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June
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A simple social gathering with facilitators where we can talk about our thoughts and feelings about the climate emergency.
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A simple social gathering with facilitators where we can talk about our thoughts and feelings about the climate emergency.
A Climate Café is an opportunity to give ourselves time to sit, perhaps with a hot drink and a slice of cake, and describe our thoughts and feelings about the crises of our ecology.
Climate Cafés are bounded by confidentiality although they are not therapy sessions. We invite you to take part in a warm, hospitable, facilitated conversation where you can reflect on your and others’ feelings without being bounced into action. This is one way of coping with the challenges facing us all.
This Climate Café will be held every second Wednesday of the month at the Salisbury Centre, an inclusive community space just east of the Meadows in Edinburgh. Tea and hot drinks will be available from the Salisbury Centre’s kitchen (small donation suggested), and the facilitators will provide some biscuits and snacks. You are welcome to bring your own too!
More about Climate Cafés
The focus of discussion is participants’ thoughts and feelings about the climate and ecological crisis. There are no guest speakers and no talks, and it is an advice-free zone. You can find out more about it here.
This event is free and anyone aged 18 years and over, from any background, is warmly welcome. Please feel free to share the event with your friends and family.
There is a limit on numbers to ensure space for discussion. If all the spaces are full please do join the waitlist or register your interest in future sessions by writing to us at [email protected].
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Time
(Thursday) 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Location
Salisbury Centre, 2 Salisbury Road, Edinburgh EH16 5AB
Organiser
Climate Psychology Alliance Scotland
Event Details
Join us for a fun, free and informative workshop that will help you understand climate change. You will work as a team to find relationships
Event Details
Join us for a fun, free and informative workshop that will help you understand climate change.
You will work as a team to find relationships between 42 climate cards. Each card represents a cause or effect of climate change. Together you will link the cards to build a collage that explains climate change.
This step-by-step, cooperative activity will help you work through the complexity of climate change. You will also get to be creating by decorating and naming your finished collage.
Climate Fresk is perfect for those who know that climate change is important, but feel that they would like to understand it more. There is no need for any previous climate knowledge; the workshop is a learning experience.
Climate Fresk is a French-based NGO with the aim to make climate science more accessible. Over 1 million people have played worldwide.
You can read about a previous Climate Fresk workshop we delivered here.
Booking information
This workshop is free to attend, but spaces are limited so booking is required.
If you have any problems booking or any questions, please phone 01592 858458 or email [email protected]
Accessibility
The event is being held at Hugo’s Bar & Pavilion, Regents Way, Dalgety Bay, Dunfermline KY11 9YD.
The venue is wheelchair accessible and has a disabled toilet.
If you have any other accessibility questions please phone 01592 858458 or email [email protected].
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Time
(Tuesday) 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Organiser
Climate Action Fife
Climate Fresk
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Funding, Finance and Business Support Seminar The Circular Communities Scotland Funding, Finance and Business Support Seminar is back for 2023! Join us for the opportunity to
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Funding, Finance and Business Support Seminar
The Circular Communities Scotland Funding, Finance and Business Support Seminar is back for 2023!
Join us for the opportunity to hear from and put questions to funders and providers of financial and developmental support in our sector. Learn about potential sources of grant and loan funding, and discover business support opportunities for charities and social enterprises in Scotland.
Our Funding, Finance and Business Support Seminar is one of our most popular seminars throughout the year for a reason, as we look to bring up to date and useable information to attendees looking to secure the future of their non-profit organisations.
The challenges of the cost-of-living and cost-of-running crises will be taken into consideration as we work to bring you a diverse events programme that will help you tackle the real financial and business issues your organisation may be facing.
Hear as well from a Circular Communities Scotland member about their experience of applying for funding, successes and lessons learned along the way.
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The Guardians of Our Rivers is a Citizen Science project to monitor the health of Scotland’s rivers. Buglife’s qualified Riverfly Partnership trainer will empower participants to monitor and survey rivers for invertebrates,
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The Guardians of Our Rivers is a Citizen Science project to monitor the health of Scotland’s rivers. Buglife’s qualified Riverfly Partnership trainer will empower participants to monitor and survey rivers for invertebrates, and spot early warning signs of habitats in crisis, e.g. pollution, drought, etc. Training will be delivered in two parts: Thursday 15th June, 6-9pm, Zoom. Saturday 17th June, 10am – 1pm, Alexandria Library. We will then walk from the library along the River Leven. Please only book if you are over 18 and can commit to both sessions.
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15 (Thursday) 6:00 pm - 17 (Saturday) 1:00 pm
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Drop in for a free bike service at Dalmuir Library. Cycleform, a local and family-owned bike shop, will provide a basic service, including a thorough inspection, adjustment of headset,
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Drop in for a free bike service at Dalmuir Library.
Cycleform, a local and family-owned bike shop, will provide a basic service, including a thorough inspection, adjustment of headset, bottom brackets, brakes, gears, and wheel hub bearings. Your bike will be oil and lubed, but the service will not include parts.

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(Saturday) 10:00 am - 1:00 pm
Event Details
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The UK Government isn’t doing enough to support people living in poverty around the world, experiencing worst impacts of the climate crisis. By joining the How to Lobby – Kickstarter, you’ll gain the skills you need to gather people together and push for change with your local MP.
Let’s put faith into action!
We need to see strong political action on the climate crisis. UK MPs say they rarely hear about the realities of the climate crisis around the world. It’s our job as the church to stand with our sisters and brothers, amplify their experiences and speak up for change.
By joining the Kickstarter sessions you’ll get:
An intro to climate justice and loss and damage
MP lobbying ‘how to’
Intro to building power for change
Template action plan for your MP lobby
Resources, tips and guest speakers
A chance to meet like–minded people hungry for change
Sign up to our sessions in June or July, better yet invite your friends too!
June: Monday 19, Tuesday 20, Thursday 21 and Monday 17 July (This listing)
July: Friday 7, Saturday 8 and Mon 31 July (Details here)
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(Monday) 7:00 pm
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This one day event will bring people together to connect over good food. As the Good Food Nation Act moves closer with the requirement
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This one day event will bring people together to connect over good food. As the Good Food Nation Act moves closer with the requirement for detailed local food plans, this opportunity to look at all aspects of food in Falkirk has never been more timely.
Join us to explore how we make Falkirk a place known for good food that
- Promotes healthy and sustainable food to the public;
- Tackles food poverty, diet-related ill health and access to affordable healthy food;
- Builds community food knowledge, skills, resources and projects;
- Promotes a vibrant and diverse sustainable food economy;
- Transforms catering and food procurement;
- Reduces waste and the ecological footprint of the food system.
The day will include
- Long Table Lunch and Networking
- Keynote Speakers
- Workshops
- Shared Learning from other Food Partnerships
- Cycle Bus to the event
- Help shape the Food Action Plan
More information to follow
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(Wednesday) 9:30 am - 4:00 pm
Organiser
Forth Environment Link
Event Details
Our Skylarks programme is for girls and non-binary people aged 12-18. It is the ideal programme to learn new skills, connect with nature in a
Event Details
Our Skylarks programme is for girls and non-binary people aged 12-18. It is the ideal programme to learn new skills, connect with nature in a fun and exciting way. You will also make some great new friends along the way as we explore some of Edinburgh and the Lothian’s amazing wild places. Skylarks days can count towards Duke of Edinburgh Skill or Volunteering Sections.
Ticket sales close Thursday, 5pm before each project date.
The sessions all run on a Saturday. Full details of the project will be sent the week prior
PLEASE ENSURE YOU CHECK THE MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS IF YOU ARE DOING YOUR DUKE OF EDINBURGH AWARD.
- We meet and return at Tynecastle High School
- Cost of a day session is £12, or £4 for low waged households. Please choose the option that is most appropriate for your financial situation. Free places are available; please email [email protected] for more information
- Participants should bring warm and waterproof clothing, a packed lunch and water.
We are able to offer minibus transport for all days at full capacity. If you would prefer to meet us onsite and the event is sold out, please get in touch with [email protected].
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Time
All Day (Saturday)
Location
Tynecastle High School (Meeting Point)
2 McLeod Street Edinburgh EH11 2ND
Future Event Times in this Repeating Event Series
26th August 202323rd September 202328th October 202318th November 2023
Organiser
The Green Team
Event Details
If you are a third sector organisation leasing a property from a landlord, it can be difficult to know what environmental improvements
Event Details
If you are a third sector organisation leasing a property from a landlord, it can be difficult to know what environmental improvements you can make. At the same time, the price of energy is skyrocketing, making changes necessary.
This session will provide an introduction to the green lease concept and information about the types of green lease provisions that can be included in standard lease agreements, explaining the background and purpose of these clauses. It is a useful tool for community groups looking to or already leasing and managing space within and for the community.
This is an event for community groups in Glasgow that rent the buildings they operate in, not for individuals or private groups.
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Time
(Wednesday) 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Location
Glasgow
Organiser
July
Event Details
Kickstart local action for climate
Event Details
Kickstart local action for climate justice – sign up for our sessions today!
The UK Government isn’t doing enough to support people living in poverty around the world, experiencing worst impacts of the climate crisis. By joining the How to Lobby – Kickstarter, you’ll gain the skills you need to gather people together and push for change with your local MP. Let’s put faith into action!
We need to see strong political action on the climate crisis. UK MPs say they rarely hear about the realities of the climate crisis around the world. It’s our job as the church to stand with our sisters and brothers, amplify their experiences and speak up for change.
By joining the Kickstarter sessions you’ll get:
An intro to climate justice and loss and damage
MP lobbying ‘how to’
Intro to building power for change
Template action plan for your MP lobby
Resources, tips and guest speakers
A chance to meet like–minded people hungry for change
Sign up to our sessions in June or July, better yet invite your friends too!
June: Monday 19, Tuesday 20, Thursday 21 and Monday 17 July (Details here)
July: Friday 7, Saturday 8 and Mon 31 July (This listing)
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(Friday) 7:00 pm
Organiser
Event Details
A simple social gathering with facilitators where we can talk about our thoughts and feelings about the climate emergency.
Event Details
A simple social gathering with facilitators where we can talk about our thoughts and feelings about the climate emergency.
A Climate Café is an opportunity to give ourselves time to sit, perhaps with a hot drink and a slice of cake, and describe our thoughts and feelings about the crises of our ecology.
Climate Cafés are bounded by confidentiality although they are not therapy sessions. We invite you to take part in a warm, hospitable, facilitated conversation where you can reflect on your and others’ feelings without being bounced into action. This is one way of coping with the challenges facing us all.
This Climate Café will be held every second Wednesday of the month at the Salisbury Centre, an inclusive community space just east of the Meadows in Edinburgh. Tea and hot drinks will be available from the Salisbury Centre’s kitchen (small donation suggested), and the facilitators will provide some biscuits and snacks. You are welcome to bring your own too!
More about Climate Cafés
The focus of discussion is participants’ thoughts and feelings about the climate and ecological crisis. There are no guest speakers and no talks, and it is an advice-free zone. You can find out more about it here.
This event is free and anyone aged 18 years and over, from any background, is warmly welcome. Please feel free to share the event with your friends and family.
There is a limit on numbers to ensure space for discussion. If all the spaces are full please do join the waitlist or register your interest in future sessions by writing to us at [email protected].
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Time
(Saturday) 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Location
Salisbury Centre, 2 Salisbury Road, Edinburgh EH16 5AB
Organiser
Climate Psychology Alliance Scotland
Event Details
Through the Door: a workshop for therapeutic practitioners on facing the climate and ecological crises Sun 9th July 10.00 – 16.30 UK time Who is this
Event Details
Through the Door: a workshop for therapeutic practitioners on facing the climate and ecological crises
Sun 9th July 10.00 – 16.30 UK time
Who is this workshop for?
This online professional and deeply personal workshop is for therapists, counsellors and those with experience of working therapeutically with individuals or groups.
Why take this workshop?
- These are times of great change and uncertainty. We are transiting a cultural threshold by going ‘through the door’ and this requires relinquishing ‘normal’ reality. Much anxiety accompanies this social fragmentation and cultural rupture as we let go of the familiar and search for new ways of connecting. The workshop does not aim for solutions to the ‘What shall I do?’ question or therapeutic practices for coping with the anxiety because these are likely to be avoidances of the present catastrophe.
- The therapeutic training we have had as practitioners may allow us to tolerate this anxiety, to stay with difficulties, to attend to unconscious processes and be containers, even catalysts, for transformation. Between the desire to ‘Do Something’ and the feelings of overwhelm, is a third possibility, that of being with the unendurable feelings and engaging in a different reality.
- The workshop is an experience of feeling, thinking and imagining together that supports participants in their own version of going ‘through the door’ and finding new ways of feeling into an unknown future that is coming towards us through the climate and ecological crises of our time. It is process rather than outcomes focused, working emergently with the group emotional experience. The aim being to inspire and make space for new forms of being and doing fit for the challenges of this uncertain time.
What is it like taking part in Through the Door?
Through the Door involves imaginal practices and group work that draw on traditional rites of passage to visualise and experience being at the threshold of a new self. In the words of one participant:
“Yesterday, I was so surprised and energised by the marvellously imaginative and creative event you facilitated. I can’t believe I’m saying this of a Zoom event!!!
It stayed with me for the whole day. Lots of images and thoughts drifting back and forth. It felt fertile and productive but also, painful and confusing. But, above all I felt energised. I don’t think it’s made me feel clearer about what I should be doing, or how, but I feel inspired and alive to possibilities!
The group thinking triggered not just the loss and chaos of the Crisis but also my personal story. I think this was the ‘powerful’ connection enlivened in me.
Playful, creative and imaginative crisis!
If this is what is on the other side of the door …..then, count me in.”
For a reflection from Chris Robertson, one of the founding facilitators of CPA’s Through the Door, on its central metaphor and the experience of the workshop click here. If you’d like to discuss whether Through the Door is for you, email us on [email protected].
Fees are:
Standard: £100
Reduced Fee: £30 – £80
Very low income: £5 – £20
Reduced fee and very low income rates are offered on a sliding scale. Please consider what is an appropriate and manageable amount for you and pay what you can. Thank you.
Places are limited to 18 persons.
Who is facilitating this workshop?
Two facilitators will hold this workshop.
Rebecca Nestor: organisational consultant, facilitator and coach, based in Oxford, UK. She is a board member of the Climate Psychology Alliance, leads the CPA’s work on climate cafes, and recently submitted her doctoral thesis at the University of Essex/Tavistock Centre on leadership in climate change organisations
Steffi Bednarek: psychotherapist, trauma therapist and organisational consultant https://www.steffibednarek.com
Those who register will receive reminder emails, a pre-course questionnaire and the Zoom link nearer to the date of the workshop.
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Organiser
Climate Psychology Alliance
August
Event Details
Our Skylarks programme is for girls and non-binary people aged 12-18. It is the ideal programme to learn new skills, connect with nature in a
Event Details
Our Skylarks programme is for girls and non-binary people aged 12-18. It is the ideal programme to learn new skills, connect with nature in a fun and exciting way. You will also make some great new friends along the way as we explore some of Edinburgh and the Lothian’s amazing wild places. Skylarks days can count towards Duke of Edinburgh Skill or Volunteering Sections.
Ticket sales close Thursday, 5pm before each project date.
The sessions all run on a Saturday. Full details of the project will be sent the week prior
PLEASE ENSURE YOU CHECK THE MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS IF YOU ARE DOING YOUR DUKE OF EDINBURGH AWARD.
- We meet and return at Tynecastle High School
- Cost of a day session is £12, or £4 for low waged households. Please choose the option that is most appropriate for your financial situation. Free places are available; please email [email protected] for more information
- Participants should bring warm and waterproof clothing, a packed lunch and water.
We are able to offer minibus transport for all days at full capacity. If you would prefer to meet us onsite and the event is sold out, please get in touch with [email protected].
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Time
All Day (Saturday)
Location
Tynecastle High School (Meeting Point)
2 McLeod Street Edinburgh EH11 2ND
Future Event Times in this Repeating Event Series
23rd September 202328th October 202318th November 2023
Organiser
The Green Team
September
Event Details
Our Skylarks programme is for girls and non-binary people aged 12-18. It is the ideal programme to learn new skills, connect with nature in a
Event Details
Our Skylarks programme is for girls and non-binary people aged 12-18. It is the ideal programme to learn new skills, connect with nature in a fun and exciting way. You will also make some great new friends along the way as we explore some of Edinburgh and the Lothian’s amazing wild places. Skylarks days can count towards Duke of Edinburgh Skill or Volunteering Sections.
Ticket sales close Thursday, 5pm before each project date.
The sessions all run on a Saturday. Full details of the project will be sent the week prior
PLEASE ENSURE YOU CHECK THE MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS IF YOU ARE DOING YOUR DUKE OF EDINBURGH AWARD.
- We meet and return at Tynecastle High School
- Cost of a day session is £12, or £4 for low waged households. Please choose the option that is most appropriate for your financial situation. Free places are available; please email [email protected] for more information
- Participants should bring warm and waterproof clothing, a packed lunch and water.
We are able to offer minibus transport for all days at full capacity. If you would prefer to meet us onsite and the event is sold out, please get in touch with [email protected].
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Time
September 23 (Saturday) - 24 (Sunday)
Location
Tynecastle High School (Meeting Point)
2 McLeod Street Edinburgh EH11 2ND
Future Event Times in this Repeating Event Series
28th October 202318th November 2023
Organiser
The Green Team
October
Event Details
Our Skylarks programme is for girls and non-binary people aged 12-18. It is the ideal programme to learn new skills, connect with nature in a
Event Details
Our Skylarks programme is for girls and non-binary people aged 12-18. It is the ideal programme to learn new skills, connect with nature in a fun and exciting way. You will also make some great new friends along the way as we explore some of Edinburgh and the Lothian’s amazing wild places. Skylarks days can count towards Duke of Edinburgh Skill or Volunteering Sections.
Ticket sales close Thursday, 5pm before each project date.
The sessions all run on a Saturday. Full details of the project will be sent the week prior
PLEASE ENSURE YOU CHECK THE MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS IF YOU ARE DOING YOUR DUKE OF EDINBURGH AWARD.
- We meet and return at Tynecastle High School
- Cost of a day session is £12, or £4 for low waged households. Please choose the option that is most appropriate for your financial situation. Free places are available; please email [email protected] for more information
- Participants should bring warm and waterproof clothing, a packed lunch and water.
We are able to offer minibus transport for all days at full capacity. If you would prefer to meet us onsite and the event is sold out, please get in touch with [email protected].
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Time
All Day (Saturday)
Location
Tynecastle High School (Meeting Point)
2 McLeod Street Edinburgh EH11 2ND
Future Event Times in this Repeating Event Series
18th November 2023