Join us to celebrate the power of community leadership in driving a fast and fair transition to net zero.

At our next Partnership gathering on 18 June at Gloucestershire County Cricket Club, we’ll be celebrating community climate and nature action and reflecting on how to support communities to lead on this vital work.

This event will bring together community groups, businesses and the public sector to recognise inspiring local climate and nature action, share ideas, and create connections that enable further change.

The gathering is part of a wider series of fringe events happening across the city between 8-22nd June, which brings together partners from across Bristol who are sharing learning from the last three years of delivering exciting projects for climate and nature in their local areas, as well as citywide.

Our speakers will focus on the role of community leadership in the net zero transition and nature recovery, with opportunities for small group discussions and informal networking.

This gathering is part of our National Lottery funded Community Climate Action Project, an ambitious citywide programme demonstrating the important role communities can play in achieving the city’s climate and nature ambitions, whilst also improving people’s quality of life.

Registration opens at 1.15pm, with the main event programme beginning at 1.45pm. Please arrive by 1.30pm to ensure you have time to get settled.

After the main event has finished at 5.15pm, we welcome you to stay until 7pm for drinks, nibbles and to continue conversations.

It’s free to attend but spaces are limited so do reserve your place. We ask that all organisations limit their attendance to only two people per organisation where possible to help us to ensure a wide range of organisations can attend.

Agenda

ACT 1: The impact of community leadership on climate in Bristol

Join us to celebrate six community organisations launching their new community climate action plans. We’ll also hear from a panel of inspiring speakers who have been involved in the last five years of community climate action in Bristol, including:

Amy Harrison, Bristol Climate & Nature Partnership
Donna Sealey, Ambition Lawrence Weston
Euella Jackson, Rising Arts Agency
Nick Gardner, Environmental Funders Network (formerly Head of Climate Action at National Lottery)
Mark Leach, Bristol City Council

Act 2: What’s the future of community climate and nature action?

This interactive session explores what’s next, with provocations and reflections from the following speakers, as well as plenty of time for you to discuss the future of community climate action and a creative intervention by Emma Geen. Speakers include:

Lizzi Testani, Bristol Climate & Nature Partnership
Tim Temple, Locality
Sado Jirde, Black SouthWest Network
Molly Byrne, BBRC

Food and drinks

The event starts at 1.45pm and there will be drinks and light refreshments available, with canapes available at 5.15pm during the networking session. There will be a bar serving soft drinks and alcohol from 5.15pm for those who wish to stay for networking. All food will be vegetarian, but please let us know about other dietary requirements when you book. Please note a full lunch is not provided.

Venue and accessibility info

Gloucestershire County Cricket Club is situated just off Gloucester Road and accessible by bus, train and active travel. Further travel information can be found here. If you need to travel by car, there is parking on nearby residential streets but no on-site parking available. There will be a small number of on-site parking spaces reserved for Disabled attendees. If you need a Disabled parking space, please contact us at the Partnership through the details below.

Gloucestershire County Cricket Club is a fully accessible building which features lift and stair access to all levels, accessible toilet facilities on the ground floor and level 2. There is a hearing loop in the Grace Room where the main event will be held. More accessibility information can be found on this website .

Please get in touch with us by email (contact anna@bristolclimatenature.org) or by phone on 07399464889 to discuss your access needs for attending this event and / or to reserve a Disabled parking space.

Our event will take place in the Grace room on the first floor, and there will be market stalls and networking in the ground floor Jessop suite.

This event is part of the Community Climate Action Project, funded by the National Lottery. Thank you to our event sponsor Bristol City Leap and the National Lottery Climate Action Fund.

Logos: National Lottery Community Fund and Bristol City Leap.