Strategies Day Saturday 28th June
from 10am to 5pm
(well, 4-ish we hope)
Bridge 5 Mill (MERCi), Ancoats click here for directions
Bring your questions, your ideas, your energy
A day to learn more about what the council and the government are(n’t) doing about climate change.
A day to think about how Manchester should tackle climate change and what we can do to make good things happen.
A day to meet old friends and new ones, and work to a common purpose.
Agenda
10.00-11.00 Intro session (if not attended previous info-shares)
Power point presentation
11.00-11.15
Introductions:
(Housekeeping – fire escapes, toilets, etc)
Round of introductions if not too many people.
Divide into groups of three by month of date of birth
11.15-12.00 Question generation Have 5 flip chart stations – food, waste, transport, energy, anything else
Ask people to circulate around them twice putting up any questions they have.
12.00 – 12.45 Generate ideas re: Manchester & climate change Ask people to circulate around the five themes putting up any ideas they have – 2 rounds.
12.45 – 13.30 Lunch (lovely vegan food!) Ali/Marc – look at questions and prioritise ones to be answered
13.30 – 13.45 Prioritisation of ideas using dots to “vote”
13.45 – 14.30 Answers In the whole group by whoever said they know the answer!
14.30 – 15.00 Names on engagement ideas and areas of interest. Ask people to put their name against something they are interested – either methods of engagement or area of interest
15.00-15.15 Tea break
15.15 – 16.00 Actions & next steps Feedback on prioritisation of ideas. Think about how to build on the day and encourage people to independently keep the momentum going – forming working groups of people interested in same thing – follow up meeting so date for people to work towards?
http://www.manchesterclimateforum.org.uk/strategies.html
