Scottish Communities Climate Action Network (SCCAN) February 2020 News & Network Events

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Glasgow consults on Food and the Ecological Emergency - have your say!

Glasgow City Council is seeking your views on the draft Glasgow Food Growing Strategy 2020-2025. This is an opportunity for everyone with an interest in food growing to provide comment on the draft strategy and help shape food growing in Glasgow for the next five years.

The links to both the draft Food Growing Strategy and on-line consultation can be found at the Glasgow Food Growing web page at: https://www.glasgow.gov.uk/foodgrowing

And while you are here: Glasgow is also currently consulting on the Climate and Ecological Emergency. The consultation focuses on the following themes:

Local Biodiversity Action Plan and the Glasgow Open Space Strategy
Land Management
State of Nature

Contribute your views to the Ecological Emergency consultation as well.

Have your say here

Climate Week North East is coming!

Join Aberdeen Climate Action and many other local organisations in the Aberdeenshire area for Climate Week North East 2020, have fun, learn lots and be inspired by local action and projects.

What's Climate Week about?
Climate Week North East is a week packed full of fun, inspiring and interesting events, designed to raise awareness of climate change but, more importantly, show what we can all do to make a difference and reduce our carbon footprint in a fun way. There are so many individuals and organisations here in the North East working to create a better environment for us all. Come along and learn more about them and how you can make a positive change to reduce climate change.

When? 20th-29th March
For further details on the Climate Week North East programme, background information and other things you can do, please visit: www.climateweekaberdeen.org and follow https://www.facebook.com/climateweeknortheast

Not in the Aberdeen area?
Alone or together with our community, there is so much we can do to help care for our planet. To make a change for climate change, make a pledge at https://www.wearedonation.com/businesses/aberdeen-climate-action/campaigns/climate-week-north-east/

Host your own community sessions

...on the Climate Emergency or the future of Scotland:

KSB is offering support through The Community Leader Climate Programme by providing a trainer and food if you organise and host a training session on the Climate Emergency for community leaders and influencers. The programme is open to anyone who plays an active role in their community; formal or informal, and to people who are active in any kind of community; with examples including, but not limited to geographic, faith, sport, hobby, LGBTI and ethnic minority communities. If you would like to host a training session find out more here or contact claire.gibson@keepscotlandbeautiful.org

The Scottish Government is inviting local people to community workshops on the next National Planning Framework 4. NPF4 is a long-term strategy for Scotland setting out policies and proposals for the development and use of land until 2050. Key issues for the next NPF include: housing (particularly for older and disabled people), health and well-being, equalities, rural re-population, biodiversity and climate change. NPF4 will have the status of the development plan for planning purposes. This is a change to the current position and will mean that its policies will have a stronger role in informing day to day decision making. NPF4 will also be an important document for communities as they prepare any Local Place Plan.

If you are interested in thinking about the future development of Scotland take part in a workshop or organise your own session with help from the Community Grant Fund (support of £200-£300). Details of the Fund and other resources can be found at: https://www.transformingplanning.scot/national-planning-framework/resources/ under the Early Engagement tab (closing date 29 February 2020).

Funding & Resources

Below are some of the latest funding and support opportunities:

The Tesco Bags of Help Fund is open for not for profit community groups to apply for up to £2000 for projects that bring benefit to communities. For each voting round lasting 3 months, three community projects in each local area will be voted on by customers in Tesco stores. Following the vote, the project that receives the most votes in its area will receive a grant of up to £2000. Second place will receive up to £1000 and third place will receive £500. The Community Enabler team at greenspace scotland can help you apply. For more details please visit http://bit.ly/bagsofhelpscot

Reach programme - The Bank of Scotland's Reach programme is suitable for charities with an income of £1m or less can demonstrate they address disadvantage or social exclusion. This will ensure that the funding will reach the most vulnerable people across Scotland, to provide them with opportunity and equality and making positive, sustainable change. Grants are between £1,000-£20,000 over one year. Deadline 12 noon Thursday 2nd April 2020. More info

The Pebble Trust offers grant funding of up to £5,000 for projects in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland which support the vision of a more sustainable and equal society, where constraints on fossil fuels lead to a more localised economy with stronger, more resilient, communities, and where human activities take account of climate change and the wider environment. Applications can be accepted from charities, community groups, businesses or individuals. Rolling applications. More info.

Resource:
New book from Christiana Figueres (former Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC): Thanks to a partnership between SCCAN and Bonnier Books you can get "The Future we choose" for £5.99 instead of £12.99 by pre-ordering your copy here and entering the promo code "FUTURE" (valid until 25/2/2020 only). Read an extract of the book in this Guardian article.

Other upcoming Events

"2040" Film screenings
23rd February & 12th March 2020
at both Showcase Paisley CDL and Showcase Glasgow CDL, Glasgow & LG.09, David Hume Tower, 40 George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9JX

Award-winning director Damon Gameau (That Sugar Film) embarks on a journey to explore what the future could look like by the year 2040 if we simply embraced the best solutions already available to us to improve our planet and shifted them rapidly into the mainstream.

Structured as a visual letter to his 4-year-old daughter, Damon blends traditional documentary with dramatised sequences and high-end visual effects to create a vision board of how these solutions could regenerate the world for future generations.

Watch the trailer and
Book your tickets for the Glasgow screenings
Book your tickets for the Edinburgh screening

Falkirk Funders Fayre 2020
Tuesday, 10th March 2020
10am-2.30pm
Bowhouse Community Centre, 130 Bowhouse Road, Grangemouth, FK3 0EU

The event is designed to give third sector, charity and voluntary organisations the opportunity to meet with a range of diverse funders and to learn about the various grant funding schemes that are available. Attendees will have the opportunity to ask questions and to obtain information on how to apply and learn about the criteria funders use when assessing applications. When:
More info and book your free ticket.

Energy Advice Forum
Thursday, 5th March 2020
10 am – 1.30 pm
The Auditorium, Chatelherault Country Park, Ferniegair, Hamilton, ML3 7UE

Frontline workers dealing directly with the public and those managing projects or delivering services that support vulnerable consumers are invited to join Energy Action Scotland for this event focused on Smarter Energy and Vulnerability.
Fulll agenda here
Book your free ticket until Friday 28 February 2020 by emailing
to: rose-ann.porteous@eas.org.uk

The Route to Zero
Wednesday, 25th March 2020
12-3pm

Kirriemuir Town Hall, 30 Reform Street, Kirriemuir, Angus, DD8 4BQ

Sustainable Kirriemuir invites you to this brainstorming event in Angus:
Route to Zero aims to connect specialists, councils and community groups, using their knowledge and experience to plot the steps needed to roll out the change we need to cut greenhouse gas emissions in many sectors.

Book your FREE tickets here.

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New Members

This month, we are happy to welcome the following new members to the SCCAN family:

Mintlaw Community Church
Urban Roots
Planet Sutherland
Friends of the Earth East Lothian
PeachyKeen (Associate)
Skye Climate Action

PLUS individual member James (family name not mentioned due to privacy reasons).

A WARM WELCOME TO ALL!

Be next to join SCCAN's growing network - click here!

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