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Country Guardian

List of UK Windfarm Action Groups

Updated 19 July 2008

This list is been compiled as a guide and reference to assist windfarm action groups to contact each other. The number of these groups has reached  186 and is still growing.

Many of the groups are group members of Country Guardian and many have individual members who are also CG members. However, it is important to emphasise that Country Guardian does not have 'branches' and that all these groups are totally autonomous, having been formed originally as a result of windfarm developments planned for their local countryside. Country Guardian's role has been to research the impact of windfarms and the arguments put forward to promote them, and make this information available as widely as possible. Increasingly the groups are building up a national and indeed international network, visiting each other and exploiting email and Internet sites to communicate.

This list is published in Openview, and on its Internet site: www.countryguardian.net

Please contact the editor on 01494 680275, or michaelhird@tiscali.co.uk to correct errors or add more groups.

 

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Area

Group Name

Contact Name

Address

Phone/fax/
email/website

UK overall

Country Guardian

 

 

www.countryguardian.net

UK Overall

Artists Against Windfarms (AAW)

 

 

www.artistsagainstwindfarms.com

Scotland overall

 Views of Scotland (VoS)

 

 

www.viewsofscotland.org

Sutherland

Landscape

Ruth Whittaker

48 Gartymore
Helmsdale
Sutherland
W8 6HJ

T. 01431 821380

Caithness

CWIF (Caithness Windfarm Information Forum)

Diane Craven (secretary)

01847 831350

Dee Brown (treasurer)
Upper Larel Farm
HALKIRK
Caithness

 

Enquiries@www.
caithnesswindfarms
.co.uk

www.caithnesswindfarms.co.uk

T. 01847 831341

Caithness SWOG (Spittal Windfarm Opposition Group     www.spittalwindfarmopposition.co.uk

Isle of Skye

Skye Windfarm Action Group

 

 

www.sw-ag.org

Isle of Lewis

Moorlands Without Turbines (MWT)

 

 MWT,1 North Bragar, Isle of Lewis, HS2 9DA

www.mwtlewis.org.uk

mwt@semantise.com

 

Aberdeenshire - Methlick Skelmonae Windfarm Action Group Mervyn Newberry  

T 01651 806 935

unclemervyn@btinternet.com

Strathbogie (Aberdeenshire)

STRAWS (Strathbogie Tourists and Residents Against Windfarm Stitch-up)

Vicki Spencer

 

pvs@medix-uk.com

Aberdeenshire (Stone-haven)

McWAG (Meikle Carewe Windfarm Action Group

Email, and details 

on website

 

Mcwag@beeb.net
http://mcwag.members.beeb.net/

Aberdeenshire – Clashindarroch

Friends of the Clash

 

 

www.huntly.net/savetheclash.htm

Aberdeenshire -
Kinneff

BACKWAG (Barras, Arbuthnott, Catterline, Kinneff Windfarm Group)

 

 

www.backwag.org.uk

Aberdeenshire - Formantine

Barthol Chapel Wind Farm Action Group

 

 

T. 0789 4386415
www.bartholwindaction.org.uk

Aberdeenshire - Pressendye STOP (Stop On Pressendye)     www.stopturbinesonpressendye.com
Aberdeen - Cushnie CWAG (Cushnie Wind Action Group)      
Moray - Dava Moor Save our Dava Jeannie Munro   T. 01309 651281.
MORAY SOS Moray (Save our Scenic Moray) Robert McHugh - Secretary

Auchinhanddoch
Dufftown
Moray

www.sosmoray.org.uk

T.01340 820007

Moray

Communities Against Pylons

Communities fighting a proposed 400kV pylon line from Beauly to Denny

 

strathcap@aol.com

Highlands - Hill of Nigg NIG (Nigg Awareness Group)     www.hillofnigg.org.uk

Scottish Highlands

Highlands Before Pylons

 

 

www.hbp.org.uk

Highlands

Stop the Lochluichart windfarm

 

 

T: 01997 414257

www.a-wind-farm-too-far.com

Highlands - Monadhliath Mountains

stopdumnaglass

Roy Dennis

Inchdryne
Nethybridge
Invernessshire

www.stopdumnaglass.com
T 01479 831384
roydennis@aol.com

Tayside

ASWAG (Amultree and Strathbaan Wind farm Action

Gordon Flint

 

www.aswag.org.uk

Angus

NoAH (Not on Angus Hills)

Jane Brewster

Easter Denoon
Glamis
Angus DD8 1SY

T/F. 01307 840313

jbrewsteris@gmail.com

Perthshire

Mellock Hill Action Groups

William Starkey

 

www.mellockhillactiongroup.org.uk

Perthshire

Ochils Environment-al Protection Group

 

 

www.oepg.org.uk

Perthshire - Glenfarg

WAG (Windfarm Action Group)

 

 

 

Mull

MWAG (Mull Windfarm Awareness Group)

 

 

www.windfarm-free-mull.co.uk

Ardnamurchan and Mull

 

Ken Bowker

info@fairwind.org.uk

www.fairwind.org.uk

Fife

Clatto Landscape Protection Group (CLPG)

Gordon Lochhead

 

www.clatto.org.uk
clpg@tesco.net

Fife – Auchtermuchty

Auchtermuchty Landscape & Environment Group

 

 

www.auchtermuchtyle.org

Fife - Ceres

Ceres and District Environment and Amenity Protection Group

 

 

http://www.cadeap.org

Argyll

 

Lawrence King

 

T. 01866 833208
F.01866 833280

Mid-Argyll & Kintyre

Argyll Wind Farms

Andrew Russell

Tigh Na Leven

www.argyllwindfarms.com
info@argyllwindfarms.com

North Argyll

NINA (Not in North Argyll)

 

 

grahamhenderson@onetel.com

Argyll – Loch Fyne area

 

 

 

www.StopAlltDearg.com

Inverclyde - Greenock

Keep Corlic Wild

 

 

 

Clyde Muirshiel Regional Park LWFAG (Ladymoor Wind Factory Action Group) Chairman Nigel Willis  

www.saveourregionalpark.com/

LWFAG Coordinating Committee and Treasurer:
archsybsimpson@yahoo.co.uk

Stirlingshire - Balfon EVAG (Endrick ValleyAction Group)     evaguk@gmail.com
www.evag.co.uk

Midlothian -Penicuick

PEP(Penicuick Environ-mental Protection Association)

 

 

 

South Lanarkshire

Friends of Stallashaw Moss

Ian Aitchison

Thistlebank
Auchgray
Carnwath
South Lanarkshire
ML11 8LL

T: 01501 785389
friends@stallashaw.org

Ayrshire

 

 

 

www.ayrshirewind.co.uk

Galloway

GLARE (Galloway Landscape and Renewable Energy)

Alison Chapman

 

 

Dumfries & Galloway

Trees Not Turbines Save The Ae Forest

Sarah Burchell

 

sarahburchell@btconnect
.com

Scottish Borders

Peter Hodgson

 

 

T. 01387 375375
hodgson.copshaw@ntlworld
.com

Scottish Borders –Dunion Hill

Dunion Hill Conservation Group

 

 

secretary@dunionhill-conservation

.org.uk

www.dunionhill-conservation.org.uk

Scottish Borders - Coldingham Coldingham STAG (Stop The Windfarm Action Group)    

info@coldinghamstag.org.uk

www.coldinghamstag.org.uk

Scottish Borders – Lammer
muir Hills

Lammermuirs Protection Group (LPG)

 

tba

 

Northumberland- Barmoor and District Anti-Windfarm Group

SOUL (Save Our Unspoilt Countryside)

 

 

www.soul-online.co.uk

NorthEast England/ South East Scotland

‘Tracking the Klondyke Windrush in NE England/SE Scotland

Don Brownlow

3 Grievestead Farm
Norham
Berwick-on-Tweed

T. 01289 382 702
Mob. 0791 888 3593

www.windbyte.co.uk

Northumberland (Borough of Berwick-upon-Tweed)

MAG (Moorsyde Action Group)

 

 

email: info@moorsydeactiongroup.

Org.uk

www.moorsydeactiongroup
.org.uk

Northumberland –Middlemoor/Wandylaw

Stop The Alnwick and Berwick Turbines

 

 

www.stopturbines.com

Northumberland –Pit Kiln Hill, Unthank

Say No To Windfarm

 

 

TurbinesatPKH@aol.com
www.saynotowindfarm.co.uk

Upper Weardale

Weardale Preservation Group

Keith Laidler

 

  tel 01388517600
fax 01388517003

Cumbria North

COLT (Communities Opposing Lamonby turbines)

Ruth Walsh

 

www.nolamonbywindfarm.co.uk

Cumbria (East ) - Kirkby Lonsdale area A-BLOT (Against Barkin Lot developments)

Bernard Drinkall (01539-724179)
Stephen Hinchcliffe (01539 728055)
Anthony Fitzherbert (01539-732063) Mike Hall (015242 76460)

  http://ablot.moonfruit.com

Cumbria (East)

Community Opposing Shap Turbines

Georgina Perkins

 

T. 01931 716638
shapwind@btinternet.com
www.nowindfarm.co.uk

Cumbria North West

FORCE (Friends of Rural
Cumbria 's Environment)

Avril Hemsley-Rose Catlands Foot
Mealsgate
Wigton
Cumbria CA71DF        
force@highpow.co.uk
www.highpow.co.uk
Cumbria - Blencathra BWFOG( Berrier Windfarm Opposition Group)     www.blencathra.net

Cumbria (East)

FELLS (Friends of Eden Lakeland and Lunedale)

Belinda Lancing

Firbank House, Nr Sedburgh
Cumbria

T. 015396 20465

www.fells.info

Cumbria West

Group25

Gerald Sewell

Holme Lea,
Brayton Road
Aspatria CA7 3DN

T 01697 321170 

Cumbria West - Fleeter Wood Tallentire Area Action Group     http://www.tallentire.org.uk:80/index.html
tallentirewindfarms@hotmail.com

Cumbria South West

M.A.I.W.A.G.
(Marton, Askam & Irelith WAG)

David Brierley

 

T 01229 462912
www.windfarm.
fsnet.co.uk

Cumbria SouthEast

Whinash

 

 

www.nowhinashwindfarm.co.uk

Cumbria South East Against Newlands Wind Farm Action Group     www.againstnewlandswindfarm.co.uk

North Yorkshire – Nidderdale

NAWT (Nidderdale Against Wind Turbines)

 

 

 

North Yorkshire - Edge of N. York Moors SHWAG (Seamer Hilton WAG) ref website  

T 07930 948372
SHWAG@hotmail.co.uk
www.shwag.co.uk

Yorkshire East Riding–Holderness

SHOWT (South Holderness Opposes Windfarms)

Bernard Jull

 

T. 01964 612130
F. 0870 1371135
showt@ntlworld.com

East Riding

Stier – Stop Wind Farms in East Riding

Graham Lang

 

http://www.stier.org.uk

East Riding

(Rusholme)

Residents of Aimlyn Against Windfarm

Steve Armitage

 

Mobile. 07949 187 628
steve@airmyn.com
www.airmyn.com

East Riding (Yorkshire Wolds)

WWFO
(
Wolds Windfarm Opposition)

Martin Bailey

 

T. 01377 257609
M 07879 605018
info@wwfo.co.uk
www.wwfo.co.uk

East Riding (Roos)

This Is Roos

 

 

www.thisisroos.co.uk

South Pennines

Federation of Windfarm Opposition Groups

Brian Cullinan

2 Fearnley Cottages
Hebden Bridge

HX78 2NT

T 01422 843938

West Yorkshire - Garforth, Leeds Hook Moor Windfarm Action Group     www.hookmoorwindfarm.org.uk
West Yorkshire - Darrington, nr Doncaster DATED
(Darrington Against Turbine Energy Deployment)
Mrs Sylvia White

West Park Homes
Darrington
Pontefract
West Yorkshire
WF8 3HY


T 01977 620382

swhite@westfieldlanewindfarm
.co.uk

www.westfieldlanewindfarm.co.uk

West Yorkshire – Denby Dale

RAW (Residents Against Windfarm)

 

 

info@rawdenbydale.co.uk

http://rawdenbydale.co.uk

West Yorkshire - Pontefract South P.W.A.G (Pontefract Windfarm Action Group) Tony Hames  

info@pwag.co.uk
T. 01977 620361
www.pwag.co.uk

Lancashire

Scout Moor Opposition Group

 Ann Metcalfe   

The Chapel
Red Lumb   Norden 
Rochdale              OL12 7TX          

www.scoutmoor.com

South Pennines
Saddleworth Moor

Saddleworth Moor Action Group

Chris Foster

 

www.noturbinesin.saddleworth.net

Lancashire, Uglow Moor

 Edgworth Against Turbines

Vicci Hollins-head

 

scvp@
hollinsheadv.freeserve.co.uk 

Rossendale, Lancs

Rossendale Against Windfarms

Alan Johnson

c/o 10 Pendle Close
Bacup OL13 9JT

T. 01706 877521

South Yorkshire
Humberside Levels

Thorne and District Windfarm Action Group
(TDWAG)

Keith Heywood

15 South End
Thorne
Doncaster
S Yorks
DN8 5QN

webmaster@
tdwag.org.uk 

South Yorkshire, Sheffield area (Loscar)

AWALF

 

 

http://awalf.org.uk

South Yorkshire Marr & Melton Marr and Melton Wood Action Group     http://marrandmeltonwoodactiongroup.blogspot.com/

South Yorkshire – Crow Edge

CLOWT
Crow Edge Locals Opposing Wind Turbines

 

 

 

South Yorkshire - Sheffield SWCP (Save West Wood Country Park Action Group)     www.swcp-online.co.uk
South Yorkshire - Langsett Valley Protest Sheephouse Heights     [Site under development]
Derbyshire - Carsington   Contact Janice Southway   T. 01629 540752
Nottinghamshire - Bilsthorpe BRATTS (BilsthorpeResidents Against Turbines)      
Nottingham - Eakring ETAG (Eakring Turbine Action Group)      

CheshireActon Bridge

Stop Aston Windfarm

 

 

www.stopastonwindfarm.net
question@stopastonwindfarm.net

Cheshire - Rushton

ChArt

 

 

www.ch-art.co.uk
info@ch-art.co.uk

Cheshire - Bickerton SBWT (Stop Bickerton Wind Turbines)     www.stopbickertonwindturbines.co.uk/

Shropshire –Located between the villages of Woore, Knighton and Norton in Hales on the North Shropshire border with Staffordshire and Cheshire

V.O.R.T.E.X

(Veto On Rural Turbine Expansion)

Vortex Windfarm Action Group

c/o Napley Cottage
Napley Heath

Market Drayton

Shropshire TF9 4DP

 

T 01630 673585
info@vortex.uk.net
www.vortex.uk.net

Herefordshire - Stonewall Hill (Reeves Hill)

SHCG (Stonewall Hill -Reeves Hill Conservation Group)

SC Brown, Treasurer   mdbm@freenetname.co.uk
T 01568 770346

Staffordshire

Abbots Bromley and Marchington Woodlands Action Group

Mark Newstead

 

T 01889 560074                 

marknewstead@btconnect.com

Staffordshire

Mair Hills Protection Group

 

 

www.savemaerhills.co.uk

Staffordshire SPAWF (Staffordshire Protest Against Wind Farms)     http://www.spawf.bravehost.com
Staffordshire - near Cannock BWFAG (Bleakhouse Windfarm Action Group)

Keith Faulkner T. 01543 422480.
c.k.Faulkner@talktalk.net


Dave Baker 07876 746621)

  www.bwfag.co.uk

Cotswolds

Cotswolds Protection Group

Ian Blair

Field Farm
Nympsfield
Stonehouse
Glos. GL10 3UQ

T. 01453 860256

Lincolnshire- Boston

Bicker Against The Turbines (BATT)

Charles Hickson

 

T 01205 821077
batt@email.com

Lincolnshire- Nocton Fen

 

Richard Abraham

 

“Richard” rickabr@susupanet.com

Lincolnshire - Nr Long Bennington Thackston's Well Richard Withington   withington@freenet.co.uk
Lincolnshire - South AGAST (Action Against Sempringham Turbines)    

www.agast.co.uk
supportagast@aol.com

Lincolnshire Wolds BWAG (Baumber Wind Farm Action Group)

Melvin Grosvenor
Chairman

 

www.bwag.co.uk
bwagrp@aol.com
T. 01507 578657

Leicestershire - Belvoir Belvoir Locals Oppose Windfarms (BLOT) Matt Burrows   www.blot-online.org

Leicestershire - Swinford

Nr MI J19

SSWAG (Stop Swinford wind-farm Proposal Dawn Money Poplars Farm, Walcote

01455 554949

 

www.mistertonwindfarm.info (neutral)

North-West Norfolk ACT (Against Cogham Turbines) Robin Tims   01485 600939
Norfolk - West ATAC (Against Turbines At Chiplow) Reg Thompson

4 Rectory Gardens
Syderstone
Kings Lynn
Norfolk PE31 8SD

T. 01485 578508
reg@syderstone.com

www.syderstone.com
atac@syderstone.com

North Norfolk Coast

 

John Power

 

T 01263 823930

Nofolk - Hempnall SHOWT (Stop Hempnall's Onshore wind Turbines) Melanie Hook

C/C The Old Forge
The Street
Hempnall
Norfolk NR15 2LP

melaniehookuk@yahoo.co.uk
Norfolk North - Nr Wisbech FLAT (Fenland Landscape Against Turbines)     www.flat-group.co.uk
Norfolk - Dickleburgh 4VILLAGES against the turbines Lucy Melrose  

notdrp@btinternet.com
T 01379 741925

 

Norfolk - Chedborough RACT - Residents Against Chedborough Turbines     www.ract.co.uk
North Norfolk - Swaffham

STAG
Stop Turbines Action Group

Steve Hudson    

Central and South Norfolk

 

 

 

Sheila Caro (01362 820 608) or
Brian Kidd (016362 820 533)

Norfolk South- Tivetshall TAG - Tivetshall Action Group Eric Kirby and others (see website   www.tivetshallactiongroup.com
enquiries@tivetshallactiongroup.com

Norfolk, Shipdham

The Campaign Against Turbines at Shipdham and Scarning (CATSS0)

 

 

 

Suffolk - Parham NOWAP - No wind farms at Parham Chairman John Constable   www.nowap.co.uk

Cambridgeshire Fens

Save Our Swans

Brian Lovell

Thistledew
Wisbech Road

Tipps End ,Welney
Cambs PE14 9SQ

Mobile. 07970852514

athena.personnel@LineOne.

Net

Cambridgeshire Fens

Save Our Skyline

Andrew Sweetman

 

T. 01354 638287

Cambridgeshire Fens

Fenland Against Rural Turbines

Philip Potts

 

pottsps@aol.com

Cambridge- Conington & Boxworth

STOPCWF (Stop the Cambridge Wind Farm)

Peter Hawkes

7 Seagraves
Boxworth
CB3 8LS

T. 10954 267039
Fax 01954 267688
www.stopcwf.org.uk

Cambridgeshire - Linton SLWF (Stop Linton Wind Farm)     www.stoplintonwindfarm.org.uk

Cambridgeshire. Wadlow

Stop Wadlow Windfarm

Jacqui Burke (sec)

 

info@stop-wadlow-wind-farm.org.uk
www.stop-wadlow-wind-farm.org.uk

Cambridgeshire - Ouse Valley
Cotton Farm Action Group