Toolkit: Collective Actions

We will support healthier travel options such as walking and cycling to help people get out of their cars.

We will support greater use of public transport by encouraging bus and train companies to work together to ensure their route timetables are connecting, for the benefit of local travellers.

We will install these on land we manage.

We will support local residents in dedicating a square metre of garden to wildflowers for bees.

We will buy an electric vehicle for our council use.

We will support the development of a car sharing club to help reduce local carbon emissions.

We will move our account to a bank that supports the environment without investing in fossil fuels.

We will set up a community composting scheme for creating and sharing compost.

We will establish a community fridge in our neighbourhood to help reduce food waste.

(Image courtesy UK Green Building Council)

We will find a site where our local community can come together to manage our own fruit trees.

We will work with local people to create and run a community wood.

We will create a wildlife garden on local community space.

We will find a new local site where people can grow their own food.

We will support the development of electric bike hire as part of the move away from fossil-fuelled vehicles.

(Image courtesy UK Electric Bike Hire)

We will install suitable charging points in our local area.

We will change all our vehicles to electric power.

We will carry out an audit to identify how we can make our buildings and work operations more energy efficient.

We will identify local sites where the biodiversity is to be respected or upgraded by future developers.

(Photo taken by Matt Binstead, British Wildlife Centre, Surrey)

We will investigate the installation of an air source heat pump for our council or community building.

We will support traditional hedge laying as part of managing hedgerows in our area.

We will work with local councils to manage verges for the benefit of wildlife as well as people.

We will monitor our local natural watercourses as part of working to conserve our local environment and preserve water species.

(Image courtesy Westcountry Rivers Trust www.wrt.org.uk)

We will restrict mowing of public areas when wildflowers are appearing.

We will organise a regular community gathering to repair and recycle household items.

(Image courtesy Repair Café International Foundation, photographer Martin Waalboer)

We will investigate how we may support the installation of solar panels in our neighbourhood.

We will move to a supplier that gathers all its electricity from renewable energy.

We will buy a thermal imaging detector for loaning to local people.

We will organise some local tree planting to be carried out by local residents.

(Image courtesy Carbon Footprint Ltd)

We will create and conserve a local wildflower meadow.

We will contact our neighbouring parishes to share climate action ideas and projects.