ACE News
Buy Nothing New Month is back
This January, we’re inviting you to make a New Year’s resolution that will truly stick by taking part in Buy Nothing New Month (1-31 January, 2026). Are you up to the challenge? Our recent research shows that 76 per cent of UK adults agreed that, as a country, we buy too much stuff. The challenge [...]
Facelift for Old Station Yard conservation project
Hedge planting at the Old Station Yard in Dunkirk, Aylsham will be undertaken by the ACE Nature and Biodiversity Group (N&B) in early 2026 to provide a more natural and bio-diverse boundary. And as part of the conservation project to enhance this area of scrubland and wild space, the bramble (rubus fruticosus), has been cut [...]
The secret weapon in your garden – soil health
In the battle against climate change, everyone with a garden can make a difference. Aylsham has a strong gardening community and the latest ACE Nature and Biodiversity (N&B) project is focusing on gardening for soil health. We want to capitalise on and share everyone’s expertise in promoting soil-healthy gardening. There are more than 10 million [...]
Why mangling blister packs is a hit with pill-poppers
Pill-poppers in Aylsham have found a way of recycling those “unrecyclable” blister packs – and it couldn’t be more low-tech. On the first Saturday of the month, Aylsham’s Food & Craft Market attracts shoppers from far and wide but many come just to watch as their bag-loads of used blister packs go through grandma’s old [...]
How to report a highways problem
Got a gripe with roads and pavements in Aylsham? Overgrown hedges bugging you? Footpaths causing you grief? Aylsham is blessed with an ancient road and pavement network and many public rights of way. The nature of the town as a busy hub for the area means that pavements inevitably get uneven, roads can get damaged, [...]
