Community engagement

Community engagement projects involve organizations and community collaborating to address local zero carbon issues, improve quality of life, and foster strong community bonds. 

Enterprise East CIC

Community education and outreach workshops, focusing on the following activities and themes: "Make do and Mend" Upcycling: creatively repurposing unwanted items into desirable and useful products. Environmental awareness raising. Partnering with nationally recognised  environmental educators.  Design and public display of infographics.

Year of grant award: 2025

Contact details: Emily.siddall@enterpriseeast.org

Elsenham Parish Council

Restoring nature to absorb more carbon. Planting trees in the right places or giving land back to nature through rewilding. By doing this we can also encourage people in the community to set up their own wildflower area in their gardens. Signage will explain why we decided to rewild the area and what we are hoping to achieve. We can encourage the local school or scout/beaver groups to visit the area and monitor how the bees, butterflies and other insects are increasing overtime and what other wildlife can be seen.

Year of grant award: 2024

Contact details: suewaite2003@yahoo.co.uk

Hadstock Parish Council

Sustainable Hadstock - The people of Hadstock would like to start a village wide initiative to lower their carbon consumption and to raise the biodiversity within the village and its immediate surroundings. We wish to do this as an active contribution to the targets set by the Uttlesford Climate Crisis Strategy 2021-2023 to meet Zero Carbon by 2030 and also to protect and enhance biodiversity.

Year of grant award: 2024

Contact details: cllrjohnlockton@gmail.com

Saffron Walden Community Energy

Littlebury Energy Project - Aim to create concrete plans for decarbonisation and start to implement these plans. There are two main areas; first, domestic energy savings and retrofit measures in the move to low carbon heating and second, community scale renewable energy generation to help power Littlebury's homes.

Year of grant award: 2023

Contact details: chris.dodge@swce.co.uk

Stansted Mountfitchet Parish Council

Community-led proposed project 'Sustainable Stansted' - Engaging the Community' aims to understand the concerns that local people have about climate change and to work in and with the community to coordinate learning and action on climate change.

Year of grant award: 2023

Contact details: bobburlton@outlook.com