Join our weekly guided walk and look for the elusive hen harriers and corncrakes! Meet 10am at the Visitor Centre. Walks last approx 2 hours, please dress appropriately for the weather. Sensible footwear essential!

£3 for members, £5 for non-members and under 16s go free. No booking required – pay on the day, cash and card payments accepted.

Dates of this event:

• 1st September: 10am – 12.30pm
• 8th September: 10am – 12.30pm
• 15th September: 10am – 12.30pm
• 22nd September: 10am – 12.30pm
• 29th September: 10am – 12.30pm

Loch Druidibeg is one of the best places in the Uists to see both golden and sea eagles, alongside hen harriers, short-eared owls, merlin and rare divers as well as a wonderfully rich variety of plants.

Cost for this walk is £3 for RSPB Members, £6 for non-members. Children go free. Please pay for this event on the day, we can only accept cash payments.

Dates of this event:

• 1st September: 10am – 11.30am
• 8th September: 10am – 11.30am
• 15th September: 10am – 11.30am
• 22nd September: 10am – 11.30am
• 29th September: 10am – 11.30am

« Climate Fresk » is a workshop conceived in France, that aims at raising awareness and understanding among people about climate change.

Based on the IPCC report, it explains the causes and consequences of climate change. It gives the opportunity to learn a lot in a very short period of time and is meant for both novices and experts.

That’s how the game works:

The workshop is based on a 42-card game. Each card represents a cause or a consequence of climate change.

As a team, guided by your facilitator, you are to find the cause-effect relationship between the different components of climate change. Collective intelligence will get you from one deck of card to the next!

This step-by-step reconstruction provides keys to understand the complexity of climate change.

The workshop’s programme:

– A Brief History Of “Climate Fresk”

– Icebreaker

– Reconstruction of the Climate Fresk guided by your facilitator

– A little pause in between if needed

– Creative phase

– Debrief time to share, express thoughts and feelings

REMEMBER: The workshop takes place online, a good internet connection is necessary.

Practical information:

Beforehand, please make sure you have correctly checked the day and time of attendance indicated for the workshop. The word “BST” means “British Standard Time”. If you come across this term, we recommend that you check the exact time of the workshop in your city by visiting this time zone conversion website here.

Make sure to have installed the zoom.us software, which will be the workshop’s communication platform.

You will receive an email with all the technical information you need, including the link to join the meeting two days and one minute before the workshop starts.

Please take your ticket only if you are sure that you can make it!

Dates and Times:

• 3rd September: Sat, 17:00 – 20:00 BST
• 8th September: Thu, 10:30 – 13:30 BST
• 10th September: Sat, 09:00 – 12:00 BST
• 14th September: Wed, 18:00 – 21:00 BST
• 17th September: Sat, 04:30 – 07:30 BST
• 22nd September: Thu, 10:30 – 13:30 BST
• 24th September: Sat, 09:00 – 12:00 BST
• 28th September: Wed, 18:00 – 21:00 BST
• 1st October: Sat, 17:00 – 20:00 BST

Climate change is an issue that impacts us all – ecologically, socially and economically. Women from marginalised and diverse
communities are, however, often the first to be impacted by social injustices, and more often than not, their voices are the last to be heard.

The Climate Sisters are a group of thirteen women which formed in 2020 during a climate leadership course where, through discussion and collaboration, they each developed creative responses to aspects of climate justice and other sustainability
issues they cared about. These women want their voices to be heard and want policy makers to know that climate change is a real issue which needs urgent action.

Through the Women’s Environmental Network (WEN), the project gained support from the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust, Care International and Action Aid UK. Additionally, the University of Glasgow provided mentors to help the women to develop and create their ideas, and the University of Edinburgh documented the project in conversation with young people from SCOREscotland through two films; bringing their collective stories into the ‘Learning for a Sustainable Future’ series of MOOCs  (Massive Open Online Courses). These collaborations enabled the women to develop their varied ideas, make them a reality and share them widely.

From 22 – 29 September, the exhibition –  which includes poetry, music, podcasts, sculptures, paintings, jewellery, filmmaking, fashion and photography – will be open, free of charge, at the Greyfriars Charteris Centre, 138 The Pleasance, Edinburgh, EH8 9RR. The exhibition will be open from 10:00
until 16:00 daily*

We warmly invite you to enjoy these thought-provoking pieces and engage with these exciting new perspectives on this most vital of issues

A week of live music, harvest, talks & events to give everyone a chance to get involved, inspire and inform more action.

Events are supported by local people, businesses, groups, artists & brilliant musicians, who donate time, spaces & talent to make it so special & unique.

Full programme at: https://dunkeldandbirnamunplugged.wordpress.com/

Join Gilded Lily on a trip to Ardrossan beach to learn about the impacts of climate change on our oceans with Marine Conservation Society, focusing on microplastics & textile waste. There will also be a beach clean, rockpooling & upcycling crafts activities with ReJean Denim.

Learn how to tell and share your story of Climate Action in a workshop series from SCCAN Storyteller Collective!

Introduction to using audio for storytelling, 10am – 4pm Thursday 29 September, online.

Audio storytellers Katie Revell and Kaska Hempel will introduce you to the basics of podcasting to tell a compelling personal or organisation’s Climate Action story.

They will cover podcast design and peparation, interview techniques, audio recording, editing and publishing.

It will be a hands on interactive session with group discussions, 1:1 support for recording and editing, as well as time away from screen for personal reflection.

Previous participants said:

“Very comprehensive and hands on workshop”

“I really enjoyed learning about the editing of the clips, I thought it would be a lot harder.”

“Kaska and Katie were brilliant at explaining the basics of podcasting and were very patient amidst technical issues.”

We recommend this workshop as an introduction to audio recording and editing if you are interested in our ‘Place-based storytelling with sound walks’ workshop in October.

We hope the stories you will create can contribute to 1000 Better Stories podcast or blog, a part of SCCAN Storyteller Collective. As contributors you will eligible to apply for a SCCAN mini-grant of up to £250.

For more information get in touch with SCCAN Story Weaver on [email protected]

About the presenters:

– Katie Revell is an audio and video producer with a particular interest in food and farming, and has been involved in an award-winning podcast on regenerative farming, Farmerama Radio.

– Kaska Hempel is a community podcaster and SCCAN Story Weaver passionate about sharing inspiring stories of grassroots climate action. She produces PLANT Voices podcast from Tayport Community Garden, and SCCAN’s 1000 Better Stories podcast.

Skye Climate Action and the Highland Community Waste Partnership invite you to join us for a chat about our current food system and how we can make it better.

Come along to the first in a series of meetings to find out more: 

Thursday September 29th, 11am – 1pm at The Hebridean Inn, Broadford

Teas and coffees provided.

Contact [email protected] for any questions

The Climate Café celebrates local action, leadership by local businesses and individuals, connections with the community growing projects at the Field and the Community Orchard. Everyone is welcome, and the Café has benefited from lots of creative input from across the generations. There has been some inspiring leadership from children and young people which has been hugely supported by regular attendees.

Hosted by Corbenic Café in Dunkeld.

The launch of community garden offering the community an evening to get to know the people involved with this project. and learn new skills to be able to grow and produce healthy natural food. Also offering an opportunity to volunteer at the garden. Sample produce grown and being able to take away some of the produce.

A social gathering of the local community both young and old to get to know each other and learn about the garden project and other activities offered within the VIP community hub.

Organised by national charity, Humanist Society Scotland. Join our FREE online film screening of ‘This Changes Everything’ as part of the Climate Fringe Festival.  An inspiring documentary following seven different communities on the climate front lines showing the life changing problems they are now facing due to the environmental crisis. Naomi Klein’s impassioned narration is interwoven into these stories of struggle, presenting her take on the carbon in the air and the economic system that put it there. It asks the question, what if global warming isn’t only a crisis, what if it is the best chance we are ever going to get to build a better world? The film will be followed by a post-screening discussion led by Chelsea Szczypior online. 

Thursday 29th September, 7pm – 8.30pm film screening online (89 minutes)

Followed by a ten minute comfort break.

Thursday 29th September, 8.40pm – 9.30pm post screening discussion online

We also have a Facebook event page for more information: https://fb.me/e/2KGrXjFkE

Moving Images solar powered caravan cinema will be touring 6 community gardens and hubs in the Scottish Borders screening Film Seeds a programme of short films with themes around climate and social justice, recycling, the beauty of weeds and grassroots activism September and early October. Each tour stop will be accompanied by a range of activities organised by our hosts as well as flip book animation workshops and climate conversations. Film Seeds Tour has beed funded by Film Hub Scotland & Climate Fringe Festival and supported by Alchemy Film & Arts and Connecting Threads.

Home-Start Glasgow North and North Lanarkshire are hosting Eco-Friendly Coffee mornings focused on discussing ideas with local families in how to be more sustainable. The event will share ideas on how to be more eco-friendly in everyday life, host a baby and toddler clothes swap shop and have eco-friendly activities.

The event is supported by the Climate Fringe which focuses on ways our communities can reduce our carbon footprint.

Please get in touch with Home-Start Glasgow North and North Lanarkshire to let them know if you are planning to attend: [email protected]

Carbon Copy has teamed up with The World Relay for the longest non-stop relay ever attempted, “Running Out Of Time”. Over 7700km from Glasgow to COP27 in Egypt, in the name of climate action. Community leaders, school children and neighbours will pass the relay baton from hand to hand across 18 countries and show the world what we can achieve when we work together.

Sign up. Run a leg of the relay (10km).

Show up. Join Carbon Copy or local climate action project leaders at a baton exchange and help highlight eco-issues.

Support. Share your own local climate action initiative, from anywhere in the UK, via our website or find out what’s happening in your area and join in.

Over 250,000 people will be participating. Anyone unable to run a stage won’t miss out: we’re highlighting big-thinking local climate action along the route and all over the UK. It’s all about you, so put your community initiative on the map now so we can share your story like never before!

2050 Climate Group’s amazing Leaders Network are hosting a collaborative event called ClimaTell – designed to showcase the inspired climate or sustainability based projects, climate actions, research, and other work that young people in Scotland are undertaking. The event will unfold in the form of a fun, friendly and casual Fair whereby a range of young people from across Scotland are hosting an array of stalls and stands to showcase their innovative and unique work in these spheres and share their amazing climate action stories.

2022 happens to be Scotland’s Year of Stories and ClimaTell is a small part of our effort to share Scotland’s climate action stories. This will also be a great opportunity for you to learn more about ways to get involved in the climate movement and collaborate with like-minded young people and climate-centred organisations from across Scotland to grow your own network.

This event aligns with both Scotland’s Climate Week 2022 and the Climate Fringe Festival, so be sure not to miss it!

The Climate Café celebrates local action, leadership by local businesses and individuals, connections with the community growing projects at the Field and the Community Orchard. Everyone is welcome, and the Café has benefited from lots of creative input from across the generations. There has been some inspiring leadership from children and young people which has been hugely supported by regular attendees.

Hosted by Birnam Arts

« Climate Fresk » is a workshop conceived in France, that aims at raising awareness and understanding among people about climate change.

Based on the IPCC report, it explains the causes and consequences of climate change. It gives the opportunity to learn a lot in a very short period of time and is meant for both novices and experts.

That’s how the game works:

The workshop is based on a 42-card game. Each card represents a cause or a consequence of climate change.

As a team, guided by your facilitator, you are to find the cause-effect relationship between the different components of climate change. Collective intelligence will get you from one deck of card to the next!

This step-by-step reconstruction provides keys to understand the complexity of climate change.

The workshop’s programme:

– A Brief History Of “Climate Fresk”

– Icebreaker

– Reconstruction of the Climate Fresk guided by your facilitator

– A little pause in between if needed

– Creative phase

– Debrief time to share, express thoughts and feelings

REMEMBER: The workshop takes place online, a good internet connection is necessary.

Practical information:

Beforehand, please make sure you have correctly checked the day and time of attendance indicated for the workshop. The word “BST” means “British Standard Time”. If you come across this term, we recommend that you check the exact time of the workshop in your city by visiting this time zone conversion website here.

Make sure to have installed the zoom.us software, which will be the workshop’s communication platform.

You will receive an email with all the technical information you need, including the link to join the meeting two days and one minute before the workshop starts.

Please take your ticket only if you are sure that you can make it!

Dates and Times:

• 3rd September: Sat, 17:00 – 20:00 BST
• 8th September: Thu, 10:30 – 13:30 BST
• 10th September: Sat, 09:00 – 12:00 BST
• 14th September: Wed, 18:00 – 21:00 BST
• 17th September: Sat, 04:30 – 07:30 BST
• 22nd September: Thu, 10:30 – 13:30 BST
• 24th September: Sat, 09:00 – 12:00 BST
• 28th September: Wed, 18:00 – 21:00 BST
• 1st October: Sat, 17:00 – 20:00 BST

A week of live music, harvest, talks & events to give everyone a chance to get involved, inspire and inform more action.

Events are supported by local people, businesses, groups, artists & brilliant musicians, who donate time, spaces & talent to make it so special & unique.

Full programme at: https://dunkeldandbirnamunplugged.wordpress.com/

The Meanwhile in Leith Festival will celebrate harvest, local artists, community organisations and the residents of Leith. We want to create a day for all of Leith to share the joy of growing and dedicate this festival to reconnecting nature, culture and
community.

The festival will consist of a series of small performances, talks, gatherings, stalls of local artwork and other goods, a seed swap, as well as workshops around wellbeing, creating and growing and will be suitable for all ages.

Our Venue, The Meanwhile Site is used as shared community space between Leith Community Growers, Out of the Blue, Bookbinding with Cass, Rowanbank Environmental Arts & Education and Leith DIY, all of whom will be given the opportunity to participate in creating a programme and activities for the festival.

Scotland the Bread will be giving advice on bread making, nourishment, and food sovereignty whilst we harvest our wheat, organic potatoes and a variety of fruit and vegetables. We will also harvest our flax which we are growing as part of a 1m2flaxscotland project and discuss slow fashion and clothing as an agricultural product.

Join us to celebrate the vibrancy of Leith and connect with a wonderful community of like-minded people!

Food waste is a major contributor to climate change and following on from PKC’s Food Waste Survey earlier in 2022, PKC Waste Minimisation Team, Pitlochry & District Climate Cafe and Sprout, the new local Community Eco Hub, have been working together on a Food waste reduction and recycling project over August and September which will finish with our Pitlochry Zero Waste Festival on Saturday 1st Oct from 1pm in the Pitlochry Town Hall.

This event is showcasing the various small actions that each household can take to reduce or recycle food waste and ultimately save money on food shops.

This event will involve four classes to highlight the fundamentals of organic plant gardens and special plants from Africa.

Classes will take place between 2pm and 5pm on:

• 3rd September
• 10th September
• 17th September
• 24 September

Free entry

Join our RSPB expert on an exclusive guided walk around the fantastic Sumburgh Head reserve and surrounding habitats, as we look for spring and autumn migrants and learn more about how to find birds on migration.

Please wear suitable footwear and outdoor clothing.

Meet at the carpark at Sumburgh Head Nature Reserve, Shetland Islands, Scotland – The RSPB

Moving Images solar powered caravan cinema will be touring 6 community gardens and hubs in the Scottish Borders screening Film Seeds, a 40 mins programme of short films with themes around climate and social justice, recycling, the beauty of weeds and grassroots activism in September and early October. Each tour stop will be accompanied by a range of activities organised by our hosts as well as flip book animation workshops and climate conversations. Film Seeds Tour has beed funded by Film Hub Scotland & Climate Fringe Festival and supported by Alchemy Film & Arts and Connecting Threads.

In light of #ScotClimateWeek, we will be organising a Climate Week Pop-Up event to initiate conversation around #ClimateChange!

Join us Sunday 2nd October for a day full of outdoor activities to connect with our beautiful ecosystem.

Events include:

• eBike and kids seats trial
• Microgreen Giveaway
• Foraging Walks
• Dr Bike

Book your FREE foraging walk with Whitehouse Foraging on our event page.

Announcing our first EVER Repair Cafe in Pitlochry!!

WHAT DO YOU DO WITH

—a CD player that no longer opens? a toaster that no longer works? a sweater with moth holes? —

REPAIR CAFE IS

repairing broken items together, professional advice, encounters and inspiration

COSTS?

A voluntary contribution

Bring any items you need fixing and our skilled volunteers will try and help you get them good as new again!

How it works

Come along with your item, wait in our cafe area with a nice hot drink, homebaking and a chat and then go to your allocated specialist!

Let’s Get Carbon Savvy in the Cairngorms National Park…

How will your community be affected by climate change? 

Want to find out?

Free workshops for Park residents, businesses and employees beginning 1st September and going through until November 2022.

Nine workshops to choose from, find a date to suit you.

Book here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/…/climate-conscious…

What the workshop will cover:

• Understand what climate change means for communities in the Park.
• Demystifying the “jargon” – understand the science and speak more confidently about climate change.
• Take control and make a difference – start a conversation in your business, your family or your community about what positive climate action you can take – we are not powerless…
• Share your views in the workshop via interactive activities.

#HeritageHorizons#Cairngorms2030#ClimateConsciousCommunities#ClimateEmergency#LetsDoNetZero#SustainableScotland #ClimateFringe

All welcome! This programme is made possible by funding provided by The National Heritage Lottery Fund.

Tuesday 4th October, 7pm-9pm online via Zoom

An interactive games night designed to build empathy with climate migrants. Intrigued? Well sign-up and join-in! No prior knowledge or preparation required. Players will be led through imaginative scenarios and they can choose their responses and actions. Expect a friendly, and thought-provoking evening for age 18 .  We first ran this during Climate Fringe week last year and 100% of participants said they would recommend it!

Free to participate in, and open to all our members and supporters, this evening is hosted by our friends in the Fife Group, and facilitated by Hazel Darwin-Clements, writer, podcaster, project co-ordinator, performer, puppeteer and theatre maker.

The link to join this session via Zoom will be sent to you in a confirmation email nearer the time. When you register for this event (click the red ‘Register Now’ button) your personal information will be held and used by Humanist Society Scotland for the purposes of allowing you to join the event.

In collaboration with Caithness Poverty Action Group, Thurso Community Development Trust and their Net Zero Thurso project are hosting their free Thurso Sustainability Fair. It will be in the Pentland Hotel ballroom and everyone is welcome!

The event will feature various organisations, businesses, and projects which have a vision for a Sustainable Thurso at the heart of them.

They will be there to advise you on how you can source renewable energy options, lower your energy and food costs, reduce your food and plastic waste, live a more sustainable lifestyles, make your business more sustainable, focus on your wellbeing and mental health during the energy crisis, learn more about climate change, and much more!

There will also be presentations, workshops, and activities for all ages!

Drop in any time through the day.

More details to come and stall holder announcements on our Facebook Events page!

A weekend of activities involving a wide range of local partners, hosted by Inverurie West Church. The event is aimed at helping people of all faiths and none to respond with hope and commitment to the current climate challenges. There will be talks, workshops, crafts, hands-on activities, information stalls and more. There is something for all ages. Come find out how you can make a difference! More details will be available once the programme is finalised.

General registration not required. Some workshops might have number limits. Please contact organiser for further information.