Following on from my email below, I am pleased to say that we now have a committee of 6 members. We have completed our constitution document and will be submitting our application to Community Action Groups by the end of this week. Our aims and objectives are as follows:
Aim:
To equip the local community with the information, skills and resources to inspire and enable them to make more sustainable choices in their everyday lives. Focussing on three main areas identified in part from the results of our community survey and in part by the top 10 solutions taken from a peer reviewed book by Project Drawdown - The Top 100 Solutions to Reverse Global Warming
Objectives:
1.Recycling and Reduction of single-use plastic: Providing clarity on recycling services and the options available, workshops to provide alternatives to some common products that only come in plastic e.g. home made cleaning and beauty products. Operating a refill station for household products to encourage the rescue of containers. Create an online and printed directory of all of the local facilities and services that provide packaging free options, reuse and repair options. Introducing a network of recycling points for items that cannot currently be collected curb-side and a network of repair stations for household repairs. Use the High Street Phone Box as an information point to share all of this information.
2. Plant based diet: Helping people take steps towards being conscious consumers through recipe swaps, workshops and social media campaigns and a directory of local producers. (This is not aimed to encourage everyone to become vegetarian - this support will be for everyone from those who would like to buy meat from more sustainable farms or those who wish to just reduce their meat intake to those would would like to go completely vegan or vegetarian.)
3. Food Waste: Educate through workshops, online directory and talks to cover composting, meal planning, storage and sell-by dates to help people understand the economic and environmental benefits to less wastage.
We will of course be tackling many subjects relating to other areas of climate change and the above will no doubt grow and change as we establish ourselves further.
We hope to work with as many local groups, organisations and businesses as possible on a host of projects ands campaigns, and we will be reaching our to those in the near future.
We look forward to sharing more and introducing our committee at our first monthly members meeting this Thursday 23rd October at 7.30 in the function room of The Prince of Wales in the High Street.
