Community Climate Resilience

Join Lanarkshire Climate Action Hub and South Lanarkshire Council to explore how your community can increase their climate resilience.
About this Event

Are you keen to know more about climate resilience and how you can support your community to take action?

Join Lanarkshire Climate Action Hub and South Lanarkshire Council for a day of presentations, networking and activities that will provide you with the knowledge, key contacts and tools to take climate adaptation actions with your community.

What to expect on the day:

• Hear from 3 South Lanarkshire community groups about how they engaged their communities in climate adaptation projects
• Share climate impacts your community are experiencing
• Take part in activities to understand how to use 's community adaptation resources
• Get the opportunity to participate in workshops exploring different ways to approach climate adaptation

Agenda:

10 - 10.20am: Registration, refreshments and browse stalls

10:20 - 10.30am: Welcome

10:30 - 11am: Presentations from 3 Climate Ready Places project groups

11 - 11:30am - Community climate impacts

11:30am - 12pm - Adaptation Scotland resources: best practice

12 - 12:30pm - Lunch and networking/browse stalls

12:30 - 14:45 - Workshops

14:45 - 15:00 - Closing remarks

15:00 - 15:30 - Networking and browse stalls

Stall holders:

• Scottish Flood Forum
• The Conservation Volunteers
• SLC Rangers
• VASLAN
• Get Outdoors Lanarkshire
• Verdancy Group
• Morphfit Gentle Movement Project
• Bothwell Road Action Group
• Soul of the Junction

Workshops:

• ClimatACTical with SCVO

Take part in a taster session of a new interactive climate themed game to explore how it could frame discussions with your staff, board members or volunteers.

• Creative Activity

Details TBC

• Woodland Walk with MorphFit, BRAG, SLC Rangers and Get Outdoors Lanarkshire

Take a stroll through Bothwell Road Park and see first hand climate adaptation in action; how MorphFit and Bothwell Road Action Group teamed up to create climate resilient greenspaces. You'll get the opportunity to see their tree planting as well as the ways they are supporting local biodiversity - from bird boxes to bug hotels.

This is an excellent opportunity to see simple adaptation in person, hear how they collaborated with local schools on the project and ask questions.

Accessibility at this event:

Everyone is welcome. We know that it’s sometimes difficult for everyone to attend because of unintended barriers. We want to make any necessary adjustments to our events so that no one is excluded. For example, this could include assistance with physically accessing the workshop or help with an interpreter. These adjustments will differ from event to event and person to person, so we need your help to get it right. Please inform us of your accessibility requirements and questions by emailing [email protected].

Refreshments:

A vegeterian lunch will be provided on the day - please indicate any allergies and/or dietary requirements on the registration form.

Travel:

Located in a residential area, Whitehill Neighbourhood Centre can be accessed via bus.

Traveline Scotland is a helpful resource for planning your journey.

There are bike racks available outside of the building.

The closest train station is Hamilton West which is a 20 minute (0.9mi) walk away.

The venue also has a car park.

At the venue:

There is a ramp to enter at the front of the building and accessible toilet facilities.

Other:

This is a free event as part of Lanarkshire Climate Action Festival. If you have any questions, please get in touch: [email protected]. To check out other festival events, see here.