Dalai Lama’s Gyuto Monks, 8 December 2017. Photo: Peter Yankowski

In this final listing before Christmas 2017:

• Visit of Gyuto monks to Kirby Misperton
• Solstice celebrations;
• Rallies;
• Carolling;
• Ongoing Barclays protest.

Please let us know (click here) if any of these details are incorrect or if other events should be included. Listings for the end of December and beyond here.

Monday 18 December 2017

Celebrate the winter solstice at Preston New Road frack site. 6.30am-9am, Preston New Road shale gas site, Little Plumpton, near Blackpool, PR4 3PE. Details

Green Monday at PNR. 10am-1pm, outside Cuadrilla’s Preston New Road shale gas site, Little Plumpton, near Blackpool, PR4 3PE. Details

Solstice lantern making and procession after dark. 4.30pm-7.30pm, Maple Farm Nursery, Preston New Road, near Blackpool PR4 3PE. Details

Wednesday 20 December 2017

Ladies First event at Cuadrilla’s Preston New Road site. 1pm-4pm, outside Cuadrilla’s Preston New Road shale gas site, Little Plumpton, near Blackpool, PR4 3PE. Details

Dalai Lama’s Gyuto monks visiting entrance to Third Energy’s Kirby Misperton fracking site to bless the land, water and local community. 12 noon-2pm, Habton Road, Kirby Misperton, North Yorkshire. Details

Thursday 21 December 2017

Lancashire Fights Fracking Christmas Get Together. 8pm, The White Cross Pub, Quarry Road, Lancashire, LA1 4XT.

Friday 22 December 2017

Candlelit vigil and Christmas carol singing outside Cuadrilla’s shale gas site. 5pm-8pm, Preston New Road, Little Plumpton, near Blackpool, PR4 3PE, followed by Christmas Party at Maple Farm. Details

Frack Free Wakefield protest against funding by Barclays Bank for fracking. 11am-12.30pm, Barclays Bank, Market Place, Pontefract WF8 1AG