Community Climate Action Programme
For community based and inspired action on the climate change and protecting our environment.
We work with communities to make sustainable living practical, affordable and accessible, with most of our work focused on those who are struggling socially and economically in our region.
Aim and Key Features
We aim to help people reduce household costs, improve daily life, connect with others and make sustainability relevant to everyday activities by following a two-pronged strategy:
1. Providing practical community support — delivering workshops, events, outreach, advice and useful resources on areas such as energy saving, food and household waste, repair and reuse, and other cost-saving measures.
1. Providing practical community support — delivering workshops, events, outreach, advice and useful resources on areas such as energy saving, food and household waste, repair and reuse, and other cost-saving measures.
2. Strengthening local community networks — working with volunteers, community groups and trusted organisations to connect people with local projects, services, activities and opportunities to participate..
Our Approach
Partnership working is central to what we do. We collaborate with community organisations, local councils, schools, volunteers and other local partners to build on existing activity rather than duplicate it.
Our programmes are designed to be inclusive, accessible and responsive to local needs. Face-to-face outreach will soon be supplemented by E-Save, our digital platform, which will help people find and self-serve practical sustainability actions, local support, events and community opportunities in one place.
By connecting people with useful information, practical help and organisations already working in their communities, we aim to increase participation, strengthen local capacity and create lasting social and environmental impact.
How It Works for Individuals
We offer hands-on support through workshops, demonstrations and other activities covering a range of sustainability topics
Participants gain practical skills to lower bills and reduce environmental impact. We also distribute free energy- and water-saving items to families in fuel poverty.
Our outreach includes pop-up stalls, home visits and community events.
We are developing a programme to train volunteers to become local champions and help embed sustainable practices.
Our outreach includes pop-up stalls, home visits and community events.
We are developing a programme to train volunteers to become local champions and help embed sustainable practices.
Thrifty Christmas
For example our current Thrifty Christmas programme includes three community sessions:
How It Works for Communities
We are keen to support all local sustainability initiatives, such as swap shops, repair cafés and grow-your-own schemes.
Moreover, we want to see more local services and opportunities that support and encourage people to live sustainably. We want to see community-led and based environmental sustainability initiatives thriving and an expanded provision and reach.
We are piloting a programme to boost the community sustainability infrastructure - seeking to improve coordination and partnership working, and building capacity. More opportunities, and awareness of them, will result in more people using them, and the more they become part of people’s everyday routines, and part of community life. And more impact on climate change and protection of the environment.
Our goal is to build resilient, empowered communities ready to tackle climate challenges together.
We are piloting a programme to boost the community sustainability infrastructure - seeking to improve coordination and partnership working, and building capacity. More opportunities, and awareness of them, will result in more people using them, and the more they become part of people’s everyday routines, and part of community life. And more impact on climate change and protection of the environment.
Our goal is to build resilient, empowered communities ready to tackle climate challenges together.
Links to the Eco-Save App
Promoting the new Eco-Save app at our community outreach events will further inspire and enable users to explore more ways of living, sustainably. It will also promote and support community-based sustainability and environmental projects through local information and notifications of forthcoming events and initiatives - improving uptake of services and helping garner more support.
Plans and Ambitions
We would very much like to explore and develop models of how to improve community sustainability infrastructure that would be of benefit to many areas in the country. We would like to work with others to develop these and produce guides and tool kits that support existing and new community-led projects and groups to have a greater impact climate change and environmental sustainability.
How You Can Help
We are always keen to hear from people and organisations that want to support or be involved with helping develop a programme, building models that develop and boost community sustainability infrastructure. Together, we can create lasting change for people and the planet.