Online Meeting for Climate Change-focused Community Groups

Date: 
Wed, 20/05/2020


Wednesday 20th May, 7pm-8pm (log on from 6:45pm if you’re new to Zoom and would like some help with understanding how it works)
Log on via this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83741971389 
Meeting ID: 837 4197 1389
Organised by Community Climate Action Network/Marches Energy Agency
 
This will be:

  • A follow up on our meeting last month
  • An informal opportunity to ‘meet’ with people from other climate change-focused community groups in the Nottingham/Nottinghamshire/Derby/Derbyshire area.
  • A chance to hear about what other community groups are doing
  • An opportunity to talk about what support you might want from the Community Climate Action Network in the next few months (while life is very different to normal) and in the future. This could be more Zoom meetings, more content on our website or something else.
  • A chance to meet the new project lead - Peter Burgess - Allen. Peter will now be running our work in Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, especially with the Local Authority Energy Partnership and community groups.

A huge thank you to everyone who joined our first community Zoom meeting last month. We hope that it was useful. We discussed how you wanted to be supported through the COVID-19 crisis and in the future.  It was also great hearing about what community groups in the region were doing to move forward. 

There was a strong sense that many of you would like to be in better communication with similar groups in the region and with your local MPs.  We are planning ways in which we can support your communications with local MPs and make sure your concerns are being raised with relevant policy makers in your region. We’ll let you know about that soon! 

In the meantime, we are aiming to run Zoom meetings regularly to give community groups a chance to informally meet and share ideas. Our next Zoom meeting will be on Wednesday 20th May from 7pm till 8pm. This will also be an opportunity to let us know what support you would like from us.  

As an example of the kind of support we might offer, we organised a Zoom conference on the topic of Community-led Sustainable Transport back in June 2018. You can see a recording of it here. There is the potential for us to run this kind of event again (with different topics) if groups feel it would be of use in this time.