Spotlight on: Community Climate Skills
One of our key themes for the Staffordshire Green Network is training, skills and knowledge. Support Staffordshire has been doing a deep-dive into this topic in partnership with Keele University over recent months. We ran workshops with community groups to discover what skills or knowledge groups feel they need to run effective local climate action, then hosted some events to meet some of these needs. Groups have learnt about how to host student placements to benefit from younger volunteer support, and have come together with schools to find out how to establish working relationships with schools to run community projects.
Our key findings are summarised in the illustration below – thanks to Ella Kasperowicz for this amazing image!
Funding: Cycling UK – Big Bike Revival Grants Programme
Grants are available for voluntary groups, social enterprises, and other not-for-profit organisations to deliver cycling projects and activities across England for people who do not normally cycle. Grants of up to £3,500 are available.Â
Events, activities and resources
Put your community group on the map for the Local Nature Recovery Strategy. Are you running a project for nature recovery in Staffordshire? The Local Nature Recovery Strategy team are mapping out community projects, and you are invited to include your activities. Fill in this form to get your project on the map.
Save the Date – Saturday 5th July, 10am-1pm. Our next Green Conversation will be an EcoFair, held at the Kingswood Trust near Codsall, South Staffordshire. This will be a family friendly event, with stalls, activities and a speaker hall, and you are invited to show off your group’s activities! Register your interest here.
Women’s Health Festival, Wednesday 30th April, Brewhouse Arts Centre, Burton-on-Trent. The Festival which is completely free to attend aims to educate and empower women by connecting them with local health services in a creative, inclusive space. Join a wonderful day filled with health presentations, a Festival GP, a menopause hub, resource sharing, workshops, art, delicious food, and so much more…