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Climate in the Community

Read about the ways you can get involved and help fight climate change, from supporting biodiversity to joining a local group.

Get involved in a local group

Find a local community group in your area and help in fight against climate change.

Got an idea? Get funding

Here you can find the most recent grants to help enhance your community

Upcoming Events

Information about upcoming events that support our climate emergency declaration.

Support for schools

Swale Green Schools welcome parents, guardians and governors and provides training and support to help reduce your carbon footprint.

Green Grid

Green Grid helps support local communities through environmental projects aimed at green spaces.

What We're Doing

Read about the things we're doing to help fight climate change, including the objectives of our climate and ecological emergency declaration.

Our Declaration

Information about our climate emergency declaration on 26 June, 2019.

Our progress

Information about the progress we're making towards a climate emergency declaration.

Planning

Information about planning policies that help support the aims of our climate emergency declaration.

Air quality

Information about the improvements we're helping to make to air quality across Swale.

What You Can Do

Advice on the things you can do yourself to help in the fight against climate change.

Businesses

The climate crisis is escalating, but your business can all make a difference.

Transport

Tips on how to minimise your impact on the environment whilst travelling

Ecology and Biodiversity

Encouraging biodiversity in your gardens

Waste and Recycling

Find out what you can do to help reduce your affect on climate change by helping to manage your household waste.

Energy, Fuel and Water

Find out what you can do to limit your home's emissions, and how Swale can support you.

Food

There are lots of everyday ways that you can help to reduce the impact of climate change, including shopping locally.

Ways to get in touch with our Climate and Ecological Emergency Project Officer.

Youth Climate Competition

We are offering young people in Swale the opportunity to plan and pitch a project with a budget of £500 to our councillors.

Have you got an idea for an environmental project in Swale? We are offering young people in Swale the opportunity to plan and pitch a project with a budget of £500 to our councillors. The winning project will be implemented in Swale with support from council officers.

Students must propose a project to improve the environment or raise awareness of the climate and ecological emergency in their local community.

£500 to spend | Groups of 4-6 | Year 7-11

Projects must consider:

How the project improves the environment or encourages other people to help the environment
What the benefits are to the local community
The budget - how will you spend £500?
A plan to deliver the project
Where materials and resources will come from - are they sustainable?
How might you market the project or campaign

Projects can be as creative as the team would like, and can include multiple medias e.g. presentation slides, word doc, video, photos etc.

Entries must be submitted online by 5PM, 15th September

The successful projects will be required to deliver a 10 minute presentation on Thursday 29th September, 4PM in the Swale House Council Chamber to a panel of councillors.

Any questions, please email climate@swale.gov.uk.

Good luck!