Tideswell & District Environment Group News

Celebrating International Repair Day 2025 in Tideswell Your local Repair Café is firmly on national and international maps! As a member of Repair Café International and a supporter of the Restart Project, we are able to add our voice to bigger campaigns. Our Derbyshire Dales MP, John Whitby, recently signed the Right to Reuse and Repair Declaration. The declaration asks that manufacturers design repairability into consumer products to lengthen their lives and thus lighten the impact on family finances and cut waste going to landfill.

At the invitation of Tideswell & District Environment Group (TDEG), John Whitby MP brought a clock to be repaired at our October event. He was given the full Repair Café welcome, an explanation of how it all worked, and his clock was checked in. Happily, TPot, one of our highly capable repairer team, was able to identify and rectify the problem.

John stayed to enjoy a cuppa and homemade refreshments from the café and heard more about the importance of Repair Cafés nationally and the work of TDEG locally. He also agreed to follow up the issue of repairability in Westminster. You can read more about the visit on the TDEG web site (https://tdeg.org.uk/celebrating-international-repair-day).

John left with his mended clock and a very positive impression of Tideswell and its environs and all the voluntary work going into making the area a better place for residents and nature. “Great to see the community making a difference to people’s lives and my clock!” he wrote, “Many thanks to all the volunteers who give up their time.” Progress over Sewage Overflows into Tideswell Brook The TDEG Rivers Group are making progress over the issue of sewage overflows into Tideswell Brook. After attending a Severn Trent Water (STW) community roadshow at Carsington, we have established good contacts with their local team. Several TDEG members met with STW officers at the Tideswell Sewage Treatment Works in October. We were able to share our concerns and discuss possible options for resolving the issue of stormwater and sewage overflowing into the brook during heavy rain.

STW engineers are currently considering options, and we hope they will be able to report back in early 2026. TDEG have invited them to a future public meeting to explain the likely steps forward at a date to be arranged. Watch this space!

Library of Things – expects to open in the first quarter of 2026

TDEG Dates for Your Diary

Jan 17th ​

Feb 14th

Tideswell Community Hall. Refreshments available More info here – https://tdeg.org.uk/tideswell-district-repair-cafe