Manchester Climate Forum


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Strategies Day

Saturday 28th June

from 10am to 5pm

(well, 4-ish we hope)

Bridge 5 Mill (MERCi), Ancoats  click here for directions

Bring your questions, your ideas, your energy


More information to follow very soon

A day to learn more about what the council and the government are(n't) doing about climate change.


A day to think about how Manchester should tackle climate change and what we can do to make good things happen.


A day to meet old friends and new ones, and work to a common purpose.


Agenda
   
10.00-11.00     Intro session (if not attended previous info-shares)
Power point presentation      

11.00-11.15 
Introductions:
(Housekeeping – fire escapes, toilets, etc)
Round of introductions if not too many people.
Divide into groups of three by month of date of birth   
   
11.15-12.00    Question generation    Have 5 flip chart stations – food, waste, transport, energy, anything else
Ask people to circulate around them twice putting up any questions they have.      

12.00 – 12.45    Generate ideas re: Manchester & climate change     Ask people to circulate around the five themes putting up any ideas they have – 2 rounds.      

12.45 – 13.30    Lunch  (lovely vegan food!)  Ali/Marc – look at questions and prioritise ones to be answered    

13.30 – 13.45    Prioritisation of ideas using dots to "vote"
      
13.45 – 14.30    Answers     In the whole group by whoever said they know the answer!      

14.30 – 15.00    Names on engagement ideas and areas of interest.    Ask people to put their name against something they are interested – either methods of engagement or area of interest      

15.00-15.15     Tea break           

15.15 – 16.00    Actions & next steps      Feedback on prioritisation of ideas. Think about how to build on the day and encourage people to independently keep the momentum going – forming working groups of people interested in same thing – follow up meeting so date for people to work towards?