Sustain Wiltshire

24/04/2026

This Sunday, our Operations Director Vicky is taking on the London Marathon in support of Wiltshire Air Ambulance 🚁

Following a serious ACL injury in 2024, this is a huge milestone and an incredible effort for a truly life-saving cause.

💛 If you’d like to support her charity drive, any donation would be greatly appreciated:
https://www.justgiving.com/page/victoria-allnutt-1?utm_medium=FR&utm_source=WA&utm_campaign=lc_frp_share_transaction_fundraiser_page_donation_received_-_nth_donation

21/04/2026

04/03/2026

How We’re Supporting Our Community 🌱

Community is at the heart of everything we do.

We’re proud to have awarded a £50,000 grant to the Royal Wootton Bassett Environment Trust at our Conference last year.

This grant will add improvements across Royal Wootton Bassett:
🚲 Safer cycling and wheeled routes
🐟 Restored ponds at Coronation Country Park
🦆 Better wildlife habitats
🌳 Healthier green spaces for everyone

This funding comes directly from the Sustain Operations CIC, which reinvests profits from the Super-Midden site back into local community projects.

100% of the grant goes straight into making our town safer, greener, and better for residents and wildlife.

Local work. Local profits. Local impact. 💚

Want to learn more? Check the link in our bio.

03/03/2026

A rubbish dump will be used to help grow everything from avocados to lettuce as part of a pioneering food project.

Sustain Wiltshire, a community interest company, has installed a flexible “growing dome” as tall as two double-decker buses on the landfill site near Royal Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire.

Carbon dioxide is separated from the methane released by the landfill and piped into the pressurised dome to boost photosynthesis for the food grown inside

🔗Tap the link in the comments to read more

03/03/2026

🗞️ Have you picked up your paper today?

Whether you read the Western Daily Press, The Times, The Daily Telegraph, or the Daily Mail, you can't have missed all the coverage on Sustain Wiltshire's pioneering landfill gas powered growing dome.

Check out the Daily Mail's piece online here: https://loom.ly/zmRxAu0

🎾 Three times the size of a standard tennis court, and twice the height of a London double decker bus, the first positively pressured growing dome will be trialled and tested over the coming year.

🫛Using a mix of hydroponics, raised growing beds and plant containers, a broad selection of produce will be grown from the spring, ready to meet the year-round needs of ten local families. 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦

✅ Once perfected, we hope to gain permission for 110 such growing domes.
🍌🥑 These will provide affordable fruit and vegetables to meet 80% of the requirements of Royal Wootton Basset, Purton and Brinkworth, with future expansion planned to cover Malmesbury.

Rolled out globally, this technology has the potential to change the face of food production as we know it.

26/02/2026

Global first for Wiltshire!🚨

If you missed BBC Points West last night you won't have seen the unveiling of the world's first fruit and vegetable growing dome powered by landfill.

👀 The good news is you can watch the piece here: https://loom.ly/9vyK54c

🥬 Discover how the Sustain Wiltshire Community Interest Company will grow produce in the trial dome to feed ten local families.

If you're in rush fast forward to 16 mins 56 secs in, and again at 17mins and 30 secs.

Once proven, up to 80% of the fresh fruit and vegetable needs of Royal Wooton Bassett could be met, if planning for an additional 100 domes is approved.

25/02/2026

25/02/2026

📺 First radio, now TV on site today. 🎥

Watch out for BBC Points West this evening from 6.30pm

📻 Part of the BBC's special focus on waste today, they'll be filming live from Crapper and Sons Landfill Ltd, reporting on the launch of the world's first fruit and vegetable growing dome powered by landfill.

🫛 Discover how the Sustain Wiltshire Community Interest Company will grow produce in the trial dome will to feed ten local families.

Once proven, up to 80% of the fresh fruit and vegetable needs of Royal Wooton Bassett could be met, if planning for an additional 100 domes is approved. 🥬

25/02/2026

Today marks the unveiling of a radical new approach to food production. 🥬

In a world-first, landfill gas tapped from Crapper and Sons’ landfill site will be turned into heat, power and CO2, to create perfect year-round growing conditions within giant, positively pressured, inflated growing domes located on our Royal Wooton Bassett landfill site.

🥒 This is world-leading technology that's capable of transforming landfill sites into low carbon, affordable fruit and vegetable production hubs.

Three times the size of a standard tennis court, and twice the height of a London double decker bus, the first positively pressured growing dome will be trialled and tested over the coming year.

Using a mix of hydroponics, raised growing beds and plant containers, a broad selection of produce will be grown from the spring, ready to meet the year-round needs of ten local families. 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦

✅ Once perfected, we hope to gain permission for 100 such growing domes.

✅ These will provide affordable fruit and vegetables to meet 80% of the requirements of Royal Wootton Basset, Purton and Brinkworth, with future expansion planned to cover Malmesbury.

Rolled out globally, this technology has the potential to change the face of food production as we know it.

Find out more in our latest news release: 👉 https://loom.ly/6zVuMaw

25/02/2026

👋 Exciting news!

📻 BBC Radio Wiltshire will be broadcasting live from Crapper and Sons Landfill Ltd this morning, reporting on the launch of the world's first fruit and vegetable growing dome powered by landfill.

🫛 Part of the Sustain Wiltshire Community Interest Company, food produced in the trial dome will go to feed ten local families.

Once proven, up to 80% of the fresh fruit and vegetable needs of Royal Wooton Bassett could be met, if planning for an additional 100 domes is approved. 🥬

✅ Using landfill gas processed through a gas-to-energy engine, heat, power and CO2 will be generated to create perfect year-round growing conditions within giant, positively pressured, inflated growing domes.

👂 Listen out to find out more on BBC Radio Wiltshire throughout the morning, with live pieces from the landfill and growing dome!

🎧 And if you missed Ben Prater's piece this morning, you can listen back here: 👉 https://loom.ly/OERhUnk

👍 There's a great feature piece from 8.08:45, through to 08:13am (25 Feb).
Do take a listen

10/09/2025

♻️ Is living in a more self-sufficient and sustainable society important to you?

✅ If the answer is yes, join us at the Sustain Britain Conference on 19 September to discover how we plan to make this possible through the launch of The 'Greenprint for a Sustainable, Independent Britain’.

👀 Held at the Sustain Farm Shop, near Royal Wootton Bassett, the conference provides a valuable insight into why localisation, not globalisation, holds the key to:

👍 providing good quality jobs
💶 creating wealth in our communities

Our speakers for the day include:

🌱 Leading environmentalist Jonathon Porritt
🌎 CEO of Forum for the Future, Hannah Pathak
🗣️ TEDx speaker Jarvis Smith FRSA
🚲 Trustee of Royal Wootton Bassett’s Environment Trust, Dave Knight
♻️ Sustain Wiltshire's Nick Ash
💼 South Cotswolds MP, Dr Roz Savage

If you haven't already booked your ticket don't miss this opportunity. Tickets are free and going fast. 👇
https://loom.ly/9k7RiaQ