Activities log

What a lot we've done!

Most recent at the top of the list

2008

23rd April - Nicola & Sonia met Kater Radford who is the new Climate Change Programme Manager of the CWEA (Cheshire & Warrington Economic Alliance); we provided a draft proposal to position BCR as a pilot Social Enterprise to maximise our chances of getting funding and gave her a tour of relevant sites
15th March - Nicholas Winterton DL MP visits the BCR exhibition at the Discovery Centre
March: Suggestions submitted on environmental and sustainability issues for the Town Plan
26th & 27th February: Attended EcoBuild Exhibition at Earls Court, London
22nd February: Awareness Raising film showing of Al Gore's 'An Inconvenient Truth'
19th February: Tour around Cheshire's Eco friendly Kingsmead Primary school
February: Won funding from NWDA for feasibility study of River Dean for suitability for micro hydro power generation

2007

23rd November: Attended Sustainable Cities and Communities conference at Birmingham NEC, obtaining useful information and contacts
10th November: First public meeting! 36 people attended presentation at the Arts Centre. Very successful evening
30th October: Monthly meeting
October: Attended an event on renewables held by the Institute of Engineering and Technologies
October: Visited Conniston Water Wheel
16th October: Attended the Cheshire County Council Play Your Part event at Macclesfield College
2nd October: Monthly meeting where we receive a presentation from Weatherseal on low carbon renewable technologies
September: Applied to Bollington Town Council for a small grant
27th September: Bollington Carbon Revolution feature in the Manchester Evening News
26th September: Bollington Carbon Revolution feature in the Macclesfield Express
21st September: Attended Bollington Festival 2009 meeting to promote our ideas to contribute
17th September: Presentation at Bollington Cross Primary School to award prizes for the poem and picture competition
12th September: Presented at the 21st Century Villages in Cheshire event in Middlewich
10th September: Presentation at Dean Valley Primary School to award prizes for the poem and picture competition
9th September: Launch our £200 cash back scheme for local residents who install energy saving measures in their home
9th September: Sucsessful stall at Bollington Transport Extravaganza, included four eco-cars
7th September: Produced our awareness raising leaflet aimed at informing our community of who we are and how they can get involved
6th September: Meet with a local charity, the Drop-in Centre, who will hold our leaflets and £200 cash back application forms
6th September: Met with the Town Council to introduce ourselves and see how the Town Council could support us
4th September: Monthly meeting
3rd September: Met with a local charity; the Kerridge Ridge and Ingelsey Vale project and formed a partnership to deliver a tree planting and offsetting scheme
1st September: Featured in Cheshire’s Year of Action on Climate Change News
20th August: Meeting to pull together the Awards for All application
11th August: Interviewed by the author of the new Friends of the Earth book Cool Planet, Cool People
7th August: Monthly meeting
20th July: Schools competition finish
18th July: Attended Commission for Rural Communities fact finding visit to Cheshire
18th July: Met with Mike King, consultant in local communities
13th July: Social viewing of Inconvenient Truth for group members
10th July: Monthly meeting
12th June: Monthly meeting attended by Nick Smith from Bollington Festival
7th June: Special meeting to discuss launch
31st May: Attended Transition Towns workshop in Nailsworth, Stroud
31st May: Schools competition start
25th May: Interviewed by the Norwegian business paper DN Magasinet
22nd May: Energy Efficiency subgroup meet to discuss screenings of films
15th May: Meeting with Northwest Development Agency
15th May: Monthly meeting
25th April: Attended Cheshire and Warrington Economic Alliance Climate Change Forum
24th April: Meeting with Macclesfield Borough Council
23rd April: Meeting with Cheshire County Council
17th April: Monthly meeting
16th April: Were included in Guardian Online
14th April: Attendance at Ashton Hayes Going Carbon Neutral grass roots community project conference
26th March: Received recognition from Sir Nicholas Winterton, MP
20th March: Delivered presentation to Bollington Town Assembly
19th March: Produced our free standing display stand
7th March: Attended Bosley Carbon launch
6th March: Monthly meeting
5th March: Delivered presentation to Bollington Civic Society
12th February: Monthly meeting; reached agreement on logo [top left]
February: Website is launched
25th January: Attended Ashton Hayes Going Carbon Neutral 1st birthday party
15th January: Gary Charnock from Ashton Hayes delivers presentation to our monthly meeting
8th January: Decided on group name Bollington Carbon Revolution to tie in with the Industrial Revolution, Bollington's past and the cause of climate change
January: Completed and published the strategy report

2006

6th December: Sustainable Cheshire Forum annual conference

28th November: Presentations from group members on 'Communication', 'Management Structure', 'Waste' and 'Food'
23rd November: Presentations from group members on 'Water', 'Renewables' and 'Energy'
16th November: Presentations from group members on 'Similar Schemes', 'Renewable Technologies' and possible funding streams
28th September: Begin research for the strategy report
September: Establish group and start fortnightly meetings
29th August: Civic Society present on the issue at initial meeting
August: Civic Society published initial article in Bollington Live!

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