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A markdown copy (ie text only) is available at the bottom of this page) *** #### Meeting Summary: #### Quick recap The meeting was held to discuss raising local resilience in the face of climate change and other challenges. Andrew shared insights on the importance of community-led initiatives, the limitations of government support, and the need for local councils and communities to work together. He highlighted examples of local actions, such as food partnerships, biodiversity projects, and community energy initiatives, and emphasised the value of collaboration and practical engagement. Garry criticised recent government documents on farming and resilience for lacking substance and practical guidance. Zoey discussed Exmouth Town Council's journey in building local climate resilience, sharing both successes and challenges, and noted the positive impact of the People's Emergency Briefing film in their community. The group also discussed the need for better communication and more practical media coverage on climate action. The conversation ended with thanks to Andrew for his presentation and a reminder of upcoming sessions. #### Summary ### Local Resilience and Community Self-Reliance Andrew discussed the importance of raising local resilience, criticising the current media debate between net zero and non-net zero approaches. He referenced the Bayeux Tapestry to illustrate a historical pattern of top-down authority, suggesting that communities need to become more self-reliant due to limited resources for resilience. Andrew also mentioned Maslow's hierarchy of needs and began discussing local concerns about nature recovery, though the transcript ended mid-sentence. ### Environmental Crisis Briefing Presentation Andrew presented information about environmental issues including a food bank in London, flooding in Devon, heat waves, and biodiversity efforts in West Yorkshire. He showed extracts from a film called "People's Emergency Briefing" which warns about the environmental crisis needing a response similar to World War II. The discussion included a trailer for children and mentioned that the full film was presented at Westminster Hall in November. ### Local Food Security Resilience Strategy Andrew discussed local resilience in response to emerging issues, focusing on food security challenges including limited government reserves and supply chain vulnerabilities. He highlighted the role of parish councils in addressing food security through local partnerships and community initiatives, suggesting that parish clerks could place food security on council agendas under the local government act. Andrew emphasised the importance of working with existing local leaders and community organisations rather than relying solely on parish councils to address these challenges. ### Community Engagement and Resilience Strategies Andrew discussed strategies for community engagement and resilience, including inviting parishes to annual meetings and organising public screenings of environmental films. He emphasised the importance of biodiversity initiatives like bee squares in gardens and creating new allotments, while clarifying that parish councils have more powers than they might realise, particularly through Section 101 of the Local Government Act. Andrew also highlighted funding opportunities available to parish councils, including local planning fees, community infrastructure levies, and biodiversity net gain funding from developers. ### Community Climate Action Initiatives Andrew presented on community climate action and local resilience initiatives, sharing examples of successful projects including community orchards, flood management, and energy workshops. He emphasised the importance of local communities taking action rather than waiting for government guidance, and discussed the Great Collaboration's efforts to bring councils and communities closer together on climate issues. The group also discussed the government's farming roadmap, with Garry criticising it for lacking clear guidance on climate adaptation, and Zoey shared Exmouth Town Council's experience as early adopters of climate emergency declarations, including their successful screening of the People's Emergency Briefing film. *** #### Chat: 00:33:54 Nik Mckiernan - North Warks: Thanks so much. It wasn't the topic I was hoping to learn about but thanks for being resilient and offering another at short notice - very interesting 00:34:16 Nik Mckiernan - North Warks: Sorry I'm going to have to go. **00:38:43 Andrew Maliphant:** *** #### Audio-transcript: 41 \ 00:09:04.570 --> 00:09:10.729 \ Andrew Maliphant: One of the things that we've been saying for a while is that communication is absolutely vital, and 42 \ 00:09:10.840 --> 00:09:18.159 \ Andrew Maliphant: We're all getting a bit fed up with the sort of media… sort of rather sterile media debate between net zero on the one hand and not net zero on the other. 43 \ 00:09:18.300 --> 00:09:22.590 \ Andrew Maliphant: So we are looking to try and get some better ideas, working with other organizations. 44 \ 00:09:22.830 --> 00:09:28.070 \ Andrew Maliphant: that are on community climate action, to see if we can get a Wellspring, better messaging out there. 45 \ 00:09:29.420 --> 00:09:39.339 \ Andrew Maliphant: And one of the words that, obviously, that hasn't so far been trashed by the anti-climate media is resilience. 46 \ 00:09:39.860 --> 00:09:50.459 \ Andrew Maliphant: Have a given time, I dare say, that, what we'll do, unless the enemy's got any better ideas, I'll just run through this discussion about how we raise local resilience. 47 \ 00:09:51.110 --> 00:09:51.980 \ Andrew Maliphant: Okay. 48 \ 00:09:58.470 --> 00:10:00.879 \ Andrew Maliphant: Get any reply from anybody, so let's go. 49 \ 00:10:02.650 --> 00:10:04.610 \ Andrew Maliphant: Share screen. 50 \ 00:10:09.010 --> 00:10:09.790 \ Andrew Maliphant: Okay. 51 \ 00:10:20.020 --> 00:10:21.720 \ Andrew Maliphant: Okie dokie, good. 52 \ 00:10:22.510 --> 00:10:23.920 \ Andrew Maliphant: We all see that, okay? 53 \ 00:10:24.220 --> 00:10:31.170 \ Andrew Maliphant: Well, I don't know if… I'd love to see the Bayo Tapestry. I don't know if it's actually… is the exhibition open yet, Stuart? Do you happen to know? But, 54 \ 00:10:32.250 --> 00:10:33.560 \ Cllr Stuart Withington Gt Dunmow TC, Essex: I don't know. 55 \ 00:10:33.560 --> 00:10:51.479 \ Andrew Maliphant: I think it might be September before it finally opens. Anyway, here's a picture from the… this is, William the Conqueror in the middle, listening to his brother Bishop Odo, younger brother Bishop Odo, who's obviously the clever chap on the left, and his younger brother Robert on the right, who's obviously a bit more of a direct action character, judging by his image, it's there. 56 \ 00:10:51.580 --> 00:10:55.579 \ Andrew Maliphant: The problem is that ever since 1066, we've been used to doing what we're told. 57 \ 00:10:56.050 --> 00:10:59.369 \ Andrew Maliphant: The message has been from on high, yes, we're going to, 58 \ 00:10:59.850 --> 00:11:03.410 \ Andrew Maliphant: Yeah, we're in charge, you do what you're told, and we'll look after you. 59 \ 00:11:03.640 --> 00:11:17.959 \ Andrew Maliphant: The trouble is that these days that the we'll look after you bit is staggering a bit, because people… there isn't enough resources to give us the sort of resilience we might require, and therefore, I'm suggesting we have to think more about doing it ourselves. 60 \ 00:11:18.170 --> 00:11:27.030 \ Andrew Maliphant: So, this is where we go. For those, latecomers, we haven't got Jess Ryan at the moment. I'm not sure why that is. 61 \ 00:11:27.030 --> 00:11:27.740 \ Colin Marsh: Yes. 62 \ 00:11:28.150 --> 00:11:29.070 \ Colin Marsh: No, honestly. 63 \ 00:11:29.070 --> 00:11:37.569 \ Andrew Maliphant: I've sent out an all stations call to see if there's an issue, filling in the time, talking about raising local resilience. 64 \ 00:11:38.440 --> 00:11:40.210 \ Colin Marsh: These chemicals that they don'. 65 \ 00:11:40.210 --> 00:11:47.590 \ Andrew Maliphant: So, looking at our, around our community, this was originally intended for parish plants, but it can be applied to a wider audience as well. 66 \ 00:11:47.750 --> 00:11:59.809 \ Andrew Maliphant: Chap put Abraham Maslow in the 1940s produced a list of things that, the hierarchy of need, things that we all need as human beings, and, things like food, water, shelter, sleep were at the top of the list. 67 \ 00:11:59.810 --> 00:12:09.379 \ Andrew Maliphant: And of course, a lot of people, around the country are actually struggling with those issues as we speak, so that's by no means out of date. There's a whole list of things there. 68 \ 00:12:09.380 --> 00:12:10.530 \ Colin Marsh: Excellent. 69 \ 00:12:10.530 --> 00:12:28.670 \ Andrew Maliphant: So then we think, okay, well, what about our local area, where we are living, people we're living with? What are the local concerns about nature recovery? One of the issues about that is as we find it with some people, and there are certain political elements which are big learning on this. I think it seems to be human fact… 70 \ 00:12:29.450 --> 00:12:43.549 \ Andrew Maliphant: fact, if we come… any of us come across something big and complicated that we don't properly understand, we tend to focus on a bit that we do understand, but we don't like. That seems to be, like, sort of normal behavior. And so, again, this is the message, is how do we actually. 71 \ 00:12:43.550 --> 00:12:45.460 \ Colin Marsh: Yeah, I'm just looking at this. 72 \ 00:12:45.460 --> 00:12:46.340 \ Andrew Maliphant: How do we communicate? 73 \ 00:12:46.340 --> 00:12:49.600 \ Colin Marsh: Collaboration these Banter sessions I haven't done for ages. 74 \ 00:12:49.760 --> 00:12:51.200 \ Andrew Maliphant: Sorry, Colin, you're right. 75 \ 00:12:54.210 --> 00:12:55.600 \ Andrew Maliphant: Okay. 76 \ 00:12:56.110 --> 00:13:06.769 \ Andrew Maliphant: So there's some pictures here. There's a food bank in parts of London. There's some water flooding around the street in Autries at Mary in Devon. That isn't next to a… 77 \ 00:13:07.040 --> 00:13:11.879 \ Andrew Maliphant: A river that's actually just the drains a few years back failed to cope with the downpour. 78 \ 00:13:11.990 --> 00:13:23.719 \ Andrew Maliphant: So, so, that's where it is. Heat waves, of course, very much popular the topic, and there's some bit of biodiversity, a bit of a BioBlitz going on, looking at local wildlife habitats in West Yorkshire. 79 \ 00:13:23.970 --> 00:13:29.670 \ Andrew Maliphant: So, what are the local concerns? Obviously, we'll know better when we speak to our local people. 80 \ 00:13:30.040 --> 00:13:34.149 \ Andrew Maliphant: So there is, actually, some of us may have already seen the, 81 \ 00:13:34.300 --> 00:13:45.040 \ Andrew Maliphant: permit's been going around the People's Emergency Briefing, which is, looking to raise awareness around the country of what things are coming down the road at us. 82 \ 00:13:45.150 --> 00:13:52.410 \ Andrew Maliphant: So I'm just going to show the previous Trailer for it. 83 \ 00:13:57.810 --> 00:14:06.259 \ Andrew Maliphant: Top scientists say the environmental crisis needs a response similar to the scale of the Second World War. 84 \ 00:14:08.400 --> 00:14:13.699 \ Andrew Maliphant: We are in the thick of a crisis. We all have to act. 85 \ 00:14:14.440 --> 00:14:29.009 \ Andrew Maliphant: It's getting worse fast, and we're not prepared. I'm scared for my own life in the future, and I'm absolutely terrified for that of my son. We're facing the potential of an ungovernable state. It could make our country uninhabitable. 86 \ 00:14:31.030 --> 00:14:37.430 \ Andrew Maliphant: Oh my goodness. The physics don't care about the politics. You're being taken for a fool, my friend. 87 \ 00:14:38.590 --> 00:14:49.009 \ Andrew Maliphant: There are plenty of solutions out there. Solutions that will make life better. The burning question is, what can we do to make them happen? 88 \ 00:14:50.640 --> 00:14:54.390 \ Andrew Maliphant: It's absolutely bonkers. I mean, it's fucking ridiculous. 89 \ 00:14:58.460 --> 00:14:59.379 \ Andrew Maliphant: Here we go. 90 \ 00:15:01.810 --> 00:15:09.469 \ Andrew Maliphant: Okay, thank you, Jennifer Saunders. Following that, 91 \ 00:15:11.700 --> 00:15:15.069 \ Andrew Maliphant: No, I've lost my presentation there. Following that, 92 \ 00:15:19.850 --> 00:15:22.669 \ Andrew Maliphant: following that comment by Jennifer Sawners, the, 93 \ 00:15:23.970 --> 00:15:27.700 \ Andrew Maliphant: The producers of the film, 94 \ 00:15:30.360 --> 00:15:33.979 \ Andrew Maliphant: Brought out a different version of the trailer for children. 95 \ 00:15:34.250 --> 00:15:36.560 \ Andrew Maliphant: Okay, let's get back to the… where we were. 96 \ 00:15:41.370 --> 00:15:48.129 \ Andrew Maliphant: I don't know how many of us have already seen that presentation. Everybody want to put hands up that they've seen it? I've seen it. 97 \ 00:15:49.100 --> 00:15:56.780 \ Andrew Maliphant: Stuart, you've seen it, the full film. The bits we've just seen are extracts from the presentation given to Carrie. Thank you, Gary. 98 \ 00:15:57.010 --> 00:16:04.529 \ Andrew Maliphant: Given to, invited audience at Westminster Hall in November. 99 \ 00:16:06.520 --> 00:16:17.650 \ Andrew Maliphant: So, talking now about resilience. How do we gather local resilience in response to some of these issues that are coming down the road at us? Government has a definition to harness local resources and expertise. 100 \ 00:16:17.800 --> 00:16:32.519 \ Andrew Maliphant: That… I like that definition. It's quite wordy, some of the rest of it, but this is all about what have we got locally? What can we help to do to help ourselves and our communities to prepare for all these things that are coming at us? So that's sort of resilience we're talking about. 101 \ 00:16:32.980 --> 00:16:39.799 \ Andrew Maliphant: Just a bit of an example to explain… cover the point I made about the government not being able to cover every point of resilience. 102 \ 00:16:40.940 --> 00:16:49.229 \ Andrew Maliphant: And talking about food. Now, the supermarkets, as we may know already, only hold up to 3 days' worth of food. That's the way that whole system operates. 103 \ 00:16:49.730 --> 00:16:57.640 \ Andrew Maliphant: The government has up this PREPARE campaign as a website, and you can find that all this information can be made available after the meeting. 104 \ 00:16:57.940 --> 00:17:06.590 \ Andrew Maliphant: Which, talks about the effects of extreme weather, what we can talk about, but it doesn't mention food shortages. It's not been very well publicized either. 105 \ 00:17:06.859 --> 00:17:15.959 \ Andrew Maliphant: There was a national security warning about food security that had to be dug out by the press, which the government wasn't exactly in a rush to present to the world. 106 \ 00:17:16.380 --> 00:17:28.369 \ Andrew Maliphant: The government has no reserves from which to feed the whole country, even if they wanted to. Back in the day of the Cold War, I'm told that the government did have a supply of flour, for example. That doesn't happen anymore, it's rather relying on the supermarkets. 107 \ 00:17:28.369 --> 00:17:38.430 \ Andrew Maliphant: We've got a new government, it's beginning to think about food, food security is beginning to get more of an airplay, but we don't know what resources are going to be in mind for it. It's early days for that new government. 108 \ 00:17:39.190 --> 00:17:51.050 \ Andrew Maliphant: So we know we're going to need more food resilience, and indeed in this year. We know that food is already at risk. Same thing has happened last year. Less salad crops from Spain due to the heat waves. They're having a horrendous time in Spain, of course. 109 \ 00:17:51.250 --> 00:17:58.599 \ Andrew Maliphant: The US war with Iran is stopping the arrival of certain chemicals that we need to produce fertilizer. 110 \ 00:17:58.630 --> 00:18:17.309 \ Andrew Maliphant: Apparently, about a third of the raw material for fertilizer, which comes from natural gas, goes through the Strait of Hortmuse every year. So there's a problem straight away, and some farmers, a lot of farmers, are going to say, well, are they actually going to plant any crops today because they can't get any fertilizer? They're beginning to buy fertilizer from Russia. 111 \ 00:18:17.310 --> 00:18:22.149 \ Andrew Maliphant: which is called raising other issues in the press. Should we be buying things from Russia? So that's a Nik issue. 112 \ 00:18:22.150 --> 00:18:29.150 \ Andrew Maliphant: We've got food banks, community ladders, and community fridges around local areas, so for more immediate purposes. 113 \ 00:18:29.270 --> 00:18:47.260 \ Andrew Maliphant: But in longer term, what about growing our own food locally? What about joining a food partnership? There's a map on the right of the food partnerships around the country. There's 123 of them so far, and this is about food producers, food distributors, and local organizations getting together to work out how can we keep supply chains going. 114 \ 00:18:47.260 --> 00:18:59.939 \ Andrew Maliphant: So that's, that's something that is something that we could all be thinking about. Community-supported agriculture is another developing idea, I don't know enough about it, but I've been saying to parish clerks, this could be an item for their local council agenda. 115 \ 00:19:00.760 --> 00:19:02.039 \ Andrew Maliphant: And they'll be saying. 116 \ 00:19:06.780 --> 00:19:11.490 \ Andrew Maliphant: I'm sorry, ladies and gentlemen, I keep making a complete mess of showing this presentation. 117 \ 00:19:13.390 --> 00:19:15.310 \ Andrew Maliphant: Keep pressing the wrong button. 118 \ 00:19:29.650 --> 00:19:31.030 \ Andrew Maliphant: It's gonna be very annoying. 119 \ 00:19:31.750 --> 00:19:33.250 \ Andrew Maliphant: Wriched it all yesterday. 120 \ 00:19:36.310 --> 00:19:43.460 \ Andrew Maliphant: So, I said to Parish Clark, and they could say, why should we be putting security, food security, on a parish or town council agenda? 121 \ 00:19:43.950 --> 00:19:51.400 \ Andrew Maliphant: Well, cards off the top of the deck, the Local Government Act says for every parish, there should be a parish meeting for the purpose of discussing parish affairs. 122 \ 00:19:51.670 --> 00:19:55.240 \ Andrew Maliphant: So the local availability of food is certainly what I would call a parish affair. 123 \ 00:19:55.440 --> 00:20:03.360 \ Andrew Maliphant: Council clerks have the responsibility to assist in the formation of overall policies and produce information required for making effective decisions. 124 \ 00:20:04.690 --> 00:20:10.259 \ Andrew Maliphant: So, if you're a parish clerk, or even a parish journal, who are you going to call when you're talking about these issues? 125 \ 00:20:10.460 --> 00:20:19.519 \ Andrew Maliphant: So, actually, we have a greater role, perhaps, than we expect as parish councils in this matter, in terms of dealing with emergencies, and of course, as and when, 126 \ 00:20:20.630 --> 00:20:39.339 \ Andrew Maliphant: as and when the new local government becomes… organization comes in place, parishes and towns will be very much the closest democracy to the local public. Here's a list from an English academic this time about the different characters and roles needed for an effective 127 \ 00:20:39.470 --> 00:20:48.990 \ Andrew Maliphant: operation and project. Maybe parish clerks think of themselves as team workers, maybe councillors and chairmen think of themselves as coordinators. 128 \ 00:20:49.100 --> 00:21:06.959 \ Andrew Maliphant: But there are different ways in which we can get people engaged. It doesn't have to be all top-down, but there are different skills we can get in from our local area. So that's just a bit of a background, but I'm not going to suggest that town and parish councils do this all on their own, because that would be crazy, because we need to do these things in partnership, and clerks in particular are very busy people. 129 \ 00:21:07.160 --> 00:21:11.540 \ Andrew Maliphant: So I'm saying, who are the local leaders? Who are the people in our local area? 130 \ 00:21:11.890 --> 00:21:27.929 \ Andrew Maliphant: who are already in charge of things, if they are head teachers, if they are chairmen of sports clubs, if they are chairmen of local volunteering groups, whatever they might be doing. These are the people who are already engaged in doing things for the community and with the community. 131 \ 00:21:27.930 --> 00:21:38.259 \ Andrew Maliphant: Should we talk about them? We can have local volunteering initiatives, there are local clubs and schools, also local branches of national organizations, like Friends of the Earth and other organizations. 132 \ 00:21:38.440 --> 00:21:51.039 \ Andrew Maliphant: I'm suggesting to clerks that we invite, and parishes, that we invite them to our Nando Parish meeting, which happens every year, and so that people can actually see what's going on locally, and they can talk about what they have to do, and get engaged in a discussion. 133 \ 00:21:51.900 --> 00:22:04.380 \ Andrew Maliphant: And then one of the things that's being recommended following this People's Emergency Briefing, which I've showed a trailer for just now, is having a public meeting after that presentation, and that's something that we could be thinking about in each of the areas where we live. 134 \ 00:22:04.760 --> 00:22:09.550 \ Andrew Maliphant: And you can see that film screenings of the film around the country are rapidly increasing. 135 \ 00:22:10.300 --> 00:22:29.999 \ Andrew Maliphant: what was looking like a small, slow turnout in April, and it's now huge. These have been happening everywhere. Sometimes it's parish councils doing the screening, more often it's other bodies doing it, and chances are there's going to be a screening near you, or about to be one near you, and you can look on this website and find out where. So that is a guide that's coming in. 136 \ 00:22:30.710 --> 00:22:35.540 \ Andrew Maliphant: So we're talking about resilience, saying what are the things that can be considered, what are the things we might do? 137 \ 00:22:36.790 --> 00:22:38.140 \ Andrew Maliphant: wherever we are. 138 \ 00:22:38.170 --> 00:22:57.389 \ Andrew Maliphant: There are things that we can… there will be opportunities to make a difference. Having bee squares in gardens, which encourages putting a meter of wildlife flowers in our front or back gardens, because bees and other pollinating insects need fuel for their journeys around. They pollinate, crops which are ultimately part… they're ultimately part of our food chain. 139 \ 00:22:57.440 --> 00:23:04.829 \ Andrew Maliphant: So, a bit of enlightened self-interest here. It's great fun, you can get, seeds donated. It's a great way of getting people involved, so I recommend that. 140 \ 00:23:04.900 --> 00:23:16.000 \ Andrew Maliphant: More allotments, if we've got land, that's something that's obviously something that we can be doing. Looking at biodiversity on highway verges, there's a lot of other things there that we can list, and I won't go on reading them all out. 141 \ 00:23:16.160 --> 00:23:22.589 \ Andrew Maliphant: One thing that's occurred to me where I live in the Forest of Dean is that what is our real catchment area? Is it just our local council area? 142 \ 00:23:22.890 --> 00:23:25.989 \ Andrew Maliphant: Because our local GP covers the next parish as well. 143 \ 00:23:26.670 --> 00:23:43.579 \ Andrew Maliphant: So it may be our real catchment, particularly in terms of medical and other things going forward, is actually the two parishes together. That's quite helpful, because it may be that with the two parishes together, we can actually club together and do more than we can on ourselves. So, again, this is the message, it's just about partnership. 144 \ 00:23:45.100 --> 00:23:58.309 \ Andrew Maliphant: So, councils on their own, this is, again, apologies for this, which is very much focused on local councils. Local councils, parishes and towns are obliged to have a… consider biodiversity in everything that they do, so we can have a biodiversity policy. 145 \ 00:23:58.340 --> 00:24:07.750 \ Andrew Maliphant: Creating new allotments, we've got some advice on that. I think we sometimes refer to myself as Mr. Allotments. Lots of other things we can be doing, publicizing other people's new, 146 \ 00:24:07.760 --> 00:24:20.880 \ Andrew Maliphant: initiatives, seeing what we can do ourselves as a parish committee, parish council, or indeed a local business or whatever. We declare some kind of action or emergency that allows people to know that the parish and town council's on the case to get them involved. 147 \ 00:24:21.150 --> 00:24:33.969 \ Andrew Maliphant: And it, ultimately, it's the way we tell them, because a lot of the stuff that goes out in terms of communications in the media is rather depressing, and we need some positive stuff. It needs to be fun. We've got to get people engaged in things. Let's have some fun acts and fun activity. 148 \ 00:24:34.990 --> 00:24:43.959 \ Andrew Maliphant: Just a bit more about parish councils again. People are saying, well, we haven't got powers to do this. No local authority, no branch of local government. 149 \ 00:24:44.100 --> 00:24:47.609 \ Andrew Maliphant: Has any power to… a duty to deal with climate change. 150 \ 00:24:48.020 --> 00:24:51.160 \ Andrew Maliphant: Paris Towns Club is due to provide allotments. 151 \ 00:24:51.860 --> 00:24:53.619 \ Andrew Maliphant: Which is a very long-standing thing. 152 \ 00:24:53.660 --> 00:25:02.640 \ Andrew Maliphant: Consider biodiversity, holding a parish meeting. But in terms of powers, there's a whole bunch of other powers which are listed on the SLCC website. 153 \ 00:25:02.640 --> 00:25:15.510 \ Andrew Maliphant: provide a link to that. What I like is one at the top on the right. Power to work with high-level councils. Section 101 of the Local Government Act allows parishes and towns to work on other issues that are the responsibilities of other councils. 154 \ 00:25:15.950 --> 00:25:29.580 \ Andrew Maliphant: And so, actually, there is quite likely that parish and town councils have more powers than they may actually realize. There's a great number of things we can do, even if we don't have the power of competence, which is a special thing that came out of a recent Act of Parliament. 155 \ 00:25:30.110 --> 00:25:48.279 \ Andrew Maliphant: And money is the other thing that comes up. My view of the world is that money can't find people, but people can find money. There will be opportunities around. Sometimes it's a pain-provo applying for funds. Parish councils do have the opportunity to have some of their own funding. Obviously, they have to budget for that each year, but that's a possibility. 156 \ 00:25:48.320 --> 00:25:57.810 \ Andrew Maliphant: Local planning fees, if you've got a neighbourhood plan, you should be getting a good percentage of any local community infrastructure levy, which is placed on new developers. 157 \ 00:25:57.830 --> 00:26:14.650 \ Andrew Maliphant: certainly thinks about, from the lottery. Biodiversity net gain is interesting, because if a developer can't actually, or say they can't produce the necessary increase in biodiversity on their development site, if we find another site in the parish, perhaps one that's owned by the parish or down. 158 \ 00:26:14.650 --> 00:26:18.729 \ Andrew Maliphant: And get some money out of it, so that's interesting. Other local grants. 159 \ 00:26:18.730 --> 00:26:30.569 \ Andrew Maliphant: Crowdfunding and community shares are more recent ways of raising money, and again, there's some more detail about all of this in the Society of Local Council's Climate Action webpage. 160 \ 00:26:32.340 --> 00:26:38.300 \ Andrew Maliphant: I'm not yet seen, Jess Ryan hasn't joined us yet, so we'll keep going what we're doing. 161 \ 00:26:38.530 --> 00:26:51.240 \ Andrew Maliphant: Of course, a lot of places, communities, groups are already starting work, and this is just an example of some areas where the Great Collaboration's been working in East Anglia. There are community orchards there, lots of other projects, as you can see down the left-hand side. 162 \ 00:26:51.450 --> 00:27:07.749 \ Andrew Maliphant: And so in many cases, it's the communities taking the lead, necessarily, rather than the parish council. That's fine, so long as somebody's taking the lead, but that's a great way of doing it. But our whole ambition with a great collaboration is to bring local councils and their communities closer together to work on these issues. 163 \ 00:27:08.850 --> 00:27:22.289 \ Andrew Maliphant: And when you've got residents involved, lots more things become possible. Here's some very muddy but happy people. Stroud in Gloucestershire has got a number of streams running through it, Stroud valleys, and if you get a sudden downpour, you get a sort of wall of water going all the way down. 164 \ 00:27:22.290 --> 00:27:30.200 \ Andrew Maliphant: So, these volunteers have acted as human beavers, and they put down some logs to actually slow down the flow of water when we get these great downpours. 165 \ 00:27:30.300 --> 00:27:44.980 \ Andrew Maliphant: And they're looking very pleased with that idea. That's just one example. We can carry out a local flood risk assessment to see what we can do locally, without having to raise lots of money or call the Environment Agency or whatever. There may be some things that we can do in terms of natural flood management. 166 \ 00:27:45.030 --> 00:27:59.559 \ Andrew Maliphant: Lots of other things, getting people involved in BioBlitz and other local biodiversity audits to see what wildlife is around, what we need to protect, what we need to preserve. Also very useful when parishes are responding to climate, to planning applications. 167 \ 00:27:59.700 --> 00:28:12.539 \ Andrew Maliphant: Tree planting, certainly, but you can't just plant any tree anywhere, there's advice available on that. What about car clubs? Thermal imaging cameras is something that, some parishes are doing. You spend two to three hundred pounds on one of those. 168 \ 00:28:12.540 --> 00:28:22.940 \ Andrew Maliphant: And people can use the thermal imaging counter outside their houses, particularly perhaps in the wintertime, see how much heat and light is escaping, which can help them think a bit more about what they might like to do to save energy. 169 \ 00:28:23.740 --> 00:28:29.250 \ Andrew Maliphant: So there's lots of things that can be done there. Just going to show you a bit of a screen now about the Community Action Workshop. 170 \ 00:28:29.470 --> 00:28:53.889 \ Andrew Maliphant: Today, we've been in Colchester at first sight, which is amazing, delivering a workshop, trying to help the community to come together around what kinds of action they can take locally to improve energy resilience, really, and to make sure that their community has got what it needs in the face of the changing climate. Connecting people together is a really important starting point, and hopefully we can, yeah, take something forward and build something. Just starting that conversation is a really important thing. Starting that conversation 171 \ 00:28:53.890 --> 00:29:04.059 \ Andrew Maliphant: in a pub, at a parish meeting, or something like that, just to get it out in the open. That's what we're all about. It's community climate action happening right now, today. 172 \ 00:29:06.150 --> 00:29:07.050 \ Andrew Maliphant: Okay 173 \ 00:29:07.330 --> 00:29:24.479 \ Andrew Maliphant: So that's a film that was just the… our colleague Community Climate Action UK, doing some community energy workshops in Essex, but there are other ways of… that same process, which has been very successful, can be used in other places with other topics. 174 \ 00:29:26.440 --> 00:29:39.719 \ Andrew Maliphant: Again, we talked briefly about maybe parishes doing things in other parishes, particularly smaller parishes or smaller areas, people haven't got the pennies to do things they might like to do, work with others. Wildlife pays no attention to parish or council boundaries. 175 \ 00:29:39.850 --> 00:29:44.519 \ Andrew Maliphant: And all this blood water, so there may be things that we could do. There's a… 176 \ 00:29:44.940 --> 00:29:59.999 \ Andrew Maliphant: cluster of councils in Suffolk started with 3 councils, now got up to 10 councils, and they've got together, they've created their own community interest company, they've raised £40,000 towards their own community energy project. So that could be a very useful way forward. 177 \ 00:30:00.580 --> 00:30:20.390 \ Andrew Maliphant: For parish and town councils. There's things about hedgerows. Again, hedgerows can very much cover cross-carish boundaries, roadside verges, the same farming clusters. Again, some parishes are closely in touch with farmers, others are not, but getting involved with our farmers being in touch with them seems to be a very useful thing to be doing when we're looking ahead. 178 \ 00:30:20.460 --> 00:30:30.559 \ Andrew Maliphant: The picture on the left is from Gambling Gay in Cambridgeshire. 2013, there was a community shares talking about fundraising. Give a club together, community shares to erect this, 179 \ 00:30:30.810 --> 00:30:41.209 \ Andrew Maliphant: wind turbine. It's been going very successfully, it's producing energy, and it's actually producing from its sales an extra £10,000 a year to spend on local projects in that parish. 180 \ 00:30:41.400 --> 00:30:46.859 \ Andrew Maliphant: So it was a big project, but they're obviously quite pleased about it, and it has been very effective. 181 \ 00:30:47.090 --> 00:30:51.379 \ Andrew Maliphant: And so that's another thing about joint community projects can be considered. 182 \ 00:30:52.190 --> 00:30:54.889 \ Andrew Maliphant: I'm just coming to the end of the presentation, 183 \ 00:30:55.570 --> 00:30:58.639 \ Andrew Maliphant: I'm wondering, is it enough to just offer pathways to action? 184 \ 00:30:58.810 --> 00:31:10.199 \ Andrew Maliphant: Do we actually need to be urging people at different levels of government, and particularly perhaps in local town and parish councils, to get more engaged? How do we get people to come together to do things? Rather than just saying. 185 \ 00:31:10.380 --> 00:31:17.159 \ Andrew Maliphant: this is what you might do. What's the language we can use to encourage people, this is what you should do? Interesting. 186 \ 00:31:18.600 --> 00:31:36.599 \ Andrew Maliphant: We've written, as well as the response to… partly in response to the People's Emergency Briefing film, which is very much about getting government to do a certain thing, we looked at how we can encourage things to happen locally. So some of the things I've been talking about today are visible in our own film, and as I say, this presentation will be made available after this meeting. 187 \ 00:31:36.600 --> 00:31:43.599 \ Andrew Maliphant: And they're saying, looking around your area, and this applies to other groups, but not just to parish and term councils, look around the area. 188 \ 00:31:43.720 --> 00:31:54.650 \ Andrew Maliphant: connect with local people, get local events and ideas, get people engaged. Say that you're going to be doing something. Start with something simple. We don't want to start with something huge. We don't want to have, 189 \ 00:31:55.310 --> 00:32:06.989 \ Andrew Maliphant: a huge dust, you know, action plan covering dust somewhere doesn't get us anywhere. Certainly, the parishes can comment on planning applications, that's important to work to do. Work with others and share good practice. 190 \ 00:32:07.280 --> 00:32:17.630 \ Andrew Maliphant: So those are the summary steps, and that's also in our infirm, which you'll be able to see where you can look further. Again, lots of advice available. There are lots of organizations out there offering advice. 191 \ 00:32:17.730 --> 00:32:33.169 \ Andrew Maliphant: I pick out local resilience forms, because they vary quite a lot, it seems, depending on… in the same way that local councils can vary a lot. But they are supposed to provide particularly local advice for people, things to put in their emergency plans, what are the local hazards they need to be aware of. 192 \ 00:32:33.550 --> 00:32:38.630 \ Andrew Maliphant: Otherwise, there's plenty of sport there, not just for, obviously. 193 \ 00:32:38.630 --> 00:32:57.739 \ Andrew Maliphant: parishes and town councils, but other organisations as well. The great collaborations there, and doing these weekly sessions and, other exercises. We've started some very successful, countywide forums for sharing good practice in Essex and Norfolk, hopefully to have another one in Suffolk shortly. And, it's… there's lots of stuff going on there. 194 \ 00:32:59.680 --> 00:33:02.429 \ Andrew Maliphant: the… I mentioned briefly the, 195 \ 00:33:02.690 --> 00:33:13.210 \ Andrew Maliphant: People's Emergency Briefing film is based on this national emergency briefing, and just to remind ourselves of all the things that were said at that briefing, some of this stuff is quite scary in its way. 196 \ 00:33:13.420 --> 00:33:16.939 \ Andrew Maliphant: Losing biodiversity, temperatures will keep rising, and so forth. 197 \ 00:33:17.100 --> 00:33:32.599 \ Andrew Maliphant: These are the kind of things that are coming at us. And again, it's not… this isn't a listing we'll necessarily… we can't scare people into action. This is the background to where we actually present things, how we encourage people to work together and raise local residents as a result. 198 \ 00:33:34.050 --> 00:33:40.520 \ Andrew Maliphant: So, are we going to be told what to do? Are we going to go forward together? Which is the word I use quite often. 199 \ 00:33:40.960 --> 00:33:45.540 \ Andrew Maliphant: Obviously I've been talking a lot as if I was speaking to Paris Clark, saying, be told. 200 \ 00:33:45.720 --> 00:33:49.379 \ Andrew Maliphant: But, we need to think about if that's what we really want to do. 201 \ 00:33:51.670 --> 00:33:52.740 \ Andrew Maliphant: Okay. 202 \ 00:33:53.130 --> 00:34:00.479 \ Andrew Maliphant: I've paused that discussion. I've had no messages back from, or about Jess Ryan's, sorry. 203 \ 00:34:00.850 --> 00:34:12.829 \ Andrew Maliphant: Thank you for being resilient. Thank you. Thank you, Nikki. I'm glad you enjoyed that. Does anybody want to raise any questions or start a conversation based on what I've just been presenting? 204 \ 00:34:17.540 --> 00:34:22.799 \ Andrew Maliphant: Okay, thanks for coming, Nikit. We'll look. I'm sure we'll have Jess Ryan again at some point in the future. 205 \ 00:34:23.350 --> 00:34:24.340 \ Andrew Maliphant: Gary! 206 \ 00:34:27.570 --> 00:34:31.040 \ Garry Ford - Corsham Town Council: Thanks for stepping in like that, Andrew, that was, absolutely. 207 \ 00:34:31.040 --> 00:34:33.289 \ Andrew Maliphant: had that ready, because I made a bit of a mess of presenting it. 208 \ 00:34:33.290 --> 00:34:44.150 \ Garry Ford - Corsham Town Council: Yeah, I always find it's good to have a presentation down the back pocket somewhere, just in case of these emergencies. I'm just wondering if anybody else has read the… I mean… 209 \ 00:34:44.790 --> 00:34:49.590 \ Garry Ford - Corsham Town Council: I get… the most frustrating thing I'm finding at the moment is the government 210 \ 00:34:49.750 --> 00:34:57.969 \ Garry Ford - Corsham Town Council: documentation that's coming about… out about all these things, like resilience and sustainability and that. I believe there's a lot of kickback about the local 211 \ 00:34:58.100 --> 00:35:02.460 \ Garry Ford - Corsham Town Council: about the national biodiversity plan. 212 \ 00:35:02.590 --> 00:35:15.650 \ Garry Ford - Corsham Town Council: I haven't read that one. What I did read recently was the government's farming roadmap for the UK, and I don't know if anybody else has been… has read that as well, but it is the biggest load of rubbish 213 \ 00:35:15.880 --> 00:35:28.459 \ Garry Ford - Corsham Town Council: Even the farmers agree that it's the biggest load of rubbish they've ever had. I mean, it barely mentions climate change at all. There's no mention of what climate change in the next 20, 30 years is going to have on the impact of farming, and what resilience we need there, and what 214 \ 00:35:28.630 --> 00:35:34.859 \ Garry Ford - Corsham Town Council: what adaptation we need. It's just basically saying a lot of, kind of, you know. 215 \ 00:35:36.700 --> 00:35:56.440 \ Garry Ford - Corsham Town Council: pie-in-the-sky objectives that they're looking to improve absolutely everything, but not saying how they're going to do any of it. And it's just completely useless, and completely, you know, of no help whatsoever to the farming industry or anybody else looking at it, or nature conservationists or anything. And I find that, you know, the government just doesn't seem to 216 \ 00:35:56.440 --> 00:35:58.160 \ Garry Ford - Corsham Town Council: It's… it seems to like a… 217 \ 00:35:58.740 --> 00:36:01.090 \ Garry Ford - Corsham Town Council: Pay a lot of lip service to all of this. 218 \ 00:36:01.420 --> 00:36:08.409 \ Garry Ford - Corsham Town Council: And all these issues. But when it comes to actually putting out documentation that people can use, it's completely useless at it. 219 \ 00:36:09.230 --> 00:36:13.720 \ Garry Ford - Corsham Town Council: I don't know if anybody else has any thoughts about that. Have I actually seen this document? 220 \ 00:36:13.910 --> 00:36:20.769 \ Andrew Maliphant: It came out in June this year, apparently. I'll just put the head… this on… here it is. 221 \ 00:36:20.880 --> 00:36:24.740 \ Andrew Maliphant: And, this is the, the context. 222 \ 00:36:24.940 --> 00:36:37.230 \ Andrew Maliphant: This came out… it's a question of who we talk about and who the government is, because they make it very clear. This came out under the Keir Starmer government, you know, so what the Andy Durham government is going to come out with, we still don't know, I think. 223 \ 00:36:37.230 --> 00:36:39.369 \ Garry Ford - Corsham Town Council: So it came out under the Labour government. 224 \ 00:36:39.480 --> 00:36:54.950 \ Andrew Maliphant: Yes, that's right. But since Andy Burden has taken over from Keir Starmer, I don't think we've had quite so much clarity about what the current government is thinking about in terms of responses to climate change. 225 \ 00:36:55.080 --> 00:37:13.210 \ Andrew Maliphant: I was… attended a session last year from a group of influencers called the Green Alliance, and they were busy debating it as well at that meeting, but I don't think we've got any clear indication yet. In terms of resilient farm business. So, Garry, you're saying farmers don't think much to this particular 226 \ 00:37:13.360 --> 00:37:14.500 \ Andrew Maliphant: approach. 227 \ 00:37:14.500 --> 00:37:26.929 \ Garry Ford - Corsham Town Council: Well, like I was saying, I mean, you look at the document, it barely mentions climate change. It barely mentions, you know, how farmers need to adapt to what they need to look to do in the next 20, 30 years, up to 2050. It's meant to be this roadmap. 228 \ 00:37:27.080 --> 00:37:36.699 \ Garry Ford - Corsham Town Council: It basically just says, you know, oh, we think farming is going to be great, and there's going to be more farming, and there's going to be more nature, and there's going to be less regulations, but there's going to be… 229 \ 00:37:37.110 --> 00:37:40.420 \ Garry Ford - Corsham Town Council: More inspectors, and, you know, saying this… 230 \ 00:37:40.530 --> 00:37:47.020 \ Garry Ford - Corsham Town Council: This… it's kind of like painting this picture of this wonderful future that… 231 \ 00:37:47.680 --> 00:37:53.589 \ Garry Ford - Corsham Town Council: But doesn't say anything about how to get there, apart from basically carrying on business as usual. 232 \ 00:37:53.930 --> 00:38:04.719 \ Garry Ford - Corsham Town Council: And it doesn't seem to identify that there are any concerns or issues or conflicts coming up. Like I say, climate change itself barely gets a mention, and there's no mention about 233 \ 00:38:04.920 --> 00:38:07.309 \ Garry Ford - Corsham Town Council: What that impact is going to be. 234 \ 00:38:08.230 --> 00:38:15.629 \ Garry Ford - Corsham Town Council: on this future roadmap for agriculture. So it's… it's just completely… You know, a useless document. 235 \ 00:38:15.630 --> 00:38:21.729 \ Andrew Maliphant: I see it's talking about setting goals and supporting practices and investing in innovation and so forth, but it doesn't. 236 \ 00:38:21.730 --> 00:38:22.650 \ Garry Ford - Corsham Town Council: Yes. 237 \ 00:38:22.830 --> 00:38:23.899 \ Garry Ford - Corsham Town Council: It's not a good question. 238 \ 00:38:23.900 --> 00:38:26.190 \ Andrew Maliphant: It's not a roadmap as I understand it. 239 \ 00:38:26.190 --> 00:38:38.429 \ Garry Ford - Corsham Town Council: No, no, it's just this aspirational document to say we're going to have more of all the good things, where there's going to be no conflicts between them. There's no conflict between nature, recovery, for example, and farming. It's going to say, you know, we're going to have a sustainable 240 \ 00:38:38.480 --> 00:38:47.069 \ Garry Ford - Corsham Town Council: Resilience farming, where we're going to have better soils. But it doesn't say how that's going to happen, or give examples of, you know, best practice. 241 \ 00:38:47.320 --> 00:38:48.600 \ Garry Ford - Corsham Town Council: It's… it's… 242 \ 00:38:48.740 --> 00:38:56.550 \ Garry Ford - Corsham Town Council: like I say, it's just… it's… I don't understand what it's trying to achieve in terms of being a useful document, so… 243 \ 00:38:56.550 --> 00:39:02.899 \ Andrew Maliphant: Well, I don't know if some things were suddenly… somebody pushed a publication button just before Keir Starmer left number 10, 244 \ 00:39:02.950 --> 00:39:18.650 \ Andrew Maliphant: There was also some talk just before he left about civil servants talked about having a national resilience campaign called Fortitude. I've not heard any more about that either. And certainly the government's PREPARE campaign, which is live, and it's been live for a while, I don't remember seeing any publicity about that at all. 245 \ 00:39:18.680 --> 00:39:29.209 \ Andrew Maliphant: But I think this is where… this is where the present company and the great Collaboration need to be… is what we're about, is actually getting these information about what people can do. 246 \ 00:39:29.310 --> 00:39:33.149 \ Andrew Maliphant: And we do need to speak more to the farmers ourselves. I haven't spoken to the… 247 \ 00:39:33.230 --> 00:39:50.240 \ Andrew Maliphant: National Farmers Union yet, so we have had farmers attending these sessions from time to time. What is it that can be done in practice? My perception is that as we speak, things are changing around us. The world is going to be quite different. The life in the UK is going to be different in 10 years' time. 248 \ 00:39:50.320 --> 00:40:04.379 \ Andrew Maliphant: It's a brave person who's going to say exactly what it's going to be like, but we do need to have, a new normal. We do have a new way of doing things, dealing with water, dealing with energy, dealing with food, dealing with each other. And I'm sort of envisioning a sort of… 249 \ 00:40:04.430 --> 00:40:18.500 \ Andrew Maliphant: a loose-leaf manual which gets updated on a regular basis, in order to help people in communities sort of focus on things. We've got emergency planning templates. As you say, things are coming out in general, vague terms from government. 250 \ 00:40:18.500 --> 00:40:29.190 \ Andrew Maliphant: What I've said for years is, if you wait for government, you wait a long time. We need to be gathering stuff, that we can do practically and usefully at a local level and get stuck in. 251 \ 00:40:29.340 --> 00:40:43.560 \ Andrew Maliphant: And for that point of view, it's a question of the way we tell them. I would love to see the BBC doing something like a Country Walps program, whereby they talk about some of these issues, and then share it straight afterwards with what people can be doing about it. 252 \ 00:40:43.560 --> 00:40:49.629 \ Andrew Maliphant: Most of the stuff I see on the BBC these days is saying, oh dear, we got to 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels. 253 \ 00:40:49.630 --> 00:41:00.050 \ Andrew Maliphant: oh dear, insects are suffering from the climate change. I don't see enough from the BBC, which you might think is a public service broadcasting body, about publicizing some of this practical stuff. 254 \ 00:41:00.060 --> 00:41:02.580 \ Andrew Maliphant: And I'd love to see that happen. 255 \ 00:41:03.070 --> 00:41:04.620 \ Garry Ford - Corsham Town Council: Nope. 256 \ 00:41:04.620 --> 00:41:18.920 \ Andrew Maliphant: I says I'm getting, I don't know how to reach the BBC in that regard. We're getting some people together in October from other organizations doing the community climate action, and also some media types, to talk about this, if we can find out what are the messages we need to send out. 257 \ 00:41:18.920 --> 00:41:24.719 \ Andrew Maliphant: What are the audiences, and how we reach them, and how we can get a constant wellspring of better messaging. 258 \ 00:41:24.770 --> 00:41:28.249 \ Andrew Maliphant: And part of that is going to be speaking to the BBC about their programming. 259 \ 00:41:28.400 --> 00:41:35.290 \ Andrew Maliphant: I don't know if anybody's seen any practical climate action programs on the television at all, anywhere? Anybody seen such a thing? 260 \ 00:41:36.100 --> 00:41:37.060 \ Andrew Maliphant: I've not. 261 \ 00:41:39.890 --> 00:41:51.199 \ Andrew Maliphant: there's a crowd called Open Planet Studios, who are the producers of the David Attenborough's films, and I've reached out to them and see if they want to get involved in this. 262 \ 00:41:51.340 --> 00:42:02.360 \ Andrew Maliphant: we get these rather sterile debates in the media about net zero or not net zero. We need something a bit more positive, I think, but a continuous wellspring, and I don't see where else it's going from at the moment. 263 \ 00:42:03.370 --> 00:42:04.950 \ Andrew Maliphant: Sorry, I should be talking a lot. 264 \ 00:42:07.150 --> 00:42:13.010 \ Andrew Maliphant: Any more thoughts? Thank you for that, Gary. Very much need to include farmers in our conversations. 265 \ 00:42:13.180 --> 00:42:17.290 \ Andrew Maliphant: Any other thoughts about resilience and getting things together locally? 266 \ 00:42:20.880 --> 00:42:36.570 \ Andrew Maliphant: Obviously not, obviously, the presentation and those poor presentations stunned people. Thank you very much, yeah. Zoey, I think you and I, we've got some… something you're presenting to us at some point in the near future. Is it the 26th of August you're on, Zoey? 267 \ 00:42:36.570 --> 00:42:44.829 \ Zoey Cooper: Yes, hopefully. I'm just waiting on some… a confirmation of some other dates, actually, but should be on the… should be on that day, yeah, hopefully. 268 \ 00:42:44.830 --> 00:42:54.859 \ Andrew Maliphant: Okay, do you want to say a quick bit about, could you give us a bit of a sleek teaser about what you're going to be talking to us all about? I know, but… 269 \ 00:42:54.860 --> 00:43:07.029 \ Zoey Cooper: I was just going to talk a little bit about the journey that Exmouth Town Council has been on in the last, kind of, three… three to four years. Quite, sort of, early adopters of 270 \ 00:43:07.030 --> 00:43:16.719 \ Zoey Cooper: declaring a climate emergency right through to trying to sort of build resilience locally, so I was just going to share some of the… some of our success stories, but also some of the 271 \ 00:43:16.720 --> 00:43:26.979 \ Zoey Cooper: The barriers and some of the challenges that we've encountered over the last couple of years, and ways that sometimes we've managed to succeed, and other ways we've had to, sort of. 272 \ 00:43:27.010 --> 00:43:34.140 \ Zoey Cooper: pivot and find a different, different route through. So just… just trying to share some… some of our success stories, really. 273 \ 00:43:35.140 --> 00:43:38.899 \ Andrew Maliphant: Right, and, 274 \ 00:43:39.220 --> 00:43:46.159 \ Andrew Maliphant: Exmouth, of course, won the… was it last year or the year before, won the award from the National Association of Local Counsels for work on. 275 \ 00:43:46.160 --> 00:43:51.719 \ Zoey Cooper: Yeah, so we… it was… it was probably… was it 20… we picked up the award in 2020. 276 \ 00:43:51.720 --> 00:43:53.009 \ Andrew Maliphant: You were the first position, wouldn't be? 277 \ 00:43:53.010 --> 00:43:53.530 \ Zoey Cooper: applies. 278 \ 00:43:53.530 --> 00:43:53.900 \ Andrew Maliphant: the first week. 279 \ 00:43:53.900 --> 00:44:09.380 \ Zoey Cooper: Yeah, we were the first, because I said in my speech, actually, you know, how great it was to win, but, you know, how come they're introducing this award now? This award should have been around for considerably longer, but yeah, yeah, so just kind of… 280 \ 00:44:09.380 --> 00:44:17.529 \ Zoey Cooper: just wanted to share some of those things, but also just to make it quite a practical presentation, really, because I think you're right, we hear a lot about 281 \ 00:44:17.530 --> 00:44:25.010 \ Zoey Cooper: what we can do, and ways that we can build resilience, and actions we can take, but I just kind of wanted to share some of the… 282 \ 00:44:25.010 --> 00:44:42.089 \ Zoey Cooper: a bit more of the detail, I suppose, the different groups that we reached out to in Exmouth, because we haven't done it by ourselves, you know. They… Exmouth Town Council's very supportive, but without the likes of Transition or Plastic Free Exmouth, we couldn't have done this. So, I've kind of built a big team of 283 \ 00:44:42.090 --> 00:44:56.759 \ Zoey Cooper: volunteers who… who dip in and out, but it's… it's been a… it's been a process, you know? It's… it's taken quite a lot of hard work, but… and a lot of networking, and a lot of, kind of, persuading, and a lot of outreach, basically, yeah. 284 \ 00:44:57.610 --> 00:45:14.810 \ Andrew Maliphant: Well, as you'll have heard, we say to people, you know, don't try and do it all your own. Get local people together, very important, and it's great to hear what you're saying. I also think in terms of messaging and showing people what to do, the more we can say, oh, such and such a place has done this, and you could do it too, you know. 285 \ 00:45:14.810 --> 00:45:21.670 \ Andrew Maliphant: To steal from the lateral lottery, it could be you. You know, this is an important thing. 286 \ 00:45:21.670 --> 00:45:45.850 \ Zoey Cooper: Yeah, yeah, I mean, we haven't done anything new. I've just looked around at what, you know, what other towns and parishes had succeeded in doing, but also what our district council was doing. Like you say, looking to hire authorities. So I've worked with the Devon climate team and with the East Devon District Council team. So we definitely look to others for guidance and support and direction. 287 \ 00:45:45.850 --> 00:45:58.720 \ Zoey Cooper: And then, like you say, looking at what you can achieve as a town and parish council, what your powers and duties are, which are kind of quite limited, really. It's working within that framework and pushing those boundaries a little bit. 288 \ 00:46:01.090 --> 00:46:15.610 \ Andrew Maliphant: Lovely John. And I can't answer why now it didn't do that thing sooner, but I think what we're seeing, of course, is climate is beginning to take more of a hold on people's awareness 289 \ 00:46:15.740 --> 00:46:24.369 \ Andrew Maliphant: There are still some parish chairmen who think it's all a con still, but, physically after this summer, people might be revisiting their ideas about that. 290 \ 00:46:24.480 --> 00:46:25.140 \ Andrew Maliphant: Oh, no. 291 \ 00:46:25.140 --> 00:46:46.659 \ Zoey Cooper: I mean, I should also add that the People's Emergency Briefing film is really making a difference in Exmouth. We've shown it twice in the cinema to a packed audience. We've oversold the tickets in order to, you know, fill the space, and… well, not sold, they're free, but as a result, we've got the various churches hosting their own 292 \ 00:46:46.660 --> 00:46:51.950 \ Zoey Cooper: films, we've had the Rotary Club host a film, so it's really working in Exmouth. 293 \ 00:46:51.950 --> 00:47:13.619 \ Zoey Cooper: The follow-up meetings have been less successful, but the actual initial film and the call to action to host a film is really working, and our MP is being lobbied continuously, to support the motion for a televised briefing, which he doesn't, but the National Emergency Briefing Team have been brilliant and given me lots of 294 \ 00:47:13.640 --> 00:47:22.390 \ Zoey Cooper: suggested dialogue that we can have with the MP, because his response is defense, so they've given me some really great defense 295 \ 00:47:22.460 --> 00:47:32.819 \ Zoey Cooper: answers, which I fired off to all of the attendees to go back to him with. So I feel like we're building momentum in Exmouth from the point of view of that film, actually. It's been really good. 296 \ 00:47:33.700 --> 00:47:42.909 \ Andrew Maliphant: I did hear somebody asked Ed Miliband about that film a while back, and he thought that the government would need to have some answers before it responded, implication being. 297 \ 00:47:42.910 --> 00:47:43.440 \ Zoey Cooper: Legionna. 298 \ 00:47:43.440 --> 00:47:46.289 \ Andrew Maliphant: the answers to everything yet. And of course, if… 299 \ 00:47:46.640 --> 00:48:00.349 \ Andrew Maliphant: people come back and say, well, what's the government doing about this? The government hasn't got very well-lined pockets at the moment to do a great deal, and in any case, there isn't enough money in the world to get us out of all this with a sweep of a magic wand. We do need to… 300 \ 00:48:00.350 --> 00:48:08.500 \ Andrew Maliphant: work at it very much locally as well as nationally. Has anybody else got any other stories about the People's Emergency Briefing film that they've seen? 301 \ 00:48:09.680 --> 00:48:27.790 \ Andrew Maliphant: I attended… I was facilitating one in the Forest of Dean lots. I was slightly depressed, because a lot of the tables that were discussing afterwards seemed still thinking it was all just down to the government, and they weren't thinking about… so one table did actually take on the point that it could be about what they did locally. We have done some advice for 302 \ 00:48:27.790 --> 00:48:47.579 \ Andrew Maliphant: the producers of the film, on the back of the film, saying this is what you could do if you wanted to turn it into local action, rather than just lobbying your MP. And they graciously thanked me for it, but they haven't actually shared it with people who are doing the screening, so they've obviously decided to stick with their initial plan about MPs and the Parliament. 303 \ 00:48:47.580 --> 00:48:59.269 \ Andrew Maliphant: So, good news, bad news. Good news, the world… there's more awareness raising out there, but, perhaps less good news. We still have to soldier away in getting the good word out there of what people can do. 304 \ 00:48:59.290 --> 00:49:01.840 \ Andrew Maliphant: And of course, that's what these sessions are about as well. 305 \ 00:49:02.860 --> 00:49:11.360 \ Andrew Maliphant: Anyone… has anyone else seen the film? Anybody else got any feedback or things about the film? I think you've seen it, Jenny, and I think, Stuart, you've seen it, haven't you? 306 \ 00:49:14.200 --> 00:49:23.090 \ Andrew Maliphant: If Graham was here, he was saying that they had to show it twice in the Isle of Wight, because… in Bembridge, because so many people wanted to come. Where did you see it, Stuart? 307 \ 00:49:25.320 --> 00:49:26.940 \ Cllr Stuart Withington Gt Dunmow TC, Essex: I'm trying to remember now. 308 \ 00:49:26.940 --> 00:49:28.640 \ Andrew Maliphant: Was it a while ago, yeah, yeah. 309 \ 00:49:28.640 --> 00:49:32.719 \ Cllr Stuart Withington Gt Dunmow TC, Essex: I, I think it was our screening, online. 310 \ 00:49:32.940 --> 00:49:33.570 \ Andrew Maliphant: Right. 311 \ 00:49:34.370 --> 00:49:40.290 \ Andrew Maliphant: Or the one that we saw with, with, Rural Community Council Essex, yes, indeed. Yes. Yes, indeed. 312 \ 00:49:40.410 --> 00:49:43.520 \ Cllr Stuart Withington Gt Dunmow TC, Essex: I'm trying to persuade our council to, 313 \ 00:49:43.820 --> 00:49:46.869 \ Cllr Stuart Withington Gt Dunmow TC, Essex: do a screening for the council. 314 \ 00:49:47.770 --> 00:49:50.850 \ Cllr Stuart Withington Gt Dunmow TC, Essex: Not many councillors have seen it. 315 \ 00:49:51.110 --> 00:49:54.279 \ Cllr Stuart Withington Gt Dunmow TC, Essex: No. And certainly very few of the officers. 316 \ 00:49:55.560 --> 00:50:04.660 \ Cllr Stuart Withington Gt Dunmow TC, Essex: And I think it might be a good starting point to try and reinvigorate the climate and environment sort of thinking. 317 \ 00:50:06.570 --> 00:50:22.839 \ Andrew Maliphant: I mean, as I say, we did our own 10-minute film, on… which was focusing not on speaking to your MP, but focusing on, you know, what you do locally. So perhaps we should be promoting that a bit more as well. And the thinking behind that, as you might remember, Stuart, was so that we could have something that could be shown 318 \ 00:50:22.840 --> 00:50:28.329 \ Andrew Maliphant: you know, a short 10 minutes at a parish or Town Council meeting, rather than, you know, the full 45 from 319 \ 00:50:28.530 --> 00:50:31.850 \ Andrew Maliphant: With Jennifer Saunders and co. 320 \ 00:50:32.410 --> 00:50:34.600 \ Andrew Maliphant: Haven't yet, 321 \ 00:50:35.900 --> 00:50:40.599 \ Cllr Stuart Withington Gt Dunmow TC, Essex: I think the Jennifer Saunders bits and the other celebrities… 322 \ 00:50:40.600 --> 00:50:41.020 \ Andrew Maliphant: Yeah. 323 \ 00:50:41.020 --> 00:50:43.540 \ Cllr Stuart Withington Gt Dunmow TC, Essex: Does give it a bit more appeal. 324 \ 00:50:44.170 --> 00:50:46.420 \ Cllr Stuart Withington Gt Dunmow TC, Essex: I think that was quite a good move. 325 \ 00:50:46.780 --> 00:50:51.440 \ Andrew Maliphant: Yes, yes. Language, Timothy, yes, never mind. 326 \ 00:50:51.890 --> 00:50:54.890 \ Andrew Maliphant: Oh, dear, oh dear. Gosh, I think, 327 \ 00:50:55.020 --> 00:51:03.810 \ Andrew Maliphant: Back here, when I was a young person, I think if I'd used language like that, I'd been told to go and wash my mouth out with soap. There we go. Times has changed a bit, yeah. 328 \ 00:51:04.470 --> 00:51:14.820 \ Andrew Maliphant: Okay, well, I'm sorry that Jeff Ryan hasn't been here today, and I don't know what the issue is, but we'll find out, and hopefully have that presentation at another time soon. 329 \ 00:51:15.110 --> 00:51:19.219 \ Andrew Maliphant: And we've got… let me just remind myself what might be happening next week. 330 \ 00:51:19.560 --> 00:51:26.939 \ Andrew Maliphant: Because I think… It was going to be yourself, wasn't it? 331 \ 00:51:27.270 --> 00:51:29.820 \ Andrew Maliphant: Zoey, but then somebody else, 332 \ 00:51:30.710 --> 00:51:33.480 \ Zoey Cooper: Yeah, there's someone else, but I'm not sure who that is. 333 \ 00:51:33.770 --> 00:51:37.720 \ Andrew Maliphant: No, let me see, because I've got a note of it somewhere, if I can find it. 334 \ 00:51:45.730 --> 00:51:50.689 \ Andrew Maliphant: It's always nice to give a bit of an advance notice on these things. 335 \ 00:51:50.940 --> 00:51:54.859 \ Andrew Maliphant: If we can. I'm looking through my emails just to… 336 \ 00:51:56.080 --> 00:51:58.609 \ Andrew Maliphant: Yeah, so the 19th of August. 337 \ 00:51:59.550 --> 00:52:00.779 \ Andrew Maliphant: Which is not. 338 \ 00:52:01.890 --> 00:52:03.739 \ Andrew Maliphant: It's in two weeks' time, isn't it? 339 \ 00:52:04.110 --> 00:52:08.510 \ Andrew Maliphant: Won't. 340 \ 00:52:15.150 --> 00:52:17.890 \ Andrew Maliphant: And it looks like we might be getting, 341 \ 00:52:18.760 --> 00:52:23.480 \ Andrew Maliphant: somebody from the National Emergency Briefing Team, a chap called Jamie Russell. 342 \ 00:52:23.790 --> 00:52:27.689 \ Andrew Maliphant: Who is, the community organising lead for that film. 343 \ 00:52:28.030 --> 00:52:32.710 \ Andrew Maliphant: And, it may be that we're looking for seeing… 344 \ 00:52:32.820 --> 00:52:37.530 \ Andrew Maliphant: Having somebody from inside that production company to, 345 \ 00:52:37.670 --> 00:52:43.370 \ Andrew Maliphant: To talk about the film and its impressions and the effect that it's been having. 346 \ 00:52:43.650 --> 00:52:50.100 \ Andrew Maliphant: So, that's it. Jamie Russell is on the 19th of August. 347 \ 00:52:50.120 --> 00:53:06.990 \ Andrew Maliphant: I can't see anything that's happening next week, the 12th of August, but maybe… and we've got Zoe coming in on the 26th, so it may be that, we can… maybe we'll see if we can, find whether Jess or Ryan could talk, next month… next week, sorry, but rather than this week. 348 \ 00:53:07.740 --> 00:53:09.370 \ Andrew Maliphant: Okay, 349 \ 00:53:09.790 --> 00:53:14.160 \ Andrew Maliphant: 10 to 1. Has anybody got any more thoughts, or should we call it a day for today? 350 \ 00:53:14.940 --> 00:53:18.350 \ Cllr Stuart Withington Gt Dunmow TC, Essex: No, I'd just like to say thanks for, keeping the ship afloat. 351 \ 00:53:18.350 --> 00:53:32.610 \ Andrew Maliphant: Well, I'm just lucky I didn't have that presentation down. I've made a bit of a mess of it in the middle, but that will become available, obviously, the presentation itself, and Graeme will post that on the Great Nick Collaboration Lunch Base, and you can be able to use the links there. 352 \ 00:53:33.440 --> 00:53:37.989 \ Andrew Maliphant: And I'll say it again, let us go forward together, or never surrender. 353 \ 00:53:38.130 --> 00:53:39.080 \ Andrew Maliphant: Keep going. 354 \ 00:53:39.630 --> 00:53:42.769 \ Andrew Maliphant: Eat calm and work differently. There we go. 355 \ 00:53:43.320 --> 00:53:45.130 \ Andrew Maliphant: Thanks very much, Zoey. Thanks, everybody. 356 \ 00:53:45.130 --> 00:53:47.950 \ Zoey Cooper: Thanks for much. Thank you. See you soon. Bye. *** #### Markdown of Presentation: ## RAISING LOCAL RESILIENCE *Image from the Bayeux Tapestry showing William the Conqueror with his half-brothers* *** ### What matters most in our community? 1. Physical requirements like food, water, shelter, sleep 2. Protection from danger, financial security, health 3. Social needs for relationships and family 4. The need for self-respect and achievement 5. Personal growth, and self-fulfillment *Maslow Hierarchy of Needs* *** ### What are the local concerns around climate change and nature recovery? *(Regardless of local government reorganisation…)* > **NB** when we come across something big and complicated, we tend to focus on a bit we do understand, but don’t like! **Image credits:** * Foodbank – Hammersmith & Fulham Council * Floods – Ottery St Mary Police * Heatwave – Communities Prepared * Bioblitz – West Oxfordshire DC *** ### People’s Emergency Briefing **TEASER TRAILER — PG Version** \[YouTube link] *** ### Government definition of resilience > “Community resilience is enabled when the public are empowered to **harness local resources and expertise** to help themselves and their communities to **prepare, respond and recover** from disruptive challenges... and to plan and adapt to long-term social and environmental changes.” *** ### Government’s own plan for food resilience (for example) * Supermarkets only hold up to three days worth of food * The Government’s **Prepare campaign** covers the effects of extreme weathers and potential power outages but not food shortages * The national security warning about food risks had to be dug out by the press * Government has no reserves from which to feed the whole country at short notice even if they wanted to * The new Government is beginning to think about food, but what about resources… *** ### We will need more food resilience in 2026 * Food security is already at risk from the climate crisis – such as less salad crops from Spain due to heatwaves * The US war with Iran will affect supplies for several months, including fertiliser for our crops * Food banks, community larders are for immediate shortages * Longer term – consider land for growing, join a **food partnership** or **community supported agriculture** * **Item for your local council agenda!** *Map of local food partnerships* *** ### What, me?! * The Local Government Act 1972 states that “for every parish there shall be a Parish Meeting for the purpose of discussing parish affairs” * Local availability of food is surely a parish affair * Part of our task as council clerks is “to advise the Council on, and assist in the formation of, overall policies to be followed in respect of the Authority's activities and in particular to produce all the information required for making effective decisions and to implement constructively all decisions” * **Who you gonna call?** *** ## BELBIN TEAM ROLES > “The types of behaviour in which people engage are infinite. But the range of **useful behaviours**, which make an effective contribution to team performance, is finite” The illustration identifies: * Coordinators * Shapers * Monitor-evaluators * Resource investigators * Teamworkers * Completer-finishers * Implementers * Specialists * Plants *Image courtesy Bitesize Learning* *** ### Community Involvement * Who are the local leaders? * Contact local volunteering and initiatives * Local clubs, pubs, schools, churches * Local branches of national organisations – * Locality * Friends of the Earth * Transition * Green Party * Social Enterprise * Action with Communities in Rural England * Redeeming Our Communities * Incredible Edible * ……….. * Invite local groups to the Annual Parish Meeting * Neighbourhood Plan events * Local “Future Fair” with a wide remit * **Public meeting following People’s Emergency Briefing film** * Local working groups (with councillors) *** ### Film screenings are increasing in number **April 2026 → August 2026** *The slide contains two UK maps showing a substantial increase in the number and geographic spread of screenings.* *** ### Local opportunities * Gardens – bee squares * Land - allotments * Verges, pitches - biodiversity * High ground – wind turbines * Waterways – flood management * Transport links – car clubs * Local events and networks – for reaching local people * **What is our real catchment area? GP surgery coverage??** *Image courtesy Climate Action Now* *** ### What local councils can do, to start with **Some examples:** * Adopt a **biodiversity policy**, linked to the **Local Nature Recovery Strategy** * **Create new allotments** * Publicise and support community initiatives such as **repair cafes** * Plan to reduce own carbon emissions, including **energy efficiency of buildings and vehicles** * Declare a climate, sustainability, resilience or nature recovery emergency and appoint a climate lead councillor * **It’s the way we tell ‘em!** *Allotments at Longhope, Gloucestershire* *** ### Duties and Powers * **Power to work with higher level councils**\ Local Government Act 1972, ss. 101 & 136 * **Power to encourage energy efficiency and generation**\ Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Act 2006, s. 20 * **Power to acquire land**\ Local Government Act 1972, ss. 124–7 * **Power for car sharing and bus services**\ Local Government Rating Act 1997, ss. 26, 27 * **Duty to provide allotments**\ Small Holdings and Allotments Act 1908, s. 23 * **Duty to consider biodiversity in all we do**\ Environment Act 2021, s. 102 * **Duty to hold an annual parish meeting**\ Local Government Act 1972, Schedule 12, p. 14 *** ### Funding for Environmental Action * Section 137 funding - **£11.60 per elector for 2026-27** * Community Infrastructure Levy * Biodiversity Net Gain * **National Lottery Community Fund**, including Awards for All for community environment projects up to **£20,000** * Local authority / charity grants * Crowdfunding * Community shares * **SLCC Climate Action webpage** for detail *** ### Parish Projects Map *Map showing parish projects across a large area of eastern England.* Categories shown include: * Community Allotments * Community Composting * Community Orchards * Energy Projects * Energy Efficiency * Equipment Library * EV Charging * Land Management * Nature Recovery * Public Transport * Renewable Energy * Repair Cafes * Shared Transport * Tree Planting *** ### Local councils with residents **Some examples:** * **Carry out a rapid flood risk assessment** and implement **natural flood management schemes** * **Bioblitz / biodiversity audits** to inform biodiversity net gain advice to planning applications * **Right tree, right place** * Encourage / facilitate **car clubs**, e.g. by allocating a parking space in public car park * **Loan thermal imaging cameras** * Clear local rights of way to support active travel *Images courtesy Gloucestershire Association of Parish and Town Councils* *** ### Video / case study *Still from a video showing a group meeting.* Subtitle visible: > “Today we’ve been in Colchester at Firstsite,” *** ### Parishes with other parishes **Some examples:** * Create **clusters of councils** working cooperatively to address local climate / nature issues such as natural flood management & green corridors * Start a **Hedgerow Heroes** project * Restore roadside verges to long linear meadows * Support the creation of **farming clusters** * **Joint community energy project** *Image courtesy Gamlingay Parish Council* *** ## Is it enough to just offer pathways to action? *Illustration: carrot* *Image courtesy Tanvir Alam / Pixabay* *** ### Summary steps from our own film… * Look around your area * Connect with local people * Gather local evidence & ideas * Make a declaration of action * Start with simple projects * Be critical about planning applications * Work in partnership * Share good practice with others *** ### Further advice and guidance * **Centre for Sustainable Energy** * **Community Climate Action UK** * **National Association of Local Councils – Climate Emergency Network** * **Local Resilience Forums**\ *(NB we need joint emergency planning with other organisations)* * **Society of Local Council Clerks – Climate Action Webpage** * **The Great Collaboration** – website, knowledgebase, weekly sessions and county forums * **The Wildlife Trusts** *** ### Topics from the National Emergency Briefing * **Nature** – we’ve lost 53% of our biodiversity * **Climate** - if we keep burning fossil fuels, temperatures will keep rising * **Weather extremes** – the UK is getting wetter in winter, and faster than models predicted * **Tipping points** - the biggest risk is the failure of the ocean current that keeps the UK’s climate mild * **Food security** - the UK imports 40–50% of its food, much from climate-stressed regions like the Mediterranean * **Health** - the real killer is the breakdown of our systems * **National security** - the greatest risk is cascading crises overwhelming government systems and eroding democratic stability * **Economics** - clinging to the status quo delays change and increases risk * **Energy transition** - around half of UK recessions since 1970 have been triggered by fossil fuel price volatility *** ## Be told? 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