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CLIMATE CHALLENGE FUND GENERATIONS WORKING TOGETHER CONFERENCE

19 March 2014

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Generations Working Together…

• Provides information, delivers support and encourages involvement to benefit all of Scotland’s generations, by working, learning, volunteering and living together.

• Climate Challenge Fund projects have achieved a number of GWT objectives in addition to reducing local carbon emissions

1. Introduction to Keep Scotland Beautiful 2. Climate Change3. Climate Challenge Fund4. Case studies as to how CCF projects have met GWT objectives

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_________________________________________________________________KEEP SCOTLAND BEAUTIFUL

Keep Scotland Beautiful is the independent charity which campaigns, acts and educates on a range of local, national and global environmental

issues which affect people’s quality of life.

It is committed to making Scotland Clean and Green, today and tomorrow.

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ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY

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SUSTAINABLE EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT

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SUSTAINABILITY & CLIMATE CHANGE

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GREENHOUSE GASES AND GLOBAL WARMING

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Source: adapted from NASA Earth Observatory data IPCC 2007 WG1 AR-4

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CLIMATE CHANGE

•Increasing global temperatures resulting in changes to climate

•More extreme weather patterns in Scotland and across the world

•Impacts on everything from human infrastructure, crops and ecosystems

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_________________________________________________________________THE CLIMATE CHALLENGE FUNDThe Climate Challenge Fund

• Supporting community groups tackling climate change (grants up to 150k available for financial year 2015)

• To date more than £54.7 million in CCF funding has been awarded to 635 community group projects

• Projects reduce local carbon emissions, helping to tackle climate change and lead to additional community benefits

Support from Keep Scotland Beautiful

• Dedicated Development Officer- project ideas, application, project implementation

• Free workshops to increase community group knowledge and capacity

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COMMUNITY GROUPS RECEIVING CCF FUNDING IN THE PAST

• Arts Groups• Sports Clubs • Community Councils • Faith Groups • Student Unions • Residents Associations • Local Charities • Food Groups • Community Led Housing Associations • Development Trusts

………as long as your group is led by their community and operated on a not for profit basis they could be eligible for funding.

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GWT OBJECTIVESCCF Projects have met these objectives as well as reducing carbon emissions

GWT Objectives…

• Reducing age stereotyping• Improving community cohesion and encouraging lifelong learning• Active aging• Encouraging healthier lifestyle• Supporting greater personal independence • Reducing social isolation of vulnerable groups in particular, the

elderly• Community cohesion through participation in volunteering, attending

community groups

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Junior Climate Challenge Fund (JCCF)

• Funding and support for projects led by young people (21 and under) to reduce local carbon emissions.

• All applications assessed by a youth panel

• Keep Scotland Beautiful working in partnership with Young Scot

REDUCING AGE STEROTYPING

Young people can lead projects

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IMPROVING COMMUNITY COHESION & ENCOURAGING LIFELONG LEARNING

• Foula Community Polycrub (polytunnel), Shetland Islands

‘The project will share the knowledge between generations of growing your own and set an example of how community action can promote long term sustainability’.

CCF projects based in schools work with the local community

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ACTIVE AGEING – ENCOURAGING HEALTHIER LIFESTYLES

CCF projects encourage an active, healthy (and low carbon) lifestyle

• Eat, Cycle Work, Play Local, Inverness – promotes and facilitates active travel and consumption of healthy local food

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SUPPORTING GREATER PERSONAL INDEPENDENCE

• Cycling into Sustainability - The Fallin Community Enterprise Recyke a Bike (Falkirk & Stirling)

- Free bike servicing & training

• Forward Shopmobility Aberdeen – assistance for community with disabilities to use public transport

• A Better Way to Work (Glasgow) offer free journey planning, trial public transport passes and cycle training

- see our case study

CCF projects promote & provide lower carbon transport options helping people travel independently

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REDUCING SOCIAL ISOLATION OF VULNERABLE GROUPS IN PARTICULAR THE ELDERLY

 The Make a Difference Project, Lightburn Elderly Association Project £266,759 www.leap-project.co.uk • Blantyre, Hamilton, Larkhall, South

Lanarkshire.

• Provides energy efficiency advice, advocacy, training and practical measures to reduce energy use, fuel poverty & carbon emissions from older peoples homes

Trusted CCF funded community groups provide advice on reducing energy use, carbon emissions and fuel poverty.

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COMMUNITY COHESION THROUGH PARTICIPATION IN VOLUNTEERING & ATTENDING COMMUNITY GROUPS

CCF projects have brought communities together around voluntary activity

Shettleston Community Growing Project, Glasgow • Received multiple CCF grants• Busy with volunteers even on wet days!

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FURTHER INFORMATION ON CCF

• Pick up our information leaflet and case studies today

• See our website www.climatechallengefund.org

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UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPPORTUNITIES

• Free training and seminarsFree for any community tackling climate change; various topics. See www.climatechallengefund.org

• Climate Challenge Fund newsletter Sign up via CCF website.

• Climate Challenge Fund Facebook group and Twitter

Climate Challenge Fund Gathering @ Community Central Halls, Maryhill on 24 April 2014