SOS CIO News - Save Our Shropshire

Wynn Foundation grant

March 24, 2022March 24, 2022 Gemma Rickard

Allan Wilson was delighted to receive a cheque from the Wynn Foundation to support our work on educating people in Shropshire on the climate emergency, and helping them ot take practical action. The Wynn Foundation exists to support community needs and create opportunities for groups and individuals across Shropshire to (more…) Read More

Carbon Literacy certificates for councillors

November 25, 2021November 25, 2021 Gemma Rickard

Save Our Shropshire CIO is delighted to announce that eleven parish and town councillors and three others have received Carbon Literacy certification in a brand new workshop through the Carbon Literacy Project. We partnered up with the Carbon Literacy Project (CLP) and Speak Carbon to create a brand new “Parish (more…) Read More

Taster at COP 26

November 6, 2021November 24, 2021 Gemma Rickard

We are presenting at COP 26 a one-hour taster for our new Parish Council Workshop. If you are interested, then do Zoom over to COP 26 and get a real taster of a new one day-workshop to help you organise to take pragmatic action on the Climate Emergency. The workshop (more…) Read More

The National Lottery Fund awards Save Our Shropshire £ 10,000

November 2, 2021November 16, 2022 Gemma Rickard

Save our Shropshire CIO is celebrating receiving nearly £ 10,000 in funding to support its work in fighting the Climate Emergency through education. It is awarded as part of the Together for Our Planet project. SOS CIO will use the grant funding to support our work in developing and delivering (more…) Read More

Carbon Literacy Certified

October 22, 2021November 24, 2021 Gemma Rickard

Five attendees at our September Householders course have gained certification by the Carbon Literacy Project that they are carbon literate. To do that they attended one days worth of training, answered questions on their knowledge of the climate emergency and made pledges on actions to tackle climate change. Congratulations to (more…) Read More

Save Our Shropshire on Radio Shropshire

October 13, 2021November 24, 2021 Gemma Rickard

Adam Green of BBC Radio Shropshire, interviewed Allan Wilson, chair of Save Our Shropshire. He asked about what our new charity was doing, and Allan outlined how we all create a carbon footprint in our daily lives, and that we need to change our lifestyles to reduce that footprint, as (more…) Read More

Householders’ Course approval

September 2, 2021November 24, 2021 Gemma Rickard

THE CARBON LITERACY PROJECT APPROVES SOS CIO’S CLIMATE EMERGENCY WORKSHOP Save our Shropshire CIO has developed a new course to help householders in Shropshire (and beyond) understand what they can do to combat the Climate Emergency. It simply describes why there is an emergency. It makes clear what the world (more…) Read More

Save our Shropshire – SOS

May 19, 2021November 24, 2021 Gemma Rickard

Save our Shropshire is a new organisation dedicated to improving the climate for the people of Shropshire. There are around 500,000 people, 20,000 businesses and 4,000 farms in Shropshire. All must take action as part of a global movement to reduce carbon dioxide and harmful gases in the environment. There (more…) Read More

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