Your community and the Climate Challenge Fund

Changeworks has been charged by SDC with organising two promotion events for the Climate Challenge Fund. The idea is to interest more community groups in bringing well developed projects to application:

Meeting the Challenge - Your community and the Climate Challenge Fund

• Wednesday 5th March, Edinburgh (pm/eve)
• Thursday 11th March, Fife (pm/eve)

The events are an opportunity for community groups to discover the funding available and to meet with organisations that can help them to realise their vision to become a low carbon community.  There will be a marketplace, designed for community groups to meet with and to find out what support and expertise is available to them and to meet some of the projects that have already been funded.

There will be speakers from the fund itself and from a couple of exemplar projects plus workshops on topics such as ‘How to apply’, ‘Hit Carbon Hits’ and ‘Being an Effective, Fundable Group’. This particular event is particularly focusing on energy projects.

The event is free to all participants.

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Black Grouse
- a local species under threat

An evening event exploring the ecology and conservation
of Black Grouse in the Borders

Speakers from:
Borders Forest Trust,
Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust,
Royal Society for the Protection of Birds,
Southern Uplands Partnership.

Wednesday 4th February 2009
7.00pm - 9.00pm
in
Scott's Hall, County Hotel, Selkirk.

Refreshments available.

The event is free but please reserve a place by contacting:

Mike Fraser - RSPB Conservation Officer
Office: 01750 725 323
E-mail: mike.fraser@rspb.org.uk

Event supported by:

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Rural housing - at the crossroads?

Rural Housing Service Annual Conference
The Birnam Institute, Birnam, By Dunkeld

2/27 February 2009

Click here for the Conference Programme
Click here for the Conference Booking form

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Development Support for Community Groups

A number of development support opportunities are now available for
communities/community groups in Annandale and Eskdale as listed below.

We are looking to offer the sessions in individual communities so that we bring
the support to you. We would hope that a community group would organise a
venue and invite members of other local groups along to make the best use of
the support on offer in your community.

Click here ro read more (opens as a pdf)