Bracknell Forest Community Climate Summit - 16th July

Welcome to the Bracknell Forest Community Climate Summit!

Join us for a day of inspiring speakers, engaging workshops, and collaborative discussions on tackling climate change in our community. Whether you're a seasoned environmentalist or just starting your sustainability journey, this summit is for you! Let's come together to learn, share ideas, and take action towards a greener future.

This year, the summit will be held on two days at different locations across the borough to maximise participation. It is open to all who live in, work, or visit Bracknell Forest, including residents, representatives from local businesses, community groups, charities, schools, and public sector institutions.

The dates and venues are:

• Wednesday 16th July, 5-9 pm at The Kerith Centre, Bracknell

• Friday 18th July, 12.30-4.30 pm at Wellington College, Crowthorne.

This Eventbrite invite is for the 16th July session at The Kerith Centre, Bracknell.

The summits will build on the vision of a sustainable Bracknell developed at last year's summit. This year’s sessions will help shape the community’s climate action and adaptation strategy.

Bracknell Forest Community Climate Action (BFCCA), the charity spearheading the borough-wide response, will lead the summits.

The Keynote address will feature a talk by Professor Ian Candy from Royal Holloway University on understanding climate change and its impacts, followed by an introduction to the community climate strategy led by BFCCA.

This will be followed by a programme of workshops on each of the five key climate-impacting themes: Buildings and Energy, Transport, the Natural Environment, Greening the Economy, and Health, Well-being and Food.

Along with refreshments, we will have ‘marketplace’ stalls offering information on local sustainability and nature activities, as well as show-and-tell demonstrations from local organisations and businesses.

There will be networking opportunities to engage with residents and local organisations, improving understanding of key issues and topics, and promoting the schemes, initiatives, and resources they can offer.

Underlying all these activities, we would like to gather your thoughts on where we should head with our Community Climate Emergency Strategy and the steps that you feel are crucial in helping us reach our shared vision: “All communities in Bracknell Forest will work together to live sustainably, making green choices, and we will achieve net zero as close to 2030 as possible.”

Travelling to the venue by bus, train, foot and bike is encouraged where possible. The Kerith Centre is a 10-minute walk from Bracknell train station, the bus station and the centre of town. Please be aware that there is only a small bike rack available at the venue. Parking at the venue is limited to disabled users only. If you are driving to the event, please park in the Braccan Walk car park which is a 10-minute walk from the venue and consider lift sharing using the Mobilityways app.

Booking is essential, please register your interest here for the Kerith Event on the 16th July

Info: We are planning to hold a number of concurrent workshop sessions but due to space limitation the numbers of participants need to managed. Please let us know which workshop you would like to attend when reserving your ticket.

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