Brentwood Climate Action is planning to fully embrace this year’s Great Big Green Week in the autumn – with an outline of events we could run agreed at this week’s BCA Steering Group meeting.
For those that don’t know, the Great Big Green Week is the UK’s biggest ever celebration of community action to tackle climate change and protect nature. Between September 24 and October 2 this year, Great Big Green Week will unleash a wave of support for action to protect the planet. Tens of thousands of people in every corner of the country will celebrate the heartfelt, brave, everyday actions being taken to stand up for nature and fight climate change.
Together we can show decision makers that people from all walks of life are stepping up to take action on climate change – and we need them to step up too. Last year over 5000 events took place, with more than 200,000 people showing up for the planet in their community and online.
So it is definitely something that Brentwood should be participating in. And we need your help – Brentwood Climate Action members, and anyone interested in solutions to the Climate Emergency and nature crisis we face in this country and around the world – to make it happen.
Ideas currently being worked on are:
- Holding a Climate Cafe in the Brentwood Borough area – potentially in Ingatestone, and maybe elsewhere if we can find suitable venues. If you’re not familiar with the concept, a Climate Cafe is a space for people to get together to talk and act on climate change and related issues. Climate Cafes are informal, inclusive spaces where everyone is welcome to join the conversation and get involved
- Litter Pick – building on successful BCA ones held previously in the spring and at the Strawberry Fair… for as many people in the local community to come and join us as possible and take very simple but effective environmental action
- Green Book Club – hopefully we can stage an event at a local bookshop, giving attendees the chance to get together to talk about, and buy, the latest and best books on climate change, the environment, and the natural world
- A climate change Board Games event – with a variety of environment-themed games available for all to play, giving us a fundraising opportunity and a chance for BCA members to come together for an enjoyable social gathering
- Creating information leaflets on key climate, green energy and nature issues that would be available at our events during Great Big Green Week and thereafter
We’d like to stage these events during the week, and maybe more, but we can’t without more volunteers coming forward to help organise them and run them on the agreed dates.
So please get in touch with us at info@brentwoodclimateaction.org.uk
Or via our Contacts page, or our social media channels – Facebook, Twitter, Instagram – to let us know how you’d like to get involved before and during Great Big Green Week.
The sooner we can confirm all our plans and dates/venues the sooner we can publicise all the events – and get as many people joining in with Great Big Green Week across the Borough as possible.