climate change - it's everyone's business, make it yours
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By Rob Proctor of Renew Wales at WCVA's Annual Conference 2013TRANSCRIPT
‘People supportingpeople to take
enterprising actionagainst climate
change’
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What we want to achieve?
Support 200 community groups across Wales by
developing the capacity and capability of these groups
to take action on climate change.
Renew Wales is supported through the Sustainable Steps programme delivered through the Big
Fund and funded by money from dormant bank accounts.
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How did the project come about?
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Support a wide range of groups
We can support any type of community groups:Tenants and Residents groups Women’s groups
Rugby Club
Social Enterprises
Craft group
Community Councils Faith Groups
Youth Club BME Groups Mental
Health Charities
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We can support any type of climate change project?
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Building Connections?
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What support can we offer?
30 local co-ordinators will register groups, support them to complete an action plan and identify appropriate support.
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What support can we offer?
A pool of over 40 peer mentors who can provide mentoring, training and technical support to community groups.
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What support can we offer?
Web and Social Media resources to share information about funding, other community groups, other support and news and events.
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What has Renew Wales achieved in Year 1?
• 30 co-ordinators recruited from a diverse range of organisations throughout Wales
• A pool of 50 Peer Mentors with a wide range of knowledge, skills and experience
• Over 100 community groups signed up to receive support from Renew Wales
• About half of these have developed an action plan detailing what they want to achieve.
• Over 30 of these have received or have identified support via peer mentors and other support organisations to take their projects forward.
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What has Renew Wales achieved in Year 1?
• A diverse range of groups receiving support from Renew Wales including:
Sports Clubs Youth Groups Community Centres
Community Councils Community Transport Associations
Faith Groups Schools St John’s Ambulance
Co-operatives Social Enterprises Local Action
Groups
Development Trusts Scout Groups BME groups
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Some of the groups we’re working with.
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What has Renew Wales achieved in Year 1?
• A diverse variety of projects being given support from Renew Wales including:
Energy Efficiency of Community Buildings Community Renewable Energy
Local Food Growing Redistribution of Waste Food
Sustainable Transport Solutions Awareness of Climate Change
Renewable Heating in Rural Areas Sustainable Land Management
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What next?
• Renew Wales has just under 1 year left of it’s funding through the Sustainable Steps
programme
• During this time Renew Wales is aiming to engage with 200 groups and to provide
support to 150 of these.
• Renew Wales independent evaluators have produced the first interim report. A
further interim report will be available in the New Year and a final report available
before the end of the programme.
• Renew Wales is looking and applying for funding to continue and develop the
programme
• Build on the success of Renew Wales to ensure the long term support of bottom up
support for community action on climate change.
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Your turn
I want to ask each of you the following questions and we will go around the room
getting the answers from everyone.
• Introduce yourself
• What organisation are you from?
• What are the aims of your organisation?
• What are the main challenges facing your organisation?
• Do you have any ideas around tackling climate change that your organisation
is interested in?
• Have you delivered or are you delivering any projects around climate change?
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Your turn
Split into groups, in each group I want a mixture of people who have
delivered climate change projects and people that haven’t. If we’ve identified
themes we can try and split into groups or themes.
1) Those that are looking to develop a new climate change project share
their ideas in more detail with the group and in particular identify some
of the challenges and difficulties they face.
2) Those that have delivered climate change projects can then share what
they have done and in particular how they overcame those barriers, who
helped them, what they would do differently next time.
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Summary
• Hopefully this session has given you the chance to do a little Peer to Peer
Mentoring with each other.
• You now have lunch so you can continue any conversations there or speak
to me.
• This is what we are trying to promote through Renew Wales. Standing on
the backs of Giants.
• We don’t need to re-invent the wheel.
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Robert ProctorProgramme Director/Cyfarwyddwr Rhaglen
02920 19026007805 924558
www.renewwales.org.uk