CCA 01: 22Jul25 Wendover & Villages
Joolz Thompson runs a 1 hour workshop
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Presentation:
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Future meetings planned:
Wednesday 20Aug25
Monday 15Sep25
You can register for these meetings here
Meeting Summary:
Quick recap
The meeting served as a kickoff session for a community climate action initiative, introducing participants and outlining the project's participatory approach. Presentations covered climate change impacts, community resilience, and successful examples of climate action projects, emphasizing the urgency of addressing environmental issues and the potential for local communities to make a difference. The group discussed funding options, engagement strategies, and plans for future workshops to expand the initiative's reach and impact.
Next steps
Rachel/Anna: Coordinate outreach efforts to invite Cricket Club, Scouts Group, Bob Dock, and local organizations to the upcoming workshop
Julie: Continue pushing climate change and sustainability strategy initiatives with Buckinghamshire schools
Parish representatives: Identify and nominate point of contact for each participating parish for coordination
Liz: Explore potential sponsorship opportunities with Howdens insurance company
Rachel: Follow up with Taylor Wimpy representative regarding workshop attendance
All attendees: Come up with project ideas or make one outreach call before the next zoom meeting
Mayuko: Connect with the library regarding the climate action project and share updates at the next meeting
Rachel/Anna: Share marketing and outreach plan with all participants
Joolz: Connect with Tarmac's Buckinghamshire representative to explore potential collaboration
All attendees: Register for the next two zoom meetings using the same link
Robert: Book registration for the October workshop
Rachel: Investigate the Bioregional Learning Center resources mentioned by Robert for potential application to the project
Summary
Climate Action Initiative Kickoff Meeting
The meeting served as a kickoff session for a climate action initiative, with Joolz and Rachel discussing the setup and logistics of the meeting, including the recording feature and the expected attendance of 17-20 participants. Mayuko shared her upcoming part-time role at Community Impact Box starting next Monday, and Frances inquired about the next meeting in the pub, which was confirmed for August 14th at 7 PM. The group also discussed inviting Sustrans and the local library to participate in the project, with Mayuko planning to follow up with the library.
Stoke Mandeville Climate Action Kickoff
The meeting served as a kickoff session for the Community Climate Action Plan for Stoke Mandeville, Western Turville, Holton, and Wendover, with Joolz introducing the initiative and outlining its participatory approach. Participants shared their backgrounds and interests, including concerns about climate change, environmental sustainability, and community engagement. Joolz emphasized the need for collaboration and recruitment of more participants to expand the initiative's reach, referencing similar successful projects in East Anglia and Essex. The conversation ended with a brief presentation on the community climate action planning process, focusing on analyzing key areas like food, energy, transport, housing, and biodiversity.
Community Action on Climate Change
Joolz presented on climate change impacts and community action, noting that 80% of people believe governments aren't doing enough and 60% want to take action but don't know how. He highlighted the urgent need to address climate change, citing record-breaking temperatures, droughts, floods, and wildfires, while emphasizing that current CO2 levels exceed the safety threshold of 350 ppm. Joolz discussed the importance of community resilience, food security, and emergency planning, referencing a recent food resilience workshop in Worthing funded by Sussex Resilience Forum. He concluded by sharing California's achievement of running entirely on renewable energy for over a month, emphasizing that if a major US state can do it, communities can too, through initiatives like agrivoltaics.
Community Climate Action Initiatives
Joolz presented on community climate action initiatives, highlighting a project in East Anglia involving agrivoltaics and wind turbines to power 6,000 homes. He discussed funding options for community energy projects, including grants, community shares, and innovative financing models. Joolz emphasized the importance of engaging local communities and anchor institutions to build support for climate action. He introduced the concept of the Diffusion of Innovation to illustrate how to start and grow community initiatives. The presentation concluded with information on upcoming workshops and events to further engage local councils and communities in climate action efforts.
Community Pub Funding Success Story
Joolz explained how they purchased a pub and land through a combination of community shares, government grants, and funding from organizations like the Plunkett Foundation and the National Lottery. They discussed the importance of community right to buy legislation and the various funding sources available for community projects, including renewable energy installations. Frances expressed interest in applying similar funding methods to projects in her community, such as traffic calming measures.
Wendover Climate Action Workshop Planning
The group discussed plans for a climate action workshop in Wendover, aiming to engage 60 participants from the community. Joolz outlined the workshop's purpose, emphasizing its participatory and democratic approach. The team discussed strategies to broaden involvement beyond the usual suspects, including mapping stakeholders and connecting existing climate initiatives. They also addressed concerns about climate anxiety and paralysis, with Joolz suggesting ways to empower individuals to take action. The group explored potential funding sources, including industry partners like Tarmac, Taylor Wimpey, and Howden's insurance. Joolz encouraged further outreach to these companies for sponsorship opportunities.
Workshop Success and Future Events
The conversation ended with Joolz thanking participants and encouraging them to register for future zoom calls. Rachel confirmed that the upcoming zooms would use the same link as the current one, and Robert expressed interest in attending the October event while ensuring local participants could also participate. The group discussed the success of the initial workshop, with Rachel noting that despite initial doubts, 23 people attended out of 100 invited, and Robert shared insights from a recent bi-regional learning center meeting in Devon.
Chat:
00:13:03 Hugo Veloso: My microphone is not working is not working, Im Hugo from Halton parish council 00:15:58 Sarah Copley: Hi, I'm Sarah, I'm the clerk at Weston Turville Parish Council 00:20:32 Francesca Beato: Hi! I’m Francesca assistant clerk at Weston Turville parish council 00:21:02 Ben Brownlee: Reacted to "Hi! I’m Francesca as..." with 👍🏻 00:52:41 Joy O’Neill: Plunket is amazing at helping communities to do this https://plunkett.co.uk/ 00:53:31 Justine Hamer: We have a community pub near ivinghoe and a community energy set up as well - which is a good start 00:54:07 Justine Hamer: Community energy benefit society - BCE 01:07:01 Joy O’Neill: see you all next time - need to go now 01:07:24 Ben Brownlee: Good to join up thanks - see you next time 01:08:49 Simon McEvoy: Apologies, I need to drop. Happy to put anyone in touch with any of my contacts on LinkedIn if it helps - https://www.linkedin.com/in/simcevoy/ 01:11:24 Maddie McGregor: see you next time! 01:12:03 Sarah Feeney: sorry, I need to go, Very useful, thank you. see you next time. 01:15:45 Justine Hamer: That was great, thanks 01:16:05 julie lloyd-evans: Thank you! very useful! 01:16:11 Hugo Veloso: Thank u
Speech-to-text (forAI Search):
137 00:10:27.620 --> 00:10:48.050 Joolz | Community Climate Action: There we go. So it's nearly 5 past. So I think pretty much everyone that's coming is coming, and a bit of housekeeping we are recording it. It will be published online if anyone doesn't want to. Doesn't want to be recorded or shown online, please let me know. We can do our best to either edit or similar
138 00:10:48.410 --> 00:10:52.460 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and you can always keep your camera off if you're shy, and
139 00:10:53.410 --> 00:10:56.930 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and we ask everyone to stay on mute unless you're talking
140 00:10:58.075 --> 00:11:03.980 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and we're going to be fairly fairly quick
141 00:11:04.130 --> 00:11:09.140 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and keeps time. We've just discussed. This is going to be for an hour till 8,
142 00:11:09.240 --> 00:11:13.440 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and there are quite a lot of people on the call which I'm delighted to see.
143 00:11:13.630 --> 00:11:21.930 Joolz | Community Climate Action: So just to introduce this call, this is the sort of kickoff meeting for Wendover and villages, community climate action planning
144 00:11:22.270 --> 00:11:39.100 Joolz | Community Climate Action: where we're going to come together and write a community climate action, plan for the villages and parishes of Stoke, Mandeville, Western Turville, Halton, and Wendover in particular, although it's not exclusive. Those are the
145 00:11:39.100 --> 00:12:02.580 Joolz | Community Climate Action: participatory parishes. But anyone else can join. Come along. See what we're doing, learn, and participate with the intention of broadening this activity to other communities. We've got very similar going on right throughout East Anglia, right down to the south coast of England, and you know we've got Broms Grove community climate action. Cic, just incorporated up near Birmingham.
146 00:12:03.060 --> 00:12:22.530 Joolz | Community Climate Action: I am going to ask or offer a quick go around just a quick introduction. Your name, perhaps your interest, maybe what you do, but we'll try and keep it super brief. 10 to 20 seconds each kind of thing. So we don't take up too much of the time. And I'm also going to ask for your help.
147 00:12:23.520 --> 00:12:24.989 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and because I might not
148 00:12:25.390 --> 00:12:34.389 Joolz | Community Climate Action: recognise that everybody's spoken. So when you finish, please, please do pass it on, and anyone can start. Do you want to kick off, Rachel?
149 00:12:41.780 --> 00:12:43.130 Mayuko Yamada: You're muted, Rachel.
150 00:12:45.010 --> 00:13:02.319 Rachel Blackmore: There we go. Yes, I'd love to kick off so. Yes, I'm Rachel, and I'm just reading an apology from Justine. Sorry I can't. Too late to promote the meeting tonight. Yeah, I'm not quite. There's a few. Hi, both sorry.
151 00:13:03.410 --> 00:13:11.520 Rachel Blackmore: Yes, a few sorries for the people who I think, had booked and can't come. Yep, so sorry. What were the questions? Jules.
152 00:13:12.306 --> 00:13:22.159 Joolz | Community Climate Action: There's okay, a very quick introduction of yourself, and where you're from, what your interest or what, why you're here. But we're trying to limit it to under, around 10 seconds. Really so very quick, great, far.
153 00:13:22.270 --> 00:13:31.169 Rachel Blackmore: Lovely. So Rachel Blackmore, concerned about the climate environment, delighted to meet Jules, and hoping to get on and with as a as a team and do something about it.
154 00:13:32.220 --> 00:13:34.450 Joolz | Community Climate Action: Fab, and then, if you could choose someone to pass it on.
155 00:13:34.450 --> 00:13:35.899 Rachel Blackmore: Over to my Uco.
156 00:13:37.520 --> 00:13:44.349 Mayuko Yamada: Hi, everyone! I'm Mayuko. I'm a member of climate action. Wendover.
157 00:13:45.010 --> 00:13:48.970 Mayuko Yamada: Hi, Francis, would you like to introduce next.
158 00:13:52.220 --> 00:14:11.270 Frances Tipper: Thank you, Mayuka. Thank you very much. I'm Francis. I'm on the Wendover Parish Council. I'm also part of a sustainability working group on the Parish Council, but hopefully growing, and we are looking to do more in Wendover, which so far has really been all the efforts, thanks to claw
159 00:14:11.270 --> 00:14:24.469 Frances Tipper: the climate action wend over. They've done everything, and Wendover with, I think, very, very little support from the Parish Council, so we're hoping to change that. Sorry if that was a bit too long, Jules. Oh, who do I hand over to Simon.
160 00:14:25.820 --> 00:14:37.599 Simon McEvoy: Hi, good evening, everyone. I'm Simon Mcevoy, live in Western Turville, and I am the head of content for product and engineering side of a security software company called Sneak.
161 00:14:40.720 --> 00:14:46.660 Simon McEvoy: and who I'll hand over to Ian.
162 00:14:50.850 --> 00:14:59.070 Ian Sansbury: Thanks, Simon Ian Sandsbury, recognise. There are a few familiar faces on this call. I'm from Wendover.
163 00:14:59.180 --> 00:15:17.549 Ian Sansbury: I am a licensed lay minister at St. Mary's Church in Wendover. And in my day job at the moment I lead a mental health charity that's focused on getting people out into nature. So yeah, lots of interest in what we're doing here. Thank you. And I will hand over to rob.
164 00:15:18.020 --> 00:15:22.510 Rob Toplis: Hi, I'm Rob. I'm a climate action. Wendover.
165 00:15:22.620 --> 00:15:27.572 Rob Toplis: secretary, Trustee, one of the founder members.
166 00:15:28.510 --> 00:15:31.250 Rob Toplis: And I'll hand over to Joy.
167 00:15:34.200 --> 00:15:56.629 Joy O’Neill: Hi, so I'm Joy and I live in Stoke Manderville, and my interest in this is I'm chair of good food, Bucks, and I'm a trustee for social farms and gardens, and I'm also the ex-director of the Oxford Climate alumni network, and I will hand over to Ben.
168 00:15:59.710 --> 00:16:07.740 Ben Brownlee: Evening. All. Hi! I'm Ben Brownlee, a member of climate, action, western Turville, with Rachel, David, and others
169 00:16:07.840 --> 00:16:15.249 Ben Brownlee: about the last 3 years. Particular interest. In transport electric vehicles, that kind of thing.
170 00:16:17.446 --> 00:16:21.730 Ben Brownlee: I'll pass on to Sarah Feeney.
171 00:16:25.905 --> 00:16:36.580 Sarah Feeney: Yeah, I'm on beards in Parish Council. We're not one of the councils that have contributed financially to the workshop, but I'm hoping to come along with another parish councillor
172 00:16:37.610 --> 00:16:47.180 Sarah Feeney: to kind of learn more and maybe encourage some financial contribution in the future. So clearly, like everybody else, I'm obviously very interested.
173 00:16:47.400 --> 00:16:50.080 Sarah Feeney: so I'll hand over to Alan.
174 00:16:58.970 --> 00:17:01.169 Joolz | Community Climate Action: Oh, unfortunately, we can't hear you, Alan.
175 00:17:02.230 --> 00:17:04.220 Joolz | Community Climate Action: Is that the same for everyone else?
176 00:17:06.520 --> 00:17:07.250 Rob Toplis: Yeah.
177 00:17:07.250 --> 00:17:07.800 Joolz | Community Climate Action: No.
178 00:17:11.339 --> 00:17:14.228 Sarah Feeney: Well, shall I hand over to somebody else? Then
179 00:17:14.550 --> 00:17:16.010 Joolz | Community Climate Action: We'll come. We'll come back to Alan.
180 00:17:16.010 --> 00:17:16.380 Sarah Feeney: Li.
181 00:17:17.530 --> 00:17:19.560 Liz Tice: Hi! Hopefully. You can hear me. All right.
182 00:17:19.569 --> 00:17:20.429 Sarah Feeney: Yes.
183 00:17:20.430 --> 00:17:41.440 Liz Tice: Right? Okay. Hello, everyone. I'm current chair of Stoke Mandeville Village Society. We are currently quite excited about a little project we've got going with tame conservation. Trust to look after Stoke Brook. So that's what we're currently interested in, apart from many other things.
184 00:17:44.450 --> 00:17:49.540 Liz Tice: and I'll hand to. Oh, I don't know I can't remember who's not spoken now, Maddie.
185 00:17:51.710 --> 00:18:16.849 Maddie McGregor: Hi, I'm Maddie. I'm a climate scientist and a face painter. And I know Jules through Glastonbury Festival, and basically I'm helping him to contact schools to get as many schools engaged into your community climate action planning. And it's really loud here, because I'm in Bristol at the moment. But yeah, and I will hand over to.
186 00:18:18.070 --> 00:18:23.880 Maddie McGregor: Maybe Justine hasn't been, or Judy Justine, you're up.
187 00:18:24.070 --> 00:18:24.650 Justine Hamer: Yeah.
188 00:18:25.360 --> 00:18:36.349 Justine Hamer: Hello! Hi, I'm Justine Hamer. I work with Rob and Rachel and David on, and Myuko on climate action. Wendover, I was one of the founding
189 00:18:36.660 --> 00:18:43.460 Justine Hamer: people for that as well. So do a variety of different community engagement and environmental programs locally.
190 00:18:45.743 --> 00:18:55.190 Justine Hamer: Let me think who to hand over to Martin Baxter, I muttered.
191 00:19:02.640 --> 00:19:07.250 Justine Hamer: Martin and Helen, can you hear us?
192 00:19:15.290 --> 00:19:17.100 Justine Hamer: Don't know if they can hear us.
193 00:19:18.090 --> 00:19:18.892 Rob Toplis: There we are!
194 00:19:19.760 --> 00:19:20.340 Justine Hamer: They!
195 00:19:20.530 --> 00:19:31.390 Martin Baxter: I'm Martin from Western Turbo, relatively new member of the community. I've always been involved in community activities wherever I've lived, and that's what I want to contribute
196 00:19:31.700 --> 00:19:32.980 Martin Baxter: to this group.
197 00:19:35.150 --> 00:19:38.740 Martin Baxter: Hi, and just say I'm Helen, and.
198 00:19:39.080 --> 00:19:42.569 Martin Baxter: like Martin, keen to contribute, know very little.
199 00:19:44.640 --> 00:19:45.030 ian hanson: Hello!
200 00:19:45.420 --> 00:19:49.190 Martin Baxter: Hand over to you. Oh, Sarah Copley.
201 00:19:54.690 --> 00:20:01.460 Joolz | Community Climate Action: Oh, I think, Sarah put in the chat. She's the clerk at Western Turville Parish Council. Don't know if her mic's working.
202 00:20:01.460 --> 00:20:01.800 Rachel Blackmore: Good.
203 00:20:01.800 --> 00:20:06.309 ian hanson: And so hands up. If you haven't introduced yourself yet, I know, I know. Oh, David.
204 00:20:06.310 --> 00:20:21.820 Rachel Blackmore: Yeah. So I'm David Blackmore and a member of climate action, western Turville and the Chair of climate action. Wendover and I'm really excited to see these different communities coming together, because I think it will increase our
205 00:20:21.980 --> 00:20:26.540 Rachel Blackmore: capabilities really to do something in a sort of integrated way.
206 00:20:28.020 --> 00:20:30.750 Rachel Blackmore: Robert, did I pass up to you.
207 00:20:31.430 --> 00:20:44.109 robert Parry: Yes, hello there! Great to see everyone. I actually live in Amersham. I met Rachel recently, and then Jules, with part of sustainable Amersham and wild Amersham, the Biodiversity group.
208 00:20:44.380 --> 00:20:52.819 robert Parry: We're looking to do something similar. So Rachel kindly invited me to come along to these just so that I can get a bit of a
209 00:20:53.020 --> 00:20:56.069 robert Parry: more of a sense of where where we're going with it.
210 00:20:56.210 --> 00:20:57.580 robert Parry: Yeah, thank you.
211 00:20:58.080 --> 00:20:59.140 ian hanson: Oh, hello!
212 00:21:01.380 --> 00:21:01.910 ian hanson: Oh.
213 00:21:01.910 --> 00:21:02.480 Joolz | Community Climate Action: 5.
214 00:21:02.970 --> 00:21:03.630 ian hanson: Yeah.
215 00:21:04.550 --> 00:21:06.419 ian hanson: Hi, shy. Come in.
216 00:21:06.420 --> 00:21:07.740 Joolz | Community Climate Action: Yes, please do.
217 00:21:08.030 --> 00:21:08.630 ian hanson: Yeah.
218 00:21:10.070 --> 00:21:12.220 ian hanson: Hello! I'm Ian Hansen. Hello!
219 00:21:13.210 --> 00:21:14.209 ian hanson: Are you there?
220 00:21:15.180 --> 00:21:16.790 Joolz | Community Climate Action: Yes, we can hear you, Ian!
221 00:21:16.970 --> 00:21:37.889 ian hanson: You can hear me. Yeah, yes. Well, I belong to a lot of wildlife conservation groups in the locality belt, wildlife, trust children, society, and various sundry other little groups that have started up.
222 00:21:38.000 --> 00:21:42.159 ian hanson: And you know I'm happy to contribute in whatever way I can.
223 00:21:43.216 --> 00:21:43.943 ian hanson: They
224 00:21:45.220 --> 00:21:54.429 ian hanson: a lot of the groups. You know they have, you know, particular loyalty to their particular little area, and what they're doing.
225 00:21:54.690 --> 00:22:06.330 ian hanson: and how exactly we we liaise with the different existing groups, and how we attract new members who aren't a member of any particular group.
226 00:22:07.160 --> 00:22:12.029 ian hanson: And those who you know, need educating about
227 00:22:13.283 --> 00:22:15.256 ian hanson: you know, wildlife and
228 00:22:16.000 --> 00:22:21.300 ian hanson: rewilding and all the rest of it, you know it's difficult.
229 00:22:24.790 --> 00:22:32.529 Joolz | Community Climate Action: Yes, absolutely thanks, Ian. Do you want to maybe pick someone to pass it on to who hasn't been yet? Do you want to try again, Alan. I'm not sure if you're
230 00:22:33.230 --> 00:22:34.600 Joolz | Community Climate Action: microphones working.
231 00:22:36.260 --> 00:22:37.739 Alan Thawley: Is it? Can you?
232 00:22:37.740 --> 00:22:38.365 Joolz | Community Climate Action: Yay!
233 00:22:38.990 --> 00:22:55.380 Alan Thawley: Fantastic. Hello, everyone! This sounds like a really exciting project. My name's Alan. I'm from Havenam. So outside the area I'm a parish councillor chair of the Climate Emergency Committee, and also a trustee of 0 carbon havenam. So obviously a big interest in climate stuff.
234 00:22:56.270 --> 00:23:01.450 Alan Thawley: And I could hand over to Liz, have you been yet.
235 00:23:01.450 --> 00:23:02.230 Liz Tice: I have.
236 00:23:03.070 --> 00:23:03.655 Alan Thawley: Sorry.
237 00:23:04.590 --> 00:23:06.509 Rachel Blackmore: Evans hasn't been, have you, Julie?
238 00:23:15.220 --> 00:23:16.700 Joolz | Community Climate Action: Can you hear us, Julie?
239 00:23:21.490 --> 00:23:26.580 Joolz | Community Climate Action: We can't. We can't hear or see you, unfortunately. So oh, there we go now! We can see you.
240 00:23:26.580 --> 00:23:29.069 julie lloyd-evans: But you can't hear. Can you hear me now?
241 00:23:29.380 --> 00:23:29.940 Joolz | Community Climate Action: Weekend.
242 00:23:29.940 --> 00:23:41.580 julie lloyd-evans: Okay, cool. There's some connection with my camera and that so I've I've had connections with climate action. Wendover, when I was a parish councillor for Wendover.
243 00:23:41.710 --> 00:23:55.170 julie lloyd-evans: and I'm a teacher of outdoor learning and sustainability, currently working also within Buckinghamshire Council to promote outdoor learning and sustainability to schools, particular interest in food, growing in schools.
244 00:23:58.260 --> 00:24:18.860 Joolz | Community Climate Action: Fantastic. Hugo says his microphone is not working, but he's Hugo from Halton Parish Council. That's fantastic, and I think that's pretty much everybody apart from those that maybe have their camera or microphone off. So do shout now, if you want to want to introduce yourself, otherwise we'll crack on
245 00:24:21.000 --> 00:24:24.719 Joolz | Community Climate Action: I please. And please, if you do want to introduce yourself, just interrupt me.
246 00:24:24.880 --> 00:24:32.150 Joolz | Community Climate Action: I'm Jules. I'm a parish councillor as well in Hopton Cumnetchell in Suffolk, in East Anglia.
247 00:24:32.580 --> 00:24:44.639 Joolz | Community Climate Action: And that's where we started community climb action planning where we were. And we did it from our 3 parishes funded by the National Lottery, and they funded it because it was replicable, scalable and leaves a legacy.
248 00:24:44.900 --> 00:24:55.919 Joolz | Community Climate Action: And I'm going to just do a little bit of a presentation for you, and then show a very short video about some work we're doing in Essex as well. So you can just get a flavour for the day.
249 00:24:56.160 --> 00:25:00.630 Joolz | Community Climate Action: And what we're looking for from this meeting is just tee everyone up. So you understand
250 00:25:00.750 --> 00:25:08.019 Joolz | Community Climate Action: the process, have an opportunity to ask questions, but most importantly, and see who wants to get involved
251 00:25:08.200 --> 00:25:36.899 Joolz | Community Climate Action: because it will take all of us. Yeah, there's quite a lot to do. And this is community kind of action planning. And we're really interested in those that might have some capacity to help help grow it in the community and and invite people to the next meeting. So we've got what we've got 4, 8, 12. So we've got 17 people on on this call. That's a pretty good. That's a pretty good start. So exponential growth.
252 00:25:37.150 --> 00:25:42.250 Joolz | Community Climate Action: you know, friend, get a friend all to get one person, then we'd we'd have the workshop pretty much filled.
253 00:25:42.800 --> 00:25:46.300 Joolz | Community Climate Action: So I'm gonna do a little presentation
254 00:25:46.980 --> 00:25:51.769 Joolz | Community Climate Action: about community climate action planning. So bear with me a moment while I just share my screen.
255 00:26:08.830 --> 00:26:12.389 Joolz | Community Climate Action: Hey, that's community climate action.
256 00:26:19.820 --> 00:26:20.180 Joolz | Community Climate Action: Hmm.
257 00:26:20.410 --> 00:26:29.750 Joolz | Community Climate Action: So with community climate action. We take analyst approach on food, energy, transport, housing and biodiversity.
258 00:26:30.850 --> 00:26:33.609 Joolz | Community Climate Action: And it's based on the premise that
259 00:26:33.950 --> 00:26:41.919 Joolz | Community Climate Action: that the Government isn't coming to save us or nobody's coming to save us anytime soon, and the incumbent Government might be a little bit better.
260 00:26:43.960 --> 00:26:44.890 Joolz | Community Climate Action: Terrific.
261 00:26:45.950 --> 00:26:46.840 Joolz | Community Climate Action: And
262 00:26:49.440 --> 00:26:50.399 Joolz | Community Climate Action: Oh, I'm sorry.
263 00:26:50.400 --> 00:26:54.830 Maddie McGregor: Jules, am I the only one that can't see a presentation on my screen?
264 00:26:55.270 --> 00:26:56.850 Joolz | Community Climate Action: Oh, I don't know. Can anyone else.
265 00:26:56.850 --> 00:26:58.020 Frances Tipper: It's okay. Okay.
266 00:26:58.020 --> 00:26:59.049 Frances Tipper: See anything, either.
267 00:26:59.050 --> 00:27:00.190 Sarah Feeney: What's up so.
268 00:27:00.770 --> 00:27:04.669 Liz Tice: As Jules. Community climate action has started screen sharing. Still, Buck.
269 00:27:06.150 --> 00:27:07.539 Frances Tipper: Yeah, that's all I can see.
270 00:27:07.540 --> 00:27:08.852 Maddie McGregor: Stuff with Wi-fi.
271 00:27:09.730 --> 00:27:14.770 Joolz | Community Climate Action: Bear with me a moment while I try and stop it, as my zoom seems to have frozen a bit. But.
272 00:27:15.100 --> 00:27:15.810 Rob Toplis: Oh!
273 00:27:16.880 --> 00:27:17.590 Joolz | Community Climate Action: So.
274 00:27:17.590 --> 00:27:18.030 Justine Hamer: It was.
275 00:27:18.030 --> 00:27:19.130 Liz Tice: Oh, there we go!
276 00:27:19.130 --> 00:27:20.090 Rob Toplis: Oh! Here we are!
277 00:27:20.730 --> 00:27:21.110 ian hanson: Gosh!
278 00:27:22.350 --> 00:27:27.169 Joolz | Community Climate Action: So bear with me a moment. I've just got a I'm gonna close a couple of things and try again.
279 00:27:27.410 --> 00:27:30.440 Joolz | Community Climate Action: I'm glad you mentioned Maddie.
280 00:27:30.590 --> 00:27:33.540 Frances Tipper: I saw a glimpse of it just then, and then it disappeared.
281 00:27:34.190 --> 00:27:34.940 Joolz | Community Climate Action: Yeah.
282 00:27:35.520 --> 00:27:36.190 Rob Toplis: Hmm.
283 00:27:38.480 --> 00:27:39.930 Joolz | Community Climate Action: That should work. Is that what.
284 00:27:40.530 --> 00:27:41.250 Rob Toplis: There we go!
285 00:27:42.100 --> 00:27:42.830 Joolz | Community Climate Action: Yeah.
286 00:27:43.530 --> 00:27:51.739 Joolz | Community Climate Action: And it's based on the premise that nobody's going to come and save us. So we need to take care of people on the planet into our own hands
287 00:27:51.920 --> 00:27:52.805 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and
288 00:27:53.930 --> 00:27:59.539 Joolz | Community Climate Action: And you'll be pleased to hear that 80% of people don't think the government's doing enough.
289 00:27:59.880 --> 00:28:06.400 Joolz | Community Climate Action: And these are yougov survey results. And 60% of people want to take action but don't know what to do.
290 00:28:07.285 --> 00:28:11.980 Joolz | Community Climate Action: And as with mutual aid in Covid, what we learn is we're stronger together.
291 00:28:12.230 --> 00:28:15.760 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and collective action is much more powerful than individual action.
292 00:28:18.683 --> 00:28:26.009 Joolz | Community Climate Action: So these slides are for some for some work we did with Essex County Council, so they tend to focus on energy.
293 00:28:26.120 --> 00:28:33.960 Joolz | Community Climate Action: Hence the community renewable energy. But the work we'll be doing in Wendovern villages is on all 5 themes and pillars.
294 00:28:35.670 --> 00:28:43.750 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and you'll have all heard about the melting ice caps and the glaciers, and that we'll likely have a blue ocean event in our lifetime.
295 00:28:44.300 --> 00:29:07.770 Joolz | Community Climate Action: which is really scary, because that amount of white ice reflects the heat of the sun back into the atmosphere and away from the poles. So when it's gone. It's a tipping point, really, and we'll have increased ocean acidification flooding. We know that we've currently got. I think it's about 417 parts per 1 million
296 00:29:07.950 --> 00:29:10.070 Joolz | Community Climate Action: Co. 2 in the atmosphere.
297 00:29:10.220 --> 00:29:18.659 Joolz | Community Climate Action: Safety is about 350, and we've got a whole lot locked in. We're experiencing drought
298 00:29:18.780 --> 00:29:29.579 Joolz | Community Climate Action: this year. The worst drought in 150 years. We've certainly where I am our parishes. One of the top things on any agenda is, what are we going to do about the flooding.
299 00:29:30.190 --> 00:29:49.120 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and that's prevalent across the country, and I'm sure you've seen in the news recently the terrible floods in Texas, New York and Turkey, Pakistan and elsewhere in the world. And we're suffering wildfires. So we've already had by spring this year record breaking number of wildfires in our communities
300 00:29:50.790 --> 00:29:56.869 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and 70% of climate scientists expect a rise of at least 2 and a half degrees.
301 00:29:57.430 --> 00:30:09.259 Joolz | Community Climate Action: We're smashing through the one and a half degrees upper limit set in the parish agreement, and just want to remind those that may not know one and a half degrees is the safe upper limit
302 00:30:10.020 --> 00:30:19.080 Joolz | Community Climate Action: for human existence. It's not a target, and we've we're smashing through it. Last year was the hottest year for 125,000 years.
303 00:30:19.875 --> 00:30:23.340 Joolz | Community Climate Action: And was the 1st year above one and a half degrees.
304 00:30:23.520 --> 00:30:29.549 Joolz | Community Climate Action: So we've got, you know, if we hit these kind of targets, it's pretty cataclysmic, and we'll
305 00:30:30.166 --> 00:30:34.359 Joolz | Community Climate Action: hit tipping points which don't bear thinking about really
306 00:30:34.720 --> 00:30:48.559 Joolz | Community Climate Action: where we are right now. Last year we had really wet weather and lots of floods, and our farmers were worried about harvest catastrophe. Their seeds were being washed away, their topsoil washed away onto roads.
307 00:30:49.130 --> 00:31:01.219 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and that then increases the risk of food, security, or food insecurity, and with threatened by extreme flooding
308 00:31:01.350 --> 00:31:06.139 Joolz | Community Climate Action: as an industry. Our farming industry lost a billion last year to wet weather.
309 00:31:06.390 --> 00:31:10.100 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and this year they're set to lose a billion due to drought
310 00:31:10.730 --> 00:31:19.100 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and the office of national statistics say that we lose about the damage to our economy currently is around 20 billion per annum
311 00:31:20.470 --> 00:31:26.020 Joolz | Community Climate Action: from climate change. And, of course. What does this? What does what does food, insecurity look like? Well.
312 00:31:26.220 --> 00:31:30.469 Joolz | Community Climate Action: I don't know if anyone remembers the great tomato shortage of 2023.
313 00:31:30.700 --> 00:31:37.060 Joolz | Community Climate Action: But we had no tomatoes on our shelves, and that was predominantly because of drought in Morocco and Spain.
314 00:31:37.330 --> 00:31:50.890 Joolz | Community Climate Action: Not that they didn't grow any tomatoes, but those that they did were sent to the EU first, st and so we didn't have any on our shelves. So with our just in time supply system. If people can't grow
315 00:31:50.990 --> 00:32:17.980 Joolz | Community Climate Action: vegetables. We suddenly have empty shelves. And this picture was taken when I went to the centre for alternative technology in Wales, just ahead of storm, Babbitt in 2023. The roads were being closed from flooding just as I was going through, and one of the 1st things we wanted to do was, go and buy some food for the week, and we got there, and this is just at the start of the week, and many of the shelves were empty because deliveries couldn't get through.
316 00:32:18.090 --> 00:32:39.479 Joolz | Community Climate Action: So as part of the process of community climate action planning, we consider our emergency plans and the climate impacts of those cool spaces, excess deaths from heat, excess pressure on our emergency services. This kind of thing. So one of the organizations we'd look to engage with during this process is your resilience, Forum.
317 00:32:39.970 --> 00:32:48.849 Joolz | Community Climate Action: We've recently done a food resilience workshop in Worthing, on the South coast, and that was funded by Sussex resilience forum.
318 00:32:49.150 --> 00:32:56.699 Joolz | Community Climate Action: So we've got to start thinking about these things, and where our food and our water comes from before we're hungry and thirsty
319 00:32:57.580 --> 00:33:03.370 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and United Nations have declared Code red for humanity.
320 00:33:04.720 --> 00:33:12.769 Joolz | Community Climate Action: I'm just gonna pause the moment. Let that sink in code red for humanity.
321 00:33:17.780 --> 00:33:23.540 Joolz | Community Climate Action: But it's not all bad news, because we have the ability to act.
322 00:33:24.700 --> 00:33:38.360 Joolz | Community Climate Action: We can do stuff about it right now. We can mitigate the cause of climate change, and we can adapt to the change that here that's here. And this is this is the journey that we're embarking on together.
323 00:33:38.620 --> 00:33:43.379 Joolz | Community Climate Action: So a major, Us. State achieved a critical milestone for a couple of weeks
324 00:33:43.560 --> 00:33:58.780 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and powered themselves entirely by renewable energy. Now that this news story is quite old, actually, they powered themselves for well over a month, and that was California and America who are the world's 4th largest economy. So if California can do it, we can definitely do it.
325 00:33:59.900 --> 00:34:07.200 Joolz | Community Climate Action: And things like agrievoltaics allow us to improve our energy production while retaining
326 00:34:07.510 --> 00:34:14.499 Joolz | Community Climate Action: productive use of the land for horticulture and agricultural use growing food. So we don't need to sacrifice one for the other.
327 00:34:14.750 --> 00:34:24.219 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and we've got a project in East Anglia, funded by the Community Energy Fund for 50 acres of agrivoltaics and 3 wind turbines that will power
328 00:34:24.380 --> 00:34:31.019 Joolz | Community Climate Action: 11,000 sorry power. 6,000 homes with an 11 megawatt project for generation.
329 00:34:31.420 --> 00:34:36.719 Joolz | Community Climate Action: There's a new map in East Anglia that covers the Ukpn area
330 00:34:36.969 --> 00:34:50.389 Joolz | Community Climate Action: that shows thousands of sites suitable for new wind onshore wind. So that's part of the process. We'll be doing some learning by doing the workshop or pre-workshop to identify suitable sites for community renewable energy.
331 00:34:52.389 --> 00:35:06.470 Joolz | Community Climate Action: And and actually, I'll take a moment just to play a video for you. So this is a video produced by Essex County Council about the workshops we've been doing in communities in Essex.
332 00:35:08.250 --> 00:35:10.030 Joolz | Community Climate Action: Let me see if this works, so
333 00:35:10.840 --> 00:35:13.270 Joolz | Community Climate Action: I hope I'm hoping you'll be able to hear the sound.
334 00:35:29.910 --> 00:35:54.869 Joolz | Community Climate Action: I founded community climate action, because nobody's coming to save us. And so I think it's really important that we gather and build that resilience for the change that's here when facing the climate crisis. Today, we've been in Colchester at 1st sight, which is amazing, delivering a workshop, trying to help the community to come together around what kinds of action they can take locally to improve energy resilience really, and to make sure that their community has got what it needs in the face of the change
335 00:35:54.870 --> 00:36:16.040 Joolz | Community Climate Action: connecting people together is a really important starting point. And hopefully, we can take something forward and build something just starting. That conversation is the really important thing starting that conversation in a pub at a parish meeting, or something like that, just to get it out in the open. That's what we're all about. It's community climate action happening right now. Today, I'm Essex's
336 00:36:16.070 --> 00:36:17.090 Joolz | Community Climate Action: climate Czar.
337 00:36:17.190 --> 00:36:18.859 Joolz | Community Climate Action: I'm also a cabinet member
338 00:36:19.080 --> 00:36:48.809 Joolz | Community Climate Action: for environment reuse and recycling one of the things that we do, and we find very important is bringing people together from communities to have a conversation and to start thinking about what their green energy future will look like I'm really motivated by trying to get more people involved and trying to sort of get the issues around climate change and community energy sort of back out to the community. The idea is that we can share all of this expertise.
339 00:36:48.910 --> 00:37:15.780 Joolz | Community Climate Action: that they can talk to each other, and they will be able to gain a lot of knowledge very quickly. When I got here this morning I didn't feel where we were going with this or where I was going with this, but I do feel that more so now I feel actually quite focused. And I feel like I'm going to leave here with something tangible. I think I've got some ideas for going forward, and was also very reassured to learn that in order to be someone who starts the conversation, you don't have to have
340 00:37:16.050 --> 00:37:40.279 Joolz | Community Climate Action: all the answers. And that's exactly what's happened today. It's been a really good meeting of some minds, a bunch of passionate people who want to make a difference. You can really feel the energy talking about energy. Yeah, it's really exciting. So if this is something that would work really well in your community. Then please do reach out to us at Essex County Council. We'll start to organise something like this with you for your community, because we think it's very important to
341 00:37:40.280 --> 00:37:48.130 Joolz | Community Climate Action: hear the voices of the people that live in your area, and how we can shape the green energy future in Essex.
342 00:37:49.230 --> 00:37:52.154 Joolz | Community Climate Action: So there we go. That's an example of
343 00:37:53.580 --> 00:38:03.760 Joolz | Community Climate Action: the kind of workshops. What kind of workshop are we delivering? So we lots of planning on the day. Lots of build up to it, and lots of learning by doing quite a bit of mapping.
344 00:38:04.030 --> 00:38:32.719 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and Donna, the clerk of Stanway that you've seen. There is now one of our sort of champions and advocates, and has facilitated conversations with Sainsbury's, with Tarmac and with Persimmon, who are popping up a 600 home development in their area. So we're really keen to understand how we power all of these new homes that are springing up around Essex, and how we make sure that while we're doing that, we improve biodiversity and also secure our food supplies.
345 00:38:34.660 --> 00:38:35.380 Joolz | Community Climate Action: Cool.
346 00:38:39.030 --> 00:38:44.299 Joolz | Community Climate Action: so one of the one of the things we'll also doing do throughout this program is, look at how we fund
347 00:38:44.560 --> 00:39:04.319 Joolz | Community Climate Action: this activity, both in terms of the at risk money, the grant funding available, how we start, how we seed stuff, but also then the capital that's available. And as part of that I did a funding our future session for the Society for Local Council clerks, and there are you prepared for net. 0 summit in 2024,
348 00:39:04.690 --> 00:39:10.740 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and the kind of avenues to funding that we can expect to maybe national lottery awards for all.
349 00:39:11.020 --> 00:39:22.379 Joolz | Community Climate Action: As Rachel knows, she's successfully got an award for this kind of activity district or County Council. There's grant funding available from the Community energy fund.
350 00:39:22.480 --> 00:39:40.810 Joolz | Community Climate Action: I've successfully raised money via the Government's Community Ownership Fund for our community benefits society in Suffolk, which I'll talk about a little bit. There's voluntary community sector support from things like the Resilience fund for community buildings. And then
351 00:39:40.810 --> 00:40:09.210 Joolz | Community Climate Action: when we look at more innovative models for larger scale funding, there's things like community municipal investment bonds, self invested personal pensions or self administered schemes where we can actually move some of our pension money and choose what we invest in for those more innovative parish councils. We have the ability to borrow money for infrastructure development under public Works loan board borrowing. And as we cluster
352 00:40:09.649 --> 00:40:16.669 Joolz | Community Climate Action: you know we can create quite a lot of development capital that we can fund projects and kind of rinse and repeat
353 00:40:16.900 --> 00:40:46.160 Joolz | Community Climate Action: there's precedent for that. Our local council in Suffolk. Elmswell did it to fund their social housing and also to buy their local pub. And who doesn't enjoy a good community pub. We bought ours, and that's what the community ownership fund money was, for. There's also lots of patient capital out there. So when we start to look at projects and how to fund them. We'll probably be looking at blended finance. And so we've got myself and other experts on call for you to ask questions about that.
354 00:40:46.310 --> 00:40:57.939 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and much of the beauty of what we do in terms of community benefit societies and community energy is often owned by a community benefits. Society raising money via community shares as well.
355 00:40:58.391 --> 00:41:08.349 Joolz | Community Climate Action: Is the surplus from that goes to community benefit, and we're hoping to from our project to generate about 130,000 pounds a year in community benefit.
356 00:41:08.680 --> 00:41:11.870 Joolz | Community Climate Action: And so the conversations we're having with our community
357 00:41:12.420 --> 00:41:15.360 Joolz | Community Climate Action: is going to be. Where? Where will we spend that money
358 00:41:15.660 --> 00:41:24.720 Joolz | Community Climate Action: rather rather than going shareholder primacy and in in the pockets of shareholders, and often overseas, paying no tax, it will go straight back to the benefit of the community.
359 00:41:25.070 --> 00:41:48.859 Joolz | Community Climate Action: So the kind of things we're thinking about are nature-based recovery and investing in our local little loose headwaters project, who manage a bunch of Fenland with Suffolk Wildlife Trust, a portion going back to support community climate, action and other people's projects that kind of thing. And, as you can see on there, and if you're a parish councillor, you'll often have conversations about traffic calming
360 00:41:49.360 --> 00:41:59.670 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and speeding, you know, and potholes. So you know, if we want to fix the potholes we've got to talk to our farming community really, about the flooding. But
361 00:41:59.820 --> 00:42:16.949 Joolz | Community Climate Action: the community benefit can go to help fund our parish councils and provide a little bit of a stipend for things like var speed, speed signs and traffic calming. And this kind of thing. So a bit about our theory of change. So what makes a community.
362 00:42:17.930 --> 00:42:20.769 Joolz | Community Climate Action: Well, that's our Town and Parish Council.
363 00:42:20.930 --> 00:42:38.419 Joolz | Community Climate Action: It's probably our Sports Club, and I play Rugby, so I'm doing it with my local Rugby Club. You'll be pleased to hear that Aylesbury Rugby Football Club have already expressed an interest in their pitches in Western Turville, so we're going to be having a conversation about doing an energy audit and getting the Rugby Club on board.
364 00:42:39.446 --> 00:42:57.329 Joolz | Community Climate Action: Also our schools, our faith groups, our churches, and these kind of institutions, including pubs and people. Planet Pint was mentioned earlier. And the thing about all of these organizations, our anchor institutions in our community is they have an audience.
365 00:42:58.847 --> 00:43:10.930 Joolz | Community Climate Action: So we we have audiences to reach to build our capacity for community climate action, and you'll see you'll see this bell curve on the screen. It's called the diffusion of Innovation.
366 00:43:10.940 --> 00:43:28.589 Joolz | Community Climate Action: And as a product development director in the private sector, we use this whenever we're launching a new product, the iphone will have used it. Every new product launch pretty much uses the diffusion of innovation. And we're the innovators. We're the 2 and a half percent. We're the we're the fire starters. We're the people who start something.
367 00:43:28.933 --> 00:43:31.299 Joolz | Community Climate Action: We're the. We're the 2 and a half percent
368 00:43:31.870 --> 00:43:37.539 Joolz | Community Climate Action: so we don't need everybody. Right now, we just need a bunch of committed people like we have in this room.
369 00:43:37.896 --> 00:43:44.270 Joolz | Community Climate Action: And I had a conversation with a friend the other day, and we were talking about this, and she said, Well, I'm I'm you know. She's a
370 00:43:44.690 --> 00:43:54.900 Joolz | Community Climate Action: a practicing Catholic. She's in a Catholic church, and she was asking me how she started, how she could start something because she felt she was the only one.
371 00:43:55.920 --> 00:44:01.860 Joolz | Community Climate Action: So I said, find the others. And there will be others, because we know that 60% of people want to take action.
372 00:44:02.090 --> 00:44:14.620 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and you only need 2 and a half percent. And I said, Well, what's the congregation? And she said, Well, it's about 100 people. So ask if you can set up a sustainability group in the organization, the Anchor Institution, where you are
373 00:44:15.150 --> 00:44:17.280 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and find one and a half
374 00:44:17.520 --> 00:44:23.259 Joolz | Community Climate Action: other people, 2 other people. I'm sure they're there, and I'm sure you'll get a yes, because the Pope's definitely on board.
375 00:44:23.630 --> 00:44:29.829 Joolz | Community Climate Action: And so there we go suddenly. We've got some innovators, and then the early adopters will follow and join.
376 00:44:30.020 --> 00:44:40.239 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and then you have momentum. You have a tipping point. You have a mandate for action, and you can go, do. We don't need to wait for permission here, and the early majority follow
377 00:44:40.450 --> 00:44:41.930 Joolz | Community Climate Action: the early adopters.
378 00:44:42.110 --> 00:44:51.209 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and the late majority follow them and the laggards. We don't need to worry about them. They're they're the climate deniers that we probably won't ever probably won't ever reach
379 00:44:51.580 --> 00:44:56.800 Joolz | Community Climate Action: but what we really need right now is that 2 and a half percent, the innovators and the early adopters
380 00:44:57.816 --> 00:45:01.959 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and as town and parish councils, and I'm really delighted that we've got support from
381 00:45:02.370 --> 00:45:18.230 Joolz | Community Climate Action: for town, sorry for parish councils, and you know, welcome to be it, and I know you didn't necessarily contribute financially on this occasion, and we great, if you great, that you're coming, and it's great that you're joining in, because that's what's most important and might be able to contribute moving forward.
382 00:45:18.719 --> 00:45:37.910 Joolz | Community Climate Action: As parish councils. We, you know, we can do a lot. We we have powers for provisional of allotments for food resilience. We have a statutory biodiversity duty, you know, part of this process will be auditing and learning how we measure and increase and improve our biodiversity.
383 00:45:38.090 --> 00:45:56.179 Joolz | Community Climate Action: emergency planning, which should integrate with our community with our resilience. Forum's community risk register, because our emergency sorry, our resilience forum are made up of our 1st responders, our police, our fire brigade and our paramedics, and you know what we don't want them busy
384 00:45:56.800 --> 00:46:06.719 Joolz | Community Climate Action: rescuing people from floods, treating excess heat, or rescuing people from, or putting out wildfires. And what have you?
385 00:46:06.900 --> 00:46:17.200 Joolz | Community Climate Action: We want them doing their jobs. So we need to plan for our emergencies, funding and finance and can support and facilitate community energy.
386 00:46:17.580 --> 00:46:38.100 Joolz | Community Climate Action: This is a quote from the Norfolk Association of Local Councils. So an organization we hope to get on board is Buckinghamshire, Alc. I think it's Bucks and Milton Keynes Association of Local Councils. And also there's the local society for Local Council clerks. So part of this process will be running through what we can do as a group to reach out to these organizations.
387 00:46:38.983 --> 00:47:00.070 Joolz | Community Climate Action: But what Professor Timurden said, and he's chair of the Norfolk Association of Local Councils. There's real scope for Norfolk, Alc. To explore the lessons being learnt by community climate action in forms of management, financing, recruitment, and widespread improvement of local livelihoods, and this should be connected to county-based devolution at an early stage
388 00:47:01.760 --> 00:47:17.250 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and part of and part of community climate action is a group called the Great Collaboration, which is council and community climate action, and we're supported in our activity by the Slcc and the National Association of Local Councils.
389 00:47:18.530 --> 00:47:23.729 Joolz | Community Climate Action: So climate change plus growth is an existential threat
390 00:47:24.400 --> 00:47:29.260 Joolz | Community Climate Action: to our economy, our environment, our security, our happiness, and our way of life.
391 00:47:30.100 --> 00:47:39.619 Joolz | Community Climate Action: And we can choose to tackle this problem, or we can choose to ignore it. And I'm betting that you're all in this room because you think the 1st approach is preferable to the second.
392 00:47:39.870 --> 00:48:08.970 Joolz | Community Climate Action: And if you're reading the quote. I got them the other way around. But that was a quote from James Bevan, Chief Executive of the Environment Agency in 2019. It's 1 of my favorite quotes, so I would encourage you to walk with the dreamers, the believers, the courageous, the cheerful, the planners, the doers, and the successful people with their head in the clouds by their feet on the ground, and let their spirit ignite a fire within you, to leave this world a better place than when you found it.
393 00:48:10.680 --> 00:48:25.349 Joolz | Community Climate Action: And so that's an introduction to community climate action planning. We'll we've produced an eventbrite. We've obviously set up a series of zooms. We will also do a Facebook event for people to share and invite on Facebook.
394 00:48:25.660 --> 00:48:45.960 Joolz | Community Climate Action: As I said, we've already set up the eventbrite page. We're in the process of designing your posters and flyers for distribution. Posters can go up anywhere. Community venues, pubs, shops, village halls. This kind of thing flyers. We may distribute on door drop basis. But we'll see how we're booked in terms of capacity.
395 00:48:46.140 --> 00:48:59.499 Joolz | Community Climate Action: We may be so successful that we might need a wait list, because we've we're probably expecting about 60 odd people that would be really successful. And I think we've already got about 20 booked on.
396 00:49:00.390 --> 00:49:06.910 Joolz | Community Climate Action: So. Oh, and these are some of our partners. content partners.
397 00:49:08.285 --> 00:49:08.917 Joolz | Community Climate Action: we
398 00:49:09.660 --> 00:49:28.239 Joolz | Community Climate Action: content partners and industry partners. And we're working with all our association of local councils throughout East Anglia, and I think just, I think probably connecting us is maybe beds, Hertfordshire and beds. Maybe so. We're having some conversation with arts, and it'd be great to connect the dots and get all grouped into clusters.
399 00:49:29.400 --> 00:49:33.699 Joolz | Community Climate Action: Our community benefits society in Suffolk have bought 10 acres of land
400 00:49:33.890 --> 00:49:41.170 Joolz | Community Climate Action: for conservation and restoration, and that's Dave, who's a forest forest school teacher and barman. We've cleared a lot of rubbish.
401 00:49:41.390 --> 00:49:45.270 Joolz | Community Climate Action: We've got some rigs for growing. We bought our community pub.
402 00:49:45.930 --> 00:49:53.009 Joolz | Community Climate Action: We're renovating and retrofitting it. And it's going to be a power station. So it's going to generate excess energy.
403 00:49:53.270 --> 00:50:09.739 Joolz | Community Climate Action: We're installing what's called Wallopini with local farmers and Wallopinis are greenhouses, recessed forefoot into the ground, which provides thermal mass, so we can actually cultivate things like citrus fruit oranges year round.
404 00:50:10.790 --> 00:50:31.289 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and these are some of our stakeholders, and we're going. We'll go through a process of mapping out your stakeholders, and the outcome of that is, as I say, we've grown from 3 to 6 to 9 to 10 parishes. We meet quarterly, and we have active volunteer working groups on all of our 5 themes, and the chap in the red
405 00:50:31.470 --> 00:50:52.579 Joolz | Community Climate Action: Tisha is Andrew, and he's chair of Green Hinderclay and the parish councillor we've got Andy Warnes, who's chair of Redgrave Parish Council, and representation from a bunch of other villages, and I'm taking the picture, and I'm from Hopton Parish Council. So there we go. I'll stop the presentation, because I know I've talked a lot.
406 00:50:53.410 --> 00:51:03.192 Joolz | Community Climate Action: But I hope that gives you a flavor for the journey that we're just kind of embarking on, and we've got about 15 min. So I'm just gonna pause
407 00:51:03.650 --> 00:51:08.250 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and open open the floor to questions. So Francis first, st then.
408 00:51:08.250 --> 00:51:25.570 Frances Tipper: I just ask that because it went very, very quickly. But the financing, because that's going to be really, really the most well, not the most important, obviously. But how did you buy that pub? How did you buy the money to the power station and everything else you said there was, what did you do to get the money.
409 00:51:27.879 --> 00:51:42.569 Joolz | Community Climate Action: So we've we've got a glock, and we we take out a mask with a balaclava, and we encourage we 1st of all for the 10 acres of land. That was a friends and family network fundraise that was a community fundraise.
410 00:51:43.350 --> 00:51:51.080 Joolz | Community Climate Action: So that was via community shares. And we 1st and the 1st thing we did was bought bought 10 acres of land as a community benefit society.
411 00:51:52.375 --> 00:51:55.910 Joolz | Community Climate Action: We I after we'd been digging potatoes
412 00:51:56.170 --> 00:52:16.439 Joolz | Community Climate Action: one day I was desperate for a pint, and I suggested that we go to the local pub, the white horse, which was my local as a boy, and having had 5 years up in Newcastle pre pandemic. I kind of came back after the pandemic, and I discovered it was shut, and it had been shut throughout the pandemic. So I turned to the people in the car and we said, Well, should we buy it?
413 00:52:17.160 --> 00:52:24.549 Joolz | Community Climate Action: And that started a labour of love of 3 years, and I learned an awful lot about assets of community value.
414 00:52:25.270 --> 00:52:32.489 Joolz | Community Climate Action: So one of the most exciting bits of legislation going through Parliament at the moment is a community right to buy.
415 00:52:33.580 --> 00:52:42.789 Joolz | Community Climate Action: We had a community right to bid, but that, I hope, is changing to a community right to buy where your community will have the right to buy community assets.
416 00:52:43.770 --> 00:52:45.330 Joolz | Community Climate Action: Yes, and
417 00:52:45.520 --> 00:52:59.130 Joolz | Community Climate Action: as it joy has just put the Plunkett Foundation, they really supported us on our journey, and we bought the pub with a with a combination of grant funding from the government, from their community ownership fund and community shares.
418 00:52:59.897 --> 00:53:04.280 Joolz | Community Climate Action: We've also benefited from grants from the National Lottery.
419 00:53:04.410 --> 00:53:10.100 Joolz | Community Climate Action: from power to change from Breckland District Council, then greening their Communities Fund.
420 00:53:10.320 --> 00:53:18.270 Joolz | Community Climate Action: Suffolk County Council have a match fund of 10,000 that we're hoping to apply to some of the retrofitting
421 00:53:18.930 --> 00:53:26.499 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and the community ownership fund is closed now, but I expect the Government to replace it at some stage.
422 00:53:28.325 --> 00:53:33.590 Joolz | Community Climate Action: And so it was a mixture of community. Again, community shares
423 00:53:34.110 --> 00:53:44.480 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and Government's community ownership fund, and then for the renovation and renewable energy installation that will probably come from a thing called the Resilience Fund.
424 00:53:45.420 --> 00:53:55.109 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and we're just going through the process of applying. We're also doing the same with our Rugby Club, and they give you a 2.5,000 pound grant for an energy audit.
425 00:53:56.110 --> 00:53:57.350 Joolz | Community Climate Action: Further to that.
426 00:53:57.770 --> 00:54:08.759 Joolz | Community Climate Action: if you want to proceed with the insulation, heat, pump, and suitable renewable energy. You can get 40% grant and a 60% friendly loan.
427 00:54:09.430 --> 00:54:28.570 Joolz | Community Climate Action: which is, which is fabulous. So it kind of washes its own face and pays for itself. So that's some of the examples of funding. And you're quite right, Francis, show me the money. Where does the money come from? Is one of the key elements, both in terms of the at risk money
428 00:54:29.070 --> 00:54:33.990 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and the at-risk. Money is things like a feasibility study
429 00:54:35.000 --> 00:54:41.569 Joolz | Community Climate Action: for community renewable energy, because the outcome of that might not be feasible, so that money's at risk
430 00:54:42.851 --> 00:54:46.710 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and or planning a planning application.
431 00:54:46.850 --> 00:55:03.059 Joolz | Community Climate Action: You might not get planning. So again. That's called at risk money, and that's generally through grant funding. So that would in particularly for renewable energy projects that would come from the Government. There. It was the Community energy Fund. It's just been rebranded as Gb.
432 00:55:04.620 --> 00:55:08.129 Joolz | Community Climate Action: what is? I forget the acronym now is Gb.
433 00:55:08.560 --> 00:55:13.519 Joolz | Community Climate Action: great British energy community Fund, gbe, and cf.
434 00:55:14.500 --> 00:55:28.249 Joolz | Community Climate Action: yeah, so we can walk. Once we've done some of this planning together. And we've we've done some learning by doing. We've kind of maybe identified some sites we can help support, walk you through those processes of of the actual applications.
435 00:55:28.430 --> 00:55:46.230 Frances Tipper: Yeah, no, I mean that. That is, I mean, it's absolutely because I mean, I love the idea of, you know getting the money back into the community and doing particularly, you know, for us, you know, traffic calming. Va. I mean all that those things which we are desperate to do. We have no money to do. It would be amazing.
436 00:55:46.230 --> 00:56:03.750 Joolz | Community Climate Action: Yeah, and it will hopefully create a virtuous cycle, a virtuous circle owning some productive means of production in terms of food energy, potentially Housing, where our Parish Council is looking at a regenerative settlement with some social housing in perpetuity.
437 00:56:03.950 --> 00:56:21.140 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and about 15 acres for biodiversity and that kind of thing. But yes, it's rather painful to have to buy a var system traffic calming system that costs. I don't know 6,000 pounds from reserves, so wouldn't it be marvellous if our climate, action.
438 00:56:21.140 --> 00:56:48.758 Frances Tipper: He really would. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it really would. No, no, I mean, that is really, really exciting, which is great, because it also gives me ideas of who else we can invite in this area. And I'm sure, Justine, and we've got lots of people from Wendover on this call. But there are people like the the Shed people, Bob Dog, and I'm sure he would love to be involved. And and the Scouts Group and the Cricket, the cricket group. Yeah, yeah. So
439 00:56:49.080 --> 00:56:49.410 Joolz | Community Climate Action: Yes.
440 00:56:49.410 --> 00:56:53.909 Frances Tipper: Are we who's responsible in Wendover, by the way, for inviting these people? Rachel.
441 00:56:53.910 --> 00:57:07.119 Rachel Blackmore: We've got Anna, who's on the call now? Who's our communications? But we can. We can liaise together with our climate Action group in in Wend over, can't we? Who's going to connect, I meant to say, who who knows who has a contact in the cricket ground? So.
442 00:57:07.120 --> 00:57:09.050 Frances Tipper: Justine will know everybody. I know. She.
443 00:57:09.050 --> 00:57:24.525 Rachel Blackmore: Yeah, between us we should should be a good cover. Yeah, just a quick apology at talking too much at the beginning. By the way. I thought there were just 4 of us on the call, Jules. I could only see 4 faces, and then it was rather delightful to suddenly see we've actually got 23, because 2 of our screens have doubled up.
444 00:57:24.760 --> 00:57:47.800 Joolz | Community Climate Action: Right? Sure. Yeah, absolutely. And, Francis, you're quite right. So part of this activity right now, kicking off is who's not? Who's not here, you know. Who can we get in the room? And you mentioned scouts and the Cricket Club? Absolutely. We've got a comprehensive marketing and outreach plan, which we'll share with everyone. If Rachel and Anna will probably be the go to points of contact right.
445 00:57:47.800 --> 00:57:48.730 Frances Tipper: Alright! Good thanks.
446 00:57:48.730 --> 00:57:55.019 Joolz | Community Climate Action: And and then equally, what we're hoping is a nominated point of contact, probably in each of the other parishes.
447 00:57:55.840 --> 00:58:02.639 Joolz | Community Climate Action: And it's things like the Department for Education recommend that
448 00:58:03.260 --> 00:58:06.830 Joolz | Community Climate Action: that every school has a climate action plan by the end of this year.
449 00:58:07.150 --> 00:58:11.620 Joolz | Community Climate Action: So there will be a sustainability lead, and we'll be aiming to support
450 00:58:11.800 --> 00:58:18.350 Joolz | Community Climate Action: the teachers because they're busy. They're, you know, very little budget capacity, that kind of thing.
451 00:58:19.130 --> 00:58:29.770 Joolz | Community Climate Action: To embark on this activity. And we're looking at the outcome of our workshop here in Malden was for Plume Academy, and where they've got huge solar potential.
452 00:58:30.170 --> 00:58:33.690 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and we can likely save them enough money to afford another teacher
453 00:58:34.210 --> 00:58:47.699 Joolz | Community Climate Action: that you know that that kind of thing so circle Bill Bowman, who's Chair of world. Rugby, has just written a sustainability report, state of state of the game in a 2 degree world. And it's not pretty, you know.
454 00:58:47.860 --> 00:59:05.630 Joolz | Community Climate Action: So it's a kind of value proposition. If we love our sport. If we love the game of Rugby, you know, we need to get on the pitch and tackle climate change, and similarly, with tennis and cricket. It's, you know, we're at risk of being able to exercise and lose those things we love because it's too hot.
455 00:59:06.040 --> 00:59:10.099 Joolz | Community Climate Action: 2 is not safe to play in those in the 8. So.
456 00:59:10.580 --> 00:59:13.440 Frances Tipper: Thank you for asking. Thank you, Jules. Thank you. Thank you.
457 00:59:13.440 --> 00:59:16.040 Joolz | Community Climate Action: Yeah, so, any other questions.
458 00:59:17.390 --> 00:59:25.219 Rachel Blackmore: Jules. I wonder if you could just sketch out what the content of the other zooms is going to be in the run up to the workshop.
459 00:59:26.638 --> 00:59:35.739 Joolz | Community Climate Action: Yeah, sure. So what I'd like you to start thinking about now is what you value.
460 00:59:36.600 --> 00:59:39.460 Joolz | Community Climate Action: What? What's your particular interest.
461 00:59:39.660 --> 00:59:45.380 Joolz | Community Climate Action: how you might contribute or not. I mean, it's okay, just to be here. Listen and learn.
462 00:59:45.740 --> 00:59:54.429 Joolz | Community Climate Action: That's okay. Please keep coming. We're not asking huge amounts of capacity, but individuals as individuals. We all have networks.
463 00:59:55.157 --> 01:00:02.099 Joolz | Community Climate Action: You know. Who can I influence, and how? Who can I chat to down the pub? Who can I chat to when I'm playing Rugby.
464 01:00:02.300 --> 01:00:07.420 Joolz | Community Climate Action: Who can I get on this call next time? What projects
465 01:00:07.620 --> 01:00:14.760 Joolz | Community Climate Action: would you like to do? I've heard I had, I mean, I think we've got a real, powerful, amazing group of people in this room.
466 01:00:15.500 --> 01:00:18.020 Joolz | Community Climate Action: So you know, biodiversity.
467 01:00:18.550 --> 01:00:21.850 Joolz | Community Climate Action: Ian mentioned a few wildlife groups.
468 01:00:22.692 --> 01:00:35.779 Joolz | Community Climate Action: Joy mentioned food and food security. So to expand on those kind of themes. Again, it's good to think who's not here. So let's take food for food as an example.
469 01:00:36.259 --> 01:00:42.130 Joolz | Community Climate Action: We're going to be mapping things out and mapping stakeholders, so we can start on that kind of activity.
470 01:00:42.814 --> 01:00:51.299 Joolz | Community Climate Action: So for the next zoom, we'll probably start, or perhaps everybody could turn up with an idea for a project, or
471 01:00:51.810 --> 01:00:54.169 Joolz | Community Climate Action: or I've just made one phone call.
472 01:00:54.730 --> 01:00:59.720 Joolz | Community Climate Action: You know, I've talked to the school. I've I met this teacher or and and that kind of thing.
473 01:01:00.180 --> 01:01:08.189 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and so we can. We can compare notes. In the meantime. We will. We will share things like the marketing and outreach plan.
474 01:01:08.510 --> 01:01:10.110 Joolz | Community Climate Action: And this kind of thing.
475 01:01:11.870 --> 01:01:14.719 Joolz | Community Climate Action: I hope I hope that answer answers your question, David
476 01:01:15.930 --> 01:01:18.270 Joolz | Community Climate Action: grand and Joy, you've got your hand up.
477 01:01:20.930 --> 01:01:39.340 Joy O’Neill: Yes. So how do you stop? Sort of climate, anxiety, and paralysis? Because one thing I found when I was working in Oxford was that, particularly with the slightly younger demographic.
478 01:01:39.500 --> 01:01:43.979 Joy O’Neill: Sometimes they would feel so completely overwhelmed
479 01:01:44.400 --> 01:02:01.470 Joy O’Neill: at meetings when talking about sort of certain topics that almost it completely froze them. And then they just were in a place where they kind of couldn't move forward. And a few of the people left our group
480 01:02:01.680 --> 01:02:11.200 Joy O’Neill: really due to mental health issues because they kind of found it so overwhelming. So I guess my question is.
481 01:02:11.370 --> 01:02:23.830 Joy O’Neill: how do you keep us? How do we keep ourselves kind of focused and moving forward and not get kind of caught up. In this anxiety and paralysis.
482 01:02:25.270 --> 01:02:34.980 Joolz | Community Climate Action: It's a very good question, and you know it's really easy to suffer from nihilism or apathy, or
483 01:02:35.180 --> 01:02:41.770 Joolz | Community Climate Action: just bury our head in the sand, because it's too scary to think about. And a lot of parents do that. I think. You know.
484 01:02:42.300 --> 01:02:56.130 Joolz | Community Climate Action: it's just way too scary. Now. So climate change is up here. It's massive, worldwide global problem. So we really need to bring it down to what we can do. And I can only touch this much.
485 01:02:57.810 --> 01:03:01.770 Joolz | Community Climate Action: So but we can't have a million without one.
486 01:03:02.760 --> 01:03:10.049 Joolz | Community Climate Action: So what? What we all do, what each of us do right now really matters. And there's a
487 01:03:10.180 --> 01:03:17.260 Joolz | Community Climate Action: there's a a thing called a resource, you Mento, which is an idea that transcends generations.
488 01:03:17.530 --> 01:03:38.709 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and Garibaldi, who was a freedom fighter in Italy, knew he would never see a united Italy, but that didn't stop him fighting all his life for it. And eventually there was a united Italy and a resource. You. Mento is like when somebody starts to build a cathedral in the knowledge they will never see it completed, and it might be their grandson that completes it.
489 01:03:39.720 --> 01:04:02.179 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and that climate, grief, and climate anxiety is really difficult. So hopefully, this process is what empowers us gives us agency to act and small achievable goals. And that's very much what we do when we engage with students and with our schools and with their respective Eco councils, is really ask
490 01:04:02.460 --> 01:04:09.489 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and encourage participatory processes and deliberative democracy. So we ask the Eco Council, what would you like to do.
491 01:04:10.220 --> 01:04:19.580 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and then really support them on their journey and empower them to act, because most of our students and kids like you say, are absolutely terrified.
492 01:04:20.270 --> 01:04:33.099 Joolz | Community Climate Action: And but equally believe it's it's the adults job. And it's the adults in the room that should be sorting this out. What can I do? And I have no agency to act, and I don't have the power to act.
493 01:04:33.821 --> 01:04:39.170 Joolz | Community Climate Action: So this process is explicitly designed to be participatory and to empower people.
494 01:04:41.330 --> 01:04:52.200 Joolz | Community Climate Action: we have had some conversations with mind, the mental health, charity about perhaps joining in with us in terms of providing a support service as well.
495 01:04:52.865 --> 01:04:56.920 Joolz | Community Climate Action: And active hope practicing active hope in their mental health.
496 01:04:57.462 --> 01:05:03.009 Joolz | Community Climate Action: Cafes. So that's something we might build on. It might be a project that someone in this room might like to start
497 01:05:03.410 --> 01:05:05.380 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and take forward in your community.
498 01:05:07.940 --> 01:05:11.900 Joolz | Community Climate Action: So does that answer your question, joy cool?
499 01:05:12.397 --> 01:05:16.850 Joolz | Community Climate Action: So we've got Julie and Robert. I'm not sure who was first, st so we'll go with Julie first.st
500 01:05:19.075 --> 01:05:23.654 julie lloyd-evans: Hi! I just I just wanted to say, I I really like the kind of
501 01:05:24.160 --> 01:05:32.060 julie lloyd-evans: almost feels like a tentacle approach where you're kind of reaching out from people in here to go sort of further afield.
502 01:05:32.600 --> 01:05:51.110 julie lloyd-evans: but also be mindful that there is kind of stuff happening. And how do we join these dots? So schools is one thing that I'm obviously kind of passionately involved with, and Buckinghamshire is is actually significantly behind other counties on this.
503 01:05:51.110 --> 01:06:19.829 julie lloyd-evans: And schools are also not particularly aware of the dove climate change and sustainability strategy and and the initiatives that are linked with that. But we've just started to get that going with the local authority. So I'm pushing that. So you know, that is one thing that's quite encouraging. Because I think now, this climate community action is a kind of another
504 01:06:19.940 --> 01:06:26.090 julie lloyd-evans: pronged attack, really, on doing this, and I'm really sorry to use military language. That's also
505 01:06:26.490 --> 01:06:47.469 julie lloyd-evans: not very nice but but I can't think of anything else to do that. So so what sometimes concerns me is too many people trying in their little areas rather than kind of joining up or building upon what's already being done. So I I'm interested to see how this
506 01:06:47.940 --> 01:06:55.250 julie lloyd-evans: hands out. I was also interested in your link with cat as a
507 01:06:55.600 --> 01:06:59.730 julie lloyd-evans: finishing off my dissertation student there at the moment.
508 01:07:01.120 --> 01:07:03.739 julie lloyd-evans: And and if that influence.
509 01:07:09.680 --> 01:07:30.680 Joolz | Community Climate Action: So I don't particularly have a relationship with Cat, but I did do a workshop there over a weekend at the invitation of a marvellous group called Retrofit Balsall Heath Hooves and Civic Square, who do a retrofit, reimagined festival that tours the country, which is fantastic, but it's a really good point, Julie, I mean, there is already marvellous activity.
510 01:07:30.790 --> 01:07:43.070 Joolz | Community Climate Action: you know. I mean, this is one of the reasons I'm really excited about working with Wendover and villages, because you've got climate action. Wendover, climate, action, western Turville, Julie, you're doing stuff with schools. Sounds like Ian's already working with
511 01:07:43.845 --> 01:07:46.874 Joolz | Community Climate Action: some nature based recovery groups.
512 01:07:48.060 --> 01:07:50.370 Joolz | Community Climate Action: spare with me a moment. So I just
513 01:07:50.670 --> 01:08:02.570 Joolz | Community Climate Action: just had a call coming in. And you know, and Liz and others with food. And what have you, so part of the process will be. We'll be mapping stakeholders and mapping the activity.
514 01:08:02.570 --> 01:08:24.820 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and I guess to some degree it's to connect the dots, and it's to bring those people together and see how we might support activity and also build out, build out capacity through the process to increase the amount of volunteers and the amount of interest in the community. If anyone's involved in climate action, and I'm sure many of you are already one of the hardest things is, it's the same people.
515 01:08:25.177 --> 01:08:30.189 Joolz | Community Climate Action: Doing this, doing the doing it, you know. And and so how do we broaden it? How do we get more people?
516 01:08:30.590 --> 01:08:38.520 Joolz | Community Climate Action: So yeah, look forward to hearing the marvelous stories and connecting the dots there. G, love it.
517 01:08:40.490 --> 01:08:48.409 robert Parry: Yeah. Hi, thanks. It was kind of building on that. You know, on the sense that there are already lots of things going on, and you don't want to come in and
518 01:08:48.600 --> 01:08:50.679 robert Parry: feel like we're saying we've got the.
519 01:08:50.800 --> 01:08:57.526 robert Parry: you know, we've got the solution. And what's going on already is sort of trampled a little bit
520 01:08:58.200 --> 01:09:08.929 robert Parry: And then also I wonder how you arrive at 60 people, because it doesn't seem that many to represent in this case. For communities, I guess there's perhaps a limit to you know how
521 01:09:09.430 --> 01:09:11.499 robert Parry: what's practicable on the day
522 01:09:12.065 --> 01:09:17.930 robert Parry: and is there a sense that it matters or not. Whether those people are representative as well of
523 01:09:18.260 --> 01:09:23.199 robert Parry: you know all as many as possible of the voices in the in the community.
524 01:09:24.710 --> 01:09:31.729 Joolz | Community Climate Action: The 60 people is just a it's what's what's comfortable in terms of a workshop and the venue capacity?
525 01:09:32.099 --> 01:09:38.899 Joolz | Community Climate Action: It's not an uplimit in terms of the amount of people we want involved. And actually, this is just the start of a journey.
526 01:09:39.069 --> 01:10:00.159 Joolz | Community Climate Action: not the end of a journey. We will be widely publicising it, and if we are lucky enough to have a lot of people beyond that interested, then we'll have another workshop, you know, and another one, and or we'll we'll do it on the Rugby pitch and have a stadium.
527 01:10:01.019 --> 01:10:07.546 Joolz | Community Climate Action: So the more the more the merrier. It's not not an uplift. That's just really venue capacity.
528 01:10:07.989 --> 01:10:16.649 Joolz | Community Climate Action: it's it's a mandate for action. And it's start. It's to start something. So 1st of all, it's a
529 01:10:16.649 --> 01:10:44.739 Joolz | Community Climate Action: a democratic process in that the representatives of the communities in terms of parish councils have voted to support this activity and start this activity. So that's that's democracy in action. You know, parish councils are open forums. We hope to promote this via parish newsletters and on notice boards. So again, it's really important, this participatory and those that want to join in can.
530 01:10:45.209 --> 01:10:52.739 Joolz | Community Climate Action: But you're quite right. 60 out of, you know. 60 out of 7 and a half, 7, 7 and a half, or 1,000 is.
531 01:10:52.879 --> 01:10:57.389 Joolz | Community Climate Action: you know, 1% less less than 1%. So
532 01:10:59.439 --> 01:11:05.789 Joolz | Community Climate Action: yeah, but we hope we hope to grow any any other questions.
533 01:11:07.009 --> 01:11:07.639 Joolz | Community Climate Action: Please.
534 01:11:07.640 --> 01:11:33.030 Liz Tice: Yes, just one quick point. You were talking about finance. I was just wondering who may have already gone through this, whether you asked industry at all for any finance, either the energy, industry, or I work in the insurance industry in London for one of the biggest brokers there are. I just wondered if there was any input from any of that size I know insurance particularly want to make themselves look very good.
535 01:11:33.200 --> 01:11:37.799 Liz Tice: It was just. I wondered if that been discussed at all, or.
536 01:11:38.920 --> 01:11:48.470 Joolz | Community Climate Action: Not yet. I have had some tentative conversations with a large insurance company, also with our highways department.
537 01:11:49.850 --> 01:11:59.359 Joolz | Community Climate Action: In relation to 6 inches of soil, and and improving and and regenerative agriculture.
538 01:11:59.490 --> 01:12:23.429 Joolz | Community Climate Action: because the odd and our utility company, our water company, because the onward benefit of reducing flooding by improving our soil. Quality in terms of water retention has significant value to insurance companies, highways, departments, and our utilities company. So I've had some commercial conversations on that basis have yet to actually get any sponsorship. But there's time.
539 01:12:24.870 --> 01:12:35.729 Liz Tice: Okay, we might be something I could perhaps just look into, just to see. I know where I work. We offer. We've got lots of charities and things that we support. I just have a look around. You never know.
540 01:12:35.730 --> 01:12:36.920 Joolz | Community Climate Action: Where do? Where do you work, Liz?
541 01:12:36.920 --> 01:12:39.009 Liz Tice: I work for Howden's at the moment where.
542 01:12:39.010 --> 01:12:40.169 Joolz | Community Climate Action: Oh, okay. Cool.
543 01:12:40.570 --> 01:12:41.010 Joolz | Community Climate Action: Right.
544 01:12:41.010 --> 01:12:46.669 Liz Tice: The insurance broker. But it's part of the London market. So so.
545 01:12:46.670 --> 01:13:05.440 Joolz | Community Climate Action: Absolutely. Yeah. I think Howdens were criticized by an activist group recently because they said writing some some oil and gas, so they might be well in the market for some better. Pr. Yes, and it was actually Howdens I spoke to about the expression of interest for the innovate Uk bid for the for the farming.
546 01:13:05.690 --> 01:13:06.260 Liz Tice: Oh, okay.
547 01:13:06.260 --> 01:13:12.830 Joolz | Community Climate Action: So yeah, let's let's let there we go. So here's a project and outcome of today. Let's let's let's do that between us. Then.
548 01:13:12.830 --> 01:13:13.670 Liz Tice: Okay.
549 01:13:13.670 --> 01:13:16.740 Joolz | Community Climate Action: Great Rachel.
550 01:13:16.740 --> 01:13:24.500 Rachel Blackmore: I was just thinking of Tarmac you had mentioned. That's industry, isn't it, that you've got onboarding
551 01:13:24.620 --> 01:13:26.719 Rachel Blackmore: Essex. Is that right?
552 01:13:27.500 --> 01:13:49.920 Joolz | Community Climate Action: Yes, that's right. So the I wasn't actually at the meeting. But the Community group, the Clerk of Stanway Parish Council, Donna and Colchester community energy have both met now met following our workshop with tarmac, and they're looking at a couple of old quarries and or landfills. Tarmac are the Uk's 5th largest landowner.
553 01:13:49.970 --> 01:14:00.889 Joolz | Community Climate Action: according to Tarmac. So I am going to be getting on the phone to Tarmac's representative in Essex and asking who his, who his
554 01:14:01.470 --> 01:14:05.230 Joolz | Community Climate Action: opposite number is in Buckinghamshire. And let's see if we can get them along.
555 01:14:05.450 --> 01:14:08.999 Joolz | Community Climate Action: And I know Rachel's already spoken to. Taylor Wimpy, is it?
556 01:14:09.870 --> 01:14:11.350 Joolz | Community Climate Action: Yeah, yeah.
557 01:14:11.350 --> 01:14:17.579 Rachel Blackmore: Said he might come tonight. Well, yeah, I mean he hasn't. But you know he's on. He's he's signed up for the workshop.
558 01:14:17.740 --> 01:14:40.749 Joolz | Community Climate Action: Great. And we're having similar conversations with Persimmon in Essex. So again, I'm sure Persimmon will be active in Buckinghamshire, so we can. We can start to ask these questions. And yeah, Liz, I mean, let's let's maybe get some sponsorship. These are very large corporations. Persimmon, I think, are the largest housing developer, and they turn over about 3 billion. So yes, let's let's have these conversations.
559 01:14:41.490 --> 01:14:43.830 Joolz | Community Climate Action: That's brilliant, brilliant suggestion.
560 01:14:46.820 --> 01:14:59.580 Joolz | Community Climate Action: So we're kind of, we're 10 past 8. So. I think I think we'll probably draw it to a close. Now I'm going to be on for another 5 5 min or so, or maybe longer if people want to chat
561 01:14:59.870 --> 01:15:06.130 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and talk more informally about stuff. But does anyone have any burning questions right now?
562 01:15:09.660 --> 01:15:30.719 Joolz | Community Climate Action: No, okay, well, we'll be following up as as I said with David, with some further instructions about how you can get involved, participate, and really just, I hope I hope you enjoyed today, or I know it was a lot of information downloaded quickly. But I hope I hope it was gave you a flavor for what? What we're embarking on.
563 01:15:31.600 --> 01:15:32.250 Joolz | Community Climate Action: Rachel.
564 01:15:32.250 --> 01:15:34.769 Rachel Blackmore: Will the other 2 zooms be the same link
565 01:15:35.240 --> 01:15:38.709 Rachel Blackmore: just on the second question. Thank you. So we've all got that.
566 01:15:39.250 --> 01:15:42.379 Rachel Blackmore: The and you can just book again. If you can't find the email, can't you.
567 01:15:42.380 --> 01:15:50.950 Joolz | Community Climate Action: That's right. Please do just click the register and you'll get reminder link. I think it's the same, but I'd encourage you to register. So we know who's coming to each call.
568 01:15:51.610 --> 01:15:52.830 Rachel Blackmore: Great thanks.
569 01:15:53.130 --> 01:16:01.159 Joolz | Community Climate Action: Fabulous. Well, thank you, everyone for coming, and I really look forward to this journey with you, and to meeting you all in person.
570 01:16:02.380 --> 01:16:02.910 ian hanson: Thank you.
571 01:16:02.910 --> 01:16:03.880 Liz Tice: Okay, thanks. Then.
572 01:16:03.880 --> 01:16:05.600 Mayuko Yamada: Thank you. Bye-bye.
573 01:16:06.190 --> 01:16:07.139 Alan Thawley: Thanks a lot.
574 01:16:07.380 --> 01:16:07.940 Anna Taylor: Thank you.
575 01:16:08.270 --> 01:16:09.299 Anna Taylor: Bye, everyone.
576 01:16:15.220 --> 01:16:23.109 robert Parry: Jules. Oh, and Rachel actually, if I can ask, I mean I'd love to come along in October, but I don't want to take a place of a local person.
577 01:16:23.951 --> 01:16:27.600 robert Parry: Which is why I haven't booked on to it as yet.
578 01:16:27.920 --> 01:16:28.350 Rachel Blackmore: Yeah.
Markdown copy of presentation for AI Search engine:
# T&P Councils Community Climate Action v1.0
**The Great Collaboration**
Website: [www.communityclimateaction.uk](http://www.communityclimateaction.uk)
Contact: [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])
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## CODE RED FOR HUMANITY
*United Nations*
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## Funding Our Future
**How you can access capital now, to help shape your environment**
*By Joolz Thompson, Parish Councillor for Hopton-cum-Knettishall Parish Council*
### Funding Sources:
- National Lottery
- District or County Council
- Grant funding: CEF / COF / VCSE (Resilience Fund)
- Community Municipal Investment Bonds (SIPPs / SAAS)
- Community Shares (withdrawable Share Capital)
- Public Works Loan Board Borrowing
- Social / Private Investment (Patient Capital)
- Blended Finance
- Community Benefit! ( - traffic calming & VAR)
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## Role of Town & Parish Councils in Community Action
- Provision of allotments (food resilience)
- Statutory Biodiversity Duty
- Emergency Planning aligned with Resilience ForumThere is real scope for Norfolk ALC to explore the lessons being learned by Community Climate Action in forms of management, of financing, of recruitment, and of widespread improvement of local livelihoods. This should be connected to county-based devolution at an early stage. Professor Tim O'Riordan, Chair Norfolk Association of Local Councils
> m betting that you are all in this room because you think the second approach is preferable to the first. Sir James Bevan, Chief Executive of the Environment Agency, 19 March 2019
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## Inspirational Quote
> *"Walk with the dreamers, the believers, the courageous, the cheerful, the planners, the doers, the successful people with their heads in the clouds and their feet on the ground.
Let their spirit ignite a fire within you to leave this world better than when you found it."*
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## Community Climate Action: A Journey
1. **Someone is moved to do something**
2. **They gain skills in community climate action**
3. **They find others in their community to join them**
4. **They collectively decide what they can do**
5. **They assemble the knowledge, funds, and support to deliver**
6. **They share what worked and how, informing and inspiring others**
7. **They look for ideas**
8. **They measure the outcomes of their action**
9. **They measure the current state**
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## About The Great Collaboration
The initiative is:
- **Place-based**
- **Community-focused**
### What is provided:
- Website, forum, and tools to support action
- Community Climate Action Planning for:
- Town & Parish Councils (ALCs)
- Schools
- Pubs
- Sports clubs
- Faith groups
- Residents & green groups
- Pop-up and place-based Climate Emergency Centres for face-to-face advice
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**Watch:** [The Great Collaboration Video](https://vimeo.com/1096067202?share=copy)
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