The Great Collaboration is now being run by the Place Based Initiative. As well as weekly banter sessions – more details here – they are now sending quarterly newsletters by e-mail. Click here to read the first newsletter.
The Great Collaboration runs weekly lunchtime online sessions. These are friendly, cooperative forums that provide tips and suggestions to help individuals and groups understand and contribute to local actions aiming to reach Net Zero. There is plenty of lively discussion too! Nominally lasting for 60 minutes, over-runs are quite common. The next session will be on Wednesday 13th November, with a Climate Community local government advisor. To see all the upcoming sessions, and links to recordings of previous sessions, click here which is a link to the Great Collaboration Wiki. Just occasionally the topic may change at short notice due
The Great Collaboration runs weekly lunchtime online sessions. These are friendly, cooperative forums that provide tips and suggestions to help individuals and groups understand and contribute to local actions aiming to reach Net Zero. There is plenty of lively discussion too! Nominally lasting for 60 minutes, over-runs are quite common. The next session will be on Wednesday 16th October, entitled ‘Share More, Waste Less’ To see all the upcoming sessions, and links to recordings of previous sessions, click here which is a link to the Great Collaboration Wiki. Just occasionally the topic may change at short notice due to something
The end of the summer holidays and start of a new academic year is a time for new beginnings and a chance to get involved in new projects. Plenty of courses and activities are starting up: BUILDING SENSE and HGN both have online events to join; The Great Collaboration weekly banter sessions continue; Repair Cafés are starting their autumn seasons; Transition Leominster’s activities resume; the Herefordshire Wildlife Trust has a call to action for the River Wye and its City Branch has a family friendly event to support. So what are you waiting for? Get out there and really make
This month, Herefordshire Council published a Climate Change Adaptation Plan for the county, to help ensure that its natural environment, people, infrastructure, buildings and businesses are prepared for the impacts of climate change. These impacts include greater incidence and severity of flooding, a higher likelihood of water scarcity and more intense and prolonged heatwaves. The plan was developed by SWM, but co-created by stakeholders who know the county the best. SWM provided the framework and the means of pulling everything together that stakeholders shared with them, to ensure the Plan had buy-in, built on existing work and aligned with other sustainability priorities,
Just a reminder as to why might be receiving this HGN newsletter, having previously received newsletters from our project The Great Collaboration – Local Actions for a Healthy Planet. In September 2023 HGN transferred the web-based toolkit over to a new organisation, Place-based Initiatives Ltd (PBI) to expand the provision across the UK. Herefordshire Green Network’s programme will now concentrate on activities in this county and be known as Great Collaboration Herefordshire. You can read more about the background to this by clicking on this link. There will no longer be a separate newsletter from GCH:
Some of you may be receiving this HGN newsletter for the first time having previously received newsletters from our project The Great Collaboration – Local Actions for a Healthy Planet. In September 2023 HGN transferred the web-based toolkit over to a new organisation, Place-based Initiatives Ltd (PBI) to expand the provision across the UK. Herefordshire Green Network’s programme will now concentrate on activities in this county and be known as Great Collaboration Herefordshire. You can read more about the background to this by clicking on this link. There will no longer be a separate newsletter from
The Great Collaboration website with its toolkit of actions, transferred from the Herefordshire Green Network last summer to the Place Based Initiative. PBI have been doing some great work, with weekly online discussions and more, and they are due to launch a Great Collaboration newsletter from July. PBI will also be picking up the Great Collaboration social media, too. Meanwhile the Great Collaboration Herefordshire team is stepping back for a while. Co-ordinator Clare Cherry, who has done a magnificent ‘temporary’ (!) job that’s lasted nearly 2 years, is stepping down. At this stage, HGN has no funding to continue
There are two upcoming chances to catch up with what HGN has been up to and its plans for the future. The first is in person, this coming weekend at Spring Greens – details in the next post in this newsletter. The second is online: Herefordshire Green Network will be holding its AGM on Wednesday 15th May at 7pm, online. Put the date in your diary and look out for more details in future newsletters. We hope you will join us to hear what we have been up to over the past year, what has been happening with Great Collaboration
Herefordshire Green Network will be holding its AGM on Wednesday 15th May at 7pm, online. Put the date in your diary and look out for more details in future newsletters. We hope you will join us to hear what we have been up to over the past year, what has been happening with Great Collaboration Herefordshire and Building Sense, how you can get involved and what our future plans are. Look forward to seeing you there!
