CLIMATE CHALLENGE FUND FINAL PROJECT REPORT

NAME OF PROJECT: CLIMATE-PHILES INITIATIVE

ORGANISATION NAME: HOPE AMPLIFIED

CCF NUMBER: CCF 3612

CO2e: 385.17 tonnes CO2e savings

CONTACT DETAILS: 238, MAIN STREET, , G73 2HP

WEBSITE ADDRESS: WWW.HOPEAMPLIFIED.ORG.UK

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STARTING POINT Hope Amplified is a community-led organisation aim to advance education by honing and incentivising the community entrepreneurial skills. We build links and co-operate with appropriate education authorities and further education centres in order to encourage and improve the access and life chances of all our users, especially the young and adults of Black & Minority Ethnic Community who are often disadvantaged as a result of disillusionment, lack of opportunities, social & cultural exclusion or even financial deprivation.

We work to provide practical help, social and volunteering opportunities for socially isolated and vulnerable household in and South council area. We work towards assisting and encouraging young people's (Including Lone Parents, Asylum Seekers, and Refugees) development through a range of educational interventions, creating new and challenging experiences.

Our motivation came from engaging with young people and Young adults in a proactive and preventative informal educational way with the strong passion and believe that young people have the potential to make positive contributions to the wilder community, thus becoming active experiential consultants and potential partners in taking community action.

We promote, support, develop and connect vulnerable young people from BME households to create resilient communities through volunteering, social entrepreneurship and lifelong learning. As a community-led organisation, work & support vulnerable and disadvantaged family, young and children in every aspect of life ensuring they are given every possible chance to meet their full potential and to participate fully in society.

We ensure people from disadvantaged community are given fairer chance to develop their social, employment and life skills. We advance the education of the

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INTRODUCTION HOPE AMPLIFIED has been in existence since 2012 and became Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation (SCIO) in September, 2013 with registration number SC044265. Membership of the organisation is open to all who share the same aspiration and vision of the organisation towards the community, volunteers and service users. The organisation ethos is predicated on the following: The advancement of education; prevention or relief of poverty; advancement of Arts, Heritage and Culture; advancement of citizenship or community development; promotion of equality & diversity; and the advancement of human rights, conflict resolution or reconciliation.

OVERVIEW OF FUNDING PROCESS In September 2013, we received Development Grant of Seven Hundred & Fifty Pounds (£750.00) with Reference Number CCF-2904 from the Scottish Government, administered by the Keep Beautiful towards the development of Climate-Philes Initiatives. The grants availed us the opportunity to extensively develop the right strategy and ways to execute the programme of Climate-Philes activities.

It afforded and accorded us the leverage to fully engage the BME community from a grassroots level and to discuss and debate various measures that would be put in place to encourage behavioural change (this is because majority of the Black community see the issue of climate change as superstitious and perhaps, a myth) and to encourage young people to adopt more sustainable lifestyles. We consulted with faith and non-faith groups commonly populated by BME in the strategic consultation and planning process.

We held 10 consultations events through the Development Grants with young people, volunteers, the communities and various stakeholders in the climate change agenda. We visited communities of interest (Libraries, faith and non-faith and at community event) to gauged the extent to which the community enmeshed

3 in fuel poverty and find way to improve their carbon footprint. The deliberative discussion with young people, volunteers, communities and stakeholders helped us understand the preponderance of the level of fuel poverty and how the community behavioural change could be improved.

We held two community events in Rutherglen and ; we held four focus group meetings and two community events in (Jenniburn Centre) and two focus group meetings at the East Whitlawburn community centre. The consultation and engagement allowed us to determine whether there is need for the climate change project activities and whether there is any local or third sector within the area that are currently running similar project in order to eliminate duplicity. Having satisfied the requirements for applying for the main funding, we set out the plan to apply for the CCF funding in May, 2014.

Prior to submitting the main CCF funding, we received funding from the Big Lottery Fund, Scottish Refugee Council, The Weavers and Clothworkers Foundation to organised activities geared towards community cohesions & social inclusion, life skills, volunteering, social entrepreneurship and lifelong learning. We are propelled and driven by the passion to create a well-educated, confident, inclusive and hopeful community.

Together with other committed volunteers, the management committee, members of staffs and the community of interest, we can confidently attest to the fact that we have been able to touch and impact the lives of our community positively with these funded projects stated above and we will continue to do so.

In May 2014, we submitted an application (with Reference Number: CCF 3612) for the CCF funding which succeeded (We received confirmation of the CCF Award in the month of August, 2014) and we commenced the operation of Climate-Philes project activities in the month of August, 2014.

Climate-Philes Initiatives seek to raise the issue of climate change and fuel poverty and provide support to 163 households in Castlemilk, & both in

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South Glasgow and Greenlees & East Whitlawburn both in , to make necessary changes to reduce their CO2 emissions with a wider benefits to the Black & Minority Ethnic communities such as helping to increase community cohesion, help combat social isolation and improve mental health, promote healthy eating, create employment and training opportunities, and help BME households save money and reduce fuel poverty.

HEADLINE ACHIEVEMENTS

Climate-philes Initiatives incorporated educational component into the project by promoting sustainable practices and climate change awareness. The whole gamut is to change behavior through the young people it reaches as they influence their parents to reduce carbon emissions through decreased waste production and effective reuse of waste.

Climate-philes Initiatives is having direct influence on the lives and future career aspirations of the community through improved social capital and the increased desire to succeed, thus creating community awareness and involvement with climate change agenda.

As a result of participation in the activities of climate-philes initiatives, one of the volunteers who signed up as one of the Foot Soldiers trained by The Wise Group in Energy Awareness was encouraged to pursue a life time career in Climate change. He is currently enrolled as part-time degree student at the Edinburgh University to study Carbon Management. He is one our vibrant Climate-Philes volunteers passionate about reaching the BME community with the story and the impact of climate change on their lives and the wellbeing of households irrespective of their geographical location.

Another volunteer recently set up a social enterprise (Community Asset Project, a registered SCIO) in the area of energy advice to assist elderly BME households living in social housing to access help from the Local Council Authority, Scottish Government and sign-posting them to other organization well able to assist them access help to reduce or ameliorate the incidence of fuel poverty in the

5 community. Our educational component is really building and improving social capita in the lives of young people who are members of the BME community in Cambuslang.

BME households in Greenlees, East Whitlawburn and Carmunnock reported improved access to affordable energy products. BME Households (including lone parents, asylume seekers, and refugees) in the BME community in South Glasgow and South Lanarkshire also reported increased awareness of the causes of fuel poverty.

OUTCOMES AND INDICATORS

1. 89 BME households from the 128 BME households the project engaged with experienced improved household energy efficiency.

2. 42 BME Households from the 128 BME households are able take up utility companies social fuel tariffs and Scottish Government Fuel poverty assistance through their respective housing association and Home Energy Scotland.

3. 61 BME households from the 128 BME Households the project is currently engaged with switched from high tariff energy suppliers to lower tariff suppliers.

4. 60 BME households from the 128 BME households demonstrated increased understanding of how to manage day-to-day budget, and can distinguish essential from non-essential spending thereby improving making money available to meet their utility bills.

5. 72 BME household from the 128 BME households demonstrated increased awareness of climate change and the responsibility of the individual member of the community in promoting climate change agenda.

6. 86 BME Households from the 128 BME households are engaging with climate change with a resultant increased in behavioural change against earlier “myths” and lack of understanding to the issue surrounding climate change.

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7. 33 households are now able to read both electric and gas meters.

8. Increased number of households using energy efficient light bulbs both in the house and at the community centre.

9. 23 Households of the households reported a dramatic improvement in their physical health.

HOUSEHOLDS COMMENTS

 Nneamaka said: “The Climate-Philes has helped us to learn the importance of cutting our fuel bill. We now switch off lights when not in use. We also boil only the quantity of water in the kettle to make tea.

 Oluwabidemi said: “I am grateful for the project. I would never have been able to persuade my parent to switch our electricity & gas accounts”.

 Abigail said: We were able to cut our fuel bill last month when the housing associations replaced our home heating equipment as a result of the email sent by project coordinator to the Housing Association.

 Abiodun said: “I have been able to meet and make two friends while attending this program. I now have a City & Guild certificate in energy awareness”

 Marie said: “volunteering in the project has enable to have the confidence to make friends. I meet a lot of people from my communities this days” really great.

 Biola wrote: "I was able to advice my mum to open an account with the Glasgow Credit Union to save for the Christmas and New Year Spending. My

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mum now saves £10 on a weekly basis. We spend our money wisely to buy fresh vegetables and we buy what we need.

 Yolanda (we have replaced the real name as requested) report: As a result of the activities, I have assisted my parents to set up a direct debit to pay our electricity and gas bill. We changed from Pre-payment meter to the monthly billing meter which seems to be cheaper.

 Jamiu Said: As a former asylum seeker from Uganda, I now know the causes of climate change. Before I do not believe in climate change and after attending two of the workshops and se watch a video on climate change. This video convinces me and my friends that climate change can be prevented by our activities.

COMMUNITY SUPPORT AND THIRD SECTOR COLLABORATION

In the past, we have supported various CCF funded organizations through the CCF EM Network through the sharing of management experience and skills as it affects the oil producing countries of West Africa. At the meeting we share our experience of the CCF process, from awareness of the fund, community consultations, application process through to project delivery, and implementation through to reporting, monitoring and evaluation. We also share how climate change project activities could align and feed into Scottish Government policy strategy in helping to influence the future of the Climate Challenge Fund.

We recorded successes as demonstrated by the increased number of BME households engaging with climate change agenda in various meeting points, like the faith and non-faith centres. We recorded improved behavioural change in BME

8 households. This is demonstrated by the dramatic reduction in the quantity of waste generated by individuals households who attended our workshops.

The understanding that climate change is a myth and not real no longer holds. Although, we still have a lot to do in this area of influencing the mind-set of the BME household through continuous education and practical demonstration of the effect of climate change. We are confident that continuous engagement with BME Households in the climate change agenda will create a long lasting sustainability as it relates to behavioural changes.

The current Climate-Philes Initiatives has positively impacted the BME communities in Greenlees, East Whitlawburn, Carmunnock and Castlemilk. Through advice on ways to reduce energy use in their home and how to effectively re-use, renew and recycled, BME households have been helped to combat climate change, reduce home energy bills and to offer unemployed members of the community the chance of work experience. Cookery workshops were offered to the local community to highlight local, seasonal food and how to avoid food waste.

The project raised awareness of climate change and support them to take actions to reduce carbon emissions which also have positive impact on their lives and those of their families, friends, community and neighbours (as did to the communities of BME residing in and Cambuslang).

Climate-philes initiative will continue to assist and support the community and, by extension newly funded organization through the sharing of our experience and skills. Some of our experience include building projects, what is required to established a successful project, the pitfalls and how to overcome some of the unforeseen problems and of course sharing and enjoying project success stories. There will also be the opportunity for us to share and to discuss home energy audits and energy efficiency as this is an area that all projects are covering.

STRATEGY

Members of the Management Committee, the community, the five foot soldiers and the new member of staff had a face to face meeting on the 13th September, 2014. The following activities ensued.

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 Training of five foot soldiers on Energy awareness were completed in September/October, 2014.  We visited additional 23 households in September to make it a total of 61 households visited out of 109 Households who signified interests in the Climate-Philes Initiatives. We hope to complete the visit to the rest of the households by December, 2014.  We collected energy usage activities (both electricity and gas usage)

The strategy put in place to collate billing information through periodic telephone call worked, but not at optimal or exceptional level we would have wanted. In the previous months, we reported visitations to 15 households which was successful in terms of response to climate change agenda with respect to behavioural change. We collated and commenced the CO2e calculations in the month of February/March, 2016 to determine the extent of the change the project has made in helping households reduce their carbon footprints. We are confident to report that we made significant change in the households of BME residing Greenlees project community area. More work is required to be done to create the desired change in other communities such as East Whitlawburn, Carmunnock and Castlemilk. The percentage of savings is reported below.

1). We collated billing information which gives history of energy spending pattern. We are in the process of extrapolating the information by benchmarking it against the spending pattern between the months of September 2015-February, 2016 (using the 6 months spending pattern between September, 2014-February 2015). This will give us a sound insight into the practical reality of the climate change outcomes we intend to meet as indicated in the application.

2). We witnessed a remarkable behavioural climate change for households who attended the clothing re-use and cookery activities. This is particularly so that this Christmas (December, 2015), no households buy-in into the usual Buy-One-Get- One-Free(BOGOF) that characterised the BME community last year. This indeed is an encouraging sign for the climate change action.

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3). We reported in the July-August, 2015 of the level of household’s savings in their utility bills which ranged between £6.42 and £9.26 based on the utility bill cost they provided. As stated in the report, the comparison was based on the difference between what they spent with the same period last year.

We made a casual comparison for the months of September-November, 2015 using September-November, 2014 as the benchmark. The report showed a reduction in the energy usage over same period. This indicated to us that we progressively made impact in the BME households who participated in the project activities. Though, the difference in the savings seem small, but the good news is the fact that the community experienced changed in terms of energy usage.

COMMUNITY OUTCOMES

Social-Improvement in social Capital outcomes such as enriched relationships between individual community and organisations. We noticed increased number of households participating in climate change and learning new skills.

 In the month of November through to the month of December, 2015, we organised 3 workshops. The overall combine attendance stood at 19 households.  Two (2) workshops and training on Clothing Re-use and Embroidery at the Community Centre.  One workshop on cookery and how to avoid food waste at the main office at 238, Main Street, Rutherglen.

Households reported reduction in food waste as a result of the cookery workshops. Households are wiser, spending their money on what they need. Although, a lot still struggles with the buy-one-get-one-free syndrome. We continued to put across the climate change agenda and the importance of reducing food waste.

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We witnessed a lot of intense community engagement and interaction during the workshops. Participants reported that they feel closer to each other more than before.

Households reported increase awareness in climate change among the BME. This is very encouraging particularly for us as an organisation putting the climate change agenda at the community level.

In month of September, we organised 8 energy workshops in four of the target communities: Castlemilk, Carmunnock, Greenlees and East whitlawburn with 9, 7,13 and 18 participants in attendance respectively. The overall attendance was 47 households.

We organised the first household food waste and cookery workshops attended by 28 participants.

 In the month of April through to the month of June, 2015, we organised 7 workshops, with the final June workshop coming up this weekend. The overall combine attendance stood at 39 households. the Community Centre.  Three workshops on cookery and how to avoid food waste at the main office at 238, Main Street, Rutherglen.

We noticed increased number of households participating in climate change and learning new skills.

A. BME HOUSEHOLD CO2e EMISSION PRIOR TO PARTICIPATION IN CLIMATE- PHILES FUNDED INITIATIVES

BACKGROUND & HISTORY

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INDICATORS- The CLIMATE-PHILES INITIATIVES adopted kWhs for its CO2e indicator. The information was collected directly from the energy bills from the volunteers (It is commendable that the volunteers were very cooperative in this regards). We selected 128 households out of the 163 households who initially pledged to provide the information we requested.

The difficulty we encountered was the fact that quite a large number of our volunteers are on pay-as-you go type of metering, only but a few are on monthly tariff (suggesting a high level of fuel poverty in the community). Of the 163 households, 128 householders confirmed their willingness to provide the same information again after the first 6 months of the initiatives. Others were not sure because they think they may be moved out due to the bedroom tax policy soon to be introduced.

BASELINE- Our baseline is the current household emissions from energy usage. The baseline will involve 128 households that we have collected their kWhs from their energy bills. The baseline survey data collated showed that the 128 sample group used an average of 3,957kWhs of electricity and 14,330 kWhs mains gas annually.

ESTIMATING THE IMPACT OF PROJECT ACTIVITIES ON BASELINE- As stated, CLIMATE-PHILES INITIATIVES aims to make an annual 7% reduction on the household energy usage of 128 households. We are working assiduously to positively impact the 128 households since they all used mains gas and grid electricity as energy sources.

It is also without doubt that fuel poverty is a major issue in the community judging by the large numbers of household on pay-as-you-go tariff which, unfortunately, is the highest tariff. This was also corroborated by the local Housing Association we are working with for referral.

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NB: The Seven Percent (7%) is the final outcome in terms of reduction in energy target resulting from the change in behaviour and as well as the improvement householders will make to their homes in the course of this initiatives.

CONVERSION FACTORS- The Initiatives will use the Defra/DECC 2011 conversion factors for electricity and gas consumption. A) 0.54702 kg CO2e per kWhs for grid electricity B) 0.27750 kg CO2e per kWhs for mains gas.

LIFETIME SAVINGS- CLIMATE-INITIATIVES expect that once the households have made these changes; they would last for 7 years. We chose the higher lifetime because the four communities consisted of many households who are currently in extreme fuel poverty judging from the Scottish Neighbourhood Statistics information and our users’ personal experience with poverty. The Housing Association have also made a pledge to continue to encourage behavioural change.

THE ESTIMATED CO2e REDUCTION FOR CLIMATE-PHILES INITIATIVES

55.02456 tonnes CO2e x 7 years = 385.17 tonnes CO2e

B. HOUSEHOLD CO2e EMISSIONS/SAVINGS AFTER PARTICIPATION IN CLIMATE- PHILES INITIATIVES ACTIVITIES

From the 128 households, the total combined average Gas and Electricity consumption: Total Mains Gas Consumption: 2,531 kWhs Total Electricity Consumption: 9,331 KWhs

CONVERSION FACTORS- The Initiatives will use the Defra/DECC 2011 conversion factors for electricity and gas consumption. A) 0.54702 kg CO2e per kWhs for grid electricity 0.27750 kg CO2e per kWhs for mains gas.

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Stage A-Calculating Annual Emissions

2,531 kWhs (Outcome of electricity use after) X 0.54702 kg CO2e (Electricity conversion factor) X 128 (Target group size) = 177,216.97kgCO2e

9,331 kWhs (Baseline mains gas usage) X 0.27750 kg CO2e (Gas conversion factor) X 128 (Target group Size) = 331,437.12kg CO2e

ACTIVITY EMISSIONS: ELECTRICITY + GAS (177,216.97 +331,437.12) =508,654.09kg CO2e

Stage B- Calculating Annual Emission After Participation in Climate-philes Activities

7% reduction in baseline electricity use=7/100 x 2531= 177.17{2531-177.17} = 2,353.83 kWhs

2,353.83 kWhs (Electricity use after 7% reduction) x 0.54702 kg CO2e (Electricity conversion factor) x 128 (Size of the target group) = 164,811.78 kg CO2e

7% reduction in baseline mains gas use= 7/100x 9,331= 653.17{9,331-653.17} =8,677.83 kWhs

8,677.83 kWhs (gas use after 7% reduction) x 0.27750 kg CO2e (gas conversion factor) x 128 (the size of the target group) = 308236.52 kg CO2e

Emissions after Initiative impact: Electricity + Gas = (164,811.78 +308,236.52) kg CO2e = 473,048.3 kg CO2e

STAGE C- Calculating the annual emissions savings in tonnes CO2e

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Baseline emissions minus Emissions after project impact (508,654.09 – 473,048.3) =

35,605.79 kg CO2e

35,605.79 kg CO2e divides by 1,000 = 35.60 tonnes CO2e

STAGE D- Annual Reduction to Lifetime Savings

35.60 tonnes CO2e x 7 years = 249.20 tonnes CO2e

Calculating the CO2e savings equals the difference between baseline information collected before Participation in Climate-Philes Initiatives and information collected after Climate-philes Initiatives Activities.

385.17 tonnes CO2e Minus 249.20 tonnes CO2e=135.97 tonnes CO2e

BME Households participation in Climate-Philes Initiatives has enabled the community reduced their carbon foot print, in terms of energy saved by 249.20 tonnes CO2e over 20 months is really a remarkable result.

LEARNING & REFLECTION

As stated in the July/August report, nineteen (19) households have relocated to other council area. The total number of households after the relocation are down to 109 Eleven (11) households moved as a result of the birth of a new baby, hence, requiring more rooms. four (5) moved out due to repair and the rest Three (3) moved out of our target community completely.

In the last report, we reported the recruitment of two members of volunteering team to join the five foot soldiers and that the Tap water is now safe for drinking and for any domestic use, especially our cookery activities. Mrs Madalena Albano,

16 a bilingual (English and Portuguese) have joined us as the volunteer Interpreter. Her roles involve interpreting English to Portuguese to some of our Angolan, Mozambican and Brazilian households who do not understand English language.

We have seen an improved engagement of BME with the Climate-Philes Initiatives. Most volunteers have commended our ability to meet their travel expenses as one of the major motivation for attending most of the workshops and the value of information they receive on climate change have also been encouraging.

The number of households we visited was well above 60 households and we completed the visits before the end of 2014. The major challenge we have was that most households requested us to supply free at least two energy efficient light bulbs as other funders have previously done in the past (this issue was highlighted in the July/August Progress reports).

The new development officer, Alisdair Brown, advised us incorporate the free supply of energy efficient bulbs to some of the most vulnerable households. We organized the first household Food Waste and Cookery Class. We had in total 28 participants who attended the training. It was an exciting success story for all of us at Hope Amplified.

We noticed that the funding we allocated for the subject heading- raw food for workshops will not be sufficient to make the massive impact we envisaged. The other difficulties we experienced is our inability to obtain a thermal camera either as a loan or otherwise. This was important then, as the winter seasons was approaching when thermal camera worked exceptionally well in capturing room temperature images.

We noticed a remarkable interest in the Climate-Philes Initiatives among the households we visited. The level of enthusiasms and acceptance for the Initiative was overwhelming. Of the 61 households we visited, 28 attended the Cookery/Embroidery Classes at both the office in Rutherglen and at the

17 community centres. In addition, 15 households registered their interest to attend the other climate change workshops.

The success of our activities is probably due to the fact that we fulfilled our promise of personally visiting their homes rather than waiting for them to come to the office. We continued to use this approach and strategy helped households got involved, interested and committed to reducing carbon emission.

In one of the monthly report, we stated that six households moved on from South Lanarkshire to other places in UK. In addition to that, the Chinese and Vietnamese communities who constituted 20 households were moved to other location in Glasgow. We recruited two new members of volunteering team to join the five foot soldiers.

We received information from some of the project participants that their respective Housing Associations filled the large cavity in their homes after our intervention. We also reported the problem we have with the tap water in our office as we were advised not to drink the office running water until Scottish Water replaces the main pipe supplying us with running water. We were informed that it may contain Coliform Bacteria. After several delays, twist and turn, we finally received a timescale when the pipe would be replaced.

As part of the engagement, Zarina Ahmad visited our office on the 22nd May, 2015. She was really impressed at success story. She was really enthused at what she saw on ground, to the extent that, she requested Mr. Michael Jonathan to support her in the delivery of workshop, Titled-Climate Change-Making It Real, at the forth coming Climate Change Fund Gathering slated for the 22nd June, 2015 at Maryhill, Glasgow.

One of the high point of the project activity is the incorporation of the climate change film show during our workshops. This became the unique selling points that helped generate questions from participants of the consequence of climate change. We encouraged other projects especially in the BME community to include

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FINANCE & ADMINISTRATION We worked hard to comply with the overall budget. Although, we had incidence of overspend and under spend in six or seven areas of the budget heading in the course of carrying out Climate-Philes activities. In order to meet our various obligations, we had to re-profile our budget on several occasions so that funds are moved from areas of under spend to areas of over spend. We operated a fiscal budgetary disciplined, honesty and integrity in the use of the CCF funding resource to meet and to fulfil the Climate-Philes Initiative obligations. The reasons for the overspend were due to surge in some of the prices of items in the marketplace.

2. FOOD CO2e REDUCTION WORKSHOP

The Climate-philes Initiatives is using kg of food as the indicator, and will be collecting data about reduction in food waste. The process involves requesting participants to weigh their foods waste before the start of the cookery workshops, and would be asked to repeat the exercise again three/six months later.

BASELINE: The initiative will use the national average of 111kg of food and drink wasted per person per year.

ESTIMATING THE IMPACT OF THE INITIATIVES ACTIVITIES ON THE BASELINE- Through the cooking workshops, the Food CO2e Reduction Workshop aim to reduce food waste among the 60 BME communities who have indicated interest in attending the workshops by 10%.

The project will provide 60 places for the cooking workshops.

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LIFETIME SAVINGS- The midpoint of the lifetime saving related to food behaviours of 10 years for both the waste minimisation and the composting activities is our preferred choice.

CALCULATING CO2e REDUCTION FOR THE COOKING WORKSHOP PROJECT

From the collation of data, and haven analysed this, it shows that we exceeded the target we set within a year of the project activities by 0.30 tonnes CO2e. From the calculation, we obtained 2.99 tonnes CO2e. So for 10 years, 2.99 CO2e x 10 years =29.9 tonnes CO2e.

NAME OF REPORT AUTHORS The Management Committees Members, Bode Adegoke (The Fuel Poverty Officer), Michael Jonathan (Project Coordinator), The Five Foot Soldiers (Fuel Poverty Ambassadors) and some members of the BME Communities who are beneficiaries of the project activities.

DATE REPORT WAS FINALISED

4TH APRIL, 2015

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ACTIVITIES GRID FIGURE

How many training sessions where skills and/or information were passed on-? 12 e.g. Composting training, cooking workshops, etc.- has your project has held How many events did your project hold, e.g. information fairs, open days, etc.? Do 6 Not include events held by other organisations which you have attended How many people were directly employed by your project? Tell us the full-time 1 FTE equivalent (FTE) number of employees (e.g. 3 days per week=0.6 FTE) Is the project is supporting the development of any long-term jobs which are not YES, 1 Dependent of CCF Funding? How Many? How many people are relatively involved in your project-attending groups & workshops, 46 Using the project facilities etc.? How many staff, volunteers or community members have achieved qualifications 6 through the project- e.g. City & Guild Energy Awareness, Trail Cycle Leader, etc.? How many people volunteer their time and energy to keeping the project going- 10 Don`t forget the members of your management committee or board. How many schools are involved in your project? NA

How many community-owned buildings have been refurbished? NA

How many Home Energy Checks or similar energy efficiency reports have 23 been carried out by your project? How many households have been referred on to other agencies or providers 16 (e.g. HES, Green Deal Assessor) for further action? How many households installed energy efficiency measures-loft, wall or floor insulation 6 Draft-proofing, double glazing etc.- as a result of your project How many households installed green energy generation measures- NA Photovoltaic, solar thermal panels, air or ground source heat pumps, wood fueled heating systems. - as a result of your project

How many miles of car journeys have been reduced through the activities of your project

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How many square metres (m) of community growing space (allotments, poly-tunnels, NA Raised beds, community gardens) has your project brought into use How many tonnes of waste have been diverted from landfill because of the activities of 29.9 tonnes Your project CO2e

How many kWh of energy has been reduced because of the activities of your project. 249.20 tonnes CO2e

SOURCE: CLIMATE-PHILES INTIATIVES FUNDED BY THE CCF AUGUST, 2014-MARCH 2016

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