October meeting minutes

Burton Joyce Climate Action Group Meeting 

18-10-2021

via Zoom

Present: Julia Devonport, Phil Colbourn, Bobbie Prime, Justin Udie, Gill Newman

Apologies: Paul Smith.

1.     Welcomed Gill Newman.

2.     Constitution-adjusted wording. All present agreed it was acceptable.

Plan: Phil to put on our website and Facebook page and to align our aims on the website with the constitution.

We discussed that roles in the group would be useful e.g. a treasurer, but no decisions made.

3.     Bank Account. Discussed asking for donations at live meetings versus a member ship fee. Gill mentioned that the local history society had less people coming to events when membership was required versus donations.

Julia to contact our regional FOE member of staff to get a letter of permission to open a bank account. 2 group members are needed to act as signatories

4.     Market Stall feedback. We felt it was a success and it was felt that a stall every quarter would be useful. Gill volunteered to take on the role as the stall coordinator with Karen who runs the market and will contact her to book a slot for January.

5.     Group email address. Justin has set up a gmail account for us so we can have a single source of email contact.  burtonjoyceclimateaction@gmail.com Ask Julia for the password.

6.     Gedling draft climate action plan. Bobbie has not yet heard from Melvyn Cryer at Gedling Borough council about when he can come and talk to our group about the draft climate action plan. Note: Let parish Council know so they can send a long a representative.

7.     Future meetings. We can continue monthly meetings for the group on zoom or hybrid meetings (zoom and live) and decided to aim for the 3^rd Monday of the month approximately.

A live meeting inviting the community to hear a speaker or participate in an activity could be every 2 to 3 months at a venue. We decided on Thursday January 20^th as a possible date for a first live meeting, we’ll need  a venue and a theme/speaker.

Plan: Julia to contact Howard, regional FOE staff about grant for initial meeting.

8.     Notts County Council Pension Divestment from Fossil Fuels. Group agreed that this was a worthwhile subject to campaign about. There is a meeting on 26^th October at Nottingham Climate Action group to discuss further and we’ve been invited, I will clarify if its in person or via Zoom.

9.     Parish Council. Julia went to the communities meeting today:

-Notts Bat Group were invited and put a detector up in the Grove and between 6 and 8 species were detected (there are 12 species in total found in Notts, so quite a good number). They made some recommendations which I’ve asked them to consider carrying out, including purchase of bat boxes.

-Environment Plan. They agreed to review it in the new year as a small working group.

-They agreed to have their carbon footprint calculated and Julia will email the parish clerk regarding setting up a small meeting to find out what will be involved, use of their data etc. for Justin to meet them.

10.  Carbon footprint consultation. Paul currently contacting local organisations regarding participation in this. Parish Council could be one of them.

 

11.  Severn Trent tour. Bobbie reported that about 12 had signed up for tour and she was planning to contact John Jackson about the final details this week.

 

Next meeting - Monday 22 November at 7pm Justin will send out the link.

 

 

Julia Devonport

 

 

 

Divest Notts campaign

DIVEST NOTTS! 

Email Nottinghamshire County Council & ask them to divest their pension funds from fossil fuel companies

Dear Friends  

This is a simple quick way that you can write to the leader of the County Council, Ben Bradley,  about the £155 million stlll invested in FOSSIL FUELS by the Nottinghamshire Local Government Pension Fund (administered by the County Council)

 

Click here: https://divestnotts.org  to send the email - and view a short film clip of Ben Bradley making promises about tackling the climate emergency - we have seen NOTHING so far.

 

Currently the Pension Fund has £155m invested in fossil fuel companies. Incredibly it has no targets for reducing the carbon footprint of its investments. It is not aligned with limiting global warming to 1.5°C, or anything even close.

Nottinghamshire Pension Fund must adopt ambitious climate targets to keep 1.5° alive.

On the eve COP 26 and before the next Pension Fund Committee on 4th November, Divest Notts is trying to get 300 emails sent demanding action. So please share this message with everyone who might agree to take part

 

Climate March at Southwell

 You would be very welcome to come along and join in

More information at GreenSouthwell

From the organisers:

For those who don't know Southwell - the Burgage is a green space at the opposite end of the shopping area from the Minster. It can be found here: https://goo.gl/maps/jdgKGwTTzSyrAMNw7 

 

We are working out what happens when we get to the Minster - there will likely be a few words to draw the event to a close, and point to next steps.  

We will be holding a second event later in the month where we discuss individual action. We want strong and fair climate leadership and to help each other make the difference we can make as individuals.  

 

Finally, our kind and supportive hosts at the Minster are holding a Craft Fair that day to which you are very welcome. We hope to be hosting a stall or display of the 'leaves' used in the March at the Fair so again, if you have any material you want shared to a wider audience in the area, please let us know. We will be using posters and/or a noticeboard that people can take a photo of, rather than handouts.

Wildflower seeds

It's time to sow wildflower seeds for next summer

Buy your seeds here:

Landlife Wildflowers

an excellent range of seed mixes and quantities; good value

Meadow in My Garden

good mixes and a range of quantities

Next Climate Group Meeting

**PLEASE NOTE** CORRECTED DATE

The next Climate Action group meeting is on Monday 18/10/21

The next Climate Action  group meeting is on Monday 18/10/21

This is an online Google video meeting. 

Details:

Burton Joyce Climate Action Group Meeting 

Monday, 18 October · 7:00 – 9:00pm

Google Meet 

If you would like to join the session, please contact the email address below: 

burtonjoyceclimateaction@gmail.com

You will then just need to click on a link to join the meeting

Market stall this Saturday

Look out for the Climate group stall 

under the gazebo 

at the Village market this Saturday 

9th October 2021

Climate Bill

 Please support the Climate Bill

DEMAND THE GOVERNMENT BACK CLIMATE PLEDGES WITH LEGISLATION

Two years ago, on 1 May 2019, the UK Parliament declared a Climate and Environment Emergency.

Since then, politicians have drawn up new targets, including at least a 68% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, made promises to protect 30% of our land by 2030 and signed pledges including the Leaders’ Pledge for Nature. 

Yet despite these pledges and promises, we remain way off track.

To change this, we need more than just promises. We need new, ambitious climate and nature law – we need the Climate and Ecological Emergency Bill.

Support our demand that the UK Government back up their climate and nature pledges with up-to-date, ambitious legislation. 

We cannot afford to wait another two years. Please sign the petition.

Sign the petition here:

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