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Series of focus groups to talk about experiences of COVID and climate. How do you go about identifying representative group? High school group, council officers, community groups. (Preston)

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Working with like-minded organisations, the commitment of the willing

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Working with like-minded organisations, the commitment of the willing

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Preston - working with anchor institutions to set emergency

Sustainability Group, NHS and LA involved - exploring how to collectively do things

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Preston working with UCLAN to investigate opportunities for funding.

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Oldham - language and communication is important - chose not to use the term climate change

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In Tameside:
"Go to group of young ppl"
Primarily through youth services.
Engagement with care leavers.

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Tameside

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Climate Action Preston is organising as part of the Young People’s Summer Roadshow. Their aim is to engage ‘with young people around climate issues, giving them a voice and taking their opinions to the council.’

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Delving into the "fostering of community partnership" theme... I've been thinking about how encouragement of local groups to pursue the Transition Towns model could help to deliver on some of our aims... any thoughts?

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Transition Network encourage communities to come together and rebuild our world. Step up and address the big challenges we face by starting local.

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some folks are conditioned to expect grant funding, challenge to get to a more collaborative approach

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Reaching seldom heard but most impacted groups

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Reaching seldom heard but most impacted groups

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Questionnaires/feedback polls

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i'm interested in how we join up engaging with partners on climate issues with other issues - especially inclusion

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Engagement through events - multi activity open community events

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We are working closely with local businesses to help them adopt green practises, e.g providing funding for specific initiatives.
Specifically in School canteens and classrooms.

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We are establishing a climate commission which will be representative of the district. We have good engagement with larger partners but I'm particularly interested if other have any experience of engaging local businesses, particularly SMEs (where resources are often very limited).

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1. Waste management dealt with well.
2. Developed adoption of new waste streams so businesses participated.
3. Successful as waste is processed effectively.
4. It's a good point - internally we can learn from this as we've not engaged with business so actively on the Climate Change issue yet.

The key to the success of this intervention was the persistence of the delivery team (well before my time at the organisation!).