Events

Free energy training to help your community

Friday 24 February, 9.15am – 4.30pm, Camden Town

Are you worried about rising fuel bills and how they affect your local community? Would you like to gain valuable new skills?

Camden Council is offering a free one day energy awareness course enabling you to give advice and help your community keep well and warm this winter.

The interactive day includes:
• Understanding energy use in the home
• Understanding and managing fuel bills
• Recognising fuel poverty and how to help
• Providing energy saving advice
• Practical thermal curtain lining workshop

We are offering a City and Guilds Energy Awareness (6281) qualification course to one person who attends our energy awareness day and has a great idea to help their community with their new knowledge and skills!

Training is open to all living or working with community groups in Camden. Travel costs and lunch will be provided.

To apply, please fill in the short online form by Friday 17 February.

Second Green Camden Zones Forum

Following the success of our first Green Camden Zones forum in December, we are pleased to announce our second forum taking place on Thursday 1 March, 6-9pm at Hampstead Community Centre on Hampstead High Street (nearest tube Hampstead).

Don’t miss your opportunity to be part of the buzz, and join your neighbours in sharing your ideas, improvements or solutions about how to Green Camden!

Want to find out more? Register your interest by emailing: greencamden@camden.gov.uk, quoting: “GCZ forum” in the subject line.

Fairtrade Fortnight: 27 Feb – 11 March

The Camden Fairtrade Network Steering Group are busy preparing for Fairtrade Fortnight when we are all being invited to “Take a Step” for Fairtrade.

The group has also embarked on an “Olympic” campaign with hotels in the Bloomsbury area. For more information, or to join the next steering group meeting on Monday 6 February, please email: camdenfairtrade@googlemail.com.

Training

Introduction to Permaculture design

Permaculture is an ingenious design system based on observations of natural systems. This lively introductory course is suitable for anyone with an active interest, requires no prior knowledge and for many participants is the first step on a new and positive route.

Weekend course fee is £50; early booking fee applies (£40) before 1 Feb. There are a small number of concessions available on request.
Please e-mail: info@transitionprimrosehill.org

Saturday 3 and Sunday 4 March, 10:30am- 4:30pm, Storrow Hall, Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regent's Park Road, NW1 7AY

Learn how to drive down your fuel costs  - Free smarter driving training

Cycle safe - Free urban cycle skills training

Save money, save energy - Free draught proofing workshops

Offers and opportunities

The new Green Camden website has arrived!

Over the last few months we've listened to your valued feedback about our website and made some changes.

Take a look at our new format (camden.gov.uk/green) and tell us what you think: 

Email: greencamden@camden.gov.uk. All feedback is welcome.

Save money and energy with RE:NEW

Camden is offering free home energy visits with simple energy and water saving measures at no cost to residents living in Kentish Town and Cantelowes wards.

Places are limited and going fast, so for more information or to book a visit call 0800 801738 or visit camden.gov.uk/homeenergyvisits.

Green Camden zones update

Lissenden Gardens tenants association is on their way to becoming a Green Zone! They have taken advantage of our free thermal curtain lining workshop and will soon be excluding draughts and keeping the heat in!

Did you know you can reduce the cold coming in and heat getting out through draughty windows by around 40%?

Would you like to organise you own workshop? Contact greencamden@camden.gov.uk

For all your energy question calls our helpline on
0800 801 738

Funding opportunities

Time to Change Grants

The Time to Change grant programme is about tackling stigma and discrimination. If you have great ideas for doing so, team up with other community groups or local organisations and apply.

Awards for all

Funding scheme that offers small grants to community organisations awardsforall.org.uk

New opportunity

A new initiative from the Centre for Sustainable Energy and The Co-operative has now been launched. The Community Energy Challenge will provide 12-18 months of enterprise development, mentoring, technical advice and community facilitation for six to eight communities, enabling them to initiate co-operative renewable energy projects at a significant scale (e.g. valued at £1m to £3m and/or rated in excess of 500kW). See www.cse.org.uk/coopenergychallenge for more details.

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Share your views

You may have seen a few changes to this newsletter over the last few months, this is because we are changing the way residents can go green. We would like to hear from individuals or groups who would like to help us shape our new service by giving feedback on our progress and how we could improve.