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SHARE AGM Sept. 23rd 2025 7:30pm
Its been a busy year for SHARE. TAKE A LOOK at what’s be happening.
We need extra help with running the group. We could do so much more then. Otherwise we’ll just tick along and miss many opportunities.
Email SHARE@south-hill.co.uk or speak to David, Mel or Astrid
Take notes at monthly committee meetings. In person or Facetime.
Arrange visits to places of interest to the group.
Update the SHARE web page to be more engaging and less clunky.
Directors to help shape the groups future, ideally individuals with fresh ideas, leadership, organisational & management skills.
Ideas for future projects and Project manager to bring to fruition.
Liaison to improve connections with local communities by attending meetings and events.
Book keeper and a Financial Director. We may well have to pay for these services.
SHARE sponsoring classes at the Horticultural show
South Hill Horticultural Show August 16th 2025 … SHARE are sponsoring some children’s classes, so any 15’s or under take a look and maybe win the prize money. !!
The SHARE classes are:
- 107. A model made from recycled items (max size 12”)
- 108. A4 size poster, collage or drawing depicting
“How can you reduce energy usage at home?”
109. A Photo of Renewable Energy (Children < 15 years,
photo no larger than 6 x 9” & mounted on card)
- 108. A4 size poster, collage or drawing depicting
SHARE Micro AD Farm Visit Upton Cross
Anaerobic Digester visit – 24th June 2025
SHARE members and friends were well impressed by the latest technology and innovation now installed at the Cheese Farm at Upton Cross. Ben Stansfield owner of Cornish Cheese Co and Eoin Sharkey, founder and CEO of BioFactory, who designed the installation gave our group a full tour and answers all our questions. We are so grateful for this opportunity and insight into the future, this system being the 1st in Cornwall and only the 2nd in the country… exciting times for both companies.
Eoin told us how he was originally looking at tackling the sanitation problems in refugee camps abroad, but because of Covid restrictions, meant they couldn’t travel to install the IBC system he turned his attention to farm slurry on a scale that is affordable and ideal for dairy farms with around 100 – 200 cows, the modular system is easily replicated for larger herds.
By processing cow slurry by AD, the resulting enriched material is spread on the fields, plus the system captures biogas, used to power a 15kW generator, the heat generated helps the AD and heat and hot water are used directly in the Cheese factory, all helping to reduce costs.
POWER FROM POO. 4/5 cubic metres of slurry can be converted into 260 kilowatt-hours of electricity and 450 kWh of heat per day. The AD takes just a few days to process the contents of the tank housed in the shipping container, now it is set up, it never needs to stop unless it runs out of slurry. The system can be controlled remotely with an app on your phone!
Ben explained their journey to a sustainable future to date and goals to net-zero emissions. Future plans to cover the slurry pit and divert waste from the cheese processing through the AD were very much in the pipe line and not a pipe dream.
Local to Knowle Farm, Upton Cross, check out their shop for fresh milk, pate, chutneys and cheeses of course…. Bring CASH !
FOLLOW ON FB > https://www.facebook.com/cornishcheese
Read their story here > Cheese Company Our Story ..and https://biofactory.energy/
If you’d like to join us on future visits and support our renewable energy group, you can be a SHARE member for £1 as an Associate Member or £2 for a Full Member. EMail SHARE@south-hill.co.uk
Members update email sent
1. Anaerobic Digester visit – 24th June
Join SHARE members when we visit a local farm to see and hear about their journey to a sustainable future and long-term goal to net-zero emissions. SHARE have kindly been invited to the Cornish Cheese Co at Upton Cross by Ben and Carol Stansfield who will explain “after exploring various energy solutions, we ultimately chose anaerobic digestion, a technology that BioFactory has made viable for smaller farms”. If you would like to join us on TUESDAY 24th June starting at Knowle Farm at 10am please email SHARE@south-hill.co.uk There are no restrictions on numbers, please let us know if you would like to join us.
It’s a working farm, dress appropriately. Right here on our doorstep>
Cornish Cheese Company Ltd
Knowle Farm
Upton Cross,
Liskeard,
PL14 5BG
Read their story here > Our Story
2. South Hill Horticultural Show -16th August
To celebrate 10 years of SHARE, we are sponsoring three children’s classes at the South Hill Horticultural show this year. Please save the date- Saturday 16th August
Class 107 (A model made from recycled items (12” max),
Class 108 ( A4 poster or collage or drawing depicting – “How can you reduce energy usage at home?”) and
Class 109 (Photography- Renewable Energy).
Please encourage your child to think about a sustainable future and we look forward to receiving your entries.
Each class will have a £10 prize money.
We will also be holding our pre-annual general meeting (AGM) talks there. We will have a stand where we will tell you what we have done this year, and we welcome feedback on what you would like us to address in the future. We also welcome any suggestions for future projects.
3. SHARE AGM – 23rd September
Please save the date- 23 September 2025- 19.30 SHARE AGM.
We look forward to seeing as many as we can to help shape the future of SHARE. As always, we will ask for Director’s appointments and agenda items in August- so think now what you would like to be addressed at the Annual General meeting.
We are also thinking of inviting a guest speaker for the event, what are you interested in hearing about?
Please let us know via email (share@south-hill.co.uk)
Thank You SHARE@south-hill.co.uk
FAMILY FUN DAY was a Winner
At the Family Fun Day on Saturday May 24th, SHARE were celebrating, this their 10th year…
THE £20 QUIZ winner was Samantha Reid who correctly guessed 150 balloons would be filled from a car idling for one minute. Congratulations to everyone that guessed.
Members were kept busy, plus had Scalextric cars racing, powered by a solar panel, a child friendly interactive board explaining powering a home, an ironing board was set up showing ironing charged by an electric car! and a board asking for volunteers of some tasks that need filling, namely…
>Some one to read the solar meter at the hall once a month
>Take these readings and report the amount of carbon saved
>A Social Media person to promote the group activities
>Keep a track of who is using the thermal camera
>A rep on the hall committee
>Future projects ideas, anyone, anytime can do this
>A minute taker at the monthly meetings
>The Web site needs an overall www.south-hill.co.uk/SHARE
If you can fit one of these roles, please contact SHARE@south-hill.co.uk
SHARE also donated the top prize for the hall committee raffle, a new air fryer.
And ran the community car boot where people donated a huge range of items to be rehomed and collected £149 for hall funds.
It was a great community day, very well attended by all ages.
Jubilee Fun Day Golberdon May 24th 2025
GOLBERDON Park Fun Day Celebrations MAY 24th 12 – 10:30pm
FREE Entry and FREE Parking … Overflow parking next to the park
From 12 Food & Drink Lic’d Bar
Vintage vehicles………… EBikes from Fully Charged Cornwall
Car Booters welcome
A range of Stalls …. Church Plants Sale.
Piecemakers TOMBOLA
Bouncy Castle
Community Treasure Chest CIC – Liskeard”s Community Recycling Hub
12:30 Motor Bikes arrive Hopefully
1pm Dog Show run by Camelot Kennels – Home of GSRE
2 – 5pm W.I Teas
3pm SHARE Solar Powered Scalextric challenge
3:30 Maypole Dancing
4pm TT Display www.facebook.com/groups/667639516580555
3 Live Bands 4:45 – 5:45pm CODE RED
6 – 7 Dale ROCKAHOLICS
7pm Break RAFFLE and announcements
7:15 – 8pm Rockaholics
8:30 – 10:30 THE METS
Raffle prizes can be dropped off at GREEN MEADOWS porch from Monday 12th … 200 meters from Golberdon crossroads on the South Hill Rd.
Please spread the word and get involved in some way, from helping to put up signs and bunting, putting out and picking up chairs, car parking stewards and lots of general help.
CELEBRATING SHARE 10 years anniversary and South Hill parish hall 60 years !!
SHARE Love your Home event Feb. 15th 2025
SHARE ‘Love Your Home’ event on 15th February, with Community Energy Plus (CEP), South West Water, Stoke Climsland Climate Action Group the Parish of St Ive Community Resilience Project and Callington foodbank.
For those of you who couldn’t make it, here are some useful links
Making contact with the CLEAN Team (Free Retrofit Advice Home Visits) https://cep.org.uk/futureproof-your-home/contact-low-carbon-team
Energy Advice Guides – Insulation, Heating Controls, Condensation & Mould https://cep.org.uk/information-pages/energy-advice-guides-for-householders/
Futureproofing your Home Guides – Low Carbon Technologies – Solar PV, heat pumps /cep.org.uk/information-pages/energy-advice-guides-for-futureproofing-your-home/
Boiler Upgrade Scheme (£7,500 grant towards a heat pump) www.gov.uk/apply-boiler-upgrade-scheme
Great British Insulation Scheme (Insulation measure funding) www.gov.uk/apply-great-british-insulation-scheme
Lendology (Energy Home Improvement Loans) www.lendology.org.uk/partner/view/cornwall-council/
Cornwall Council Household Support Fund information www.cornwall.gov.uk/benefits-and-support/household-support-fund/
Microgeneration Accreditation Scheme MCS Certified | https://mcscertified.com/
South West Water www.southwestwater.co.uk/savewater
Save Water Save Money www.savewatersavemoney.co.uk/products/view/744/tap-inserts-twin-pack.html
Love Your Home SHARE event February 15th 2025
SHARE AGM – save the date
In advance of our SHARE AGM event, to be held at South Hill Parish Hall from 7.30pm on Monday 23rd September, we have contacted all members informally. This message includes important information for members regarding the election of Directors. Please read it carefully. Nominations for Directorships need to be with us by Sunday 8th September (2 weeks before the AGM).
Thank you to all who stopped by to talk to us at the Horticultural Show on August 17th. We enjoyed meeting you, and had some good conversations. To remind you of our recent headlines:
First and foremost – we have repaid the last of the members’ investments for the Solar PV at Church Park. This project has paid for itself in the space of only 8 years. This also means that any future income generated can be used directly to benefit the community, which brings us nicely onto point two.
Second – We are looking for input on what future projects you would like to see. We are broadly looking for any ideas regarding energy reduction, recycling and reusing items, travel impacts, sustainable living. If you have any ideas you would like to share, we’d love to hear from you. We will be asking for your ideas at the Horticultural Show, or you can email SHARE@south-hill.com.
Third – Our Recycling for Charity project has been growing strong and its most recent success was winning a bench from Devon Contract waste, which has been donated to St Stephens school (one of our most enthusiastic recyclers). Ali, who runs the project, has a wonderful group of volunteers helping.
Fourth – Our Wood project has been supplying the local community with firewood and we are always looking for further opportunities within the project. Do you have somewhere you would like to plant some trees that we can then coppice and harvest? Or do you have that tree that needs removing? If so, please get in touch.
Last but definitely not least – some of our directors will stand down at the AGM and will not be up for re-election. This means we are looking for new people to keep the momentum going. If you feel passionate about sustainability and renewable energy, we’d love to hear from you. The workload is low, we are all doing what we can when we can, we are just asking commitment for a couple of meetings a year (more if you wish), and of course, your input to our Mission, Vision and Aims, and ideas for taking SHARE forwards.
· Prospective candidates will need a Proposer and a Seconder at the AGM (neither of whom can be themselves), and an election will take place by show of hands. Note that only Members have the right to vote, although Associate Members have the right to stand for election.
· SHARE is a Community Benefit Society and a Limited Company. Directors are responsible for the running of the company in accordance with the law.
· Directors of SHARE must be age 18 or over, be able to carry out the role to the best of their ability and not be disqualified from acting as a director. If not already a Member of SHARE, they must join, and must be prepared to uphold our Mission, Vision and Aims and take a long term view of the company.
· Our Mission, Vision and Aims, and our Rules, can be found at http://south-hill.co.uk/share/share-member-area/
DEADLINE for nominations is Sunday 8th September 2024.
Please contact us with your nominations by email to this address or by post to our registered address: Trewoodloe Barn, Trewoodloe, Golberdon, Callington, PL17 7NJ
If other members of your family are registered for SHARE with this email address, please make sure that they also receive this message.
Thank you.
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Events coming up
Community Orchard – an opportunity to get involved
On Monday 26th August (Bank Holiday Monday), volunteers will be mowing the grass in the Orchard. In the afternoon we’ll be raking up the cut grass. For this, any person with a rake willing to help will be much appreciated. There will be some spare rakes if you haven’t got your own. Many hands make light work!
If you would like to help and need more information, please phone David Skelton on 07776 386828.
SHARE tour of Plymouth Incinerator September 19th
We have been invited to an in-depth tour of the MVV incinerator Energy from Waste Facility in Plymouth
Sept 19th Itinerary
We’ll take the 11:11am train from Gunnislake to St. Budeaux and walk the short distance, ½ mile.
OR CAR SHARE from Golberdon.. OR meet there at 12noon.
Free lunch will be provided. Return train 4:45pm arrives back at Gunnislake at 5:24pm.
If you’d like to join us, please let Ali know ASAP iamalihumphreys@yahoo.com 07305 044049
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