BOPF Community Climate Action
This is a project coordinated by the Bristol Climate & Nature Partnership and funded by the National Lotteries and will be running throughout this year. It focusses on a community-led approach to climate action.
BOPF Engagement Plan
The development of the Community Action (CA) Plan will be based on a co-production model of working. The aim will be to identify important climate action (CA) issues and challenges as identified by older people. To date we’ve had a great deal of interest from BOPF members. Some with a particular background in CA issues – from public transport, to healthy eating, urban greening, and lowering carbon emissions. Using creative arts and campaigning to bring the buses under local control were also highlighted by a number of people.
A key part of our approach is to focus on how older (and disabled) people can be adversely affected by climate change and to build a plan that reflects an ‘age friendly’ approach to the many challenges ahead. This is framed around, older people working collectively and pro-actively, addressing age discrimination, ageist stereotypes and emphasising the common ground between older and younger generations. It is also about ‘acting now’, as well as creating a legacy for the future.
Moreover, we want our plan and our overall narrative to be deliverable, and avoiding actions that may look good on paper, but can’t be achieved.
In phase one, we will select a core group of up to eight older people to work directly on the CA plan. This will act as the CA Working Group. This cohort will be asked to attend up to six (monthly) in-person sessions (lasting approximately two hours per session). They will be remunerated with gift vouchers for their time at each workshop. The second, larger group (currently around twenty older people) will form a looser CA Advisory Network. They will be asked to review project plan drafts as we progress, and comment on gaps and weaknesses. We will also arrange some one- to one meetings with members of this group – to drill down on any particular issues or concerns.
In addition we will be reporting back at our bi-monthly forum meetings and organise further information sessions/mini-workshops, with a focus on the emerging draft plan.
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