We're Calderdale Climate Challenge – a local project designed to raise awareness and understanding of climate change.
We'll be working hard between now and spring 2008 to take the climate change message out to schools and children, larger employers and small businesses, voluntary groups, decision makers – and into every household in the district.
We're part of a national campaign – the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) Climate Challenge.
DEFRA invited organisations to bid for grants so that they could carry out awareness projects - and here, the Calderdale Sustainability Forum (who put together the Climate Challenge project) was awarded one of those grants. We were one of just seven regional winners.
Calderdale Sustainability Forum is an umbrella body of organisations, groups and individuals in Calderdale concerned with promoting sustainable development in Calderdale.
To find about more about Calderdale Climate Challenge, and what we’ll be doing next year, click here.
You can also read about the first visit our Climate Change Schools Adviser made to a primary school in Shibden Vale, and read a welcome message from Zoheb Khalil, the 11-year-old regional Climate Challenge Champion, who lives in Halifax.
There are 24 partners in Calderdale Climate Challenge – find out who they are and how you can join them.
Contact any of the Calderdale Climate Challenge team by e-mail:
Anthony Rae – Project Co-ordinator
Rebecca Dearden – Communications Co-ordinator
Jim Porter – Programme & Partners Co-ordinator
Heather Morgan – Climate Change presentations for schools, business and other organisations
Blue Ginger – our Greetland-based design agency
"Over the next 18 months, we want to involve as many people and organisations as possible. We want to help everyone understand about climate change and that, by working together, we can make a difference."
Anthony Rae, Project Co-ordinator (pictured above)
