--- title: Rugby Eco Hub Newsletter September 2026 --- Newsletter ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­    ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­   | View in browser Rugby Eco Hub Newsletter September 2026 Dear Eco Hub friends and supporters,   If this is your first time receiving this newsletter and you would like to find out more about the Community Projects and other activities that Rugby Eco Hub organises, please click HERE. We hope that you will join us in filling this year with amazing projects, workshops and activities that help the people of Rugby to   Reduce \| Reuse \| Repair \| Recycle \| Regenerate Repair Café Next Saturday 17th October Come to our next Repair Café in the Eco Hub on Saturday 17th October. Lots of fixers are ready to repair your appliances, tools, clothing etc. It's also International Repair Day  and we're looking to expand the range of things we'd ready to fix. Rugby Eco Hub's Survey Please send us your Feedback Very excited to share this! Did you know that Rugby Eco Hub is doing its own "Monitoring & Evaluation" research project? This will both help highlight REH's achievements and inform future strategic decisions to make Rugby Eco Hub even better ⭐ A key point is to collect data from all Rugby Eco Hub users. Whether you're a volunteer, an occasional visitor, a project lead, or a trustee, we need you! If you can spare 10-15 minutes, could you fill in the survey linked below? This will provide us with incredibly valuable data to support this project. And … you can enter a prize draw if you fill it in 😉 Thank you ever so much!   Fill out the form HERE   Growing🌱Group High Sheriff hosted by Rugby Eco Hub Susan Rasmussen, Warwickshire’s High Sheriff (second from left) visiting 5 Acre’s pumpkin patch On Tuesday 22nd September, Warwickshire’s High Sheriff, Susan Rasmussen, visited 5 Acre community farm, hosted by Rugby Eco Hub and organised by Warwickshire Wildlife Trust. She was interested in learning more about community food growing in Rugby. With our display boards we informed her about the Growing🌱Group’s and our partner Garden Organic’s work in town and across the borough in enabling more people to gain confidence in growing herbs, food and pollinating plants in their backyards, gardens and neighbourhoods. But the main focus of the visit was to introduce her to 5 Acre community farm, which is the Community Supported Agriculture farm for Rugby. She was deeply interested in the work on community food growing being done across the borough, and especially in the farm. She asked many pertinent questions and became engrossed in the biodiverse, productive and healthy environment that 5 Acre has created at the back of Ryton Gardens. She chatted with volunteers and, in reflecting her gratitude for the work they do, suggested they and the farm should have greater official recognition… and that many more people should know about the nutritious weekly veg boxes produced by the farm. Community Food Resilience During September, Rugby Eco Hub has hosted a couple of meetings at which the issue of Community Food Resilience has been discussed. These included a meeting of Rugby’s Community of Practice on food access at which, with Garden Organic, we facilitated a presentation and discussion about how it could be possible to reduce food insecurity and increase the food resilience of people in Rugby. One key outcome was the need for this group to include food producers in their discussions and seek better, direct links between producers and people in need of quality food. The driver of the emerging interest in community food resilience has been Prof. Tim Lang’s seminal report ‘Just in Case’ published in these times of multiple crises that threaten food production and distribution. It highlights the precarity of Britain’s food supplies and hence the urgency for government, councils and local people to take bold steps to ensure the food security of the population in the immediate and longer term. It advocates the formation of Community Food Resilience Committees. A letter to the Prime Minister about this issue, written by Tim Lang and others, was discussed at a meeting of the Warwickshire Climate Alliance (WCA) hosted by Rugby Eco Hub on 28th September. At this meeting Patrick Mulvany, Rugby Eco Hub, highlighted a number of examples where action is being taken locally within Britain and presented the letter which was then open for signatures and, subsequently, was signed by Rugby Eco Hub and two other members of the WCA. The letter was delivered to Number 10 Downing Street on Monday 5th October and has had widespread coverage in the media.   Do contact us if you would like to know more about this issue. A Rugby Nature Network? In September, we hosted a meeting organised by Warwickshire Wildlife Trust as a follow up to the Rugby Nature in Focus event held last year in Benn Hall. The purpose was to help Rugby to set up a network of people, organisations and nature across the borough. Rugby has many people and organisations that are doing something to protect and enhance nature in gardens, parks, allotments, nature trails, canal towpaths, conservation areas and woods, to name a few. It’s a timely initiative that would highlight the borough’s bountiful biodiversity, beautifully summarised in the RHS Magazine article ‘Rugby’s vision for a nature friendly town’ in which Rugby Eco Hub is quoted. The network could reap many benefits for Rugby’s residents and we have been urged to help facilitate this. If you are interested in making this happen, do let us know. We could also invite you to the next session, which is probably going to be held in the first fortnight of November. Apple Day 2026 Apple Pressing @ Rugby Eco Hub Saturday 17th October, the Eco Hub, 10am - 1pm Squeeze delicious juice from your own apples and put it in your own bottles in the garden behind the Eco Hub at the top of Bath St. (follow the signs or ask!). Bring a shopping bag with up to 8kg apples and enough bottles for the juice – about 4 litres juice from 8kg apples. It will take about 15 minutes to complete the process. Expert guidance will be provided on how to prepare and squeeze your apples using the specialist equipment and we’ll give you information about how to preserve the juice at home. We will also be making tasty Apple Treats available on the day and please feel free to bring your own to share, if you want. All are welcome - see you there...   This is an activity of Rugby Eco Hub’s Growing🌱Group, one of our Community Projects   Click here to find out more and join us! Library of Things Come and join us for a table top sale!    At the end of the month we are sorting through our stock to sort out items that are not regularly rented, they will then be up for grabs for low prices to raise funds for Rugby Eco Hub and to ensure that we are offering the items you do want to rent.    Come and grab a bargain!   See you there!   How to support Rugby Eco Hub   We offer community projects for free to help the residents of Rugby save money whilst being eco friendly and sustainable, but to continue offering these projects we need support. There are many ways you can contribute:   Volunteer Your Time!   We are always looking for volunteers to help us with our community projects and the behind the scene jobs.    With all of our new volunteers we talk through the opportunitites and then discuss where you would like to start.    Some of the volunteering opportunities are; Repair Café Fixer Repair Café Host Library of Things Volunteer Social Media Content Creator Kitchen Team Volunteer Fundraising Volunteer Outreach Volunteer Nappy Library Volunteer Trustees So whether you can help cleaning or attend events or be a part of our projects contact us now on info@rugbyecohub.org Easy Fundraising   Did you know that whenever you buy anything online – from your weekly shop to your annual holiday – you could be raising free donations for Rugby Eco Hub with easyfundraising?   There are over 8,000 retailers on board ready to make a donation – including eBay, Argos, John Lewis & Partners, ASOS, Booking.com and M&S – and it won’t cost you a penny extra to help us raise funds.   All you need to do is:   1. Go to https://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/rugby-eco-hub/ and join for free.  2. Every time you shop online, go to easyfundraising first to find the site you want and start shopping.   3. After you’ve checked out, the retailer will make a donation to Rugby Eco Hub at no extra cost to you whatsoever!   There are no catches or hidden charges and Rugby Eco Hub will be really grateful for your donations.     Thank you for your support. Rugby Lotto   Every week Rugby Lotto give residents of Rugby the chance to win amazing prizes from Game Consoles to significant amounts of money!    This lottery raises money for good causes around Rugby so as you play the lottery charities are supported!   Tickets for the lottery cost just £1 a week. Each ticket has a 1 in 50 chance to win a prize each week, with a top prize of £25,000!   To support Rugby Eco Hub please buy your tickets HERE Give As You Live Give As You Live is a platform that allows either one-off or regular donations (and also gift aid them). You can also make donations by shopping online!   If you would like to donate to us please scan the above QR code or visit our give as you live page HERE In other news Room Hire Available at Rugby Eco Hub We are keen for the Eco hub to be used by the community. You can rent the hall or side room for events or meetings. Find more information here. Upcoming dates Sat 17th October, Apple Pressing - the Eco Hub, 10am - 1pm Sat 17th October, Repair Café - the Eco Hub, 10am - 1pm Fri 23rd October, Community Energy Event - the Eco Hub, 7pm - 21:30pm Sat 31st October, Shoppers Lunch - the Eco Hub, 12pm - 1:30pm Sat 31st October, Library of Things Table Top Sale - the Eco Hub, 10am - 1pm  Every Wednesday, Tai Chi Class - the Eco Hub, 7pm - 8pm Every Saturday, Library of Things - the Eco Hub, 10am - 1pm Every Saturday, Rugby Nappy Library - the Eco Hub, 10am - 1pm Every Saturday, FreVktchn - the Eco Hub, 3pm - 5pm Every Saturday (Term Time), Young Engineers - the Eco Hub, 3pm - 5pm Every Sunday, Gaia Yin Yoga - the Eco Hub, 10am - 11am Keep an eye on our upcoming events via our Events page If you would like to submit content to future editions of the newsletter please email info@rugbyecohub.org Visit us at Rugby Eco Hub Rugby Eco Hub (Entrance on Bath street), Betts Hall, Claremont Centre, Clifton Road , Rugby, Warwickshire CV21 3QE, England Unsubscribe Manage preferences | | --- |