News & Events

Keep an eye on this page for earth build news, events and training opportunities.  We will update on EARTHA news, as well as any other notable dates coming up with related organisations.  Feel free to contact contact@eartha.org.uk if you would like your event listed here.

Annual General Meeting

24th March 2026 - 6pm

The Sugar Beet Eating House, Swainsthorpe. NR14 8PU

Join us for our AGM which will be taking the form of our recent pub social events.  A few formalities to be had, but we would like to invite our members to share your ideas and feedback concerning how EARTHA is maintained as an organisation, and always how we can improve in our services.  A copy of the agenda will be sent to you for your information before the day.

Join us at the pub this February

 

We are very much looking forward to our joint social evening with our friends from SPAB this week!

Please come along and say hello if you are a member, past member, or would like to find out more about these fellow historic building enthusiasts, The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings.

We started meeting up at towards the end of last year, and it is a great way to meet the other members, with no obligations for how long to stay.

Feel free to come and go as you please, and to find out more about our organisations, as there are many events and get-togethers over the year which may be of interest.

We look forward to catching up with you on the 18th February and pop by for a drink and a chat.

Meet us at:

The White Horse, The Street, Trowse Newton, Norwich. NR14 8ST. www.whitehorsetrowse.co.uk

Tel: 01603 622 341.

If you would like more information please email: eartha.organisation@gmail.com

Glebe House Conservation Practical Day

Have you ever thought that you’d like a go at lime pointing?  Do you have work to do on your own project?  Or simply interested in traditional techniques and fancy learning a new skill?

Please take a look this Practical Demo day in Hot Lime for Pointing Brick and Flint.  Spaces are limited so please email to book.

More information on their facebook page: GlebeHouseDesignandConservation

2026 New Year Newsletter

Welcome to our current newsletter.  Please feel free to click on the first page, and the full newsletter will open.

Save the Date!

EARTHA / SPAB Social: 16th October 2025

The White Horse, Trowse, Norwich.

Thank you to everyone who came to our first of many social events with our friends SPAB.  The two organisations have had close links in the past, and it was wonderful to rekindle over drinks, food and good conversation.  We will look forward to our next social gathering in the New Year!

SPAB Norfolk Group Visit: St. Michael and St. Gregory - Norwich

Tuesday 30 September, 5.30pm

Join the Norfolk group on a guided tour of St Michael at Plea and St Gregory Pottergate, looked after by Norwich Historic Churches Trust (NHCT) and not normally open to the public. Our tour will be with the NHCT Head of Operations, Conservation and Heritage.

A visit to local pubs will follow the visit for those interested.

Click here for more details:  https://www.spab.org.uk/whats-on/events/norfolk-group-visit-st-michael-and-st-gregory

Treehouse Festival is a wonderful week long event, situated at Brandon Parva, Mid-Norfolk, learning traditional and forgotten skills and crafts.  This is a community led festival hosted from the 10th – 15th August 2026, and early bird tickets are currently on sale. There are many skills to learn within this collaborative space, where you are free to try your hand at any workshop on offer, from weaving & spinning, blacksmithing, wood whittling to building a beehive.

Click on the link below to find out much more about this beautiful green field festival.

September 2025

Please take a look at this years AECB Annual Conference, Case Studies & Conversations.  With this full-day and evening event, AECB host a collective of inspiring speakers and subjects, promoting the many benefits of building energy efficient, low carbon output architecture.

Held at the beautiful Passivhaus Enterprise Centre at UEA, Norwich, Winner in the non-domestic category of the 2018 UK Passivhaus Awards.

Please click on the link below for further information, including tickets, programme and speaker biographies, and also to find out more about AECB’s Carbon Lite initiatives as a not for profit organisation.

This is a great opportunity for our members to meet and mingle, but to also have their say in how EARTHA as an organisation can develop over the coming year. We are really keen to make sure the organisation remains an integral part of the earth building services within East Anglia, and are keen to hear your thoughts going forward.

Following our meeting, we will be delighted to host our keynote speaker, George Evennett, Director of Architectural Practice, George Evennett Ltd. George has travelled extensively in Colombia, and would like to share his presentation, “Earth Building and Traditional Construction in Colombia”. A precis of his presentation will become available in the coming weeks.

George is an EARTHA Member of numerous years, and is currently collaborating with Director of MSC Naturally, and EARTHA Chair, Malcolm Carrington, on a project in Cambridgeshire using the earth build material, BETTABLOK. We will be arranging a visit to this site build late spring, where you will be able to learn of the many benefits of this new sustainable interlocking earth block. More information will be available at the AGM.

The AGM and presentation are free for EARTHA Members. Feel free to join us as an EARTHA Member and attend.  A yearly membership is £25.  A registration form, and directions on payment, can be found HERE.  One-off event tickets are £10.

The Future is Earth Annual Conference

Please click on the event programme to open the full document.

Held at The Gamekeeper at Old Buckenham, a beautiful venue with log burners for cosiness, and great staff and catering.  Comfortably seating forty earth build enthusiasts for this all day event.

Anthony Hudson discussing the collaborative project The CobBauge House, Fakenham, Norfolk.

Please see our Member’s Area, where you will find more on Anthony Hudson’s  presentation – Cobauge: Bringing Earth Building into the 21st Century.

Will Stanwix, Technical Director of the Hemp Block Company.  Will discusssed his personal and professional developments with sustainable, low-impact building materials.

…. and his most recent project Clay Wall.

We were treated to the most impressive buffet!

….. and a warming log burner!

Malcolm Carrington took us through his journey with earth building materials, throughout his working life and personal projects.  A journey which has resulted in the development and patent of the Bettablok.

Michael Knights discussing the problematic application of tar to external walls.

With many years of experience as a building pathologist, Simon Steele highlights the many positives to living in a clay building, as well as the difficulties which can be remedied.

Unfired Clay Day and AGM

23rd September 2023 - Dairy Farm Barn, Shotesham Park Estate. Norfolk

A day event at a Norfolk heritage clay building at a village just outside Norwich.  Here we gave some demonstrations and practical experience using clay to produce wattle and daub panels, and clay lump blocks.

Below is an article written by Committee Member, Michael Knights, with a summary of the day.

 

Conference & AGM

30th March 2021 - Online Event hosted on Microsoft Teams.

Click the link to learn more about BETTABLOK – developed  and patented by MSC Naturally. Director of company and Committee Member, Malcolm Carrington.

Low Carbon Homes and Straw Conference & AGM

7th November 2019 – Sugar Beat Eating House, Swainsthorpe. Norfolk.

2017 Conference & AGM

26th April 2017
Pykkerell Inn, Ixworth. Suffolk.

 

Earth Buildings UK Conference

14th February 2014

Norwich Cathedral