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Extinction Rebellion fundraising Ceilidh
Sunday, 5 May 2019
7– 11pm
St Peter's Church, 14 Lutton Place, EH8 9PE Edinburgh
Extinction Rebellion's Fundraising Ceilidh is your chance to help support XR, and have a tonne of fun doing it! All the raised money will help XR Edinburgh with expenses for equipment and supplies and future actions.
You can look forward to a night of great live music, dancing, fun and rad company! There'll be a raffle, delicious snacks, a bar and stalls with cool arty stuff to buy.
Bring instruments if you would like to join a jam when the band has a break.
For Tickets and donations click here.
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Full Permaculture Design Course (PDC)
28 July - 10 August 2019
Stromness Library, 2-12 Victoria St,
Stromness, Orkney KW16 3AA
Organised by Permaculture UK and open to anyone, this northernmost permaculture course ever in the UK will promote resilience and co-sufficiency in turbulent times through ecological design.
The course will be taught by internationally known instructor Graham Bell from the Scottish Borders, joined by a team of experts.
More details and bookings here.
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CARES Conference 2019
8th - 9th May 2019
Perth Racecourse, Perth
The Conference will explore all things local and community energy, and find out how you can get involved in Scotland's low carbon energy transition.
The Scottish Government's Community and Renewable Energy Scheme (CARES) is managed by Local Energy Scotland and offers grants, loans and advice to help you develop and realise your ideas.
For further information and to sign up for a free ticket please click here.
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The Circular Economy at work in Tayside
Friday 24 May 2019
10am – 12.30pm
Transform Community Development, Transform House, 95 Douglas Street, Dundee, DD1 5AZ
CRNS is delighted to host this forum in Dundee that will enable CRNS members, as well as other reuse, repair and recycling organisations and projects in the area, to come together to engage, network and obtain strategic updates from CRNS.
Book your tickets here.
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Just Transition training
May 31 9.3pm – Jun 2 at 5.30pm
Aberdeen
Organisd by Young Friends of the Earth Scotland and Young Friends of the Earth Norway, this training will bring together young people from Norway and Scotland to share skills and deepen our understanding of Just Transition and the issues facing communities economically linked to the oil and gas industry.
The training itself is free, and there are a number of fully/partially funded places for this course, which include/exclude accommodation and meals. Applications are open to anyone aged 18-30 living in Scotland.
APPLY HERE: https://forms.gle/Gy8xbDosJVhSgJar5 - Applications close on Monday 29th April, 5pm.
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This month, we are very happy to welcome the following 3 organisations and 7 individuals to the SCCAN family:
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- Scottish Catholic International Aid Fund (SCIAF) - (Associate) SCIAF is the official overseas aid and development charity of the Catholic Church in Scotland, providing long term development support and emergency help in 27 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. We work in Scotland providing development education programmes within schools, parishes and community groups, developing policy responses to issues of global poverty, and advocating for change at the global and national level. Since climate justice is a top priority for SCIAF, we help communities overseas to adapt to the impacts of climate change, and we lobby our national and global leaders to take more action.
- Lower Impact Living (Lil) CIC - (Associate) Our aim is to engage as many people in East Lothian in behaviour change to improve our environment and limit our negative impacts including climate change. Collaboration is vital in this crusade, so the more connected we can all be the better.
- Scottish Community Development Centre (SCDC) - (Associate) We work across Scotland with communities, practitioners and policy makers to build on their skills and ideas when working together in communities. Climate change is a priority among communities we work with as well as a key factor in social justice locally and globally. Being part of SCCAN enables us to connect to this agenda more fully.
PLUS 7 individual members Kate, Lindsay, Harriet, Teri, Federico, Ann and Mhaire (full names not disclosed due to privacy reasons).
Welcome onboard to all!
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Promote your activities with SCCAN!
We are happy to help your promote climate-related events, projects or stories in our next newsletter.
Just send them to: info@scottishcommunitiescan.org.uk (ideally also include an image) by 21st May 2019.
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Refill Borders, an initiative of several SCCAN members and other community organisations based in the Scottish Borders to reduce single use plastic in the Borders has now officially been launched. The network works with local businesses by recruiting and promoting a network of free tap water refill stations that anyone can access.
