rural community carbon network (rccn)
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Rural Community Carbon Network
R C C N
www.ruralaction.org.uk
collaborate|200728 June 2007
Simon Berry ruralnet|uk
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What is the RCCN?
• 3-year programme• Raise the awareness of the collective approaches to climate change
• It builds on existing, isolated community action
• It will support other rural groups who wish to take collective action
• It will provide access to• an online panel of experts• good practice ‘New Media’ toolkits• a mentoring service linked to a small grants programme
• RCCN will link up existing groups with nascent ones for peer-to-peer support and knowledge transfer through events, twinning and online.
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Why rural?
• New employment opportunities• Development of under-utilised assets (eg woodland)
• Local employment (eg in micro generation)
• Opportunities for local generation
• Emphasis on local: local food, local energy
• Rural proofing - does car=bad?
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Where does the RCCN come from?
• The Community Broadband Network
• 2003-5
• Phone Co-op
• DTI• Defra• Co-operatives UK• CISCO
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What did CBN achieve?
• Growth in the number of DIY community initiatives
• Establishment of an independent Co-op
• Change in BT policy?
• Stronger communities -> spin-off initiatives
• Success?
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The RCCN approach
• Building on what is already happening
• Resourcing the network to support itself• Augmenting Experts Online• Mentoring• Exchanges• New media materials• Events
• Making local action more effective not interfering with it
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The Networks Online Active Brokerage System was demonstrated to show how the RCCN would recruit mentors from community projects and match them transperently to other communities requesting support.
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Progress to date - internet resources
www.ruralaction.org.uk
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Progress to date - mapping initiatives
www.ruralaction.org.uk
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Progress to date - fundraising
Yes Maybe No
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RCCN Budget Summary (3 yrs)
On-going action research (Carnegie) 15,000Project set-up, protocols, procedures, technology (ruralnet|uk) 15,000Awareness raising 88,500Capacity building 472,000Networking and facilitation 234,500Monitoring and evaluation 26,000Project management 130,000Succession planning/fund raising 15,000
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50% reduction in carbon emissions in 70 communities with 350 households would be worth £635,000
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RCCN - exit strategy
• Becomes an inter-trading membership organisation - possibly with a co-operative structure
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RCCN - please get involvedwww.ruralaction.org.uk [email protected]