About

Top Withens | Andrew Fowler

The Eight Campaign Groups

WHO ARE WE?

Boggarts

We are a loose collective of artists and writers based in and around Hebden Bridge and Haworth, both places known for their creative inhabitants. We know that making art and reacting creatively to the threat posed to the moorland we love can help shift the dial in the campaign. As one of our Boggarts says, our activity is ‘very loose, organic, anarchic, but there’s a lot being done very effectively, very efficiently and with the minimum of fuss’.

’The Book of Bogs – Stories from a Yorkshire Moor and other Peatlands’, edited by Boggarts Clare Shaw and Anna Chilvers, is published by Little Toller in September 2025

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Calderdale Trades Union Council

Calderdale Trades Union Council is the local TU Council for the Calderdale Metropolitan Borough area in West Yorkshire.

We exist to bring together union branches and members at a local level to campaign on issues affecting working people in their workplaces and their communities.

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Calderdale Windfarm Action Group

CWAG is the main Facebook group for the campaign against Calderdale Energy Park. It was set up by founder Steve Oldroyd in early December 2023 and as of mid-July 2025 has over 2000 members. It is a very valuable resource for the campaign and is a lively forum for discussion and ideas. CWAG prides itself on moderating with as light a touch as possible – and as a result has been the subject of academic study by the University of Leeds, Manchester Metropolitan University and the University of Santiago de Compostela.

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For Peat's Sake

The “For Peat’s Sake” campaign in Calderdale is part of a larger effort to protect peatlands, particularly in the context of the proposed Calderdale Wind Farm on Walshaw Moor. The campaign highlights the importance of peat for carbon storage, flood prevention, and biodiversity, and opposes developments that could damage these fragile ecosystems.

Peatlands are home to unique flora and fauna. The campaign aims to inform the public about the importance of peatlands and the potential damage from wind farm development. They are urging MPs and government to protect peatlands through policy changes. The campaign encourages people to sign petitions and participate in public demonstrations.

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Forus Tree

Forus Tree are a worker’s co-operative and a not-for-profit social
enterprise with a focus on managing the environment in the Calder Valley and beyond.

With over 20 years of tree planting experience, Forus Tree aims to mitigate the effects of climate change and restore biodiversity.

Delivering Nature for Carbon for The White Rose Forest and Natural Flood Management solutions and landowner consultation for Calderdale’s Landowner grant scheme.

Their tree nursery ensures that trees used in their planting schemes are truly local, fully traceable and peat free.

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Upper Calderdale Wildlife Network

A long established group of naturalists and conservationists who observe and record wildlife in the upper valley, and campaign for its protection, this includes commenting on planning applications where development may have an impact on wildlife and their habitats.

We were consultees for the scoping report for the original Walshaw Moor wind farm proposals in Autumn 2023 and remain heavily involved with the campaign to protect, conserve and enhance the irreplaceable peatland habitat at Walshaw Moor and prevent all damaging development there.

Meet 3rd Monday/month Honest John in Todmorden

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Walshaw Turbines Research Group

The WTRG method is to write a substantial blog (2000-8000 words) of a walk to a single turbine site and document the walk with photographs, diagrams, maps and primary and secondary research. This method is an innovation in environmental campaigning.

The blogs are published fortnightly by Dr Mark Avery, prominent conservationist and author, founder of Wild Justice and former conservation director of the RSPB, who has wrote his own series of blogs on Walshaw Moor.

WTRG’s extensive knowledge of the terrain and access to pro bono legal advice has allowed them to engage with CEP lawyers on the legal basis of their process and WTRG expect to be at the forefront of legal opposition as the planning process moves forward.

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Worth Valley Against Calderdale Wind Farm

Our group is based in and around Haworth, the home of the Brontës. While fully supporting the core Stronger Together aim of preventing wind farms from being built on protected peatland we are also concerned with preserving the intangible cultural heritage of Brontë country.

Walshaw Moor sits at the heart of this iconic landscape, which has inspired not only the Brontë sisters but also Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Bill Brandt and of course, Kate Bush. The area is visited by thousands of people from around the world every year who come to enjoy its wild, unspoilt beauty.

There is no way in which to ‘mitigate’ the loss of something which exists both physically and in the imagination of millions.

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Moorland path to Top Withens | Jaiq Carter

How You Can Help

GETTING INVOLVED

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Speak Out

Share your thoughts with your communities at home and online. Attend meetings.

Contact your MP.

Contact a member of the House of Lords.

Write to Ed Miliband, current Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero Secretary.State@energysecurity.gov.uk and tell them that there is no need to build wind farms on protected peatland.

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Stronger Together

You are welcome to join our campaign group and add your voice and vote to the many – The Calderdale Windfarm Action Group is the main Facebook group representing all of the eight campaign groups of Stronger Together to Stop Calderdale Windfarm.
We’d love to have you on board with us.