Climate Action Stokesley and Villages

Build Back Better event

Stokesley Town Hall, Saturday 19th September, from 10am to 2pm.

We need you! We need everyone! If you’ve ever felt like you could be doing more to help safeguard your children’s future look no further!

The Climate Action Stokesley and Villages group would like your help in showing our MP Rishi Sunak that a lot of people are asking that the Government take the opportunity to build back better following the Covid-19 pandemic to address the climate and ecological emergency. Now, more than ever, we need to think how we live.

The group will be collecting signatures for a joint letter to Rishi Sunak MP in Stokesley Town Hall on Saturday 19^th September, between 10am and 2pm.

We will also be sharing the group’s vision, and actions to realise that vision, for a net-zero carbon area by 2030. Come and share your thoughts on your vision for 2030 and find out more about actions that can be taken including information on new Government grants for insulation and renewable heating; plans to improve the biodiversity of local verges; ideas for moving towards eating more sustainable food; work on the Endeavour Way active travel route between Great Ayton and Stokesley; and how to reduce waste.

If you haven’t been able to make the group’s online meetings, hopefully you can drop in and have a chat.

Group update 7th September

Our latest gr oup update including a reminder to ask you to sign our letter, if you haven’t already done, to show our MP that a lot of his constituents are asking for a green recovery plan from the coronavirus pandemic.

If you would like to sign up to receive group updates, then please complete our mailing list form.

Build back better letter to MP

We would like your help in showing our MP Rishi Sunak that a lot of people are asking that the Government take the opportunity to build back better following the Covid-19 pandemic.

Now, more than ever, we need to think how we live. Please sign our online letter to Rishi Sunak, if you live in the Stokesley and Villages area, to show that you want the country to build back better from the Covid-19 pandemic and in so doing address the climate and ecological emergency.

Please can you share the letter with friends, family and colleagues.

We will be sending the letter and the list of signatories to Rishi Sunak MP on Thursday 8th October, along with lots of other groups around the country, as part of the Build Back Better campaign.

Keep well and look after yourselves, each other and the planet.

Caryn

On behalf of the Climate Action Stokesley and Villages Steering Group

Climate action meeting 18th August

We will be having an online meeting on Tuesday 18th August. We thought we would have a short meeting in August from 8:00 – 9:00 pm, with the steering group meeting from 7:30 – 8:00 pm. This will give the different sub-groups, that have been ‘meeting’ through a variety of formats, a chance to hear what progress has been made with the move from visioning to action planning.

If you would like to join the online meeting, and are not already on our mailing list, please contact us for details.

Endeavour Way update July 2020

Last week the Government launched its new Cycling and Walking Plan for England along with a range of measures to encourage walking and cycling. There isn’t a better time to push for routes needed to help decarbonise transport.

In order to move forward with the plans for the Endeavour Way, a new sub-group of the Stokesley and Community Partnership has been set up. The group is called the Public and Active Transport – Stokesley and Villages (PAT) group and in the long term it will have a wider remit than the Endeavour Way.

The group has submitted a response to North Yorkshire County Council’s call for Councillors and walking/cycling groups to prioritise routes for funding through the Emergency Active Travel fund. Unfortunately, this fund is not appropriate for the Endeavour Way route due to the size of the pot of money and when it needs to be spent. However, the group look forward to having a conversation with North Yorkshire County Council about working together to be ready to access appropriate funding when it becomes available.

North Yorkshire County Council has asked people to add routes they would like developed to their online map using a simple form. Please can you add the Endeavour Way route to show the level of support there is for the route and any other routes you would like to see be developed.

Climate Action meeting on food and farming

Our next meeting is on Tuesday 21st July, starting at 7:30 pm on the theme of food and farming.

If you would like to join the online meeting, and are not already on our mailing list, please contact us for details.

Group update 6th July

Our latest group update including a request for you to join in the Build Back Better campaign and urge you to ask your friends and neighbours as well in order to show our MP that a lot of his constituents are asking for a green recovery plan from the coronavirus pandemic.