Occasional
Help a friend with their garden.
Occasional
Talk to your next door neighbours. Even better, take them a cake, or invite them in for a cup of tea. See how they feel about the local environment (green space, recycling, litter, wildlife, pollution) and if you can find an area you could work together on.
One-hit Wonder
Hold a Christmas party with a difference for your neighbours. Use only local, organic, animal-friendly and fairly-traded produce.
The Big Ask
Work with your Council on turning your street into a ‘Home Zone’. For more, see Living Streets.
The Big Ask
Start up a food cooperative with your neighbours. See Suma, Infinity Foods or Goodness Direct.
Occasional
Hold a toy/book/clothes/CD/DVD exchange event with your neighbours.
Occasional
Hold an Easter-egg hunt for the children in your street.
Repeating Challenge
Give ethical presents for Christmas/birthdays: buy from charity shops or buy ‘virtual gifts’ from organisations such as Oxfam, Tearfund, RSPB and World Vision. See also www.livinggenerously.com.
Repeating Challenge
Instead of giving ‘stuff’ give time to your friends.
Occasional
Hold a ‘green’ event at your church that you could invite friends of any belief / background to e.g. a LOAF dinner or an eco-swapshop.