Community actions | Shropshire Climate Action

What can you do as a community?

Climate Fresk at Ludlow
Quaker Meeting House

Book a Climate Fresk workshop:
learn about the climate crisis and what you can do to help

Climate Fresk is a 3 hour facilitated workshop where you can get to grips with climate change in small groups in a safe, non-judgemental space, learn how to take action and enjoy some thought-provoking discussions. The workshops explore key drivers, mechanisms, and impacts of climate change, and map out where we are today and where we could be headed if we join forces.

Previous participants have said: ‘I knew a fair bit about climate change but I learned so much new stuff. It was incredibly powerful sharing ideas in the group and understanding how everything is connected. We discussed next steps we could take and I left feeling focused and upbeat’.

If you are a community group or group of friends living in Shropshire or Telford & Wrekin and want to book a half day Climate Fresk workshops which includes all the materials, find out more via the BizEd Projects website

or email climate@bizedprojects.com

Sign up to a Biodiversity Collage workshop

"The global rate of species extinction is already at least tens to hundreds of times higher than the average rate over the past 10 million years and is accelerating." IPBES, 2019

Join a biodiversity collage workshop to explore the pressing issue of biodiversity loss. Despite its critical importance, biodiversity receives far less attention than climate change, yet both are intertwined and pose significant threats to humanity. Based on the IPBES report, our interactive workshop offers a fun, collaborative, and visual exploration of biodiversity challenges.

Here's what we'll cover:

Starters: Work in groups to recreate ecosystems and uncover the impacts of human disturbance.
Organise the collage: Connect the dots between 39 cards to understand biodiversity's significance, how it supports human life and how it is being degraded.
Transform your collage into art: Decorate and title your creation
Debrief and action planning: Reflect on insights gained and collectively develop action plans to halt biodiversity loss.

Find out more via the BizEd Projects website or email climate@bizedprojects.com

Set up a Carbon Watchers group

The Carbon Watchers Project (CW) is loosely based on the philosophy of Weight Watchers: encouragement, no blame or shame, sharing ideas to reduce our personal carbon footprint.

It encourages members of both formal and informal groups (friends, neighbours, clubs) to work towards reducing their carbon footprints, using any of the tools suggested on this website. Click here for a toolkit on how to set up a Carbon Watchers group.

The Great Collaboration is an online Toolkit which contains 60 different carbon reducing actions you can take rated by cost and carbon impact. This includes a section on how you can join with other people to use your voice to call for change.

https://greatcollaboration.uk/the-toolkit/

Start a climate conversation

We are Possible recommends talking about the climate crisis to our friends, family, colleagues and neighbours, which can help empower others to understand the crisis we face and take action.

Inspiring local actions are already happening, and we can strengthen these and generate further impetus by sharing our experience and knowledge.

To get you started here are some questions to start the conversation ….

What’s the best thing your group/organisation/ school has done in the last year to help cut greenhouse gas emissions or loss of natural habitat?
What’s the most important thing you want to do next?
What will help you do that?

… and here are some ideas to consider for your community or group.

Read the Action Learning Report on decarbonising
Shropshire communities

South Shropshire Climate Action received a grant from Shropshire Council in December 2023 to explore how communities in Shropshire can achieve Net Zero by 2030.

Four community groups participated in the project including:

a school - St George's CE Academy, Clun
a small rural parish council - Llanfair Waterdine
a local faith group - Ludlow Quaker Meeting House
a project run by a local charity - Community Climate Connectors Project (Marches Energy Agency).

The final report reveals which which strategies are most effective in encouraging participation in activities designed to reduce carbon emissions at a community level and what barriers and challenges lay in the way of the groups making progress.

Read the report

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