Big Green Challenge

I am organising a meeting for the 13th February at 7.30 pm in Flitton Church Hall. This is to see what interest there is in a community project to reduce our Carbon emissions. The Big Green Challenge is a £1 million fund offered by NESTA to encourage innovative ideas for communities to reduce Carbon emissions by 60%.

I believe it could provide all sorts of benefits to our local villages at the same time as reducing emissions. For example we could look for funding for better footpaths, new cycleways, traffic calming measures, better bus services which would reduce our dependence on the car and encourage more walking and cycling. We could also seek funding for improvements to heating and power for our community facilities such as the Church Hall, Church, Village Hall and School. We could group together to obtain discounts on low energy light bulbs, more efficient heating systems, insulation, solar panels and so on.

The idea of the Challenge to come up with new ideas or to apply existing ideas in new ways. I am hoping that the meeting will generate sufficient ideas and interest for us to make an application to the Challenge in time for the deadline at the end of February.

If you are not able to make it to the meeting please contact me with your ideas and support. I need people to help deliver leaflets and also help with the application process. For more info please contact me on 01525 862329 or 0780 9873124 or email me on garethe@fish.co.uk