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Welcome to SCCAN's July 2019 Newsletter
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Hi <<First Name>>,
We're in the middle of Festival season, so if you don't know yet which party to join this summer read on:

Enjoy your holidays,
 Katharina

And the Winners are...
The winners of the 10 "Let's Celebrate" grants are out! They have all put their minds together and cooked up a varied exciting programme to celebrate the European Sustainable Communities Day on or around the 21st September.



They are:
  1. The SoulRiders of Glasgow will do a Crew Celebration
  2. Transition Black Isle is dancing away on a 10-year anniversary Ceilidh
  3. Pollokshields Development Agency is having a themed community street party on waste
  4. Thurso Community Development Trust in the Highlands is having a Harvest Festival
  5. Woodcraft Folk Edinburgh is inviting to a Zero-packaging Food Sharing Event
  6. Granton Goes Greener of Edinburgh will be holding a Swap Shop Open Day
  7. Belville Community Garden in Glasgow is having a Special “Soup and a Blether” meal
  8. Northern Corridor Community Volunteers will offer a sustainable communities bike repair workshop
  9. Lambhill Stables will organise an Open Door event
  10. The 10th grant winner is still subject to confirmation and will be published in due course
You are very welcome to join any of the above events - watch this space for the announcement of further details or head over to https://www.sustainable-communities.net to find out more! 
 

Going round in Circles
At SCCAN, we are working towards using shared governance in our organisation. This means that we all work as equals in a structured way that enables us to be as effective as possible. We have organised the work we do into ‘circles’ or working groups, which take care of specific activities of SCCAN's mission. The circles have mandates which allow them to take some of their decisions (in defined areas) autonomously, without needing to check with the general circle first.

During the last Away Day in March 2019 we reviewed the SCCAN Circle structure to reflect our current activities and ambitions as shown in the diagram across:


We are also very happy to welcome a new member to the Members Circle - Donald Campbell!

 
Let Donald introduce himself in his own words: "My day job is at Rachel House Children's Hospice, it's part time leaving me time for my allotment and "other stuff"! I'm a Community Councillor and Chair of Go Forth Kincardine, a company set up to take forward our recent Charrette. I'm co-ordinator of Friends of the Earth West Fife. I'm Chair of the Broad Alliance, the national group against Fracking. I'm a committee member of Fife Communities Climate Action Network, I attended SCCAN meetings on their behalf and they have selected me to be their representative on the members circle. Here's a pic of me outside the SECC rallying the anti fracking troops at the SNP conference!"
Find out how you too can get involved in the SCCAN Circles

How to...? - New Tuesdays4Climate Online Events

We are pleased to announce that in September we'll be kicking off our new series "Tuesdays4Climate" which is a series of 12 monthly online events sharing ideas and insights into how to get better at what you are doing in your community group. These interactive events are FREE to attend and are organised online to enable all members across Scotland to take part.

The first 6 themes and dates are:
  • 3rd September: How to avoid common mistakes of community organisations - Book your space here
  • 1st October: How to set up a local community garden
  • 5th November: How to talk to our children about climate change - a sharing space for parents
  • 3rd December: How to set up a waste repair & reuse organisation
  • 14th January 2020: How to become a financially sustainable community organisation
  • 4th February 2020: How to make an organisation truly participative
If you would like to be a speaker at any of the events above please get in touch with Katharina.
Find out more about the Tuesdays4Climate events

Future Voices Episodes 3 and 4 are out!
During your holidays, make sure you tune into the latest two episodes of Future Voices:

Episode 3: Give Box Dundee - Lynsey Penny from Gatechurch in Dundee talks about their Givebox scheme. With over 30 boxes in workplaces, supermarkets, cafés, libraries, schools etc. the scheme makes it really easy for anyone to pass on unwanted stuff to other people who can make good use of it. Listen to the podcast or find out more at: www.gatechurch.co.uk/givebox
Future Voices Episode 4 - Remode Collective: Based in Edinburgh, Remode Collective is a Community Interest Company (CIC) set up to celebrate multicultural diversity, build new skills and explore ways to reuse textiles. Founding Director Chiara Puppi tells the story of this fashion enterprise with a difference. Listen to the podcast or read more at: www.remodecollective.com

Funding & Resources
These are some of the new funding and support opportunities that are currently available:
 
The Robertson Trust now allocates up to £2,000 for smaller charities and community groups working on the topics of Care and Wellbeing, Strengthening Communities or Realising Potential. You can find more info here or contact SCCAN for project ideas.

People's Postcode Lottery Funds - The Postcode Local Trust provides grants for projects that are beneficial to local areas. Applications are welcome for outdoor projects related to play areas, green spaces, sustainable energy and conservation. Postcode Community Trust focuses on initiatives that benefit communities through grass-roots sports, arts, recreation and wellbeing programmes. People’s Postcode Trust will consider projects which focus on employability and skills development programmes, the promotion of human rights through combating discrimination and poverty prevention.
Applications for Round 2 are open on 31 July and close on 14 August 2019 - so a very short timeframe to apply!

A new Scottish National Investment Bank is to be launched in 2020 - The Scottish Government has committed £2 billion of capital to the Bank to invest over 10 years on missions including Transitioning to a carbon neutral economy. More info here.

Resource: Need a resource for your community to learn about climate change and how to tackle it? The Erasmus Plus project, part funded by the European Union, The Illustrated Climate, has created an e-learning course.  We will give  a copy of the book "In Time for Tomorrow"  to the first 10 people who complete the course.  Please get in touch (email info@surefoot-effect.com) to get log-in details for the online programme and feel free to share this invitation.
It should take 2 to 5 hours depending on how many of the four modules (energy, food, lifestyle, transport) you take. You can take the modules step by step at your own pace.

The project also created a graphic novel:   The Story of Eli! You can access  the graphic novel here: www.illustrated-climate.eu/novel Eli's story was brought to life by artist Carys Boughton. Thank you for helping us with this!  Let us know what you think on our Facebook page TheSurefootEffect.

Upcoming Events
1.5 Degrees Live!
12th-16th August 2019
various times
Venue 236, Greenside @ Infirmary Street, Container, 6 Infirmary Street, EH1 1LT
Suggested price: £5

A special Climate event at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival:
 A five-day reading of the 2018 IPCC Special Report on the impacts of global warming - 100 readers, performers, members of the public, activists, authors and more will raise their voices and bear witness to the most important issue of our age.

Buy your tickets here or Pay What You Want at the venue.
Your peace, our place
17th August 2019
The Ecology Centre, Kinghorn, Fife, KY3 9YG
£15

The Ecology Centre are hosting Fife's first outdoor health and wellbeing day. There will be talks, treatments, workshops, foodie areas dedicated to the latest plant-based food and drinks; free taster classes and more.

Book your tickets here.  
Summer Weekender - by F.O.E.
16th-18th August 2019
Wiston Lodge, Milrigg Road, Wiston, Biggar, Lanarkshire ML12 6HT
Price: £10 - £40

Friends of the Earth Scotland invite you to join them at their Summer Weekender this August! A three day climate festival, designed to leave you feeling inspired, motivated and connected. There has never been a more exciting time to be part of the climate movement. Thanks to the youth-led strikes and mass civil disobedience hitting headlines, climate change is quickly becoming part of the national consciousness. There’s so much to celebrate, and we’ll be hearing from the people who have been driving this change here in Scotland, and around the world.

The last few tickets are available here
A Line in the Sand for Climate Change
Friday 20th September 2019
10.45am -1pm-ish
North Street, St. Andrews

As part of the global climate action days planned this September, Climate Action St Andrews is organising a Climate Action Day at St Andrews - a day of demonstration, action and reflection. The day will start at 10.45 on North Street with a march. We will then gather at 12.00 on West Sands Beach and begin to form a line on the strandline of people. Afterwards there will be stalls and speeches with ideas on actions against climate change.
More info here.
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New Members
Due to the summer holidays, this month no SCCAN General Circle meeting has taken place to approve new members - the next General Circle meeting is foreseen for the 13th August 2019. Happy holidays to all our members!
Be next to join SCCAN's growing network - click here!

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