Events

As part of Climate Week North East 2024, the North East Scotland Biodiversity Partnership and NESCAN Hub warmly invite you to a seminar celebrating and supporting our wild pollinators.  The event will explore and share information about a range of community wildflower spaces that are making a real difference for pollinators and other wildlife across the North East. 

• Get an overview of the Scottish Pollinator Strategy
• Highlight the diversity and value of local species
• Hear from a range of projects and initiatives actively managing greenspace to support our native pollinators
• Discuss various methods and solutions used in habitat creation and management
• Bring ideas together to strengthen support for pollinator species across North East Scotland

With short presentations and plenty of time to network and share ideas and experience, this seminar will be a must for any community group or land manager looking to make changes to provide for pollinators in a local greenspace.

The event is free to attend, with refreshments included, but booking is essential. Please book by 1st March. Please note, due to development at the Craigiebuckler site, there will be very limited parking available, with those with special access needs given priority. The use of public transport and car-sharing is strongly encouraged. 

BOOKING IS CLOSED.

Drop-in to our pop up hub to find out about Climate Week North East activities taking place across the city and shire. It's your chance to talk to our team, share your climate action stories and find inspiration in the work of other network members.

Free Drop-in. No Booking Required. 

Pop in for a cuppa, cake and climate chat! Come and meet your local NESCAN Hub Representative to find out more about NESCAN Hub, Climate Action in your local area, and how we can help you!

Free Drop-in. No Booking Required. 

As part of the Just Transition Communities Project,  tsiMoray and NESCAN is organising the 'Repair It' Climate Cafe. This event is hosted in partnership with Udny Climate Action, Udny Community Trust & Cafe 48. 

Join us for soup, cake, friendly chat and get to know how a community repair cafe looks like and how you can make it happen. You get to also engage in stories around mending and repairing.

Event Details
Date: Tuesday, 19th March 2024
Time: 6 pm
Venue: The Medan Centre, Quarry Room, 14 Oldmeldrum Road, AB41 7AG

Book your free tickets now at TicketSource!

https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/nescanhub/t-earpapn

Pop in for a cuppa, cake and climate chat! Come meet your local NESCAN Hub Representative to find out more about NESCAN Hub, Climate Action in your local area, and how we can help you!

Free Drop-in. No Booking Required.

Pop in for a cuppa, cake and climate chat! Come and meet your local NESCAN Hub Representative to find out more about NESCAN Hub, Climate Action in your local area, and how we can help you!

Free Drop-in. No Booking Required. 

Pop in for a cuppa, cake and climate chat! Come and meet your local NESCAN Hub Representative to find out more about NESCAN Hub, Climate Action in your local area, and how we can help you!

Free Drop-in. No Booking Required. 

The Scottish Government has launched a consultation on proposals for the Heat in Buildings Bill. 

This is your chance to have your say and dive into the future of heating in Scotland.

Join us online for our free interactive workshop on the Heat in Buildings Bill (HiBs) Consultation.

Event Details

This workshop includes a brief presentation, a Q&A session, followed by a group discussion. Your valuable input will be conveyed to the Scottish Government.

Thursday, 8th February 2024

7 pm - 8:30 pm, Online

Register for free and further events details would be sent to your inbox.

About the Consultation

The Consultation is open until 8 March 2024 and can be accessed on the Scottish Government consultation webpage: Proposals for a Heat in Buildings Bill: Consultation - Scottish Government Consultations - Citizen Space.

Join Rose, our Community Development Officer from NESCAN Hub for an online session on 'Introduction to Building a Grant Application', and get some tips and tricks on completing your funding applications.

This event is for NESCAN Members Only

Event Details:
Thursday 22nd February 2024
7 pm to 8 pm. 

The event includes:

1. Pre-planning of applications
2. How to complete your applications
3. What do funders look for in an application?

Book your free ticket here:

https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/nescanhub/t-xmjqrek

This event is conducted online via Zoom. The meeting link would be shared a day before the event. If you have any questions, feel free to contact rose@nescan.org

Want to know more about the Just Transition PB Fund? Come along and speak to teams in Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire and Moray at our online and in person engagement events!

Check out full list of events here: https://www.jtpbfund.scot/events

Want to discuss your idea for a community climate action project? Support and funding advice available in an online one to one session with NESCAN Hub.

Contact Rachel@nescan.org or Rose@nescan.org to book your space. If you need support with more general funding, that's okay too; we're here to answer your questions. Look forward to hearing your ideas!

Check out full list of events here: https://www.jtpbfund.scot/events

Learn all about the Just Transition Participatory Budgeting Fund and how your group and community could benefit from it in this online event.

In this online information session we will look at opportunities for developing projects to benefit communities and the climate in Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire. Some of the topics we will cover include:

What is the Just Transition Participatory Budgeting Fund?

How does Participatory Budgeting work?

Who can apply?

What are the key dates?

What can the fund cover?

There will also be lots of opportunity to ask questions and find out how you can get further support.

Join ACVO, AVA and NESCAN Hub to help bring social and environmental benefit to your community.

Sign up here

#NE-Just-Transition

Come meet the Hub staff and learn more about NESCAN Hub, what it does, its current and future projects, how you could be involved and how it could support you. Meet us, gain knowledge, help and advice and do some networking.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/all-about-nescan-hub-tickets-483210123487?aff=ebdsoporgprofile

Come on a journey with us through North East Scotland and see how NESCAN members are helping to create healthier, happier more sustainable communities. After the film there will be a chance to talk to come of the groups that starred in the film and learn more.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/nescan-film-our-green-journey-tickets-546213779117

The NESCAN Hub Team will host a community assembly for Tillydrone, Seaton, Linksfield and Woodside in Aberdeen City in January 2023.

Each assembly workshop will be attended by a diverse range of community members along with experts on a range of sustainability, climate change, and biodiversity themes. Throughout the sessions, participants will co-create:

• Actions/projects that communities can take forward themselves without any help at all.  
• Actions/ projects that the community can do with help from elsewhere such as, funding and advice from NESCAN Hub, the local authorities, and other partners.  
• Actions/ projects that the community can do in partnership with the local authority, school, business, or other statutory bodies   
  
  

The Assembly participants will also have the opportunity to identify actions that require systemic change at a regional or national level, and to explore ways of raising these with people in power such as through a formal document, letters to MPs, meeting with MSPs or councillors etc.

 Participants will receive ongoing support after the event from NESCAN Hub to take these actions and projects forward, including the wider community and relevant partners in the discussions and deliberations, to gain widespread community feedback and final approval.

There will be a celebration event, as part of Climate Week North East, attended by key    council officials and councillors, among others, where you will present your community’s action plan.

Every Wednesday evening between the 11th of January 2023 and the 22nd of February

January 11th, 18th, 25th
February 1st, 8th, 22nd

 If you would like further information, please visit our page https://www.nescan.org/community-assembly or contact Chris Bodington at  christine@nescan.org or call 01224081328

Voting for the Just Transition Green Participatory Budgeting will open on the 1st of December. More details will be added soon. 

Play Our Way Forward - call out for artists

For Climate Week North East 2023, we are seeking an artist to produce original and accessible artwork for exhibition at Aberdeen’s Music Hall. 

Aberdeen Performing Arts is pleased to offer this commissioning opportunity, which aims to develop conversations around the theme of climate and explore how we can capture a wide audience through visual art with a focus on play. 

Timeline: December 19, 2022 – March 20, 2023 (installed) 

For more details and how to apply visit:

http://aberdeenperformingarts.peoplehr.net/Pages/JobBoard/Opening.aspx?v=e289091a-9760-4a2b-8c07-fae49e21efc6

The screening of our film 'North East Scotland Communities: Our Green Journey” has been a success. We had rave reviews and a great turnout in our screenings at Victoria Hall, Ellon, and The Barn, Banchory (with some lovely home-baked goods at Victoria Hall!).
We would like to say a massive THANK YOU to House Media Unit (SHMU) and to all our film stars for their amazing job!
 
Our film is a collection of stories and projects narrated by individuals from across our region, illustrating our shared vision for our green journey ahead. If you missed the first two screenings, there is still an opportunity to see it! Our final film screening will be in Aberdeen Arts Centre, Aberdeen at 2.00 pm on Sunday 13th November
 
On this date, the film’s stars will be attending to take questions from the audience and share their knowledge, experience, and lessons learned for anyone trying to start up their own climate change community group or project. There will also be stalls hosted by community groups with information and activities before and after the film. 

Doors will open at 1pm for networking, stalls, and refreshments and there will be 30 minutes after the film for questions and further networking.

We look forward to seeing you all there and sharing the brilliant community work taking place across the region. 

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The Just Transition Participatory Budgeting Fund is now open! £333,333 will be distributed in Aberdeenshire via the Participatory Budgeting process and applications are now invited from community, voluntary, and third sector organisations in Aberdeenshire.

Aberdeenshire Voluntary Action (AVA) is running three support webinars for those interested in applying for the Just Transition Fund. These webinars will involve a Powerpoint presentation and a chance to ask any questions about the application process with some of the AVA support team. The webinars will be held on:

Thursday 13th October, 1-2pm

Thursday 27th October, 1-2pm

Tuesday 8th November, 1-2pm

In-Person Location: Thainstone House Inverurie Inverurie AB51 5NT

Online events: 27th October Rural Development and Forestry, 9th November Agricultural Wages,15^th November Modernising Agricultural Tenancies

This consultation will close on 21^st November 2022.

As part of the Scottish Government’s consultation process to develop a new Agriculture Bill, eight regional events will be held in locations across Scotland.

These will be general sessions looking at the proposals of the Agriculture Bill. There will also be four online virtual events focusing on specific themes included in the bill. Further information on these can be found here:

• Delivering the Agricultural Vision
• Rural Development and Forestry
• Agricultural Wages
• Modernisation of Agricultural Tenancies

The aim of these events is to gather initial views on the Scottish Government’s proposals outlined in the consultation, “Delivering our Vision for Scottish Agriculture, Proposals for a new Agriculture Bill”.

These events will not focus on providing detail of future measures or schemes. They are an opportunity for individuals and organisations to discuss the proposed powers and the development of a new Bill that supports Scotland’s ambition to support high-quality food production and be a global leader in sustainable and regenerative agriculture.

All are welcome to come along to ask questions, raise issues, and contribute to the discussion. To get the most out of these events, we recommend that in advance of attending the event, you read through the Agriculture Bill Consultation. Please see the consultation hub to view all open consultations. A full list of consultation analysis reports is available on the gov.scot website

REGISTER HERE

Find out more about GreenPB at our Event at Bonnymuir Gardens.

We are delighted to be hosting a community get-together with ACVO, where we will be available to answer any questions you might have about Green Participatory budgeting.

Are you a community group or non-profit organisation in Aberdeen city or shire? Would you like up to £50,000 to spend on equipment or infrastructure to make your community more sustainable?

Participatory budgeting (PB) is a democratic process in which everyone decides directly how to spend an allocated amount of money. Put simply, PB is local people having a direct say in how public money is spent.

In this capital green PB fund, community groups can bid for funding to buy equipment that will improve their community, while helping to combat climate change and enhance nature.

The Scottish Government Just Transition Fund aims to transform our future by enabling a transition to net zero, affecting our jobs, the way we live and the way we do business. This transformation can be an opportunity to build a wealthier, healthier and fairer Scotland.

There is £333,333 to be spent by the communities on projects in each of Moray, Aberdeen City & Aberdeenshire.

Once the proposals are in, everyone in a local authority area can vote to say which community projects will get funded in that area. It is all about communities making choices about what they want to happen in their local area.

This event will address the following questions:

What is the Just Transition Participatory Budgeting Fund?

How does Participatory Budgeting work?

Who can apply?

What are the key dates?

What can the fund cover?

Join ACVO and NESCAN Hub to gain an overview of the Fund, discuss the answers to the above questions and any other queries you may have.

There is a range of other information and drop-in events being organised to help communities develop bids for the Fund. You can get all the details on our website: www.nescan.org/pb.

For any queries please contact, NESCAN HUB Community Development and Funding Officer Rachel Smith at rachel@nescan.org

How to become a more welcome and inclusive group / organisation? How to engage with diverse communities & include diverse voices?

A training workshop to help your group widen participation - we'll explore our awareness of how different forms of racism affect the environmental sector on a daily basis.

10:30am - 14.30pm Wed 9th Nov at Mental Health Aberdeen, Langstane House, 6 Dee St, Aberdeen AB11 6DR

Booking essential - limited to just 15 participants.

While we are navigating our way forward to honest diversity and inclusion, SCCAN and CEMVO have developed a training opportunity to conduct individual and organisational analysis of methods for engaging with diverse communities. We will consider and question our own awareness of racism today and how different forms of racism are affecting the green sector on a daily basis.

There's no 'one-size-fits-all' solution to holistic reforms in our ways of working but the first step to all possible solutions would look at generating honest enthusiasm to being responsive to people with lived experiences of inequalities. More often than not, our attempts at creating equality in the workplace are experienced as tokenistic and superficial.

To combat that exploitative nature of our experiments, we must begin with educating ourselves in racism and then thinking of setting up long-term anti-racism frameworks. So, this training workshop will allow you to explore ideas of racism and what it means to put them in and out of practice.

We will also be exploring different tokenistic organisational practices through a case study of sexual orientation before zooming out and considering how this can be applied to different protected characteristics.

There are bursaries and travel costs available where cost of participation might be a barrier. Please email training@scottishcommunitiescan.org.uk.

A light lunch will be served from 1.00pm to 1:30pm. The venue has disabled access toilet facilities. Please indicate any needs you have when booking - or email training@scottishcommunitiescan.org.uk https://scottishcommunitiescan.org.uk

https://cemvoscotland.org.uk

https://www.nescan.org/

We would like to invite you to attend one of the Community Resilience Strategy Workshops scheduled for the week of 10th October 2022. We need your contributions to help define what individual, household, family, and community resilience means in Aberdeenshire and identify how it can be strengthened before, during and after an emergency. What skills and knowledge need to be enhanced; what tools and support are needed? What ideas from international comparators or local examples of resilience can we learn from? The discussion will help shape the Aberdeenshire Community Resilience Strategy setting out what individuals, household, families, communities, and responders can expect from each other and will assist in the production of Individual Preparedness Guides that provide practical advice and guidance

Please click on the BOOK NOW  button to register form, which we would ask you to fill out by Thursday 6th October 2022 stating your first and second preference in terms of date, time, and venue.

We are continuing to organise full-scale virtual conferences which retain all the features of physical seminars, including full programmes, presentations with slides, panel discussions and live delegate questions and comments sessions, person-to-person and group networking, and a permanent record provided to all delegates afterwards. New events are coming on to our conference programme all the time, so there are plenty of opportunities to join us if you haven’t already, from wherever you are.

For booking-related queries or information on speaking please email us at info@forumsupport.co.uk, or contact us: +44 (0)1344 864796.

Energy Saving Trust and Sustrans are pleased to invite you to a free virtual event ‘Cargo bikes: delivering for businesses and communities in Scotland’, taking place on Wednesday 26 October, 9.30 am-1.00 pm. The event will highlight and explore the scenarios and opportunities where cargo bikes can help to deliver a healthier, inclusive, and more prosperous Scotland. Throughout the event, you will be taken on a journey of inspiring projects in Scotland that showcase a wide range of cargo bike uses across sectors, industries, and demographics.

Join members of Applied Arts Scotland and the Barn team for an online panel discussion exploring decarbonizing applied arts as part of the exhibition |MATTER| Earth, Materials + Making exhibition currently on show at the Barn.

Over the past two years as part of Applied Arts Scotland’s Closing the Loop Group makers have developed exploratory works from a diverse range of environmentally aware approaches that re-use waste, value biodiversity, local materials, and production systems. 

The discussion will consider questions of decarbonization in Applied Arts and craft practices more broadly; drawing inspiration from these makers and the new circumstances of practice brought about by working with and thinking about environmentally considered crafts. This will include reflections from the makers on how this has played out in their practice through material choices and production systems, ideas of slow craft, thoughtful connections to place, and social inclusion. 

Examining ‘land’ as material, as power, and as terrain for violence and resistance, TOAFF programme this year looks to the earth beneath our feet – while dreaming of new ways to inhabit it. Charting connections between Palestinian foraging practices and Filipino land defence, migrant justice in the UK, and radical mycology, you are invited to join TOAFF in unearthing networks of solidarity across all kinds of borders – and envisioning our embeddedness within them.

We can’t wait to see their film TOAFF22 
The screenings will be followed by live or pre-recorded conversations - stay after the films to explore ideas for local action.
Find out more here: www.takeoneaction.org.uk
Advance booking is recommended via belmontfilmhouse.com, or in person or on 01224 343 500.

This workshop will give participants the confidence to set up their own Climate Café along Climate Psychology Alliance lines

The workshop is for those who have recognized the value of the Climate Café concept, in which thoughts, feelings and mixed emotions that arrive in response to challenges of climate warming are shared in safety. The workshop is therefore aimed at those who want to learn how to “hold the space” where personal experiences, fears and uncertainties, will be brought.

This workshop will support participants to develop the confidence to set up their own Climate Café. It will include a short taster climate café, the principles on which Climate Cafés are based, building a toolkit of practical resources, and a discussion of the organisation and facilitation of Climate Cafés.

SCCAN is organising this workshop for its members. The workshop coordinators will be Pam Candea and Elspeth Crawford. Pam and Elspeth are members of the Climate Psychology Alliance with experience of Climate Cafe facilitation and a broad range of past experience in enabling groups.

Inverurie West Parish Church is set to host a festival of free activities, workshops, talks and walks exploring practical and creative ways we can make a difference to our environment from October 7-9.

There will be opportunities to find out about retrofitting your house, how to make your garden more biodiverse, or to reduce food waste.

Family activities include learning how to be creative with natural materials, making bird boxes, and a nearly new children’s clothes sale.

Several guided walks are on offer, as well as a chance to have a look at the church’s kitchen community garden.

NESCAN HUB will be delivering a workshop on CLIMATE CHANGE FOR BEGINNERS where we will address what we can do to keep talking and acting on climate change here in the North East. For more information visit http://www.inveruriewestchurch.org/News.html

Are you a community group or non profit organisation in Aberdeen city or shire? Would you like up to £50,000 to spend on equipment or infrastructure to make your community more sustainable?

Learn all about the new Just Transition Green Participatory Budgeting Fund and how your group and community could benefit from it in this online event.

The Scottish Government Just Transition Fund aims to transform our future in the coming years enabling a just transition to net zero, affecting our jobs, the way we live and the way we do business. This transformation can be an opportunity to build a wealthier, healthier and fairer Scotland.

Participatory budgeting (PB) is a democratic process in which everyone decides directly how to spend an allocated amount of money. Put simply, PB is local people having a direct say in how public money is spent.

In this capital green PB fund, community groups can put in proposals allowing them to buy goods that will improve their community or North East Scotland as a portion or whole, while helping to combat climate change and enhance nature.

There is £333,333 to be spent by the communities on projects in each of Moray, Aberdeen City & Aberdeenshire. Once the proposals are in, everyone in a local authority area can vote to say which community projects will get funded in that area. It is all about communities making choices about what they want to happen in their local area.

This event will address the following questions:

What is the Just Transition Participatory Budgeting Fund?

How does Participatory Budgeting work?

Who can apply?

What are the key dates?

What can the fund cover?

Join Nescan Hub, and ACVO to hear what the Just Transition Participatory Budgeting Fund means for your community. You can get further information on our website www.nescan.org/pb For any queries please contact, NESCAN HUB Community Development and Funding Officer Rachel Smith at rachel@nescan.org.

There is a range of other information and drop-in events being organised to help communities develop bids for the Fund. You can get all the details on our website: www.nescan.org/pb.

REGISTER HERE

Learn all about the new Just Transition Participatory Budgeting Fund and how your group and community could benefit from it.

The Scottish Government Just Transition Fund aims to transform our future in the coming years enabling a just transition to net zero, affecting our jobs, the way we live and the way we do business. This transformation can be an opportunity to build a wealthier, healthier and fairer Scotland.

Participatory budgeting (PB) is a democratic process in which everyone decides directly how to spend an allocated amount of money. Put simply, PB is local people having a direct say in how public money is spent.

In this capital green PB fund, community groups can put in proposals allowing them to buy goods that will improve their community or North East Scotland as a portion or whole, while helping to combat climate change and enhance nature.

There is £333,333 to be spent by the communities on projects in each of Moray, Aberdeen City & Aberdeenshire. Once the proposals are in, everyone in a local authority area can vote to say which community projects will get funded in that area. It is all about communities making choices about what they want to happen in their local area.

This event will address the following questions:

What is the Just Transition Participatory Budgeting Fund?

How does Participatory Budgeting work?

Who can apply?

What are the key dates?

What can the fund cover?

Join NESCAN Hub and a range of experts to gain an overview of the Fund, discuss the answers to the above questions and any other queries you may have.

There is a range of other information and drop-in events being organised to help communities develop bids for the Fund. You can get all the details on our website: www.nescan.org/pb very soon.

For any queries please contact, NESCAN HUB Community Development and Funding Officer Rachel Smith at rachel@nescan.org

REGISTER HERE

Learn all about the new Just Transition Participatory Budgeting Fund and how your group and community could benefit from it.

The Scottish Government Just Transition Fund aims to transform our future in the coming years enabling a just transition to net zero, affecting our jobs, the way we live and the way we do business. This transformation can be an opportunity to build a wealthier, healthier and fairer Scotland.

Participatory budgeting (PB) is a democratic process in which everyone decides directly how to spend an allocated amount of money. Put simply, PB is local people having a direct say in how public money is spent.

In this capital green PB fund, community groups can put in proposals allowing them to buy goods that will improve their community or North East Scotland as a portion or whole, while helping to combat climate change and enhance nature.

There is £333,333 to be spent by the communities on projects in each of Moray, Aberdeen City & Aberdeenshire. Once the proposals are in, everyone in a local authority area can vote to say which community projects will get funded in that area. It is all about communities making choices about what they want to happen in their local area.

This event will address the following questions:

What is the Just Transition Participatory Budgeting Fund?

How does Participatory Budgeting work?

Who can apply?

What are the key dates?

What can the fund cover?

Join NESCAN Hub and a range of experts to gain an overview of the Fund, discuss the answers to the above questions and any other queries you may have.

There is a range of other information and drop-in events being organised to help communities develop bids for the Fund. You can get all the details on our website: www.nescan.org/pb very soon.

For any queries please contact, NESCAN HUB Community Development and Funding Officer Rachel Smith at rachel@nescan.org

REGISTER HERE

Learn all about the new Just Transition Participatory Budgeting Fund and how your group and community could benefit from it.

The Scottish Government Just Transition Fund aims to transform our future in the coming years enabling a just transition to net zero, affecting our jobs, the way we live and the way we do business. This transformation can be an opportunity to build a wealthier, healthier and fairer Scotland.

Participatory budgeting (PB) is a democratic process in which everyone decides directly how to spend an allocated amount of money. Put simply, PB is local people having a direct say in how public money is spent.

In this capital green PB fund, community groups can put in proposals allowing them to buy goods that will improve their community or North East Scotland as a portion or whole, while helping to combat climate change and enhance nature.

There is £333,333 to be spent by the communities on projects in each of Moray, Aberdeen City & Aberdeenshire. Once the proposals are in, everyone in a local authority area can vote to say which community projects will get funded in that area. It is all about communities making choices about what they want to happen in their local area.

This event will address the following questions:

What is the Just Transition Participatory Budgeting Fund?

How does Participatory Budgeting work?

Who can apply?

What are the key dates?

What can the fund cover?

Join NESCAN Hub and a range of experts to gain an overview of the Fund, discuss the answers to the above questions and any other queries you may have.

There is a range of other information and drop-in events being organised to help communities develop bids for the Fund. You can get all the details on our website: www.nescan.org/pb very soon.

For any queries please contact, NESCAN HUB Community Development and Funding Officer Rachel Smith at rachel@nescan.org

There is an opportunity for people living & working in the Ugie catchment area to come together to work up and agree on a land use vision that reflects the characteristics of the area and the priorities of its people. We anticipate farming and the production of quality local food will be central to this vision, as will the sustainable use of water, and look forward to hearing your views. Register via email to Janet Bromham janet@socialenterprise.academy