Today’s guest is Victoria Page, founder of Love Haslemere Hate Waste, a local group in Surrey who run Repair Cafes, and host a community fridge and a Library of Things.

Victoria has combined her professional comms expertise and her business experience, with a desire for local climate action, and created not just one, but three local projects that are not only reducing waste and emissions, and normalising reuse and repair, but are helping people to feel more connected to the place where they live and the people in their community.

The community resilience part of projects like Repair Cafes and Community Fridges is something we probably don’t talk about, or even recognise enough, and it’s something that’s going to become increasingly important as climate impacts continue to worsen.

Victoria shares her experiences, and exciting news of a toolkit she is developing to help people wanting to start up similar projects in their own communities.

USEFUL LINKS:

• Victoria Page
  - Website
  - On Linked In
• Love Haslemere Hate Waste
  - Website
  - Instagram
  - Facebook
• ENVable
• Sky Ocean Rescue
• Blue Planet
• Surfers Against Sewage - Plastic Free Communities
• Climate Outreach - Britain talks climate and nature 2025 report
• Ep 193 - The Power of Swapping
• Ep 119 - Shrewsbury Cup
• The Sustainable(ish) Clubhouse

The podcast is hosted by me Jen Gale - do come and find me on social media. I'm @Sustainableish on Instagram, and you can find me here on Facebook. Or the Sustainable(ish) website is right here.

Thanks for listening!