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Live4Less Train the Trainers Course

Places are available on MEA's next Live4Less Train the Trainers Course, taking place on 2nd October in Shrewsbury.

Book now by contacting Caroline Harmon@ 07748 508704 / caroline.harmon@mea.org.uk

Live4Less is MEA's unique action learning course which helps individuals and families to live more sustainably in an 'age of austerity'. It facilitates 'crowdwisdom' and peer-to-peer learning, encouraging participants to share knowledge of local services, tips and tricks for living well for less. The course generates discussion and reflection on consumption and frugality, sharing resources and swapping skills. A brochure with more information is attached.

Topics covered include: budgeting, energy efficiency, utilities, food, travel and volunteering.

People attending the course will be better able to manage their finances, make savings on their living costs and understand what their priority payments are. They will be able to share their knowledge of how to do this with friends, family and neighbours.

Our Train the Trainer course offers you everything you need to run the course yourself:

Led by an experienced trainer who has delivered the direct course themselves
Offers the opportunity to have a go at sections of the course for yourself
You will have electronic access to all handouts, session plans and other resources after the course

The course is ideal for anyone working with people living on a low income. It will be useful for Financial Inclusion Officers and Tenant Engagement Officers within Housing Associations, front line staff in Local Authorities, and Adult Education Trainers working with those who are struggling with their finances.

Places cost £199+VAT and include a short lunch time tour of our eco friendly offices in Shrewsbury. The venue is less than a five minute walk from Shrewsbury train station.

Book now by contacting Caroline Harmon@ 07748 508704 / caroline.harmon@mea.org.uk

More information: www.mea.org.uk/live4less

 

Climate Change March a Great Success

Nottingham and Derby networks met up on 21 September at the peoples climate change march in Nottingham. They were joining hundreds of thousands of people around the world who were demanding action on climate change two days before world leaders gather in New York for an emergency climate change summit.

More info: http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/groups/nottingham-city/blog/climate-change-...

 

USmart Consumer: public preferences on household energy information and smart meters

Would you be willing to lend us a hand? USmart Consumer is an EU research project that explores useful services to help people reduce their fuel bills, linked with the roll out of new metering technology.

We’d like to find out your preferences about:

  • how you like to learn about your home fuel use
  • services that could help you reduce your fuel bills linked to new metering technology.

Please can you complete our short survey. By completing it and telling us what is most important to you, better services can be designed to meet your needs. Any information will only be used anonymously by the USmart Consumer project for research purposes.

USmart Consumer public preferences survey

 

National News in Brief

 

Help Shape the Future of the Community Energy Sector in England

Community Energy England

 

Community Energy England and SE2 are running an online survey that will help shape the provision of advice, information and support to the community energy sector.

You can complete the survey at: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/6YWG7Z

It should take around 15-20 minutes (a little longer for more experienced community energy practitioners). The survey will run until noon on Monday 22 September.

The government’s Community Energy Strategy recognises that community energy groups and projects would benefit from better access to information and support that would help take projects from ideas to reality. The Strategy includes the idea of establishing an information resource to help build capability and capacity within the sector. DECC has asked Community Energy England to carry out a scoping study for this information resource. Working with SE2 Ltd, Community Energy England will be mapping the information, advice and support that is already available to community energy groups and identifying the role that an information resource could play and the benefits it could bring.