minutes.
We will find ourselves at the gate of heaven, on the bank of one of the rivers of Eden, in the silence of the Sinai desert, or with the marks of God’s floury hands on our backs. And there will be Dvŏrák, Rachmaninoff, Schubert, Bach and more.
Thanks to the Methodist Book Centre at Hanley, and their wonderful manager Julie-Ann Ellis, there will be a bookstall and at the end of the evening a chance to buy copies of some of Trevor’s books, including three of the collections he will have been drawing upon. Julie has promised to donate 10% of the profits to Christian Aid.
No tickets are being sold, but as before there will be a chance to give to Christian Aid, either in the church or online. Astonishingly, the first three evenings between them raised £8,850. Let’s see if we can bring the grand total to over £10,000! The need is so great, and so urgent.
If you wish to reserve seats in the church, please email Trevor on trevordennis11@gmail.com , or telephone him on 01244 638441. You will be more than welcome. If you prefer, you can watch the evening on Zoom, or catch up with it afterwards on the St Mary’s Handbridge YouTube channel, and you will be given a link to an online-giving page, set up by the Chester Christian Aid Committee. Cheques made out to Christian Aid can be posted to ‘Christian Aid, c/o The Parish Administrator, St Mary-Without-the Walls, Overleigh Road, Handbridge, Chester CH4 7HL’.
Trevor Dennis

Tues 14th Sept - CWDF Forum on “2021 - a Year of Summits”
2021-09-14 19:00 - 21:00 | The Unity Centre, Cuppin Street, Chester, CH1 2BN
** Tuesday 14 September at 7pm: CWDF Forum on “2021 – a Year of Summits” **
CWDF member and University of Chester Senior Lecturer Emerita Gill Miller will provide an overview of the major international gatherings that have taken place (and are still to take place) over the course of 2021 – including the G7 and G20 gatherings and, not least, COP26, the 2021 United Nations Climate Change ‘Conference of Parties’ being held in Glasgow from 01 to 12 November.

Public Prayers for Climate Justice
2021-09-14 12:00 - 12:30

Public Prayers for Climate Justice
2021-08-31 12:00 - 12:30 | Chester Town Hall Square, Northgate Street, Chester, United Kingdom
People concerned about climate change may come together to pray for all those suffering from climatic changes and for those in power who need to make decisions necessary to stabilise and protect our climate.
A small group from Christian Aid and Churches Together in Chester is holding weekly prayer meetings in public over the period leading up to the COP26 conference in Glasgow in November.
The Meetings start at 12 noon each Tuesday in front of the Town Hall, praying there, then moving to repeat the prayers at The Cross at 12.15. Please join us in this important act of Christian witness in Chester. For further information please contact Brian Rowe on 07752 949 832.

Public prayers info July 2021

Public Prayers for Climate Justice
2021-08-24 12:00 - 12:30 | Chester Town Hall Square, Chester
PUBLIC PRAYERS FOR CLIMATE JUSTICE:
People concerned about climate change may come together to pray for all those suffering from climatic changes and for those in power who need to make decisions necessary to stabilise and protect our climate.
A small group from Christian Aid and Churches Together in Chester is holding weekly prayer meetings in public over the period leading up to the COP26 conference in Glasgow in November.
The Meetings start at 12 noon each Tuesday in front of the Town Hall, praying there, then moving to repeat the prayers at The Cross at 12.15. Please join us in this important act of Christian witness in Chester. For further information please contact Brian Rowe on 07752 949 832.

Public prayers info July 2021

Public Prayers for Christian Aid
2021-08-17 11:30 - 12:30 | Chester City Centre
Public prayers info July 2021

Sat 7 Aug - Fairtrade Coffee Morning, Hoole URC - Chifundo UK
2021-08-07 10:00 - 12:00 | Hoole URC, Hoole Road, Chester, CH2 3NT
In aid of Chifundo UK, working with the women of Malawi. With coffee and refreshments and a variety of Fairtrade products from Malawi. Free admission, but there will also be a Flower Arranging Workshop for which book in advance but pay on the day, £3.50.
Further information from Susan: 01244 381490 chair@chanasachifundomalawi.org
Chifundo Coffee Morning 7-8-21

Fri 6th Aug - Hiroshima and Nagasaki Flower Memorial
2021-08-06 20:00 - 21:00 | The Bandstand, The Groves, Chester
Friday 06 August, 8pm at The Groves, Chester: Hiroshima and Nagasaki Flower Memorial
This annual event is organised by Margaret & Dai Owen, to remember those who died and suffered as a result of the atomic bombs dropped in 1945, and in the firm belief that it must never happen again. All are welcome to meet at the Bandstand for readings, a period of quiet reflection, and the dropping of flowers on the river. Please bring white flowers if you wish.

Tues 3rd Aug - Public Prayers for Climate Justice
2021-08-03 11:30 - 12:30 | The Cross, Chester, United Kingdom
PUBLIC PRAYERS FOR CLIMATE JUSTICE:
As Christians concerned with justice, we should come together to pray for all those suffering from climatic changes, and for those in power who need to make decisions necessary to stabilise and protect our climate.
A small group from Christian Aid and Churches Together in Chester is planning weekly prayer meetings in public over the next couple of months, leading up to the COP26 conference in Glasgow in November.

Meetings will start on Tuesday 3rd August at 11.30 am at the Cross in front of St. Peter’s, then moving to repeat the prayers near the entrance to the Cathedral. Please join us in this important act of Christian witness in Chester.

For further information please contact Brian Rowe on 07752 949 832.
Public prayers info July 2021

Sat 17th Jul - “Future Coastal Path Ramble”
2021-07-17 11:00 - 14:00 | The Bandstand, The Groves, Chester
Saturday 17 July 11am to 2pm: “Future Coastal Path Ramble”
This event plans to begin with a 21st century version of the traditional Punch and Judy show at the Bandstand in the Groves, followed by a structured walk clockwise round the City Walls starting from the Old Dee Bridge with 4 picnic stops. XR intends to publicise the effect that global warming causing sea level change will have in a very local context.

Wed 14th Jul - Andrew Feinstein’s film “Shadow World”
2021-07-14 19:00 - 21:00 | Zoom event
Wednesday 14 July at 7pm online screening: Andrew Feinstein’s film “Shadow World”
As part of the campaign to stop the Liverpool Arms Fair in October, Chester Friends of Palestine are joining in the showing the inspirational film by Andrew Feinstein about the murky world of the global arms industry. UK, US, Israeli and other arms manufacturers are profiting from war and human misery, and contributing to large scale destruction of the environment.
The showing will conclude with a Q&A session with the director. You can register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMsdeytrj8qGtxh3ycd0SlZzXbR3qJgpN6i
