June's Green Cafe: Homes for Dales House Birds
2025-06-14 10:00 - 12:30 (Europe/London) | St John’s Methodist Church, Church Street, Settle, North Yorkshire, BD24 9JH, United Kingdom
We are partnering with Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) to deliver a three year project to increase the numbers of four currently red listed house nesting birds: house sparrows, starlings, house martins and swifts by adding more nest boxes and improving or developing new habitats.
This event will feature a walk around Settle to identify potential sites for nest boxes and then a mapping session to see where these can be put up in the Autumn.
Find out more about the project here and sign-up here to take part.
This event will start at 10am with the walk around for about an hour. We will then return to the Methodist Church hall to map where boxes can go over refreshments.
Free. All welcome.

Protecting People and Planet
2025-07-12 10:30 - 12:30 | St John’s Methodist Church, Church Street, Settle, North Yorkshire, BD24 9JH, United Kingdom
As we are affiliated to Friends of the Earth we are supporting their latest Campaign, Planet over Profit. This campaign focuses on the fact that UK companies are profiting from supply chains that destroy precious forests worldwide, threaten wildlife, accelerate climate change, and violate the rights of local communities. We need a new law that requires UK companies to prevent harm to communities and the environment in their supply chains, wherever they operate.We also want to show our support for partners in the global south and impacted communities (Forest Defenders).

We will have two activities for you to get involved in to support this campaign:
1) Sign a card which we will send to our MP, Julian Smith.
2) For Forest Defenders we would like to take a small group photo for publicity. Please wear green if possible and there will be some animal masks to wear. This is to show we want the rainforests protecting for their incredible wildlife and indigenous peoples.

Bee Hotels:
Following a citizen science project looking at the success of Bee Hotels there will be information available to take away for you to have your own.

Recycling
Boxes for blister packs and old toothbrushes/toothpaste tubes will be available.

And, Take our climate quiz
We have drawn-up a quiz for you to find out how much you know about key facts around the climate crisis. The winner will receive some climate focused books.

Fairtrade refreshments will be available throughout the morning.
This is a free event. All welcome. We look forward to seeing you there.

ACE's Future - what next?
2025-09-13 10:30 - 12:30 | St John’s Methodist Church, Church Street, Settle, North Yorkshire, BD24 9JH, United Kingdom
What next for ACE? We are currently looking at the future of ACE: what we want to do in the next six months and who can take us forward beyond March next year. Some members of the steering group, including our co-ordinator, Sarah Wiltshire, will be standing down in February 2026 and we would like to invite new people to get involved to take ACE forward into the new financial year 2026/07 and beyond.

Planet Over Profit campaign

We are linking up with Friends of the Earth, as one of their local action groups, so come along to support this campaign by signing pledge cards.
Why this campaign? UK companies are profiting from supply chains that destroy precious forests worldwide, threaten wildlife, accelerate climate change, and violate the rights of local communities.
The everyday products we buy in the UK – from furniture to food – often have a hidden cost. Whether it’s timber for furniture, soy for animal feed, or palm oil in processed foods, we’re often unknowingly buying products with devastating environmental and human impacts across the globe.
Precious forests around the world are being destroyed at an alarming rate. From the Amazon to Southeast Asia, UK companies profit from global supply chains that drive this destruction, threatening iconic wildlife like orangutans and jaguars while accelerating climate change.
Indigenous communities and local people around the world are having their land stolen, their homes destroyed, livelihoods disrupted, and their rights violated. And all the while, UK companies have no legal liability for the destruction caused by their own supply chains. Extractive industries are wreaking wildlife habitats and threatening people’s lives and livelihoods.
83% of the British public support new laws to stop environmental abuses in supply chains. But we need the UK government to act.
The Labour government has committed to  “assess the best ways to prevent environmental harms, modern slavery and human and labour rights abuses in both private and public sector supply chains including effective due diligence rules”. Now is our opportunity to hold them to that commitment.
The Planet Over Profit campaign aims to:

Build public and political support for a new law.​
Expose UK corporate links to deforestation, environmental harm and human rights abuses.
Support partners in the global south and impacted communities to achieve their campaigning goals.

FoE are campaigning for a Business, Human Rights, and Environment Act with the Corporate Justice Coalition,  as part of a larger alliance of human rights and environmental justice organisations and trade unions and you can be part of this by signing a pledge card.

Bee hotels

Following a citizen science project looking at the success of bee hotels, there will be information available to take away to make your own.

Recycling
Boxes will be available for you to recycle your blister packs and old toothbrushes/clean toothpaste tubes.

Fairtrade refreshments will be available throughout the morning.
This is a free event. All welcome. We look forward to seeing you there.

October's Green Cafe: Climate Conversations and Annual Review
2025-10-11 10:30 - 12:30 | St John’s Methodist Church, Church Street, Settle, North Yorkshire, BD24 9JH, United Kingdom
Climate Conversations

We will be hearing from Dan Tipney about how to talk effectively with family, friends and others you know about the climate and nature crises by using the ideas contained in climate conversations.

During this talk, we will explore the subject of climate conversations from both an individual perspective, and their significance on the broader societal factors associated with climate change. There will be an opportunity to consider why climate conversations are relevant and why talking about climate change could well be the most effective tool to reach crucial tipping points of engagement.
Dan will use this own story to illustrate the cognitive and emotion barriers that prevent engagement from the majority of the population…a silent majority who care and are concerned! We will discuss some key topics such as how to meet human needs for connection and how to bridge divides by appealing to love rather than fear.
We will also explore some of underlying ingredients for effective climate conversations such as the role of storytelling, asking questions, the power of silence, and the importance of self-awareness and compassion when we are challenged.
Dan’s bio

Dan is a former Airline Pilot, having made the decision to stop flying due to his concern for the environmental impact of the sector. Along this journey he’s had the chance to understand the realities of climate science and to appreciate how to compassionately help people to navigate the complex realities of climate action. Dan has a particular interest in supporting those who experience a conflict between the environmental impact of the life they live (such as a professional role they may love!) and their passion for the natural world.
In addition to his work on climate action, Dan delivers human skills and communication training to healthcare and veterinary teams. When discussing climate change, he brings together experience from his own journey together with knowledge of human behaviour and communication, to explore ways of positively engaging people in climate and environmental issues.
Annual review

Each year we hold an Annual General Meeting to hear about our activities and elect people to our steering group. We need people who can help organise our activities, run our communications: website, social media, write articles for the Settle Community News, Craven Herald and our e-newsletter, as well as help with our campaigning in association with Friends of the Earth.

If you are interested in getting more involved in climate action locally, please get in touch to hear more: acesettleandarea@gmail.com.

Recycling

Boxes will be available for you to recycle your blister packs and old toothbrushes/clean toothpaste tubes.
Fairtrade refreshments will be available throughout the morning.
This is a free event. All welcome. We look forward to seeing you there.

ACE November Cafe: Nature, Violence and Courage
2025-11-08 10:30 - 12:30 | St John’s Methodist Church, Church Street, Settle, North Yorkshire, BD24 9JH, United Kingdom
Join us for our November Green Cafe, with speaker Nicholas Temple. Chat over refreshments 10.30-11 and then hear Nicholas’ talk 11-12.15pm on What does it mean to stand for the natural world in an age of crisis? (More details below).
This is a free event, all welcome. Available throughout the morning: recycling box for blister packs and a bag for used toothbrushes and toothpaste tubes and our thermal imaging camera for seeking out those draughty places in need of insulation to help cut your energy bills.
Nicholas’ presentation
Nicholas explores the complex relationship between nature, violence, and courage while asking how environmental and socio-political upheavals are reshaping our sense of solidarity and responsibility.
Part of his wider project Nature Transformed: Erosion and Recovery of Solidarity, which is currently under consideration for Bloomsbury’s Environmental Cultures series, this talk weaves together years of research with urgent questions for today. This talk draws on many of the themes from his previous research, but focuses primarily on the current environmental and socio-political crises we are facing. Nicholas invites us to look unflinchingly at the forces that threaten our shared future, and to consider the acts of courage, both large and small, that might help us reclaim it.
This is a space for anyone who believes that ideas can inspire action, since facing hard truths together is the first step towards meaningful change.
About Nicholas
Nicholas Temple is an Australian academic living in Settle in North Yorkshire. He is currently a fractional senior professor in architectural history at London Metropolitan University, and has previously held academic positions at the University of Pennsylvania (USA), Liverpool University, Nottingham University and Huddersfield University.
Nicholas has researched and published widely on matters relating to the history, culture and representation of architecture and the city, including the following books The Temporality of Building: European and Chinese Perspectives on Architecture and Heritage (2025); Architecture and the Language Debate: Artistic and Linguistic Exchanges in Early Modern Italy (2020); Renovatio Urbis: Architecture, Urbanism and Ceremony in the Rome of Julius II (2011) and Disclosing Horizons: Architecture, Perspective and Redemptive Space (2007).

ACE December Green Cafe: UN Climate Talks Update
2025-12-13 10:30 - 12:30 | St John’s Methodist Church, Church Street, Settle, North Yorkshire, BD24 9JH, United Kingdom
Join us from 10.30-11.15am to chat about topical issues over Fairtrade tea, coffee and mince pies.

From 11.15 COP30 Update: from behind the headlines, hear about successes at the recent UN climate talks from David Howlett – Senior Adviser on Resilience to the UN High Level Climate Action Champions and the co-lead of their Race to Resilience Campaign.
Followed, from 12.15 by notices and actions for early 2026.

Available throughout the morning: recycling box for blister packs and a bag for used toothbrushes and toothpaste tubes and our thermal imaging camera for seeking out those draughty places in need of insulation to help cut your energy bills.

This is a free event, all welcome. We look forward to seeing you there.

ACE January Green Cafe: actions, campaigns and collaborations for 2026
2026-01-10 10:30 - 12:30 | North Yorkshire
As we start into 2026, Join us from 10.30-11.15am to chat in small groups about topical issues over Fairtrade tea, coffee and biscuits.

From 11.15:

Feedback from group discussions
Hear from Carol Douglas (Woodlands Officer at Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust) about their current work and possible collaboration with ACE

From 12 Noon: summary of actions for early 2026 to take forward and notices.

Available throughout the morning: recycling box for blister packs and a bag for used toothbrushes and toothpaste tubes and our thermal imaging camera for seeking out those draughty places in need of insulation to help cut your energy bills.

This is a free event, all welcome. We look forward to seeing you there.

ACE February Green Cafe
2026-02-14 10:30 - 12:30 | St John’s Methodist Church, Church Street, Settle, North Yorkshire, BD24 9JH, United Kingdom
Join us from 10.30-11.15am to chat in small groups about topical issues over Fairtrade tea, coffee and biscuits.

From 11.15:

Feedback from group discussions
Hear about our campaigns in collaboration with Friends of the Earth, for example, on Planet over Profit – which is focused on a new law that will force UK companies and the public sector to prevent human rights abuses and environmental harm, like deforestation, in their supply chains. You can add your name now to help us hold UK companies to account for destruction to forests, communities and the environment around the world here.
Get more involved with running ACE: join our steering group, work on keeping this website current and consider becoming Chair of our steering group – find out more by emailing us at: acesettleandarea@gmail.com

From 12 Noon: summary of actions for early 2026 to take forward and notices.

Available throughout the morning: a recycling box for blister packs (only available at Green Cafes, so please come into the Cafe and use the recycling box rather than leaving blister packs in the foyer of the Methodist Church). A bag for used toothbrushes and toothpaste tubes.

Find out more about borrowing our thermal imaging camera for seeking out those draughty places in need of insulation to help cut your energy bills.

This is a free event, all welcome. We look forward to seeing you there.

ACE's March Green Cafe
2026-03-14 10:30 - 12:30 | St John’s Methodist Church, Church Street, Settle, North Yorkshire, BD24 9JH, United Kingdom
Please note that we have had to postpone the talk by North Yorkshire Council’s about their recycling. Instead, join us from 10.30-12 Noon to chat in small groups and feedback about topical issues over Fairtrade tea, coffee and biscuits.

12-12.30 Preparation for next Cafe, notices and final comments.

Recycling your blister packs – we will have a blister pack recycling box available throughout the morning. Nb that this is only available at Green Cafes, so please come into the Cafe and use the recycling box rather than leaving blister packs in the foyer of the Methodist Church).

We also have a bag for used toothbrushes and toothpaste tubes.

This Cafe will also coincide with Greenpeace’s latest Big Plastic Count running between 9th-15th March. You can sign-up here and hear more about the count during the morning.

Thermal imaging camera – find out more about borrowing our thermal imaging camera for seeking out those draughty places in need of insulation to help cut your energy bills.

This is a free event, all welcome. We look forward to seeing you.

How to Create a Just, Sustainable World?
2026-04-11 10:30 - 16:00 | St John’s Methodist Church, Church Street, Settle, North Yorkshire, BD24 9JH, United Kingdom
We are joining with Settle Quakers to host this day conference (11am-4pm), instead of our regular morning Green Cafe. 10.30 for refreshments. Free vegan lunch.
This conference is intended to address the multiple crises we face including climate breakdown, inequality, injustice, refugee crisis and other linked issues. The organisers want the outcome to be a series of actions that can be taken locally to address the issues.

Free of charge, but booking is essential using this link: bit.ly/thevaluescrisis.

ACE's May Green Cafe
2026-05-09 10:30 - 12:30 | St John’s Methodist Church, Church Street, Settle, North Yorkshire, BD24 9JH, United Kingdom
Join us from 10.30-11.15am to chat in small groups about topical issues over Fairtrade tea, coffee and biscuits.

From 11.15:

Feedback from group discussions
Hear about the recent values conference that we co-hosted
Hear about our campaigns in collaboration with Friends of the Earth and the People’s Emergency Briefing film screening, coming in the Autumn
Get more involved with running ACE: join our steering group, consider becoming Chair of our steering group – find out more by emailing us at: acesettleandarea@gmail.com

Available throughout the morning: a recycling box for blister packs (only available at Green Cafes, so please come into the Cafe and use the recycling box rather than leaving blister packs in the foyer of the Methodist Church). A bag for used toothbrushes and toothpaste tubes.

Find out more about borrowing our thermal imaging camera for seeking out those draughty places in need of insulation to help cut your energy bills.

This is a free event, all welcome. We look forward to seeing you there.

ACE's June Green Cafe
2026-06-13 10:30 - 12:30 | St John’s Methodist Church, Church Street, Settle, North Yorkshire, BD24 9JH, United Kingdom
Coming in ‘Great Big Green Week’ you will be joining local climate activists for a chat in small groups about topical & local issues over Fairtrade tea, coffee and biscuits (10.30-11.15am).

And, then from 11.15:

Feedback from group discussions
Hear about our recent work
Get involved in forthcoming actions
Get more involved with running ACE: join our steering group, including consider becoming Chair of our steering group – find out more by emailing us at: acesettleandarea@gmail.com

Available throughout the morning: a recycling box for blister packs (only available at Green Cafes, so please come into the Cafe and use the recycling box rather than leaving blister packs in the foyer of the Methodist Church). A bag for used toothbrushes and toothpaste tubes.

Find out more about borrowing our thermal imaging camera for seeking out those draughty places in need of insulation to help cut your energy bills.

This is a free event, all welcome. We look forward to seeing you there.

ACE's September Green Cafe: young people and climate issues
2026-09-12 10:30 - 12:30 | St John’s Methodist Church, Church Street, Settle, North Yorkshire, BD24 9JH, United Kingdom
Join us from 10.30-11am to chat in small groups about topical issues over Fairtrade tea, coffee and biscuits.

From 11 we will be having a focus on the perspectives of younger people on the climate and biodiversity emergencies. We will be hearing from:

Friends of the Dales (FotD) about their Creative Campaigners Group, their volunteer network for people aged 20-30 who live locally and are interested in actively and creatively contributing to their environmental campaigns. Through such a close working relationship, FotD also aim to better understand the viewpoints of younger people and bring more diverse voices to theri campaigning work.
A member of Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust’s Environmental Youth Forum, who will be showing a film that captures the journeys of our young people (12-24) as they engage with the diverse people and stunning landscapes of the Yorkshire Dales. The film will also highlight conversations with various stakeholders, showcasing their ongoing efforts toward a sustainable future.

Available throughout the morning: a recycling box for blister packs (only available at Green Cafes, so please come into the Cafe and use the recycling box rather than leaving blister packs in the foyer of the Methodist Church). A bag for used toothbrushes and toothpaste tubes.
Find out more about borrowing our thermal imaging camera for seeking out those draughty places in need of insulation to help cut your energy bills.

This is a free event, all welcome. We look forward to seeing you there.

Film screening
2026-09-17 18:30 - 21:00 | St John’s Methodist Church, Church Street, Settle, North Yorkshire, BD24 9JH, United Kingdom
We have organised a Settle and Area Community screening of the People’s Emergency Briefing (PEB) film on Thursday 17th September 7pm start (doors open from 6.30pm) at Settle Methodist Church.
Please book your free place online through Ticket Taylor here: https://tinyurl.com/PEBSettle
This screening is being supported and co-hosted with Settle Business and Community Hub, Friends of the Dales, Settle Stories, Churches Together in Settle and District, and Craven Conservation Group.
There are over 1900 screenings being organised across the UK in 2026.
It’s a new 50-minute film featuring Chris Packham, leading climate and nature scientists, a
former general and Jennifer Saunders – all being pretty frank about where things are
heading and what can be done about it.
Based around the National Emergency Briefing in London in November 2025. We also want to
ask our MP to back the call for a televised Emergency Briefing to the nation.
You can watch the trailer for the film here…https://youtu.be/5x2XhvEbz24 (bleeped version)
Free booking – sign-up details to follow.
Ages 16+
#PEBuk

People’s Emergency Briefing
