News, Funding, Events for Barnet VCFSE Environmental Network
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for Barnet VCFSE
Environmental Network
Thanks for your interest in the Barnet VCFSE Environmental Network.
Sharing latest news, funding opportunities, events etc.
Any questions/thoughts/contributions, do get in touch...
Ellen Cheshire, VCS Support Lead
ellen@inclusionbarnet.org.uk
8th June 2022
Our Next Meeting
Barnet VCFSE Environmental Network
Thursday 16th June, 10.30 - 12noon
If you've already been to a Barnet VCFSE Environmental Network meeting then you'll automatically receive a MS Teams link for our next meeting on 16th June.
If you've not joined us yet, then do email Ellen. These are informal and informative networking sessions for those working in the Barnet Voluntary, Community, Faith & Social Enterprise (VCFSE) sector, where we can come together to discuss environmental issues in the Borough, and work out how we as a sector can make a difference.
This networking group will raise awareness of environmental projects that are happening in the Borough, help to establish partnerships and joint initiatives and seek funding opportunities.
If you have any topics you would like to raise/discuss at future meetings, do let Ellen know.
These Network meetings are now receiving administrative support from Stonegrove Community Trust through funding awarded by the National Lottery Community Fund's Together For the Planet programme.
Upcoming events from...
Heath Hands
- Saturday 11th June - FREE forest bathing - 10am - Sandy Heath
- Sunday 12th June - Community Fun Day - Parliament Hill Bandstand - 12.30 and 5pm.
- Wednesday 22nd June - FREE forest bathing - 2pm - Highgate Wood
- Saturday 25th June - Butterfly ID walk - £8 - Parliament Hill
- Saturday 25th June - Free drop in nature activities - Bug hunting - Parliament Hill
- Tuesday 28th June - Free guided walk to Sandy Heath and the Hill Garden
You can also refer to their What's on page of the website for upcoming free nature drop-ins and other events.
Heath Hands helps conserve 350 hectares of unique green spaces in North London.
Take part...
in Bike Week
From Paul Salman, GoodGym Barnet
This year Bike Week (6-12th June) is all about you and your local community, we want to encourage as many people as possible to get out and enjoy their community by bike. We want you to dream big and imagine how your community could be improved if everyone in it used their bikes more, together we can make a better world by bike.
The following businesses along the A1000 Cycle Lane are showing their support of cycling and cyclists by offering discounts for the whole week:
Coffee Bank, 85 High Rd, N2 8AE
Phoenix Cinema, 52 High Road, N2 9PJ
Bald Faced Stag, 69 High Rd, N2 8AB
For more information on Cycling and other GoodGym initiatives in Barnet
How Green is Your Marketing & Comms?
We spend much of our time thinking about our physical environment, ensuring we are sustainable in the way we shop, travel etc. But what our our virtual spaces. Here, are some links to blogs on this topic, and ways to help share your environmental stories.
AMA's guide to Sustainable web design: how to reduce your website's carbon footprint.
AMA's resource on 17 ways to make your website more energy efficient.
Julie's Bicycle's webinar on Speaking Green – how to share your environmental story.
CharityComm's summary on what charities can do to help communicate the environmental crisis.
DID YOU KNOW >> That there are also many resources on how to make your Fundraising greener! UK Fundraising's How green is digital fundraising? And how to make it greener will get you started. And they have also collated a whole load of resources on carbon zero fundraising.
FREE Training...
Social Media Videos
1-day free training to produce social media videos at the Phoenix Cinema, led by experienced filmmakers on Sunday 19th June.
Learn how to plan, shoot & edit high-quality shareable video with a mobile phone, laptop and free software, which will be screened at The Phoenix Cinema on Sunday 10th July
Available FREE to any Finchley community group (school, college, charity, youth club, retirement home etc.)
Email to Apply by Sunday 12th June
Part of the Doing Good In Finchley
One Sunday Morning, Four Films
Doing Good In Finchley
In conjunction with the Phoenix Cinema‘s outreach community programme.
FREE PR opportunity
Smiley News
Smiley News are a positive news site aiming to highlight the good being done in the world! They are looking to give a platform to all non-profit organisations to share more about the amazing work they're doing to help make our world a healthier and happier place to live.
They're looking for stories about:
- New organisations set up
- Initiatives and campaigns being launched
- Amazing case studies showing the positive impact of your work
- The positive impact of voluntary, community groups etc
Got a story or want to showcase your work? Contact Abi Scaife.
Things to do.... There are a dozen guided Heritage Walks as part of this year's Proms at St Jude's, alongside their concerts (inc free lunchtime ones), literary events, family activities and a comedy night.
These Heritage Walks inc. Hidden Corners of Hampstead, The Lost Suburb, Grasslands and Wetlands of Hampstead Heath and Covent Garden - the Las Vegas of the Swinging (Seventeen) Sixties.
Proms is organised almost entirely by local volunteers to raise money for two charities: Toynbee Hall and the North London Hospice.
Funding News
Warmer Homes
Grants of between £5,000 and £25,000 are available to eligible low income homeowners and private tenants to make their homes greener and warmer, reducing energy use and, therefore, lowering bills and cutting carbon. Inc.
- heat pumps
- insulation for walls, lofts and floors
- heating system improvements or repairs
- draughtproofing
- solar energy installations
Apply Now
The Great Big Green Week
Great Big Green Week Community Fund supports community groups to organise local events, activities and festivals during the Great Big Green Week 2022 (24th September to 2nd October). These should engage the local community and celebrate action and progress being made on climate change.
Small Grant: £200 to £500
Medium Grant: £500 to £5,000
Deadline: 30th June
Clean Mobility Fund
Are you actively working on decarbonizing urban mobility in cities and/or accelerating zero emission transport? Do you have an innovative idea for amplifying your work, influencing decision makers, building community and campaign power and mobilising support on decarbonizing urban mobility that you want to get additional funds for?
Grants up to £6,000
Deadline: 24th June
Stop Press! Could you support a learning disabled gentleman at an allotment? Hft, via Volunteering Barnet, are seeking a green fingered volunteer to help one of the gentlemen they support to access our allotment. The gentleman in question has enjoyed gardening there before but recently staff have struggled to find the time required to support him to make use of our allotment. This would be an excellent opportunity for a volunteer who enjoys gardening and would like to get to know more about the lives of people with learning disabilities. This would also make a massive positive impact on the health and wellbeing of this individual and potentially serve as an example to get more of the people we support interested in taking up gardening! Find out more and to apply.
