Banter Sessions
The banter sessions organised by the Great Collaboration team continue weekly on a Wednesday lunchtime covering a range of topics. Click here for a list of past and future sessions. The next session will be on Wednesday 22nd July on the Local Nature Recovery Strategy.
A recording of each week’s can be found on the GC website after the event. Recent sessions included one on extreme heat and one on the most effective moves to combat climate change – both very topical given the current heatwaves.
TGC are starting a Climate Action Path in the Knowledgebase, to keep track of all the steps that are required (mandatory by legislation) and optional (because they suit your local community) on matters involving the Environment, Climate Change, Planning, and Net Zero – which topics cheerfully include Biodiversity, Energy, Transport, Food, Resilience – and all the rest. As ever, the focus will be on parish and town councils, and community climate organisations. “Climate Action Path” – Step 1, by Graham Stoddart-Stones was last Wednesday, 8th July
This is going to be a work-in-progress: rather than come up with a fixed set of rules and ideas, they will be putting forth the bare bones – call it a skeleton if you wish – of the Path as it is currently seen and envisaged, and then presenting this to the audience for their inputs – thoughts, ideas, examples, case studies, and so forth. They took as a starting point a “Declaration of Climate Emergency”, as that can be the decision from which all other opportunities, events and projects flow. How to start the ball rolling, to get the public involved, what are the implications, and what comes next – and what is further down the road? Budget thoughts…….and how to pay for it all…..
Great Collaboration Banter sessions are free, open to all, and held at noon on Wednesdays. So please do sign up for this session, and feel free to pass this invitation on to anyone that you think could benefit. All sessions are recorded, and the resulting video, presentation, meeting summary and all the ideas, links and suggestions that are always created are published on our Knowledgebase. Members of parish councils, town councils, and community organisations are all typical audiences for these presentations – so do please join us!
TGC Toolkit
To find out more about The Great Collaboration and to sign up to the actions in the toolkit, click here.
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