Banter 71: update on Great Collaboration, Andrew Maliphant

Andrew updates everyone on the state of GC website now, and what is coming shortly

Banter 71 GC website update video

Video Timeline (min:sec):

00:00 - 66:45 (end) Presentation - interactive throughout, no separate Q&A segment

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Meeting Summary:

May 28, 2025 11:51 AM London ID: 834 5460 8536

Quick recap

The Great Collaboration initiative, which supports climate action at the local level, was discussed in detail, including its website features, resources for councils, and plans for expansion. The meeting covered the project's efforts to engage various stakeholders, from individuals to parish councils, and its focus on sharing best practices and addressing challenges in climate adaptation and resilience. Future developments were outlined, including enhanced digital mapping capabilities, regional pilots, and the need for more volunteers to support the project's growth and impact.

Next steps

• Andrew to share the taxonomy document with meeting attendees as part of the notes.
• Andrew to provide an example of a detailed Parish Council report for Stuart and share it with Graham for publication on the wiki.
• Andrew to invite interested parties to the June 30th webinar on community engagement.
• Graham to find information for Kirsten regarding her question about the number of parishes which have declared Climate Emergencies.
• Andrew to dig out and share a more extensive parish report, likely from Herefordshire.
• Graham to organize next week's session, potentially focusing on changes to the new Great Collaboration website.

Summary

Great Collaboration Initiative Overview

Andrew presents an overview of the Great Collaboration initiative, which started in Herefordshire and has since expanded. The project includes a website with a toolkit of 64 potential actions for individuals and a resource pack for local councils. The system allows councils to see what actions are being taken or hindered in their area without identifying individuals. Andrew emphasizes the importance of communication and provides examples of promotional resources and engagement strategies for parish councils. He suggests that having a paid advisor per county would be beneficial for supporting local efforts. Andrew also shares success stories from Herefordshire, including community events and festivals that have resulted from the Great Collaboration's activities.

Website Development and Content Strategy

Andrew presents the current state of the website and its ongoing development. He highlights the weekly Banter sessions, the emerging knowledge base, and the taxonomy of climate action topics. Graham mentions the goal of having at least one article per taxonomic term. Andrew notes that the inherited content focuses mainly on carbon emission reduction, and there's a need for more information on adaptation and just transition. The website is being structured to cater to different groups such as individuals, community groups, and sports clubs, with the aim of providing relevant information within three clicks.

Climate Action for Parish Councils

Andrew discusses the role of town and parish councils in addressing climate change and promoting sustainability. He outlines various stages of engagement, from just starting to working with the community, and emphasizes the importance of cooperation. Andrew presents resources and tools available to councils, including a model biodiversity policy, emergency planning advice, and guidance on carbon-saving building improvements. He also mentions an upcoming expansion of the targeting section, which will help councils create action plans for reducing carbon emissions in their parishes.

Climate Action Resource Website Features

Andrew presents various features of the GC website that serves as a resource for climate action and community initiatives. He highlights the Carbon Copy website, which contains over a thousand searchable stories on different topics. The GC website also includes links to other organizations, information on local networks, and a list of 64 individual actions and collective actions that communities can take. Andrew mentions plans to add digital mapping features in collaboration with Tristram from Parish Online, allowing users to input information about their parish that would appear on an interactive map. Stuart raises a point about the potential inclusion of recording actions taken by individuals and councils.

Great Collaboration Platform Enhancements

The group discusses the importance of sharing experiences and best practices within the Great Collaboration platform. Tristram raises concerns about potential confusion from multiple guides on the same topic, suggesting the need for recommended or amalgamated versions. Graham explains future plans to tag content based on council characteristics for more relevant search results. John brings up the topic of resilience, highlighting challenges in his village related to cultural divisions, cross-border issues, and infrastructure problems exacerbated by extreme weather and climate change. He expresses interest in addressing these issues through the Great Collaboration platform and engaging with central government.

Local Councils in Climate Planning

Andrew discusses the government's efforts to involve local councils in climate change adaptation and resilience planning. He mentions his participation in panels with the Department for Energy and Defra, noting that there are plans to create two levels of panels - one for practical issues and another for strategic matters. Andrew emphasizes the need for greater representation of parish and town councils in these discussions, as they are often overlooked in favor of larger district councils. He also notes that the government's plan to eliminate district councils in favor of unitary authorities may increase the visibility of parish and town councils. The conversation then shifts to challenges in working with local highways and the difficulty of effecting change through existing channels. John expresses frustration with the lack of action from organizations like National Highways, despite regular meetings and discussions.

Great Collaboration Climate Action Update

Andrew provides an update on the Great Collaboration project, which aims to support parish councils and community groups in climate action. The project is expanding login capabilities for different types of organizations and enhancing parish reports. Digital mapping features are being developed in collaboration with Parish Online to allow users to input and visualize climate actions. The project is setting up county-based online discussion forums and adding funding opportunities to the knowledge base, starting with East Anglia. A regional pilot is underway, with surveys sent out to assess current activities and needs. Climate action workshops and county-based advisors are planned to support local initiatives. The project is seeking more volunteers to help with various aspects, including guidance development, digital mapping, and communications. Andrew encourages interested individuals to become company members and participate in the project's governance.

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Chat:

00:13:52 Kirsten Newble Cambridge: Do you know what proportion of councils have now declared a climate emergency? 00:14:45 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration - overseas branch: I will find out for you, Kirsten - we don’t yet publish it. 00:16:18 Kirsten Newble Cambridge: Replying to "I will find out for ..."

Many thanks. It would help encourage councils who haven't yet done so to know others have. 00:16:34 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration - overseas branch: Replying to "I will find out for ..."

Agreed! 01:12:42 tristram cary: Thank you, I need to leave now 01:14:33 Kirsten Newble Cambridge: Sorry I have to go now to another meeting. Thank you again.

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Sample Report from GC website: Fownhope Parish Council

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Fownhope parish report 28.5.25.pdf

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Taxonomy:

This is the taxonomy that we will be using when we populate the Knowledgebase; the GC website folders will be renamed in accordance with this as well. Feedback (to [e-mail]) very welcome, please, if you can see room for changes, additions, enhancements:

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Great Collaboration Taxonomy 250207.xlsx

The table below contains the same data as the spreadsheet, entered here for possible ease of use, and for AI Search engine purposes.

(The top-level folders are in Bold Italic, the sub-folders are in Bold, the topics are plain text

Top-Level Folder	Sub-Folders	Topics
Biodiversity
	Habitat Restoration:	Rewilding Tree planting Wetland creation
	Measurement Tools:	Biodiversity indices Habitat mapping tools
	Natural Capital Mapping:	Bioblitz Biodiversity surveys Ecosystem services valuation
	Priority Actions:	Develop local biodiversity action plans Enhance biodiversity in urban areas Protect existing habitats
	Urban Biodiversity:	Community gardens Green roofs Pollinator pathways
	Water quality:	Monitoring Runoff Treatment
	Wildlife Corridors:	Connecting habitats Preventing fragmentation
Buildings
	Energy Efficiency:	Double/Triple glazing Draught-proofing Home insulation
	Housing Design:	Low-carbon materials Passive house standards
	Measurement Tools:	Emissions calculators Home energy efficiency calculators
	Priority Actions:	Install insulation Promote energy audits Switch to renewable heating systems
	Renewable Energy:	Community energy schemes Heat pumps Solar panels
	Retrofitting:	Case studies Grants Technologies
	Water efficiency:	Low-flow taps Rainwater harvesting
Energy
	Community Energy:	Renewable co-operatives Shared resources
	Education and Advocacy:	Policy engagement Workshops
	Energy Storage:	Batteries Local microgrids
	Generation:	hydro-electricity Solar PV Wind turbines
	Grid Decarbonization:	Transition to green energy suppliers
	Measurement Tools:	Grid dependency metrics Renewable energy potential calculators
	Priority Actions:	Develop community solar farms Transition to renewable suppliers
Food
	Composting and Waste Reduction:	Systems for schools and communities
	Food Sovereignty:	Reducing imports Supporting local farmers
	Local Food Systems:	Community-supported agriculture Farmers' markets food partnerships
	Measurement Tools:	Food carbon footprint calculators Waste auditing tools
	Priority Actions:	Encourage local sourcing Promote plant-based options Reduce food waste
	Sustainable Diets:	Plant-based eating Reducing food waste.
Journeys
	Active Travel:	Cycling Safe routes Walking infrastructure
	Logistics and Freight:	Efficient delivery models Localized supply chains
	Low-Carbon Vehicles:	Car-sharing schemes Charging networks EV adoption
	Measurement Tools:	Traffic density mapping Transport emissions calculators
	Priority Actions:	Develop EV infrastructure Improve public transport Promote active travel
	Public Transport:	Accessibility Infrastructure investment Subsidies
Landscape
	Agriculture:	Allotments Arable Community orchards Livestock Vertical farms
	Gardens:	Climate change readiness (heat, drought, flood) Flood protection Growing food Native species Supporting biodiversity
	Great outdoors:	Management Wildfire
	Planning:	Local Plans Neighbourhood Planning Planning Applications Road Traffic Orders Tree Preservation Orders
	Public realm:	Bridleways Footpaths Heat islands Shading SUDS
	Streets:	20mph zones Cycle paths Low traffic neighbourhoods
Society
	Business:	Co-ordinating with local business sustainability programmes ESG commitments
	Communication:	Audiences Channels Messages
	Community involvement:	Deliberative democracy Events Surveys Workshops
	Culture:	Consumption and consumer waste Culture change Entertainment Fashion Messaging Social media
	Legal:	Changing the law International obligations Legal incentives and constraints Legal rights
	Money:	Charity Financial incentives and constraints Grants and bids Insurance Pensions and investments
	Politics:	Campaigning Deliberative democracy International relationships Local, national and international government Protesting
	Supply Chains:	Industrial waste Manufacturing Manufacturing emissions Raw materials,
	Technology:	AI Green and emergent technology Innovation Software and IT
	Waste:	Landfill Pollution Recycling Repair Reuse Rubbish

Speech-to-Text (for AI search engine):

96 00:09:45.400 --> 00:09:51.360 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration - overseas branch: Arrived. So we're all set now, Andrew, by all means feel free to carry on, regardless.

97 00:09:51.360 --> 00:09:52.800 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: I'll do that thing.

98 00:09:54.470 --> 00:09:55.510 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Okay.

99 00:10:01.300 --> 00:10:07.769 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: right? Let's see where we go from this slideshow from the beginning.

100 00:10:09.470 --> 00:10:18.450 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Right, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to a sneak preview of what we have been about, but also more of an even sneakier preview of what we're looking forward to.

101 00:10:19.268 --> 00:10:25.980 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: I should say, before I start that this presentation is available for wider use. If anybody would like to borrow it at any time and

102 00:10:26.100 --> 00:10:33.890 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: amaze your friends and relatives with it. You're very welcome to do so. But the 1st part of it is really just going through what

103 00:10:34.090 --> 00:10:35.223 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: we have

104 00:10:36.580 --> 00:10:43.920 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: done so far. Great collaboration started a few years ago in Herefordshire, an idea that came out of Foundhope Parish Council.

105 00:10:44.080 --> 00:10:49.010 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: and the gentleman who had the idea is absolutely chuffed to bits at the the way that it has developed over time.

106 00:10:50.220 --> 00:10:59.979 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: The Herefordshire Green network took it on to manage it and develop a website with funding from the Mcs charitable foundation

107 00:11:00.260 --> 00:11:04.320 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: which produced the website that we have at the moment. So

108 00:11:04.790 --> 00:11:13.739 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: the website itself has changed slightly since those days. But there's a bit more changes that are imminent and we're looking forward to in the future.

109 00:11:14.490 --> 00:11:19.760 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: So toolkit for local people, resource pack for local councils pretty well describes what we're about.

110 00:11:21.560 --> 00:11:29.839 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: So at the moment. There is a toolkit of into 64 potential actions individuals can choose from.

111 00:11:30.230 --> 00:11:54.710 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: They register with their postcode on the website, and they say what actions they plan to take and which they can't, and why, which is just as interesting to find out why things aren't happening. Then the local yeah. Their local council can find it by the postcode to search. They don't get the names of the people concerned. They see what isn't happening, so they may say, find, for example. Oh, well, there's a repair cafe people part of a repair cafe in our parish. We didn't know that.

112 00:11:54.870 --> 00:12:10.830 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: or they may find oh, 8 people would like to have a repair cafe, but they can't find premises. Perhaps we can help them with that. So that is the sort of the core of it at the moment, and as Jackie Jones from Hereford, said the Widget, the clever widget that finds out from

113 00:12:11.020 --> 00:12:24.470 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: people's postcodes which parish or Town Council are in is the key element to all of that and the picture. There is just one of the many images around the various actions that you can take. And this is obviously about growing your own food. In that case.

114 00:12:25.490 --> 00:12:53.279 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: So in terms of the Council's resource pack, we have slightly updated that. But there are elements in it which haven't changed. The basic thing is about declaring an emergency, which is, there's an awful lot of that in about 2019. But I think what's important about it isn't so much declaration is letting our parishioners know that we're up for it as a council. That's that's the real value of that different ways of using promotion resources to get people involved. There's some of that on the in the resource pack

115 00:12:53.430 --> 00:13:13.829 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: what you will do to actively support the actions. And there's some more guidance already linked into it, which is from the society of Local Council, Clark's website about planning about biodiversity net gain about responding to planning applications and so forth. So that bit has expanded.

116 00:13:14.224 --> 00:13:19.710 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: And the report from the website. Yes, it's just about saying what's happening in our parish. And and for why?

117 00:13:20.570 --> 00:13:24.130 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: So? That is the quick, what the 2 things are happening.

118 00:13:24.910 --> 00:13:32.000 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: So in terms of the promotion resources, because at the moment, as we've said many times, communication is the name of the game. It's a way of time.

119 00:13:33.150 --> 00:13:56.049 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: and so there are different ways of sending these. Here is some some example bits one of the bits of guidance and support that's available already through the resource pack things that you can say to people. You know the advantages of doing things. So some of this is about reducing carbon emissions. Some of it is about some good news. In any case, you know.

120 00:13:56.200 --> 00:14:07.350 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: using led light uses is cheaper than the old light bulbs. Buying secondhand is cheaper and reduces waste and so forth. So there's different sort of messages that can be used.

121 00:14:07.600 --> 00:14:26.670 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: So there are different communication channels we can use if we're getting into this what we are saying to parish councils, parish Clarks that tend to be very busy. People, anyway, get involved with your local community. Get people engaged with this. So when it says it's not necessarily parish or parish, Clark doing these things. It's a local working group.

122 00:14:27.270 --> 00:14:34.669 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: and in many cases, of course, local groups have started up, including some present company before any parish council has got it got engaged

123 00:14:34.800 --> 00:14:52.602 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: ideas for social media. There's some text and images there, sort of library material, and there's a chart there about understanding responding to your audience. There are some people that are up for what we're talking about, and some people who are not up for what we're talking about. So there's some interesting ideas there about

124 00:14:56.030 --> 00:15:07.710 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: what we might say, because, I say, language messages, use of use of word and imagery is very much the important thing at the moment. So those are the sorts of things that are already on the website. Okay.

125 00:15:09.070 --> 00:15:18.769 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: in Herefordshire. They also had a live person paid 2 days a week to go out and working with communities working with Parish councils, answering emails, and so forth.

126 00:15:19.369 --> 00:15:25.630 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: That she's she confided me that to do it on a countywide basis is probably a full time job.

127 00:15:25.870 --> 00:15:38.509 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: So our our concept is that counties or the current traditional counties seem to be the right sort of geographical area to bring people together, and having at least one paid advisor per county would seem to make a lot of sense because

128 00:15:38.620 --> 00:15:46.200 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: you can't people. You can't necessarily get everything from a website. But anyway, you'd like to be. Sometimes you need to speak to a warm human being and find out what's going on.

129 00:15:46.740 --> 00:15:52.149 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: So there's a couple of examples of things that happened in Herefordshire. As a result of the great collaborations activity

130 00:15:52.330 --> 00:15:57.529 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: as King's Capel Parish Council set up a group with councils and residents at a launch event.

131 00:15:57.700 --> 00:16:00.970 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: They had over 50 people joining in an exercise.

132 00:16:01.120 --> 00:16:07.309 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: We had small groups of local residents across 5 different subject areas at different tables there in our lifestyle, community

133 00:16:07.410 --> 00:16:22.160 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: food, nature and energy. And so each group then was discussing those topics and gathering their thoughts. And that's a pattern that's been happening elsewhere in the country as well. And they said, This is something that was like early great collaboration with another one.

134 00:16:22.400 --> 00:16:27.779 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Cornwall Green Eco Festival. Corwall is just on the western side of the Malvern Hills.

135 00:16:29.555 --> 00:16:47.569 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: We have lots of stalls, talks family friendly feedback as to what we want to see. A very well managed, supported event, and now become a regular event, an annual event. I was at it just last September. So that's another example of how things can be

136 00:16:47.760 --> 00:16:54.980 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: supported and developed and created, as I say, initially urged by the the great collaboration and its work.

137 00:16:56.870 --> 00:17:02.779 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Okay? So that's a quick gallop through what we have and what we is already there, and what we have

138 00:17:03.170 --> 00:17:04.750 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: inherited.

139 00:17:05.190 --> 00:17:10.949 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: So we're now looking forward again to what are the next things that are likely to happen? We've already got extra gram

140 00:17:11.565 --> 00:17:23.734 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: the midday weekly banter sessions on every Wednesday. These are being extremely wide ranging. We're getting all kinds of different topics on it. This is already linked into the

141 00:17:25.839 --> 00:17:28.530 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: the the current website.

142 00:17:28.750 --> 00:17:35.530 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: And if you click on that base. Here we go. We're looking into these. This is all the different sessions. We've got different sections.

143 00:17:35.760 --> 00:17:42.500 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: tables of banter, sessions. We've got all that number 86 already lined up. Here they all are, with all the coats and so forth.

144 00:17:42.690 --> 00:17:45.620 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: We've also got on the left hand side

145 00:17:45.910 --> 00:17:52.129 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: the emerging knowledge base. And this is about a repository of different sorts of information, advice, guidance.

146 00:17:52.260 --> 00:18:04.380 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: which is again, also, we're expanding. So this is something that is what we're working on at the moment as well capable of infant expansion. We're not rewriting every piece of advice that's ever been given. There's a lot of signposting going on

147 00:18:04.500 --> 00:18:14.120 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: a lot of signposting. And, for example, here we are, model biodiversity policy, something that was established and set up with the

148 00:18:14.880 --> 00:18:17.589 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: no preview available. All right? Okay, fair enough.

149 00:18:18.100 --> 00:18:20.749 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Come on. Let's have a look at it.

150 00:18:26.450 --> 00:18:29.670 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: This is coming off the Slcc website.

151 00:18:31.060 --> 00:18:36.150 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: I don't seem to want to come in a hurry. But anyway, I think I've illustrated the point. I don't know why. That is

152 00:18:37.030 --> 00:18:41.389 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: okay. Here's some descriptions about what things happen under biodiversity.

153 00:18:43.350 --> 00:18:52.579 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Okey Dokey. So there's a bit of the knowledge base which is already operating which we're already working on, and we'll see how we get on with that

154 00:18:53.720 --> 00:18:58.210 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: as we go by right.

155 00:19:00.250 --> 00:19:02.149 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: I don't know what's happening here at all.

156 00:19:02.380 --> 00:19:03.170 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Right?

157 00:19:05.220 --> 00:19:06.140 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: So

158 00:19:07.110 --> 00:19:15.660 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: there, I'm I'm now going to take us through looking at what the emerging website is beginning to look like.

159 00:19:17.190 --> 00:19:22.000 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: And it's going to be okay.

160 00:19:24.100 --> 00:19:28.950 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: But this is something that will shortly be the main website homepage.

161 00:19:31.110 --> 00:19:32.050 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: So

162 00:19:32.790 --> 00:19:38.680 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: what we're thinking about is not everybody in the world is at the same place, Graham, you got your hand up.

163 00:19:39.808 --> 00:19:41.040 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration - overseas branch: Hang on a second.

164 00:19:46.710 --> 00:20:07.210 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration - overseas branch: I just wanted to mention, whilst you were on the page in the knowledge base, that there is a taxonomy of words that describe most of the actions that people take for climate action, and one of our current goals is to have at least one article per taxonomic

165 00:20:07.340 --> 00:20:10.360 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration - overseas branch: term, if that's my phrase. So

166 00:20:10.769 --> 00:20:15.960 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration - overseas branch: I don't know if you can go back to the page, Andrew, that you were on. I'm sorry on the.

167 00:20:15.960 --> 00:20:21.870 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: What what I can do, which might be even more interesting is show the actual taxonomy.

168 00:20:22.930 --> 00:20:23.770 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration - overseas branch: Okay.

169 00:20:27.480 --> 00:20:34.300 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Again what we're saying, what we've said also the beginning of this this session is that if people want to have

170 00:20:34.890 --> 00:20:36.862 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: some ideas about

171 00:20:45.060 --> 00:20:48.800 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: suggestions of things that we should be looking at, possibly

172 00:20:49.100 --> 00:20:55.659 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: things that we should be talking about, things that we should be adding in then?

173 00:20:58.230 --> 00:21:02.550 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: this is, could be an opportunity to do so. I'll stop sharing what I've been sharing at the moment.

174 00:21:03.000 --> 00:21:05.669 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: I'll put up the the taxonomy

175 00:21:10.050 --> 00:21:10.770 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: cool.

176 00:21:17.420 --> 00:21:19.650 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration - overseas branch: No, very sorry. I asked the question.

177 00:21:19.650 --> 00:21:20.560 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Yeah.

178 00:21:24.350 --> 00:21:25.899 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: that'd be a lesson, too.

179 00:21:27.150 --> 00:21:29.199 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration - overseas branch: I shall wish doom for the rest of the morning.

180 00:21:30.490 --> 00:21:32.669 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration - overseas branch: But fortunately, it's now, afternoon.

181 00:21:32.670 --> 00:21:33.800 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Yeah, okay.

182 00:21:41.080 --> 00:21:41.740 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: so

183 00:21:55.730 --> 00:21:58.700 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: the taxonomy is there on the left.

184 00:21:59.750 --> 00:22:11.170 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: And so we've got main headings of buildings, landscape journeys, energy, food, biodiversity and society.

185 00:22:12.810 --> 00:22:28.029 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: and we can see that there are lots of different headings there. The last time we had a session like this I was asked to put a look at all agriculture, and the agriculture didn't show up anything, so we know that there's a lot we can put in on agriculture. Indeed, as you can see that's fairly comprehensive

186 00:22:28.659 --> 00:22:34.260 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: already. So our next port of call is to have at least one item or one link

187 00:22:35.050 --> 00:22:38.680 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: for each of those individual subheadings.

188 00:22:40.050 --> 00:22:42.699 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: actually something we're talking about this afternoon.

189 00:22:43.100 --> 00:22:47.100 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: So it just gives you an idea of the sort of scope of the things that we we've got here.

190 00:22:48.220 --> 00:22:53.825 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: There's a couple of points I could make, really about the sort of common content we have is that

191 00:22:54.940 --> 00:23:03.029 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: a lot of the content we've inherited on the website is about reducing carbon emissions, and to a certain extent the price of doing that.

192 00:23:03.570 --> 00:23:15.619 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: What there is hasn't what we have not inherited a great deal of is things like adaptation. What do we do to the effects of climate change? In any case, things like flood management, things like, you know, dealing with heat waves.

193 00:23:15.760 --> 00:23:21.589 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: all of those kind of things. So we know we need to put some more information on that in terms of actual actions that people can take.

194 00:23:22.370 --> 00:23:29.270 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: And the other comment that we've had recently is that all this is all very well, but we're not. We need to be interested in a just transition.

195 00:23:29.550 --> 00:23:34.349 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: We need to be promoting things so that everybody can get engaged in one way, shape, or form.

196 00:23:34.700 --> 00:23:42.139 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: And there was a suggestion, a lot of stuff that we've already got really sings to sort of what people are referred to as middle income families

197 00:23:42.280 --> 00:23:49.019 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: rather than the whole of society. So I think there is a there is some thought to be put into. Okay.

198 00:23:49.500 --> 00:24:01.850 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: It's 1 thing to be in a certain situation society, but we need something that not only is available to every member of society, but actually supports that phrase, just transition, so that everybody can get the benefit of things that are going on.

199 00:24:02.450 --> 00:24:07.549 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: So we can share what I'll do we can do. Graham is at the end of the session with the notes. We can share this

200 00:24:07.660 --> 00:24:10.169 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: taxonomy as part of the notes. Yeah.

201 00:24:10.560 --> 00:24:11.270 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration - overseas branch: Good evening.

202 00:24:11.270 --> 00:24:13.430 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: So that people can see what's going on there.

203 00:24:14.920 --> 00:24:17.529 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Right? So let's go back to the website, then.

204 00:24:19.850 --> 00:24:25.969 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: so this is the development website, we have a sort of website which mirrors the live site.

205 00:24:26.120 --> 00:24:29.249 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: which is something that we can then be working on and improving.

206 00:24:29.830 --> 00:24:39.740 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: So what we were saying is that different people, different groups are in different stages of development, and different people have different situations as well.

207 00:24:40.130 --> 00:24:45.279 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: So at the moment, for example, here we go. We'll look at a different sort of group.

208 00:24:45.780 --> 00:24:50.240 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: We've got things for individuals. Yep, things for community groups, yep.

209 00:24:50.780 --> 00:25:00.780 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: things for community hubs, local businesses, schools and sports clubs which are the sorts of types of organization we're focusing on during the East Anglia Pilot.

210 00:25:01.100 --> 00:25:05.070 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: And so we're getting prepared to look at those. For example, if we looked at sports clubs.

211 00:25:08.530 --> 00:25:10.009 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Oh, there we go.

212 00:25:10.540 --> 00:25:21.539 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: There's things there about what sports clubs can be doing. There are issues being affected by climate change flooding pitches, of course, rivers to catames for safe rowing.

213 00:25:21.810 --> 00:25:26.779 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: So sport England, which is our national body, has got a range of resources available for this.

214 00:25:27.980 --> 00:25:31.080 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: We've also started listing all the different sports

215 00:25:31.210 --> 00:25:40.660 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: outdoor sports. That might be interesting, interesting. I see that the the Rugby Football Union doesn't seem to have as much going in this area as the Rugby Football League.

216 00:25:40.770 --> 00:25:48.810 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: So there we go. Why, that is, I've no idea. Cricket board. Yep, Rugby, hockey rowing, certainly. Aquatics

217 00:25:49.090 --> 00:26:05.709 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: golf lawn tennis. I think the one I have to add the Bowls Association to this for Crown. Yeah, there we go. So so if you're a sports club and you get back. Get into this issue. Then you say, right.

218 00:26:06.170 --> 00:26:07.819 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: I'm a sports club here.

219 00:26:07.950 --> 00:26:13.969 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: let's find out what to find my link through to my sports, and what could be happening for it in terms of climate change

220 00:26:14.240 --> 00:26:20.620 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: and our our intention our ambition, is, if people can always find whatever they want at 3 clicks of the mouse.

221 00:26:20.770 --> 00:26:25.130 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: That's a sort of long term it gold standard. So that what we're looking at

222 00:26:26.320 --> 00:26:30.720 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: certainly. Look at town and parish councils. Now, this is an area, of course, where we've

223 00:26:30.930 --> 00:26:33.470 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: started and doing a lot of work from.

224 00:26:34.590 --> 00:26:46.910 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: and a lot of us who are on the board of the great collaboration have strong links to parish councils. I was a clerk for 8 years myself, and 3 years as a councillor before that.

225 00:26:48.179 --> 00:26:54.980 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: So there's a home value Parish Council in West Yorkshire, doing a similar sort of topic round table discussion many while ago.

226 00:26:55.310 --> 00:27:01.490 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: So we looked at different stages that a parish council might be in some people. It's just starting.

227 00:27:01.720 --> 00:27:05.070 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Some people have declared. Some people are doing things.

228 00:27:05.200 --> 00:27:11.520 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Some people are targeting in terms of net 0 carbon emissions, and some people are working already, working with others in their community.

229 00:27:12.920 --> 00:27:18.169 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Doing is quite straightforward. Even if a parish council is just planting some trees it's already doing.

230 00:27:20.270 --> 00:27:31.460 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: cooperating is is something that we're fully encouraging, because no Parish Council can do it on its own. No community group could do it on its own. There needs to be a lot of working together in local areas

231 00:27:32.570 --> 00:27:36.289 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: and from the society of Local Council Clocks

232 00:27:36.470 --> 00:27:44.800 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Member survey 2 years ago, only about 5% of parishes were at that point working with their community on issues to do with climate change.

233 00:27:44.980 --> 00:27:55.310 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: So I think you know there's a bit of miles to go. A lot of councils know. We know they want to do something, but they don't know what it is they do, and how they set priorities and so forth, which is very much where we step in.

234 00:27:55.920 --> 00:27:58.791 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: So if you were just beginning, for example,

235 00:27:59.290 --> 00:28:03.480 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: we start talking about the benefits of things, you know, growing your own food.

236 00:28:03.640 --> 00:28:11.209 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: It's not just about net 0 and carbon reduction. It's been a lot in the press lately about carbon reduction. Graham, you got your hand up again.

237 00:28:11.580 --> 00:28:27.360 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration - overseas branch: Just to say that on the 18th of June our banter session, then, is all about what one middle parish has done to get the community involved in particular by setting up a nature reserve. And they've just taken a commonweal garden field

238 00:28:27.410 --> 00:28:45.730 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration - overseas branch: that happened to be available. And they're putting in nature paths and ponds and the schoolchildren are getting very excited. The dog walkers are getting very enthused, and it's very surprising how it's pulled the community together. I just saw. I put in a little advertisement here to come back on the beating system.

239 00:28:45.730 --> 00:28:47.940 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: A word from our sponsor. Yes.

240 00:28:49.310 --> 00:28:59.130 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: yeah. Schools again, schools have been encouraged by government to have their own climate action plan. And so they're also another potential, you know, seabed for this kind of activity.

241 00:28:59.250 --> 00:29:06.850 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Obviously the the sheer science about the carbon going is also part of the issue and can't be ignored.

242 00:29:06.950 --> 00:29:18.539 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: But some people need to be encouraged by it's not just about carbon reduction. It's also about other good things for our community in our area. So that's some stuffing around that.

243 00:29:18.830 --> 00:29:21.819 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: We went to the declaring page, which is the next one.

244 00:29:22.320 --> 00:29:34.799 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: So we can declare support which get lets the local community that that the Parish Council is up, for. It also encourages other councils, and it provides a policy base for future council decisions. For example, if we want to have

245 00:29:34.930 --> 00:29:39.250 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: a model biodiversity, a biodiversity policy, then we know how to do that.

246 00:29:40.036 --> 00:29:46.959 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: So here it is. We're talking about the model biodiversity policy there that links through to it.

247 00:29:48.680 --> 00:29:51.640 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: and there it is which talks about the statutory duty

248 00:29:51.770 --> 00:29:54.650 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: and the requirement to do something.

249 00:29:54.830 --> 00:29:59.239 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: What are the different things people can be done, and there's a model policy that people can

250 00:29:59.370 --> 00:30:03.279 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: choose from as a parish council. Oh, I'm just skipping through this

251 00:30:03.620 --> 00:30:14.950 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: as to what the Council will do and what they need to do. And in terms of actual actions there's a whole host of things that might be done. So this is like a pick and mix, and nobody's going to suggest that every Parish Council should be doing all of these.

252 00:30:15.240 --> 00:30:20.289 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: But it explains what you might be doing, and the beneficial outcomes and so forth.

253 00:30:21.600 --> 00:30:26.299 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: So that is something that's been developed quite recently. That's that's live.

254 00:30:28.300 --> 00:30:39.689 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: So there we go. And there's advance on some of the wider planning, environmental planning advice. Here we are. This, again, is something for Parish councils to something from the Slc website. Again.

255 00:30:39.960 --> 00:30:53.290 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: all the different things that councils might be doing once they get going things to do about regular activities. Emergency planning is something we're talking a lot about at the moment, because, of course we know that we can get heat waves which bake the ground

256 00:30:53.400 --> 00:31:10.399 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: and droughts, particularly if you're in a clay area, and then we get a sudden downpour, and then you get an awful lot of surface water flooding as a result. So having some kind of preparation for emergencies, emergency planning is important. So that's advice. There, that's already available.

257 00:31:10.770 --> 00:31:12.899 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: The town and parish councils in particular.

258 00:31:14.220 --> 00:31:16.594 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: the beginning of the doing page.

259 00:31:17.370 --> 00:31:22.329 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: you remember our early English language, a verb is a doing word. Remember being told that at school.

260 00:31:22.460 --> 00:31:33.780 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: early road up lots of things that can be done. Of course, new allotments, which is a great thing I'm in favour of. One of the very few statutory duties on local councils is providing allotments.

261 00:31:33.940 --> 00:31:39.309 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: and people can get out there, grow their own food, eat healthier, get exercise, meet more people

262 00:31:39.480 --> 00:31:52.150 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: and less packaged plastic wrapped food comes into the local community planting trees clearly, and there's different guidance on that heat saving in public buildings all these different things that might be done.

263 00:31:52.300 --> 00:31:54.700 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: So there's a whole host of them that can be done.

264 00:31:55.400 --> 00:32:06.669 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: There's also some guidance here about what you know. A single, a single climate action page for smaller councils. I haven't got any money. I haven't got any buildings. What can I do?

265 00:32:06.910 --> 00:32:17.080 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Obviously there can make connections. They can comment on planning applications whichever Council has to be done, and it can also work with our own community. So there's some things there for what councils can do.

266 00:32:17.670 --> 00:32:21.760 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: This is all being added in to what was in the original

267 00:32:22.370 --> 00:32:46.179 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: targeting. This is something that is, we're looking at in a lot more detail at the moment. One of our colleagues is producing a storyboard for how Parish Council can get more engaged in gauging carbon emissions, not only their own, but also from their parish. Now they can put together an action plan to deal with it. So this is already already going to be expanded from what you can see at the moment.

268 00:32:47.580 --> 00:32:53.010 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: and it talks about the the impact tool which again, some of us have.

269 00:32:53.210 --> 00:32:57.849 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: I've already seen which is about how you can find out what's happening in your area.

270 00:32:58.682 --> 00:33:02.510 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: And so that's a link straight through to that. Now

271 00:33:03.190 --> 00:33:13.169 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: and then we have some other guidance. So we did some work on carbon saving, building improvements some while ago with a future leap consultancy in Bristol.

272 00:33:13.550 --> 00:33:17.980 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: and it's some guidance on how we might look at things. And it's a checklist approach.

273 00:33:18.410 --> 00:33:30.190 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: So you get down here. There's all these different checklists, so you can. If you've got a building Town hall, Parish Council Building Community Center. Then you can go through all this and say, right, can we do anything about this? Does this apply to me

274 00:33:30.360 --> 00:33:33.379 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: so so it makes it easy to plan to how to

275 00:33:33.720 --> 00:33:38.959 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: save money while you're also in terms of reducing carbon emissions from your building.

276 00:33:39.780 --> 00:34:01.719 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: And there's some realities here about. You know. How? Why is it that we could do these things? Sometimes we need to know that there's a groundswell of response and support from our parish to what we're doing, because sometimes, of course, some of these improvements cost some money, so we need to think right? We've got. We got a good public mandate for what we're proposing to do.

277 00:34:03.440 --> 00:34:06.030 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: So there we go, and so there's nothing here.

278 00:34:06.290 --> 00:34:10.579 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Last but not least, cooperating, drawing up. How do we get people engaged?

279 00:34:10.690 --> 00:34:15.510 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Here's a bigger picture of the people in Home Valley who were actually having this table of different topics.

280 00:34:15.760 --> 00:34:24.231 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: and they put together that some plans for that. The advantage of that kind of thing also is that while the Parish Council may not

281 00:34:24.699 --> 00:34:34.510 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: be the leading organization in a local initiative. They can actually provide continuity. And we don't want big climate action plans that sit on the shelf and gather dust.

282 00:34:34.739 --> 00:34:45.130 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: But of course, volunteers and people come and go. And this is what actually happened at Home Valley at a great start. A lot of people involved. Then it was a change of councillors and change of of personnel.

283 00:34:45.330 --> 00:34:53.159 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: but the new, the new council was able to pick up the reins reins from where they were before, and and to carry on taking it forward.

284 00:34:53.659 --> 00:35:05.359 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: So that is the role. So you can see there's quite a lot more there in terms of what Parish councils can do, and very much thinking about parishes at different stages of their of their development.

285 00:35:06.960 --> 00:35:10.764 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: So we're back on the home page here. We have

286 00:35:11.960 --> 00:35:18.120 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: links to other organizations. Carbon copy is very good, because that has links to

287 00:35:19.140 --> 00:35:22.739 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: ideas stories from different places.

288 00:35:23.234 --> 00:35:31.740 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Cycling kitchen. Oh, they've got over a thousand stories here, and you can. We can. You can sort search them by topic as well.

289 00:35:32.450 --> 00:35:37.650 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: And what should we put in? It's brilliant energy show.

290 00:35:38.490 --> 00:35:40.298 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Let me see what we get.

291 00:35:44.560 --> 00:35:50.570 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: so it's searching its 1,000 on the carbon copy thing for anything that has got to do with energy.

292 00:35:50.770 --> 00:35:52.280 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: And here we all are.

293 00:35:55.350 --> 00:35:58.249 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: That's it. Lots of different things there about energy.

294 00:35:59.100 --> 00:36:03.229 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Oh, they've got beavers. I didn't think Beaver was much about energy, but there we are.

295 00:36:03.760 --> 00:36:10.020 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: eating project and so forth. And actually, they say they've got 31 different topics there South is on communication.

296 00:36:10.440 --> 00:36:15.420 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: So that's a resource that's going to be, which is already available. It's not our resource.

297 00:36:15.790 --> 00:36:20.800 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: but it's going to be linked through from this website.

298 00:36:21.080 --> 00:36:24.730 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Mobility ways. It's about shared transport

299 00:36:24.850 --> 00:36:28.959 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: sport. England, obviously, National Association local councils

300 00:36:29.180 --> 00:36:33.279 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: who have their own website as well. Here it is

301 00:36:33.700 --> 00:36:40.150 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: again, very much for parish councils in mind, lots of different items there.

302 00:36:40.730 --> 00:36:44.149 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: and even some case studies. So there is

303 00:36:44.910 --> 00:36:52.420 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: going to be even more guidance there. And a lot of this is about adding links to the existing website. We're not rewriting things. Quite so much

304 00:36:53.090 --> 00:36:57.070 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: so in terms of how we're getting involved here. We are becoming a volunteer.

305 00:36:57.660 --> 00:37:13.230 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: 3 weekly sessions, local networks. We're going to be developing this a lot more, because if whatever county you're in finding some other people that you can talk to that we can support with, we can share ideas, for seems to be a very important way forward.

306 00:37:13.570 --> 00:37:26.490 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Obviously some organizations already at national bodies already have local branches. But we've started a process of looking at all these different counties and adding in what local networks we can, we can find.

307 00:37:27.733 --> 00:37:34.210 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: the this one Essex Forest of Dean climate action, partnership. This is where I'm living.

308 00:37:34.814 --> 00:37:41.520 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: And there we go. That's something that nice stretch of the river said on there, for example.

309 00:37:41.850 --> 00:37:44.269 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: So again, if people wanting to find

310 00:37:45.300 --> 00:37:49.950 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: other people to connect with, or even to start a network. Then that's a page for that.

311 00:37:50.240 --> 00:37:59.469 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: as well as all the 64 individual actions we're adding in a lot more collective actions, we call them things that you need groups of people to do, not just a household.

312 00:38:00.057 --> 00:38:03.112 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Some of them, again, are something that the bus the

313 00:38:04.350 --> 00:38:07.739 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Parish Council get involved in bus and train timetables.

314 00:38:07.850 --> 00:38:18.170 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: B squares. We've come across this one. This is where, if some species of bubba bee are trapped in a geographical area because they can't get out because they're surrounded by concrete. And Ty.

315 00:38:18.700 --> 00:38:29.220 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: So this is an idea that's come out of Buckinghamshire. Let's have a meter of wildflowers in everybody's garden, giving, like, you know, a motorway service station for bees, so they can move around the place.

316 00:38:29.340 --> 00:38:41.929 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: buying electric vehicles being banked, community composting community fridges. That's another great thing. If we've got food that we can't eat in time, there'll be people in our in our parish that will be grateful for it.

317 00:38:42.623 --> 00:38:47.739 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: So it's not just a food bank. It's a community fridge as well, and people can can be involved in that

318 00:38:48.210 --> 00:38:56.740 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: community woodland. Here we are community orchard, wildlife, gardens, lots of things, my my favorite creating new allotments, and so on and so forth.

319 00:38:57.330 --> 00:39:04.879 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: So there's a lot of extra things in there which are again more about what people do collectively, or what Parish Council do to more effect.

320 00:39:06.240 --> 00:39:22.520 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: But, as I say, a lot of those, as you can see, they've got marks on there for pounds for costs and carbon dioxide reductions. So where there needs to be more in there about things like to do with adaptation, not just to do with reducing carbon emissions.

321 00:39:24.700 --> 00:39:27.949 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: So there we go. There's things about the Parish Council report.

322 00:39:29.000 --> 00:39:30.875 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: And then there's things about.

323 00:39:31.980 --> 00:39:48.459 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: yeah, we're going to be adding in some digital mapping. Tristra is here from Paris online. So we're looking at this at the moment with with tristra and the idea at the moment, and we haven't launched it yet is to have

324 00:39:48.570 --> 00:39:58.599 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: opportunity for people to to use in Paris online to enter things about their parish, and they appear instantly on the map on this website, Stuart, you've got your hand up.

325 00:39:59.639 --> 00:40:06.990 Cllr Stuart Withington, Gt Dunmow TC Essex: Yeah, I mean, all this looks great. One thing I don't think I've seen is the recording of actions taken by

326 00:40:07.140 --> 00:40:09.760 Cllr Stuart Withington, Gt Dunmow TC Essex: people and councils.

327 00:40:09.990 --> 00:40:12.769 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Right. I I feel that.

328 00:40:13.270 --> 00:40:21.040 Cllr Stuart Withington, Gt Dunmow TC Essex: Part of the great collaboration is seeing what other people have done, what has worked, what hasn't worked, what they learned from it.

329 00:40:21.040 --> 00:40:21.770 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Yeah.

330 00:40:22.119 --> 00:40:31.989 Cllr Stuart Withington, Gt Dunmow TC Essex: So there! There seem to be lots of links to lots of other websites. But I I don't think I've seen anything for where we're actually supposed to record what we've been doing.

331 00:40:32.490 --> 00:40:38.849 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Okay, well, let me just get the get. I have to log in to show you that. So I'm just gonna do that shortly.

332 00:40:39.630 --> 00:40:42.740 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: And you can see the kind of reports that come out.

333 00:41:09.200 --> 00:41:12.799 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: this will actually take me in behind the website. But I'll come out and show it to you.

334 00:41:27.430 --> 00:41:28.100 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: No.

335 00:41:34.030 --> 00:41:40.089 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: okay, we're now inside the website at the moment.

336 00:41:41.050 --> 00:41:46.149 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: reason for this is my login isn't an ordinary login. It's actually a website managing login.

337 00:41:46.730 --> 00:41:51.340 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: So let's see where we get to.

338 00:41:57.500 --> 00:41:58.380 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Right?

339 00:42:01.100 --> 00:42:12.304 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: So this is a report for Michelin Parish Council, where I am, and this is showing

340 00:42:14.040 --> 00:42:22.630 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: things that are happening in Mitchell Dean. Now, this is not very active activity, because I'm at the moment I look like I'm the only person that's put some stuff in for Mitchell. Dean.

341 00:42:22.810 --> 00:42:28.370 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: let me find another parish which has got more interesting stuff in it. Okay.

342 00:42:34.860 --> 00:42:42.129 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: sorry, Stuart. If let me a little bit here, right, this is stupid.

343 00:42:43.980 --> 00:42:49.440 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: I need to log in. Let me log out. I need to log in as an ordinary person rather than as myself. If you follow me

344 00:42:50.291 --> 00:42:54.509 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: what I'll do while I'm working that out. I'll stop that sharing

345 00:42:55.404 --> 00:43:06.760 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: looking at the councils. We've had just over half an hour already. Well, I'm just getting that ready to show Stuart would, if there's anybody like to raise any points or ask any questions already.

346 00:43:20.380 --> 00:43:32.389 tristram cary: Yes, I will. I can't find how to raise my hand. Andrew. One thing I'm interested in. You've got some of your guides of how to do things come from Slcc, and some come from the great collaboration itself.

347 00:43:32.390 --> 00:43:32.980 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Yep.

348 00:43:33.140 --> 00:43:42.570 tristram cary: And then now has other ones. 1 1 thing I'm interested in is, if if you end up with as a repository of everybody's ways of doing things.

349 00:43:42.570 --> 00:43:43.180 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Yep.

350 00:43:43.180 --> 00:44:01.630 tristram cary: It's going to get extremely confusing, I guess. So my question is, can you? Is it your intention to amalgamate those guides and try to come out with the best, you know again, a best practice, or a best of the ones, so that you could actually advise people which guide to look at for any particular action.

351 00:44:02.420 --> 00:44:09.823 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Yes, what we can. One of the ways to resolve. This is through the

352 00:44:11.640 --> 00:44:17.409 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: the the knowledge base, because if we put in. Say, say, you're interested in Community garden.

353 00:44:18.410 --> 00:44:26.029 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: then the knowledge base will show all the different ones that are to do with the community garden, and if you've got more than one for the same sort of topic. Yeah.

354 00:44:26.550 --> 00:44:33.389 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: then, then that that point. You're absolutely right. They could be beneficial to have a

355 00:44:38.300 --> 00:44:38.935 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: a

356 00:44:40.580 --> 00:44:55.089 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: if you're if you're this kind of crew, look at this particular version and so forth, so that so that's looking a bit ahead. But you're quite right. If we have just too many different things without any guidance, you're right. That could be, could be, you know, bit of an.

357 00:44:55.090 --> 00:45:11.859 tristram cary: And also it means people are duplicating effort all the time. So if Slcc and now can you could get together and say, How are we going to not produce 3 things? We then have to decide which is the best off, but actually do the job once, I mean, it'd be nice to try to get that amalgamation of effort. In the 1st place.

358 00:45:11.860 --> 00:45:16.669 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Well, as far as now can Slc see it concerned, we've sort of already got that

359 00:45:17.102 --> 00:45:25.870 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: because I have a foot in each organization. I'm the one that's produced most of the stuff on the Slcc website. Now produce a lot of stuff in the past.

360 00:45:26.829 --> 00:45:46.950 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: But if you like, on on the human bridge between those 2 initiatives. And of course there are lots of other places, and there are particular individual parishes and community groups learning a lot of new things, and so that will be those those will need to be absorbed as well. And it's good practices turning up all over the place.

361 00:45:46.950 --> 00:45:51.290 tristram cary: I should have said, it's great. Thank you for showing us. It's really come on since I last saw it.

362 00:45:51.580 --> 00:45:53.560 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Yes, it's not only that.

363 00:45:53.560 --> 00:46:13.959 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration - overseas branch: Just pitch in a second. So one of my to do's in the very long list of things to do on the knowledge base Tristram is to see how we can tag things for individual characteristics. So if you're a community of a certain size or a certain type, if you're rural or urban. If you're huge or small, you will go to different

364 00:46:14.560 --> 00:46:36.260 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration - overseas branch: get different answers. I hope that will be more pertinent to your particular situation, and one of the login processes that we're looking at when you 1st register as a council would be to say, Well, where are you? Who are you? How large are you? What's your range of expertise? How much manpower can you call on? What are your resources so that

365 00:46:36.280 --> 00:46:46.310 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration - overseas branch: you don't have to keep looking for those each time. It's already part of your login, and the search system will take account of that. But that's down the road a piece you haven't actually got there yet.

366 00:46:47.150 --> 00:46:47.870 tristram cary: Thank you.

367 00:46:48.170 --> 00:46:49.490 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Okay. John.

368 00:46:53.160 --> 00:46:54.697 John Payne: Yes, thank you.

369 00:46:55.690 --> 00:46:56.620 John Payne: I think

370 00:46:56.840 --> 00:47:04.369 John Payne: I'd like to know more about resilience. I live in a in a village that's divided 1st of all culturally.

371 00:47:04.900 --> 00:47:08.830 John Payne: And secondly, part of it's in Wales, and part of it's in England.

372 00:47:08.830 --> 00:47:09.500 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Yeah.

373 00:47:09.500 --> 00:47:14.550 John Payne: And I can relate, I think, better now to our national government in Wales.

374 00:47:14.670 --> 00:47:17.760 John Payne: because they started a program for some I think it was some

375 00:47:17.910 --> 00:47:22.989 John Payne: 60 million quid or something about setting up resilience. Hubs and I mentioned it before.

376 00:47:23.210 --> 00:47:29.148 John Payne: and we have a. The village hall has got its own power supply, and can theoretically

377 00:47:29.630 --> 00:47:31.032 John Payne: cope with the

378 00:47:31.910 --> 00:47:38.899 John Payne: population, it can offer support and even accommodation for the whole population in in the Welsh.

379 00:47:40.210 --> 00:47:41.639 John Payne: Parish council area.

380 00:47:42.320 --> 00:47:45.950 John Payne: But I don't see that there's any relationship

381 00:47:46.180 --> 00:47:52.820 John Payne: of great collaboration with central government, which is where the decisions are made and

382 00:47:53.150 --> 00:47:59.980 John Payne: and and the real area that I work in is is road infrastructure. Our village can be

383 00:48:00.610 --> 00:48:06.419 John Payne: cut off at any time by extreme weather. It's already cut off by a sinkhole

384 00:48:06.620 --> 00:48:10.269 John Payne: in the road south to Chepstow. So the traffic lights have been there for

385 00:48:10.450 --> 00:48:16.810 John Payne: 6 months, and also we now have restriction. We now, I work on the a 40 study group.

386 00:48:17.010 --> 00:48:21.760 John Payne: and that the main trunk road into Wales is

387 00:48:22.050 --> 00:48:28.009 John Payne: partial. Well, one half. It is completely closed by landslides, which is related to climate change.

388 00:48:28.580 --> 00:48:31.349 John Payne: We also have the fact that the Severn Bridge

389 00:48:31.560 --> 00:48:37.430 John Payne: from yesterday will no longer take Hgvs over 7.5 tons.

390 00:48:37.640 --> 00:48:40.300 John Payne: We have quite a lot happening, really.

391 00:48:40.510 --> 00:48:42.799 John Payne: And I and I would like this to be

392 00:48:43.250 --> 00:48:54.649 John Payne: an issue. We've already. We've created a great summary about the A. 40. And today we sent off the details to both the Welsh government and all the other agencies in England, because it actually

393 00:48:54.970 --> 00:48:57.739 John Payne: the landslide sits exactly on the border. You know.

394 00:48:57.740 --> 00:48:58.969 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Yes, I've I've I've seen it.

395 00:48:58.970 --> 00:49:03.806 John Payne: And I wonder is that something we could do have have a

396 00:49:04.720 --> 00:49:19.939 John Payne: part of the website which deals 1st of all with practical issues of resilience, how communities cope. And we work in in a much more organized together manner about that, and related to national try and change national priorities.

397 00:49:19.940 --> 00:49:25.147 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: That's fine. No, we we have. We've got that to a certain extent

398 00:49:25.830 --> 00:49:33.510 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: in terms of lobbying government from a Parish Council point of view, the National Association of Council has been leading on that over many years.

399 00:49:33.690 --> 00:49:38.470 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: The site of local Council clerks is beginning to get a bit more involved in certainly supporting what they're doing.

400 00:49:38.800 --> 00:49:44.160 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: But that now could put me into 2 different. Well, it put me 1st off into the

401 00:49:44.260 --> 00:49:47.669 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: department for energy's local net 0 forum.

402 00:49:48.130 --> 00:50:02.270 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: So I was like a local voice in that organization that's now been shifted. But I've also been with Defra. I much prefer defra. They're much more pleasant people to deal with on the local government's local area adaptation panel.

403 00:50:03.030 --> 00:50:14.060 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: And so we do have a voice in there. What's happening at the moment with those, both those panels. But certainly the adaptation panel, which is probably the one that's more connected to resilience

404 00:50:14.270 --> 00:50:31.160 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: is that they're saying. And our next meetings on June 11, th they're saying, Well, let's have. They're thinking about having 2 levels of panel, because some of it is about what happens on the ground, and you know, flood prevention, and so forth. And another part of it, of course, increasingly important, is the strategic issue which I think is what you're referring to.

405 00:50:31.820 --> 00:50:50.859 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: So what the suggestion from our last meeting was that there would be those 2 levels of organization so that the adaptation brackets, including resilience it's got has got something that's looking at practice on the ground, but also strategic stuff at the top. I'll find out on June 11th how that's developed.

406 00:50:50.860 --> 00:51:04.600 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: So the next thing will be is to you know who who are these people who gets involved in it? One of the issues that seems to be with government. Well, there's an issue with government, and they don't. We're not at local and town and parish council level that we're rather transparent.

407 00:51:04.940 --> 00:51:10.780 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: When the people in that arena talk about local authorities. They sort of stop at districts, you know.

408 00:51:11.150 --> 00:51:22.530 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: So there's and we need to sort of change that there's also a question about whether people who are representing, if you like, our sector, our local sector, are officers or councillors.

409 00:51:22.850 --> 00:51:25.449 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: This doesn't matter much, very much to me.

410 00:51:25.730 --> 00:51:34.619 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: but I count as an officer, because I'm not an elected councillor anywhere, and they're not at the moment. And so I'm in there, if you like, on the officer doing panel.

411 00:51:34.910 --> 00:51:45.530 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: So it may be that when we get to the point of having that strategic panel upstairs I'm in there pitching, saying we do need local people in their town and parish council sector nearest to the community.

412 00:51:45.950 --> 00:52:06.219 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: And so that will be important to say. And I made that point quite a lot. I'm careful of not boring people at these meetings. I don't want to think. Oh, God, it's Malafant Parish councils again. Let's let's close our ears until he finishes talking. But that is where we will probably need at least 2 people, John and somebody at the strategic level.

413 00:52:06.560 --> 00:52:13.550 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: you know. Theoretically, I could do both. But let's spread the bit of joy, and it will be interesting to find out whether they request a parish councillor

414 00:52:14.250 --> 00:52:16.320 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: rather than a parish officer.

415 00:52:17.265 --> 00:52:22.679 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: So we've got that. We haven't got it as strong as we would like it, and that's partly because

416 00:52:22.810 --> 00:52:38.089 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: government hasn't really bothered much about towns, parish councils for a long time. But now government is saying, we're going to get rid of districts. We're going to have unitaries. Then it's clear to some of us, at least, that the Parish and Town councils be much more visible.

417 00:52:38.640 --> 00:52:44.620 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: and there is an Mp. For Defra, minister for Rural Affairs, called Daniel Zeitner, Mp. From Cambridge.

418 00:52:44.840 --> 00:52:47.869 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: and he is apparently looking at this particular issue himself.

419 00:52:48.290 --> 00:52:52.089 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: So we know we're getting there, John. We haven't got there yet.

420 00:52:52.535 --> 00:53:02.170 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: As far as resilience forms are concerned, they have been set up. I'm getting different views about them. It's like anything, any other sort of institution. I suppose some of them work better than others.

421 00:53:02.752 --> 00:53:09.630 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Have we? What sort of feedback, John? If you had for the resilience, Forum, for for the Forest of Dean, for Gloucestershire.

422 00:53:12.560 --> 00:53:14.760 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: you're still muted, John, yeah, yeah.

423 00:53:17.830 --> 00:53:25.920 John Payne: Yeah, we have great. Thank you. Sorry. We have great problems and actually relating to organizations like national

424 00:53:26.290 --> 00:53:31.909 John Payne: sorry with local highways, who really don't want to rock the boat.

425 00:53:32.160 --> 00:53:35.660 John Payne: And yeah, and and it's

426 00:53:36.070 --> 00:53:45.834 John Payne: some of them are privately owned as well. You see the private companies, and we find that incredibly difficult, and you just have to keep on and on at them, you know. And

427 00:53:48.157 --> 00:53:56.233 John Payne: That that it's oh, so yeah, I take your point about the officers and the doers and

428 00:53:59.290 --> 00:54:02.809 John Payne: Oh, gosh! I I think it's a bad experience we have. Yes, we

429 00:54:03.280 --> 00:54:16.839 John Payne: you know, we we just people don't appreciate the the say that how much freight goes by road, you know, 80, 81% of the of the of the economy to Wales, and everywhere else

430 00:54:17.180 --> 00:54:22.827 John Payne: goes by by road traffic, you know, and and that's the roads in a terrible state. The

431 00:54:23.290 --> 00:54:29.240 John Payne: A lot of national highways tell us that the A 40 is is not one of the worst.

432 00:54:29.380 --> 00:54:37.969 John Payne: So we're going to start to see real breakdown of of the road system, and that affects us particularly locally, you know.

433 00:54:38.515 --> 00:54:51.530 John Payne: and and we don't have a way to get through to these organizations. We work quite well with national highways. We have meetings, but and they listen to us. But they don't take any action, because we're yeah sorry.

434 00:54:52.370 --> 00:55:01.069 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Yeah. As I say, that I mean in general terms, broad terms. There is doing stuff, and there is campaigning for other people to do.

435 00:55:01.070 --> 00:55:01.800 John Payne: Hmm.

436 00:55:02.100 --> 00:55:11.500 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: And we clearly need the both. At the moment, the parent great collaboration. We've been focusing very much on the doing side of things and gathering the good practice.

437 00:55:11.770 --> 00:55:13.720 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: helping people do work on the ground.

438 00:55:14.450 --> 00:55:14.830 John Payne: Yeah.

439 00:55:14.830 --> 00:55:22.660 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: But I mean, for example, I'm about to respond to the Local Government Association's consultation on devolution and climate change

440 00:55:23.130 --> 00:55:28.190 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: on behalf of the great collaboration. So we, you know we we will. We will be having a voice in there.

441 00:55:29.084 --> 00:55:33.309 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: But yes, John, it's a it seemed. It feels like a long, long haul than it should be.

442 00:55:33.310 --> 00:55:47.930 John Payne: Can I just say that the the problem with our Parish Council, which is not really just, relates to one individual, is that it won't include extinction rebellion, which I'm a member of, and which there's a huge number of these people on a form of 60 or so.

443 00:55:48.100 --> 00:55:50.720 John Payne: and yet I can't get them to accept that.

444 00:55:51.140 --> 00:55:53.309 John Payne: You know this is an organization that is

445 00:55:54.260 --> 00:56:01.120 John Payne: not a danger to society, but, you know, is where a forum, where people can express their concerns about the climate.

446 00:56:02.060 --> 00:56:07.769 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: That's right, is it? Just just stop. All? Is that the one that's closed now is that.

447 00:56:07.770 --> 00:56:14.430 John Payne: Just stop. Oil is closed. Really. Yes, there are a lot of people who became alienated from extinction, rebellion.

448 00:56:14.570 --> 00:56:28.979 John Payne: and a lot of public got upset when just stop oil started its campaign, and and particularly in the forest, you know, because we're very active. And these people have really paid for the for their activities. I didn't support their particular

449 00:56:29.480 --> 00:56:38.900 John Payne: motorway stopping, but a friend of mine is who is about, who is very active. He's about 80. He has a fine of 10,000 pounds to pay off, you know.

450 00:56:38.900 --> 00:56:41.949 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Very cool. Yeah. And some of them are in prison, of course. Yeah.

451 00:56:41.950 --> 00:56:45.680 John Payne: And he's been in prison as well. Yes, yeah, hmm.

452 00:56:45.680 --> 00:56:46.170 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Okay.

453 00:56:46.170 --> 00:56:49.790 John Payne: He is committed people, but they're not.

454 00:56:50.160 --> 00:56:51.310 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Yeah, I've been given

455 00:56:52.810 --> 00:56:59.030 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: of campaigning. All I know about campaigning is that if you're going to campaign, go in hard from the outset.

456 00:56:59.160 --> 00:57:07.939 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: but the it isn't just enough to wave a flag or to sign things. Then we we need. We need traction, don't we? We need to get allies. We need to find.

457 00:57:07.940 --> 00:57:11.470 John Payne: That's what we found with the road system. We go in very hard.

458 00:57:11.470 --> 00:57:12.380 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Yeah, indeed.

459 00:57:12.380 --> 00:57:16.000 John Payne: And and it's our fault, probably the A 40 safety group. But the A. 40 still

460 00:57:17.000 --> 00:57:21.900 John Payne: remains closed, because we know how dangerous it is. You know.

461 00:57:21.900 --> 00:57:25.930 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Right is indeed. Yeah, yeah, thank you. Have your hand up, sir.

462 00:57:28.490 --> 00:57:29.590 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: You're muted me.

463 00:57:30.570 --> 00:57:35.910 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration - overseas branch: My immediate reaction to John's story would be, What's your Mp. For?

464 00:57:39.082 --> 00:58:04.237 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration - overseas branch: Because, for instance, the equivalent of the A 40 on the Isle of Wight are the ferry systems, and we are so disgusted with the ferry systems, and particularly their charges and their availability, that we recently got a second Mp. In the Isle of Wight, who is a local, and he's now moving heaven and earth, and the Ministry of Transport has got involved, and they set up a committee to look into it, and the

465 00:58:04.560 --> 00:58:12.860 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration - overseas branch: the White Link Ferry system said, well, here are the people on our committee, and we flatly refuse to talk to the following people on your committee.

466 00:58:12.860 --> 00:58:39.430 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration - overseas branch: We can't have them. And, by the way, the topic that we discussed will not include availability of ships. It will not include fares, and it will not include timetables. And you think, talk about the tail wagging the dog, and the Mp. Is saying that is not acceptable, and you are not the persons to determine what the committee covers and what it's going to do and who it's going to contain. And I thought, there's an Mp. Who's earning his keep. And I wonder what John's Mp. Is doing about all this.

467 00:58:39.430 --> 00:58:40.020 John Payne: There are 2.

468 00:58:40.020 --> 00:58:41.500 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration - overseas branch: 40, was major.

469 00:58:42.394 --> 00:58:56.279 John Payne: 2 Mps that that in, and and Monmouth. They're not necessarily the same people now, they just too politically partisan. So you can't

470 00:58:56.840 --> 00:59:01.579 John Payne: it? It's potluck whether you get someone who's got an open mind or not, really.

471 00:59:02.250 --> 00:59:04.779 John Payne: And if if it goes to reform

472 00:59:05.889 --> 00:59:12.149 John Payne: you know that that'll be even worse, really, because of the their closed minds, you know. And yeah.

473 00:59:13.520 --> 00:59:15.970 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration - overseas branch: All right. Well, I guess that's what impeachment's for.

474 00:59:17.060 --> 00:59:17.840 John Payne: Hmm.

475 00:59:20.300 --> 00:59:21.620 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Hmm, okay.

476 00:59:23.450 --> 00:59:25.910 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Right? Okay. Tristram.

477 00:59:27.610 --> 00:59:36.560 tristram cary: Yeah. I just wanted to say that if you, I think there's a danger of combining resilience and adaptation with prevention

478 00:59:36.990 --> 00:59:40.019 tristram cary: because they're 2. They're 2 entirely separate things.

479 00:59:40.647 --> 00:59:46.720 tristram cary: So so I just think if if you in your website I would urge against sort of adding

480 00:59:46.960 --> 00:59:53.459 tristram cary: resilience to the taxonomy. Because I think you need an almost completely different website to discuss how to adapt to climate change.

481 00:59:54.060 --> 01:00:00.500 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Well, we have got adaptation and and mitigation as keywords on the website. At the moment

482 01:00:00.510 --> 01:00:27.559 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: they are different things in the great scheme of things. My perception is that what needs to happen is people in the local places need to start doing something. It almost doesn't matter what it is, you've got to start somewhere. Maybe it's flood presentation. Maybe it's carbon reductions from your village hall. It doesn't know what it is, but once we've got people that are working together and aware of some of the issues and what they can do in practice.

483 01:00:27.630 --> 01:00:35.749 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: then they can take on other things as time and a half goes by. But I agree with you about we don't want. We're not deliberately going. We don't really want to confuse the issue.

484 01:00:36.230 --> 01:00:58.869 tristram cary: I think it is quite confused in a lot of people's minds and at a parish level, for instance, 1 1 thing a parish can do, I think, very effectively, is in their neighborhood plans, and they're campaigning with the district is not to build in floodplains, because we know that's you know we know that's going to cause endless trouble. And yet we still building floodplains, and nobody seems to take much notice of it.

485 01:00:59.090 --> 01:00:59.530 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Yeah.

486 01:00:59.530 --> 01:01:05.499 tristram cary: But that that needs a different, completely different mindset to growing your vegetables in an allotment, or blocking up your.

487 01:01:05.810 --> 01:01:06.779 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Yeah, that's correct.

488 01:01:06.780 --> 01:01:08.060 tristram cary: External Windows.

489 01:01:08.060 --> 01:01:25.589 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Yeah. And I think, what again, the guidance that we've already produced for parish councils on dealing with local plans, and of course, with their neighbour development plans is very much along the lines that you've described. Let's ask these right questions. One of the issues that needs ironing out. I'm mentioning it in my return to local Government association

490 01:01:25.720 --> 01:01:30.810 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: is that it seems that the planning inspectorate is not operating from the fixed playbook.

491 01:01:31.620 --> 01:01:38.760 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: And you put you put together. Yeah, you put together a draft neighborhood plan for one area and it's got useful policies in it.

492 01:01:39.150 --> 01:01:44.290 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: and the inspector likes it. You put the same policies in another area, and the inspector won't like it.

493 01:01:44.620 --> 01:02:13.919 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: So in terms of strategic stuff, again, taking leaf out of John's book, one of my ambitions is to at least every planning inspector is approving or disapproving the same things, because that you think here we are in allegedly, a civilized world governed country, and we've got this sort of anomaly on something which is actually very important. People are actually almost well, I can't speak for the planning inspectors, but somewhere along the line. You are getting contradictory rulings from these guys.

494 01:02:14.120 --> 01:02:15.569 tristram cary: Supposed to start learning, too.

495 01:02:15.750 --> 01:02:27.320 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Yeah, well, I think we need to. What was it we teach them learning, wasn't it? Was the wind in the willow stuff. Yeah, what's wrong with those language? We're gonna learn them. Learn and learn them.

496 01:02:27.630 --> 01:02:32.720 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Let's just finish off the rest of the presentation just now. I haven't forgotten your question.

497 01:02:36.160 --> 01:02:37.260 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: that's do it.

498 01:02:39.150 --> 01:02:59.380 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: So so we're getting the collective actions we've looked at that we've been able to log in as a parish council or a community group or a local business. Some extension to the logging in there will be. The parish reports will be affected in the same way. For example, there'll be a capacity to put in some particular project that the parish is already doing that gets put on.

499 01:02:59.770 --> 01:03:03.150 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: and the links the networks around the country that I've mentioned.

500 01:03:03.490 --> 01:03:05.990 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: So we've seen. So those are the things that are coming along.

501 01:03:08.060 --> 01:03:12.349 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Then we're also saying I pressed the wrong button.

502 01:03:12.820 --> 01:03:13.640 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Goodness!

503 01:03:18.590 --> 01:03:42.659 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: So the the digital mapping. This is a parish online map. We'll be looking at doing that. And we have the plan which we were discussing with Tristra before people that already linked into parish online to instantly put in, say half a dozen things about what they're doing, whether it's climate actions, or whether it's a declaration of emergency, or whatever it is, and then they can see it instantly appearing on the map, on the great collaboration website to encourage people to get into that.

504 01:03:42.890 --> 01:03:57.830 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: We already got a number of online discussion forums. We're anticipating that having one for each county is going to be sensible. We're going to add funding opportunities from each county to the knowledge base. Again, we're starting in East Anglia with Essex, Cambridge, and Norfolk and Suffolk

505 01:03:58.759 --> 01:04:04.699 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: and so what should be something that we can help people with, particularly from our own resources, essentially

506 01:04:05.070 --> 01:04:24.409 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: and certainly in terms of showing county-based networks around the place. The regional pilot. We have got a pilot team so different venues, as well as the Parish Councils survey has gone out, of course, to all these organizations in the last few days to see what people are actually doing, what they would like to do, what they would need help with.

507 01:04:24.720 --> 01:04:48.729 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: We're still looking for sort of extra funding for paid people to be in East Anglia. But in the meantime we need to get weaving. So we started that exercise. And in actual fact, we found that there are so many demands on people that have offered grants ride funding that they really need to see something that's already happening at a community level before they prepare to open their purses. So there's 2 reasons for doing that.

508 01:04:48.780 --> 01:05:10.980 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: We're looking at having climate action workshops to help people decide locally what they're going to do. We found people are prepared to host county-based advisors once we have got the fundings to do it. It's not just county associations, Suffolk County associations up for it. Rural Community Council in Essex is up for it. Organization called Cambridge Carbon Foot, for it is up for it in Cambridge. So there's different organizations.

509 01:05:11.180 --> 01:05:19.829 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: We've also got a partner body people doing climate emergency centers. These are regular places where we could drop in for advice. They've been happening around the country for a while.

510 01:05:20.450 --> 01:05:25.500 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: and we're looking to help find some more in East Anglia, particularly as part of what what we're doing.

511 01:05:25.780 --> 01:05:31.280 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: So there are things that are happening about that. And some of us on this call today are obviously involved in that in that pilot exercise.

512 01:05:32.100 --> 01:05:58.499 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: So this is our last slide for the presentation. We're interested in more people coming and helping us out. Obviously new guidance and good practice. And some of it may be, as Trish has said, assessing what we've already got, and giving some sort of take on it. We've got a postgraduate intern at the moment, for example, is looking all the different carbon calculators, quite a lot of them trying to advise which one might be best for which people digital mapping we've been talking about. There's things about that which we'll need

513 01:05:58.520 --> 01:06:22.159 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: people to be engaged in that working with parish online ourselves. We're collecting people who are experts, people who know a lot about a certain type of activity, whether it's biodiversity. We've got somebody that we've got connection with who's big on floods management, for example, and so that if any new advice does come across. We want to take. Say, is this any good? Then we've got somebody saying, Here.

514 01:06:22.440 --> 01:06:44.590 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: whoever you are, we've just had this piece of guidance and good practice from such and such a place. What do you think is this appropriate? And so forth? So we're working with that forward? Certainly, in terms of communications. We have a quarterly newsletter, but there's always you can always do more in terms of spreading the news and around, and last, but not least, if people want to get involved in the future of the project itself.

515 01:06:44.680 --> 01:07:01.039 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: become a company member, we have a constitution whereby members of the Board are elected each annual general meeting in the way that a lot of organizations are, and so becoming a company member is a way that people can be helping with that as well.

516 01:07:03.500 --> 01:07:09.369 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: so that there's a bit of a gallop through what we've got, what we're immediately about to be doing

517 01:07:09.500 --> 01:07:12.909 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: and looking forward to the next steps.

518 01:07:13.370 --> 01:07:21.079 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: and I'm conscious I haven't put up for Stuart a detailed Parish Council report yet, but

519 01:07:21.280 --> 01:07:27.479 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: I'll keep you looking at that. Are there any other more points that people would like to raise straight away.

520 01:07:29.380 --> 01:07:38.449 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration - overseas branch: Just to say that if you do come up with a report for Stuart, I'd be very happy to publish it on the wicked, because I think that would be of great interest to a number of people.

521 01:07:38.450 --> 01:08:07.550 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: An example report. Yes, that's right. What I want to do is I get when I get to the right place. There's a list of all the different parishes that have already entered. Data, of course, are in Herefordshire, and some of them got quite a lot of detail in them in Herefordshire, that with the help of the website and a 2 day week person, they they got in touch with over 350 people, and over 3 years they committed themselves about 2,400 actions between them.

522 01:08:07.820 --> 01:08:14.659 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: So it was been very effective in Herefordshire. And we're just looking to spread that, as you know, across the rest of the of the nation.

523 01:08:17.680 --> 01:08:25.459 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: so yeah, I'll I'll dig that all that. We'll put that it will put that in the notes, anyway, Graham. But I'll get

524 01:08:26.689 --> 01:08:33.220 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: I'll get a copy of a of a live Parish Council report for you, Stuart, very shortly.

525 01:08:33.229 --> 01:08:34.919 Cllr Stuart Withington, Gt Dunmow TC Essex: Thank you. No rush.

526 01:08:34.920 --> 01:08:37.700 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: No, okay.

527 01:08:38.800 --> 01:08:45.039 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: I don't think I don't think we're ready to say any more about the parish online yet other than I've said, but I know there's meetings about that going on.

528 01:08:45.795 --> 01:08:53.690 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Kirsten, Joanne Kirsten. There was anything else you wanted to ask or talk about, because now you're here.

529 01:08:56.229 --> 01:09:04.179 Kirsten Newble Cambridge: Hi! I was just typing in the chat. Actually, as you you called me out 1st a huge thank you. I

530 01:09:04.539 --> 01:09:32.232 Kirsten Newble Cambridge: I think I hadn't kept abreast of quite how much was going on, so that was really useful. Although now I have to confess I'm feeling slightly overwhelmed how I get locally up to speed in terms of engaging with the Council and then being with my community group hat on, etc. But but seeing how much support there is there available. Is certainly very reassuring. So thank you for that. I did pop a quick question which

531 01:09:33.049 --> 01:09:36.889 Kirsten Newble Cambridge: Graham's very kindly going to find me? The answer to, because one of the things that

532 01:09:37.539 --> 01:09:47.649 Kirsten Newble Cambridge: very locally to me I know Cambridge is my big hat, and, as you know, I'm with Cambridge carbon footprint who were mentioned earlier because I was about to start raising the flag for them, too.

533 01:09:48.109 --> 01:10:12.042 Kirsten Newble Cambridge: What what's happening in Cambridge isn't necessarily replicated in all the villages outside of Cambridge. As I'm sure you know, is is not unusual. Different size communities progress at different speeds, and so, therefore, finding ways to support them and help them on that journey is is really useful. So thank you for that. At the moment no particular other questions. Apart from having that that stat of

534 01:10:12.449 --> 01:10:25.629 Kirsten Newble Cambridge: back back to that, that reassurance for people that other people, you know. There, there are councils doing this. If you see what I mean, it's it's it's back to that reference point of people taking action. If they know their neighbors are taking action.

535 01:10:26.030 --> 01:10:26.580 Kirsten Newble Cambridge: That's not.

536 01:10:26.580 --> 01:10:39.310 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Exactly. Yeah. And that's always been part of the mix. And yeah, where's where's my nearest parish? That's running a repair cafe or a community fridge or or new allotments, absolutely so.

537 01:10:39.310 --> 01:11:01.860 Kirsten Newble Cambridge: It's quite remarkable. Actually, you mentioned repair cafes. That's 1 thing we're very strong on over in Cambridgeshire. And they literally it's almost you got to critical mass, and it just is blossoming. They're popping up all over the place now, and also the thermal imaging cameras, you know, from having one and then to 2, and then all of a sudden, you're at 15 before you've blinked. It's just getting that momentum going, I think.

538 01:11:03.150 --> 01:11:28.950 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: I mean, in terms of councils and community groups working together. That's my part of the ship in terms of the survey that we sent out around all Cambridge and parishes, and and the other counties as well. One of the boxes people can take is helping with community engagement getting that together, and I've already got a date for that on June 30, th for a bit of a webinar about that.

539 01:11:29.070 --> 01:11:33.530 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: So I suspect the more people that come forward that want to know

540 01:11:33.820 --> 01:11:47.709 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: of more about that process. I should invite them to come and sit in on that webinar, and we can share our thoughts. It's 1 thing about telling and helping parish councils get in touch with their communities. And a lot of parishes. Frankly, don't do that.

541 01:11:48.640 --> 01:11:53.850 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: But it's also about helping communities get in touch with their parish councils because they may not have done that before either.

542 01:11:54.457 --> 01:12:00.360 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: And to. So that I mean each of those 2 groups of people have got their own

543 01:12:00.460 --> 01:12:07.800 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: things that they can bring to the party and things that they can they can offer. But it's very much about, as you say, helping them to work together.

544 01:12:07.980 --> 01:12:08.530 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: That'd be fine.

545 01:12:08.530 --> 01:12:21.110 Kirsten Newble Cambridge: I think that would be very, very useful. I think the Parish Councils I've interacted with have all been incredibly positive, but incredibly overstretched is the way it's just another thing. There's so many things they're dealing with already. So.

546 01:12:21.110 --> 01:12:21.889 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: It's such a huge.

547 01:12:21.890 --> 01:12:24.840 Kirsten Newble Cambridge: Again loops back to the support that you can give them is great.

548 01:12:25.140 --> 01:12:32.119 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: And it's such a huge canvas. I mean, I'm I'm convinced, and have been for a long time that having a paid person per county is absolutely essential for

549 01:12:32.220 --> 01:12:34.149 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: helping things go forward. Yeah.

550 01:12:35.028 --> 01:12:39.799 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Joanne did, was there? How how are you feeling from Ship Lake in in Oxfordshire?

551 01:12:39.800 --> 01:12:51.139 Joanne Stone, Shiplake PC, Oxon: I'm feeling fine. I'm very I really want to look at the bit that you've done for the small Parish councils, because we are very small, and obviously we board a Henley who are very.

552 01:12:51.280 --> 01:12:54.050 Joanne Stone, Shiplake PC, Oxon: They're quite well advanced in this.

553 01:12:54.390 --> 01:12:56.740 Joanne Stone, Shiplake PC, Oxon: so we just need to

554 01:12:57.410 --> 01:13:07.019 Joanne Stone, Shiplake PC, Oxon: try and link up with our neighbors really but, as I says, Kirsten said, it's daunting all the stuff you've got on there, so I need to.

555 01:13:07.020 --> 01:13:08.450 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: A lot of it. Yeah.

556 01:13:08.450 --> 01:13:09.870 Joanne Stone, Shiplake PC, Oxon: Gauge properly.

557 01:13:09.870 --> 01:13:28.370 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Yeah, obviously, I've been showing all of it. Wham you know. What we need to achieve is that people who are, as you saw in in the thing. If I'm a beginning Parish Council, you don't have to go and look through all of it. You know there's some links there to some of the the easy, you know. Starter stuff, if you like.

558 01:13:28.370 --> 01:13:32.979 Joanne Stone, Shiplake PC, Oxon: No, no, definitely I will look at that. That's great, and these are brilliant. So thanks for them.

559 01:13:33.140 --> 01:13:41.250 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Yeah, no, you're very welcome. As I say, if you look on the climate action web page for Slcc, you'll find all kinds of stuff already there

560 01:13:42.039 --> 01:13:47.619 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: including the you know, the small councils bit and slcc. Do. Do we do? Do webinars on that as well?

561 01:13:48.170 --> 01:13:51.870 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: But there we go, Annooki.

562 01:13:52.850 --> 01:13:59.870 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Right? Anymore. It's was it just past one o'clock? Persons had to go off?

563 01:14:01.770 --> 01:14:25.819 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Any any thoughts from from outside this meeting of oh, we've already had the idea that people things need to be carefully structured and channeled so that people can find the right stuff quickly without becoming confused. And we're up for that. So that was useful when we, when the website that I've just given you a sneak preview of does go live, we'll be encouraging people to look at it and and give us give their feedback about it.

564 01:14:26.151 --> 01:14:32.159 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Because this is a, it's a working exercise. There'll always be more things that we can do, and things we can do better.

565 01:14:32.590 --> 01:14:34.710 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: So that's where we're going with all of that.

566 01:14:34.950 --> 01:14:37.794 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Cheers, Kirsten. Thanks so much for coming by.

567 01:14:38.660 --> 01:14:43.769 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Jenny Stuart Graham. Anything else people would like to raise at this. At this point.

568 01:14:44.652 --> 01:14:52.529 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration - overseas branch: Just a very big thank you, Andrew, for stepping in and making such a a very intriguing session. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

569 01:14:52.940 --> 01:14:57.278 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: There's a there's lots going on as you, you and I know.

570 01:14:57.880 --> 01:15:25.470 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: And now, of course, people can look online and see what's going on, but I will dig out particularly because people will read this presentation. Look at this presentation. Say here. He promised to put up this Parish Council report where the heck is it? You know. So I'll do that. I just when I log in as myself, then myself knows they. The system, knows I'm from Richard Dean and the Richard Dean. Report isn't, too, isn't too clever, but there is a way I can get in which I can look at other parish reports as well.

571 01:15:25.470 --> 01:15:30.399 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: and I'll find one that's a bit more extensive. It'll be almost certainly from Herefordshire.

572 01:15:31.060 --> 01:15:31.680 Cllr Stuart Withington, Gt Dunmow TC Essex: Thank you.

573 01:15:31.680 --> 01:15:34.159 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: And you'll see where what the those things are about.

574 01:15:35.131 --> 01:15:38.350 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Who have we got next week, Graham? Do we know.

575 01:15:38.350 --> 01:15:46.119 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration - overseas branch: It's probably going to be if we're very, very fortunate, the what has actually changed on the new

576 01:15:47.990 --> 01:16:01.960 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration - overseas branch: great collaboration website. And if it hasn't happened, I'll have to find somebody else. I've got a whole list of people I'm working with, but getting answers back. An awful lot of people seem to be on vacation at the moment. It's half term, and you know they're all away with their kids and so forth.

577 01:16:01.960 --> 01:16:15.269 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Yeah, yeah, the I mean, the things I've shown people today are are in the process of being transported across the live site. And obviously, once they are there, then there'll be another fanfare, and people can can look at it in reality.

578 01:16:15.270 --> 01:16:17.030 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration - overseas branch: Yep, good.

579 01:16:17.030 --> 01:16:17.580 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Good.

580 01:16:17.940 --> 01:16:18.520 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Okay.

581 01:16:18.520 --> 01:16:19.739 Cllr Stuart Withington, Gt Dunmow TC Essex: Right. Well, thank you very much.

582 01:16:19.740 --> 01:16:20.809 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration - overseas branch: Thank you, sir, thank you, everybody.

583 01:16:20.980 --> 01:16:23.039 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration - overseas branch: Bye, bye, John, and goodbye, Jenny.

584 01:16:23.310 --> 01:16:25.798 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Now go and get that report for you.

585 01:16:26.110 --> 01:16:28.620 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration - overseas branch: Thank you. Take care, everybody see you next week.

586 01:16:28.620 --> 01:16:29.110 Cllr Stuart Withington, Gt Dunmow TC Essex: Alright!

587 01:16:29.110 --> 01:16:30.260 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration - overseas branch: Bye, bye.

588 01:16:30.540 --> 01:16:31.210 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Take care!