CLIMATE CHALLENGE FUND - 4962

Strengthening Communities for Race Equality Scotland - SCOREscotland

WHALE Arts Centre

30 Westburn Grove

Edinburgh

EH14 2SA

www.scorescotland.org.uk

01314422341

Introduction

SCOREscotland is a race equality organisation which targets and works mostly with Black and

Minority Ethnic (BME) people from all communities (including East Europeans) in West/South West

Edinburgh.

Our shared vision which underpins all that we do is: ‘social justice and race equality in a society

proud of its diversity’.

SCOREscotland’s mission and purpose for existence is to work in partnership with others to address

the causes and effects of racism and to promote race equality. We aim to break down barriers to

the full participation of minority ethnic communities in all aspects of civic life.

By participation in civic life we mean: equality of access to public services and information, ability to

contribute to and influence policy development and service delivery, freely participating in social,

political, cultural and economic life, feeling valued and integrated as part of society.

Our Project

SCOREscotland Green Futures Project has continued to grow from strength to strength. From our

previous CCF project -4688 we were able to record the areas of actions that individuals, communities

and Scotland can take to mitigate climate change, what they thought of the project and barriers to

participation which led to the need for further work in this area. Hence the application for the CCF

project - CCF-4962.

Our target communities tend to be in flux and this is due to a number of factors such as housing,

racial harassment, anti-social behaviour, immigration issues and unemployment. Thus community

engagement, consultation and involvement have been vital practices which we employ throughout

with regular monitoring and evaluation in order to ensure our community continues to be profoundly

involved throughout the work of SCOREscotland.

This approach, coupled with ongoing feedback from the people we work with facilitated gathering

of a wealth of key information that included levels of climate change awareness, knowledge and

views on carbon emissions, energy efficiency, which forms of transport they use, how regularly and

why they chose one over the other, and whether they grew their own food.

We set out to achieve the following outcomes:

Reduced energy usage in homes by a minimum of 29.47 tonnes CO2e emission across 100 households for both electricity and gas consumption

Reduction in CO2e by a minimum of 38.7 tonnes across 65 households by reduced car usage and increased active travel including by public transport

Reduction in CO2e by a minimum of 1.9 tonnes CO2e across 40 households through

increased home garden grown foods on 180m2 area

Enhanced project communities’ CO2e literacy through involving a minimum of 100 people from the target communities in activities designed to increase their knowledge and understanding of carbon emissions

Reduction in fuel poverty in 100 households through energy efficiency usage and increased awareness of energy efficiency measures

Increased awareness of climate change issues and carbon literacy knowledge among 85 minimum KCYC young people through inspiring, empowering and challenging learning

opportunities

Headline Achievements

Active participants within our project 886

Energy efficiency home visits 96

Participants who received Warm Home Discount 24

Homes that received energy efficiency improvements 4

Number of energy efficiency drop in sessions 12

Number of home gardens transformed into growing spaces 37

Volunteers that supported the project 11

Number of events and fairs 27

Number of staff and volunteers gained certificates 9

Number employed 6

Savings from food growing 4.1 Tonnes

Savings from energy efficiency 19.4 Tonnes

kilograms of wood recycled on gardening raised beds (appx) 600 Kgs

Kg of waste composted (appx) 1000

Numbers of household/gardening doing compost on the site 18

Average gardening sessions 120 hours

Community members referred to other community gardens 9 people

Total food grown at home and other green spaces 1168.15kgs

Savings from car journeys miles to cycling 4.59 Tonnes

Average number of community members attending our events 122 people

Energy Efficiency advice

Ninety six (96) homes received tailored energy efficiency advice by our energy advisers. 13 home

referrals were made to Home Energy Scotland, 4 of which received energy improvement measures.

The measure included loft insulation and new heating systems. A total annual emission reduction of

19.4 tonnes CO2e for 82 households has been achieved.

Home grown food

We achieved far beyond our set carbon reduction target of 1.9 tonnes CO2e. Our project reached

4.1 Tonnes CO2e emission savings from food grown at home and in other green spaces in our

community. 37 homes were supported but the emission calculation is based on 34 homes that

provided their weighed produce.

Images of home grown produce from our community harvested between June to October 2017

Cycling

39 community members (29 adults and 10 children) can now cycle confidently. This has led to a

reduction of 4.591836 tonnes CO2e Emissions across 29 adults. Participants are now reaping the

benefits of learning to cycle and they are also pleased to be minimizing their contribution to car air

pollution.

Young people’s work

Our young people’s animated film production has inspired life changing behaviours which they

should strengthen as they grow older. The film production clearly shows their enthusiasm towards

finding solutions to tackle climate change. They demonstrated their awareness of the current

atmosphere on the issues of climate change and called out for a collective action from all humanity.

Activities

We engaged with people from diverse communities in West/South West Edinburgh to participate in our inspiring programme of informative/fun activities: used the great learning opportunities designed to enhance their Climate Change/CO2 literacy; promoted low carbon lifestyles and increased their commitment to tackling the causes and effects of global warming through lasting behavioural changes

The activities improved skills and knowledge in the following areas;

Energy Advice

Home Food Growing

Cycling gearing

Climate change and carbon awareness ENERGY EFFICIENCY AND FUEL POVERTY

Our energy advisors provided tailored energy efficiency advice to 96 homes offering individual

households an understanding of their central heating systems including controls, lighting and hot

water. We loaned energy monitors to households for a month to emphasis the learning and for

them to demonstrate to other household members not present at the time of the visit. For our

monitoring and data collection, we recorded meter readings, explained their energy bills and how

to change energy suppliers if they were not happy with their current ones. Each appointment lasted

between 1.5 to 2 hours depending on individual household circumstance and whether we needed

an interpreter. Overall we offered two to three appointments per household as follows: energy

audit, energy advice and a monitoring visit to collect final data.

Through our energy efficiency advice home visits, we were able to identify homes in fuel poverty

and helped them to either switch supplier, negotiate payment plan if in fuel debt as well as advice

on energy efficiency. Fuel poverty questions in our energy efficiency advice questionnaire were a

guide to understanding homes currently in fuel poverty which helped us tailor advice. We recorded

client pledges to reduce their energy usage behaviour and desire to implement energy efficiency

measures in their homes, an indicator that they would eventually move out of fuel poverty.

Energy Advice drop in sessions

Biweekly drop in sessions at the local library were offered to the wider community which was well

received and reports of community members returning and searching for us with issues on their

bills seeking help were also recorded. These sessions led to a new partnership work with

Edinburgh College ESOL class where we delivered an energy efficiency workshop and as a result

energy advice home visits were offered to 5 members of the class.

A quick energy efficiency survey during our drop in sessions to engage with communities was also

employed to start conversations and this resulted into signing up for an energy advice and our

other wider activities.

Statements of satisfaction from the advice given, appreciation of information received, clients feeling more aware and empowered to manage their heating systems and how able they are to deal with their suppliers. (see testimonial section)

Partnership work with Home Energy Scotland

Total number of customers engaged

(including customers signposted to HES or engaged at events) 36

Number of direct referrals to HES

(made via HES Portal, Referral Form or calling with the customer) 13

Total number of referrals to funding schemes

(Warmer Homes Scotland, HES Loan, HEEPS ABS, Benefit Checks, Tariff support and Supplier Switching)

7

Number of referrals to Warmer Homes Scotland

(included in the total number above) 4

No. of home visits 96

No. of home revisits 85

No. of training sessions for volunteers and communities 3

No. of workshops 2

Topics covered:

Heating Controls – Energy Saving Myths (short activity)

Appliances/Lighting – Top Tips to save money

Briefing on Funding Schemes

Useful tips on staying warm in the winter

Production of information leaflets 3

No of drop in sessions at the local library 12

Training for staff 2

Homes that received the warmer homes discount 24

HOME /GARDEN GROWN FOODS:

Grow own food workshops and training sessions were offered to households with gardens to learn

garden assessment, types of soils, soil improvement, crop selection, seeds and sowing, crop

spacing, sowing times, composting, weeds, pests, harvesting etc. Participants were encouraged

to share skills and tools with their neighbours who were keen to grow their own food. Tools that we

had previously acquired from the prisons tool library were also loaned out to participants who had

either had none or few tools to start with.

Working with a sessional experienced gardener, we supported participants with weighing scales to

weigh their produce, for our monitoring and also to let them know the difference they are making

while growing their own food.

Cookery sessions to learn how to cook what our participants had grown for the first time was

another major element of our project. Participants were able to share their cooking skills and taste

different foods that they would not normally have prepared in their homes. Some of the foods

included: Beetroot, Kale, Brussel sprouts and most herbs.

Number of home gardens supported to grow own food……………………………………………37

Food produce sharing days and Cook and Share food sessions including harvest festival……8

Number that attended the harvest festival ………………………………………………………… 43

Total number of hours offered to support food growing at home ………………………………. 114

No of households referred to community growing initiatives ……………………………………. 6

We engaged in conversions on food

miles and quizzed the participants

about their knowledge/recognition of

seasonal foods to find out their levels

of climate change and their

understanding of the link between

growing own food and the

environmental impact. Low levels of

knowledge of the impact of food

growing on the environment were

registered.

We observed remarkable

effort and enthusiasm

from all the participants

in growing their food. It’s

also worth noting that our

staff team hasn’t been

left behind; our

philosophy has been, “to

practice what we

preach”. Every space

around the home has

been a valuable resource

to the participants. We

also noted increased

interest in cooking,

sharing food, participants

keen to try new

recipes/foods using

locally sourced produce

that they had never bought or tasted; they are enthusiastic about growing these foods in their

gardens in the new season.

TRANSPORT Cycle Skills

Our cycle skills takes community members to a low carbon travel journey. We train and equip

participants who had never used a bike to learn how to cycle confidently on the main roads. These

are community members who would never have learnt how to cycle by themselves, and those who

had tried to learn but failed. We introduced basic skills like knowing what side of a bike to stand,

checking the bike is safe to ride, mounting a bike, pedalling and all the way through cycle training

course (Bikeability 1&2). In addition, we offer basic bike maintenance equipping them with the skills

to repair their bikes when required.

Lack of confidence in cycling around Edinburgh and high bus fares were stated by our participants,

as the reason why they choose

to drive. Our Project supported

the participants’ journey to

cycling and developed their

confidence to cycling on the

road. We targeted individuals

and families, supported them to

set goals for their journey,

improved confidence in cycling

and the pace to adopting cycling

as their main mode of travel.

This directly replaced short car

journeys families made to play

parks, shops and even to their

friends and families.

To launch our cycle skills training, we delivered community rides following local routes and this

supported our activity publicity generating an interest in signing up for the classes.

We delivered two hourly cycle skills training sessions running every Tuesday evening and

Saturday morning. Our sessions

were offered at those times and

crèche provision was offered to

address any barriers to participation.

Each group had an enrolment of 12

participants coming regularly for 8

weeks.

At the beginning of our young people’s summer program aged 11 to 16 year, we surveyed 36 young people who signed up for different activities to determine how many of them could cycle confidently and how they travelled to and from school or to our activities. The same questionnaire was used at the end to determine the number of young people who were confident to cycle and were cycling to and from school which confirmed our carbon saving.

Our family cycle rides contributed towards the John Muir trust award.

Number of cycle skills training workshops………………………………………………… 26

Number of community members trained ………………………………………………….39

Bike maintenance training …………………………………………………………………..4

Number of Cycle rides………………………………………………………………………..9

Volunteers trained as cycle ride leaders……………………………………………………5

Number of walking sessions ………………………………………………………………..9

Environmental cycle trails to the woodlands……………………………………………….2

Cycling partnerships

We worked with Forestry commission woodland wheels to promote cycling – exploring cycle routes

to the woodland, use, and access and woodland conservation. We also explored other ways of

working together which led to one of our volunteers being accepted at the Forestry Commission

Volunteer Champion programme. SCOREscotland was awarded £1000 towards delivering four (4)

woodland activities and as a result our community members’ awareness of natural conservation

was improved.

In partnership with Cycling UK our project is now registered as a community cycling club, offering

community members with cycling leadership skills, bike maintenance and cycle rides.

One of our family cycle rides to Roseburn Park during the Big Bike Revival – October 2017

CARBON LITERACY

Climate change conversations…………………………………………………………4

Carbon literacy training………………………………………………………………….2

Excursion…………………………………………………………………………………3

Events and information fairs……………………………………………………………12

Bring and Swap workshops ……………………………………………………………1

Upcycling and recycling workshops……………………………………………………7

Events and climate change awareness raising drop in sessions

We took a group of 23 adults and 29 children to Dynamic Earth and delivered an interactive

workshop on climate change, rising temperatures in different continents of the world and what is

been done around climate change and how each individual can do their bit.

Events and climate change awareness sessions

To further climate change awareness, we worked in partnership with community organisations over

the summer months where we held energy efficiency awareness games, basic bike repairs (Dr

Bike), climate change causes and effects games which attracted a diverse community.

Events that we participated in included:

The Canal festival, raising awareness of climate change and involved our young people to engage with the community;

The food festival –community members trip tour to Granton Community Gardeners growing garden - Boswall Parkway and to the Royal Botanic Edible Garden Project;

Community Summer Fest at Hailes Quarry park;

Murryburn and Hailesland Community summer Fete;

Clovenstone Playday;

Clovenstone Family Fun day;

Litter picking exercise with Harmony project to make Wester Hailes clean;

Woodland Wheel cycle ride;

The Welcoming Eid Party and Re-use Fair with a bike stall, promoting our cycling element and registering interest;

South West intercultural community celebration;

Green Gala and project celebration event;

Project review and evaluation event; The events both attended and organized were aimed at raising awareness of climate change, providing communities with simple skills to take action at individual level as well as increasing community members’ engagement in the different aspects of our project and organisation as a whole.

Film screening and conversation

We signed up with Take One Action who supported us in identifying suitable films related to our

project elements and protecting the environment. We screened the following films:

Chasing Coral – Participants observed how “coral bleaching”—a sign of mass coral death—has

been accelerating around the world, and the public has no idea of the scale or implication of the

catastrophe silently raging underwater. An upsetting emotional film that inspired participants to

take immediate action.

10 Billion: Encouraged participants to reflect on the role we all play in ensuring food sustainability

– and the future of our planet.

Just Eat It: Billions of dollars of good food is tossed each year and yet many in our communities

go hungry without food.

Conversations were held after each screening to explore participants’ emotions and ideas that

could have come up while watching the films using the following questions:

What did you think of the film?

It’s so sad, poor people don’t have food and yet food is being wasted in developed

countries including the UK, USA, JAPAN and many others;

People rely so much on what the authorities say about food without checking whether the

food is safe or not safe to eat. It seems they are encouraged to throw away food;

Commercialisation. There is a disconnection between the need and the commercial people

There is a lot of food waste in the UK, US, Japan and many other developed countries and

yet very many poor people in low developed countries plus those on low income don’t have

access to this food. It should be made illegal to waste food.

Participants felt that the Government Food standard regulations are too strict thus

encouraging companies to waste food, it’s a shame that this food cannot be given away for

free instead of dumping it.

Super markets buy products at a low cost, that’s why they can afford to waste it.

Suggested Solutions

Projects like the Real junk project should be extended to the wider city communities to save

food that has been judged to waste

Companies should donate the food instead of throwing it away

Restrictions should be reduced, tight regulation should be removed

Demand should be made to equal supply, to reduce waste. we should ask questions like

why should we be given or sold standardised foods

We should make demands to policy makers to reduce their tight regulations

Can we buy directly from growers and undercut the supermarket chain (form Coo-

operatives community)

Why is there so much food wasted? is it because so much food is produced or are there

people who cannot afford the food

Please tell us if there’s anything new that you have learnt

Businesses fear of being sued in case the consumer is food poisoned

Food prices are high when its quality is still good, but prices are reduced just before expiry

which leads to massive food going to waste

That there is a tendency to shun wonky food that ‘doesn’t look good’ to use

Young people: We had a successful fun filled summer programme for our young people who were

able to engage in climate change activities. Our Knots and Crosses Youth Club programme

comprised of climate change activities; the development and production of the animation film (5

sessions), Get green fingers gardening (2 sessions); woodland activities in which we raised

awareness of nature conservation and access to woodland and cycle skills training (5 sessions).

Although there is still more work which needs to be done to keep everybody on board and to

ensure climate change is everyone’s problem, we believe progress is being made beginning with

the young generation.

Young people’s residential to Wiston Lodge

9 young people and 3 youth workers attended the climate change residential designed to increase

climate change awareness of our young people and the adults who were working with them. The

residential took place at Wiston Lodge - a very old house dating back to the 1870s. It is heated by

a bio fuel boiler that is kept in a large shed in the lodge grounds. The activities included: low and

high ropes course challenges, explored the biofuel shed and how it heated the house, climbing and

watching short films. The Little Seed - clever and beautiful short film for children (and adults)

which explores our relationship with nature and the world around us and Dear Future

Generations: Sorry; a letter of apology to future generations presented by Prince Ea, a rousing

call to us all to tackle climate change while we still can were films watched at the residential. The

films were followed by a discussion of what they had learnt and what they thought about the films.

The young people concluded that they should recycle, buy paper or wood with the FSC mark and

plant trees where possible.

Our young people at the climate residential at Wiston lodge

CHANGES IN CARBON EMISSIONS OF PARTICIPANTS

ENERGY ADVICE: we achieved a reduction of 19.40189498 tonnes CO2e Emissions

April 17 to March 18 - we provided energy efficiency advice visits to 96 homes in total. During the

visits, we recorded meter readings and annual energy usage (KWh) for both gas and electricity

from households with energy bills for our baseline. For those without energy bills, we visited them

twice, carrying out an energy audit before giving them initial advice.

Table below shows that baseline energy usage for gas and electricity was recorded as 867577.16

KWh and 404762.25 KWh for 82 households that had provided us with data. At the end of the

project total usage of 862188.671 KWh and 363759.103 KWh for gas and electricity respectively

was recorded in the same households. The data shows that there was a slight decrease in gas

usage as compared to the high decrease in electricity usage. We must appreciate though, that the

final project data was collected during the winter months when gas usage is much needed. Some

of the negative figures shown in the total project reduction (kgCO2e) column isn’t an indication that

the homes this data is related to had used more energy, rather the difference in seasonal usage of

gas and electricity.

Of the 96 households given advice, only 82 provided data used in the calculation in the table below

There was also a shortfall of 4 homes from the original target due to late cancelled appointments

which meant that we could not offer the appointment to other households.

Fuel poverty questions were embedded in our energy efficiency advice questionnaire, these helped

us to understand the reason for fuel poverty in homes. We used the same questions during

monitoring (second visits) to determine whether households had moved out of fuel poverty. We

recorded clients’ pledges to reduce their energy usage behaviour and desire to implement energy

efficiency measures in their homes. We helped them to either switch supplier as well as negotiated

payment plans if in fuel debt.

Energy efficiency table showing CO2e emission calculations and total tonnes CO2e reductions for 82 homes

Home No.

End Gas(Kwh)

End Elec(Kwh)

Baseline Gas (KgCO2e)

Baseline Elec (kgCO2e)

Project Gas (kgCO2e)

Project Elec (kgCO2e) Total project Reduction (kgCO2e)

1. 26913 5020 4971.312 2265.205 4951.992 2253.98 30.545

2. 5051 5370 2300 1391.9 929.384 2411.13 351.386

3. 0 18468 0 8825.544 0 8292.132 533.412

4. 6937 2918 1306.952 1460.148 1276.408 1310.182 180.51

5. 8115 1592 1511.376 709.869 1493.16 714.808 13.277

6. 7416 2464 1506.408 685.623 1364.544 1106.336 -278.849

7. 15867 2734 3283.848 1235.648 2919.528 1227.566 372.402

8. 10948 1081 2762.208 1315.57 2014.40103 485.4890297 1577.887941

9. 26113 3863 4838.464 1884.902 4804.792 1734.487 184.087

10. 7821 2876 1469.424 1674.321 1439.064 1291.324 413.357

11. 14875 0 2740.128 0 2737 0 3.128

12. 9764 3492 1967.328 1704.404 1796.576 1567.908 307.248

13. 10234 3524 2312.512 1571.949 1883.056 1582.276 419.129

14. 22439 3721 4181.216 1765.468 4128.776 1670.729 147.179

15. 9856 2586 1837.056 1170.992 1813.504 1161.114 33.43

16. 9073 2025 1999.896 1122.5 1669.446254 909.446338 543.5034085

17. 9978 1413 2340.296 629.947 1835.866571 634.4690714 499.9073571

18. 7216 963 1928.136 472.348 1327.809167 432.4743056 640.2005278

19. 3915 2768 730.848 1301.202 720.36 1242.832 68.858

20. 20356 6423 3901.72 3014.137 3745.504 2883.927 286.426

21. 13570 3346 3250.32872 1720.97659 2496.88 1502.354 972.07131

22. 9975 1986 1845.4464 922.9644 1835.4 891.714 41.2968

23. 19494 3253 3286.056 1834.614 3586.896 1460.597 73.177

24. 39201 4507 7212.984 1905.107 7212.984 2023.643 -118.536

25. 10235 3786 2052.704 1833.99438 1883.24 1699.914 303.54438

26. 9498 5467 1757.936 2491.501 1747.632 2454.683 47.122

27. 6873 1398 1288.9752 625.06188 1264.632 627.702 21.70308

28. 3014 1561 581.072 459.327 554.576 700.889 -215.066

29. 15537 4136 2905.176 1943.721 2858.808 1857.064 133.025

30. 2314 1786 462.76 893.959 425.776 801.914 129.029

31. 2412 24930 513.728 11496.196 443.808 11193.57 372.546

32. 4625 1526 899.392 515.901 851 685.174 -120.881

33. 13988 0 6717.938 0 6280.612 437.326

34. 18863 5423 3505.2 2519.788 3470.792 2434.927 119.269

35. 20823 1843 3843.392 785.301 3831.432 827.507 -30.246

36. 20983 3135 3990.224 1716.976 3860.872 1407.615 438.713

37. 10233 1097 1980.76 488.961 1882.872 492.553 94.296

38. 21126 3765 3910 1840.9 3887.184 1690.485 173.231

39. 4106 4359 791.2 2060.91 755.504 1957.191 139.415

40. 4321 28632 903.624 13523.88 795.064 12855.768 776.672

41. 15763 5143 2947.864 2932.419 2900.392 2309.207 670.684

42. 3843 1592 736.368 716.155 707.112 714.808 30.603

43. 3113 1932 575 541.494 572.792 867.468 -323.766

44. 2964 25469 558.808 11493.951 545.376 11435.581 71.802

45. 3762 9760 718.704 3697.964 692.208 4382.24 -657.78

46. 10233 2654 3433.44 1291.773 1882.872 1191.646 1650.695

47. 5268 2563 977.04 654.193 969.312 1150.787 -488.866

48. 2798 9957 594.32 4660.62 514.832 4470.693 269.415

49. 11432 1803 2157.032 525.779 2103.488 809.547 -230.224

50. 12356 1713 2389.608 1186.707 2273.504 769.137 533.674

51. 4820 758 2405.8 4838.873 886.8564103 340.3765385 6017.440051

52. 8826 3769 1691.328 1954.497 1623.984 1692.281 329.56

53. 12892 3142 2452.536 1288.181 2372.128 1410.758 -42.169

54. 2278 5432 433.688 2692.653 419.152 2438.968 268.221

55. 5136 3762 1036.104 1716.976 945.024 1689.138 118.918

56. 12157 2649 2265.96 1276.507 2236.888 1189.401 116.178

57. 6925 1653 1441.824 589.088 1274.2 742.197 14.515

58. 9051 756 1449.736 5181.46 1665.384 339.444 4626.368

59. 12889 2781 2452.904 1275.609 2371.576 1248.669 108.268

60. 8136 2998 1589.76 1493.823 1497.024 1346.102 240.457

61. 4426 7426 845.664 3439.789 814.384 3334.274 136.795

62. 2201 6201 407.008 2918.949 404.984 2784.249 136.724

63. 9432 1689 1814.056 828.854 1735.488 758.361 149.061

64. 4431 4235 841.432 1508.64 815.304 1901.515 -366.747

65. 8243 3641 1646.984 1572.398 1516.712 1634.809 67.861

66. 8201 3920 1517.08 1221.729 1508.984 1760.08 -530.255

67. 0 3031 0 1400.88 0 1360.919 39.961

68. 1896 7683 322.736 3690.331 348.864 3449.667 214.536

69. 2312 6583 509.496 3094.508 425.408 2955.767 222.829

70. 6823 2103 1332.15816 1002.168 1255.432 944.247 134.64716

71. 7923 2870 1644.224 1589.46 1457.832 1288.63 487.222

72. 2389 1956 4425.64896 802.812 439.576 878.244 3910.64096

73. 7065 2781 1358.288 1569.704 1299.96 1248.669 379.363

74. 11135 3875 2076.256 5100.191 2048.84 1739.875 3387.732

75. 98156 2814 1841.656 1481.7 18060.704 1263.486 -16000.834

76. 9248 3272 1575.592 1216.79 1701.632 1469.128 -378.378

77. 7312 3879 1404.288 1846.288 1345.408 1741.671 163.497

78. 1213 2319 2277.92 1190.299 223.192 1041.231 2203.796

79. 12325 1992 2327.968 1109.928 2267.8 894.408 275.688

80. 6915 3059 1202.624 1555.785 1272.36 1373.491 112.558

81. 11958 2763 2214.992 1457.005 2200.272 1240.587 231.138

82. 13853 2155 2870.216 1631.666 2548.952 967.595 985.335

Total emission reduction kgCO2e 19401.89498

Total Emission Reduction tonnes CO2e 19.40189498

Emission factors used: Gas – 0.184, Electricity – 0.449 Life time Savings = 19.40189498 x 5years = 97.00947488 tonnes CO2e

Statements from households

- Households reported reduction in energy bills, some changed energy suppliers, improved their understanding of billings, adapted to new ways of using their gas and electricity, received support for home energy improvements, improved confidence in contacting suppliers for better tariffs and are less worried about their energy bills.

- After referral to Home Energy Scotland client received help with 6 new radiators and a new boiler installed in Feb 2018. Client said "I feel very good and very grateful to you. Thank you for helping me because I am an old man, pensioner, who couldn't afford the money to replace radiator and boiler. It's a great job you did for me".

- New boiler with 10 radiators due to be installed February 2018. It was delayed when her husband suddenly died on the same day the work was due to start. Despite this, the client said our advice was “very good, everything was great, very helpful and I am very pleased”.

- “SCORE Scotland, helped with many small but significant issues at home. From there, they contacted the right advisors to help me around the house and today we are experiencing big changes and improvement in our energy consumption and also in our bill statement.”

TRANSPORT: We achieved a reduction of 4.592 tonnes Co2e Emissions across 29 households by

reducing car usage and increased active travel including using public transport

44 community members including young people registered for our cycle skills training. At registration stage, participants completed a baseline travel questionnaire (attached) to assess their mode of travel and how far they travelled to and from work, shopping or school. 38 travelled by car at least 5 days a week. Of the 44 community members who were complete cycle beginners, 15 young people and 29 adults registered for our cycle skills training. Out of these, 29 completed the training and can cycle confidently on the road, however 15 others didn’t manage to pedal because they were not consistent in attending the cycle skills training sessions. We developed an end of training questionnaire to determine how many had bought a bike, were planning to buy one, and whether they would replace at least one day a week with traveling by bike instead of driving a car. Our low carbon travel campaign was even extended to those who were not able to join the training due to health reasons, could cycle but didn’t own a bike encouraging them to switch to travelling by bus instead of driving their car.

We also offered cycling lessons to our youngest group of children aged 7-10 year olds who hadn’t

originally been included in this outcome due to the demand. The lessons were designed for

complete beginners with the structure being around Bikeability 1 and 2. 10 children were trained

and all managed to pedal. Although these sessions were delivered later in the year, the young

people braved the cold weather to attend the lessons until the workers had to stop them in

December due to health and safety related to severe cold weather. The continuation was to

resume in February 2018 but the unpredicted ‘Beast from the East’ snow made it impossible for the

young people to complete their lessons in this funding year.

Project carbon calculations have been based on the 29 community members who successfully

completed the cycle training, adopted cycling as a better mode of travel for some days of the week

and 2 clients who are alternating using a car to travelling by bus to work.

Pictures showing some of our cycling activities over the year

Transport table showing tonnes of CO2e emission reductions for 29 participants

Baseline indicator

Project Indicator

Baseline CO2e Emissions

Project CO2e Emissions

CO2e Emission Savings

Tonnes CO2e Emission Savings

Client No.

Miles per week

Yearly Average (miles)

Miles per week

Yearly Average (miles)

1. 24 1152 19.2 921.6 293.76 235.008 58.752 0.058752

2. 66 3168 39.6 1900.8 807.84 484.704 323.136 0.323136

3. 74 3552 59.5 2856 905.76 728.28 177.48 0.17748

4. 107 5136 85.6 4108.8 1309.68 1047.744 261.936 0.261936

5. 21 1008 14 672 257.04 171.36 85.68 0.08568

6. 66 3168 49.5 2376 807.84 605.88 201.96 0.20196

7. 95 4560 79.2 3801.6 1162.8 969.408 193.392 0.193392

8. 49 2352 36.8 1766.4 599.76 450.432 149.328 0.149328

9. 9 432 6.8 326.4 110.16 83.232 26.928 0.026928

10. 16 768 10.7 513.6 195.84 130.968 64.872 0.064872

11. 108.4 5203.2 86.7 4161.6 1326.816 1061.208 265.608 0.265608

12. 46.4 2227.2 34.8 1670.4 567.936 425.952 141.984 0.141984

13. 68.8 3302.4 55 2640 842.112 673.2 168.912 0.168912

14. 28.4 1363.2 21.3 1022.4 347.616 260.712 86.904 0.086904

15. 21.4 1027.2 14.3 686.4 261.936 175.032 86.904 0.086904

16. 19 912 15.2 729.6 232.56 186.048 46.512 0.046512

17. 50 2400 37.5 1800 612 459 153 0.153

18. 70 3360 56 2688 856.8 685.44 171.36 0.17136

19. 100 4800 83.3 3998.4 1224 1019.592 204.408 0.204408

20. 20 960 13.3 638.4 244.8 162.792 82.008 0.082008

21. 160 7680 137.1 6580.8 1958.4 1678.104 280.296 0.280296

22. 19.2 921.6 11.5 552 235.008 140.76 94.248 0.094248

23. 23 1104 17.25 828 281.52 211.14 70.38 0.07038

24. 11.9 571.2 7.1 340.8 145.656 86.904 58.752 0.058752

25. 37 1776 22.2 1065.6 452.88 271.728 181.152 0.181152

26. 46.8 2246.4 28.1 1348.8 572.832 343.944 228.888 0.228888

27. 28 1344 16.8 806.4 342.72 205.632 137.088 0.137088

28. 126 6048 84 4032 1542.24 1028.16 514.08 0.51408

29. 24.8 1190.4 18.6 892.8 303.552 227.664 75.888 0.075888

Total 1536.1 73732.8 1160.95 55725.6 18801.864 14210.028 4591.836 4.591836

Lifetime Tonnes CO2e Emissions Savings = 13.775508

Assuming 3 years of Behaviour Change

Extracts from cycling feedback

The greatest strengths of the course are: - “As a complete beginner the course was very well explained\shown how to cycle, using gears,

slowing down etc with patience as I and my son were complete beginners and the trainers did not gave up on us. Weather was not a barrier which was great because we certainly did not want lessons cancelled and nor were they cancelled. I and my son both attended all the sessions and would be so keen to join future lessons too. We just felt we could do with more lessons to be good cyclist.”

- “The instructors were good, lots of feedback and suggestions for improvement were provided and I can’t think of a time where advice given to me wasn’t helpful. Instructors really did make a strong effort to ensure we were learning and whenever possible advice was given. It was also helpful that we had lots of safe space to try out things we wouldn’t normally try on our own”.

Please tell us how you will use your new cycling ability in the future, whether you will cycle for short

distances?

- “I have been using my son’s bike to cycle to my parents and back as I don’t have my own bike. Using cycling paths to main roads and side streets. I hope to gain further experience and take on the bike for errands to social events.”

- “I will be using this to start commuting to places and improve my health in general. I want to incorporate the skills I’ve learned here as much as possible.”

Please tell us how you will use your new cycling ability in the future, whether you will cycle for short

distances?

The course could be improved by - “More lessons – I feel like more road based lessons would be very helpful as I feel less inclined to

try and have good form on the road without instructors advising – you begin to form habits without realizing and it’s hard to actively force yourself to stop performing those habits.”

- “Different types of bikes – This will give people an idea of what types of bikes there are and how different they can feel.”

- “General bike info – i.e. bike security, bike insurance, tips & tricks etc. This would probably be best distributed via handouts so the majority of the time can be spent learning the stuff that can’t be read.”

Would you be looking forward to buying a bike once you can cycle?

- Yes No

- Yes No

If No what would prevent you from buying one?

- Cost Might be stolen

- Storage space - Side note: “I have nothing but praise for this course; it was really good and got me to try something

I thought I was never going to learn - Thank you so much!” We value our participants’ feedback and have been working to even make future training experiences even better”.

Unexpected outcome – as a result of cycle training with young people we have encouraged and promoted

more young people to cycle to school instead of being driven by their parents. This was not an outcome we

anticipated to measure so no data was collected, however going forward we will be looking to capture this

data.

HOME GARDEN GROWN FOODS:

We achieved a reduction of 2.661T CO2e across 29 households through increasing home garden growing

by 755.89 Kgs. In addition, for 5 community members who didn’t have gardens we increased access to

growing spaces and as result 412.26 Kgs produce was grown achieving an additional reduction of 1.451

TCo2e

This element has been the most successful part of our project. The participant’s enthusiasm to grow their

own food at home has been observed from the amount of harvest produced this season. We have been

encouraged when we received self-referrals from community members who have seen and shared produce

with their neighbours requesting support from our project. A total green space of 293.85m2 unutilised land

has been turned into good growing space.

Table showing Access to food growing spaces carbon savings

No. Total Area sq.m Harvest

(kg) Baseline Carbon

calculation Project

scenario Project savings

TCO2e

1. 4.00 19.15 77.749 10.341 67.408 0.067408

2. 12.60 4.31 17.4986 2.3274 15.1712 0.0151712

3. 8.50 0.50 2.03 0.27 1.76 0.00176

4. 30 52.80 214.368 28.512 185.856 0.185856

5. 5 2.00 8.12 1.08 7.04 0.00704

6. 6 34.00 138.04 18.36 119.68 0.11968

7. 9 19.00 77.14 10.26 66.88 0.06688

8. 21.60 497.50 2019.85 268.65 1751.2 1.7512

9. 2.6 4.43 17.9858 2.3922 15.5936 0.0155936

10. 11.30 4.00 16.24 2.16 14.08 0.01408

11. 10.00 2.50 10.15 1.35 8.8 0.0088

12. 19.00 26.80 108.808 14.472 94.336 0.094336

13. 10.00 1.60 6.496 0.864 5.632 0.005632

14. 10 7.00 28.42 3.78 24.64 0.02464

15. 6 3.50 14.21 1.89 12.32 0.01232

16. 4.05 6.00 24.36 3.24 21.12 0.02112

17. 3.3 8.00 32.48 4.32 28.16 0.02816

18. 4.7 8.00 32.48 4.32 28.16 0.02816

19. 8 2.00 8.12 1.08 7.04 0.00704

20. 24 2.50 10.15 1.35 8.8 0.0088

21. 5 2.30 9.338 1.242 8.096 0.008096

22. 21.6 8.92 36.2152 4.8168 31.3984 0.0313984

23. 8 2.00 8.12 1.08 7.04 0.00704

24. 2.5 9.00 36.54 4.86 31.68 0.03168

25. 8.5 3.76 15.2656 2.0304 13.2352 0.0132352

26. 6 3.4 13.804 1.836 11.968 0.011968

27. 4 1.6 6.496 0.864 5.632 0.005632

28. 13 18.32 74.3792 9.8928 64.4864 0.0644864

29. 3.5 1 4.06 0.54 3.52 0.00352

Total 281.75 755.89 3068.9134 408.1806 2660.7328 2.6607328

Community Growing and other green spaces

1 42 119 483.14 64.26 418.88 0.41888

2 20 91.7 372.302 49.518 322.784 0.322784

3 35 123.00 499.38 66.42 432.96 0.43296

4 3.00 23.45 95.207 12.663 82.544 0.082544

5 2.68 26.10 105.966 14.094 91.872 0.091872

Total 12.10 412.26 1673.7756 222.6204 1451.1552 1.4511552

Lifetime saving (5 years) 20.55944

Baseline conversion factor 4.06

Project conversion factor 0.54

The most successful stories have been those from participants who believed that nothing could grow in

Scotland. Some of the foods grown and harvested included potatoes, onions, garlic, tomatoes, spinach,

squashes, beans, peas, herbs, courgettes, leeks, cabbages, cauliflower, raddish, , Swiss chard broad

bean and chillies,

Images of home grown produce from our community harvested between June to October 2017

Community outcomes

We actively engaged with 886 people in activities that were designed to increase their knowledge and

understanding of climate change, carbon literacy and carbon emissions. To measure our communities’

level of awareness we used feedback, evaluation forms at events and noted down conversations that

resulted from taking part in other different project elements.

Flipchart notes from the conversation after one of our film screenings.

Our staff team of 4 have all completed the Carbon Literacy for communities training and were equipped

with knowledge to engage with our target communities in carbon emission discussions. We facilitated a

climate change workshop and the following were discussed: What climate change means to the

participants; who is responsible for climate change; things that they think can be done to tackle climate

change and what the government should do? Although there was an average awareness of climate change

gained through the media – extreme weather changes witnessed and the different reports they received

from their countries of origin, the group had little knowledge of what they could do as individuals to tackle

climate change. We incorporated climate change conversations and carbon understanding in all our project

activities and casual conversations we had on a daily basis with our communities.

23 community members signed up to be part of a group that met weekly to learn more about climate

change and the different actions they could take to reduce their individual carbon foot print. A range of

sessions which included upcycling (using newspapers to make table mats, making bags and mending

clothes); growing vegetables in a shared raised bed; cooking sessions using locally sourced foods and

discussion on food miles; energy efficiency workshop – how much units different appliances use; nature

walk exploring different Scottish plants and herbal medicine, exchanging dresses, hand bags and scarfs

and tour to botanic and Red Hall Walled gardens have been some of the activities that the group has done.

We used our annual General meeting to showcase project programme of activities, shared our young

people’s documentary on climate change. We were able to reach our diverse community on climate

change, and reminded them that it was a collective responsibility to take action on climate change.

Events feedback

Did you have a good time? what would you like to do at our next event? Comments about the event.

- So good for our community. - Exceeded all expectations - Yes food great more tables for lunch - Nice meal, Had a lovely day - We had a Whale of a time! - Thank you for the lovely event loved the food, music and recycled arts. - Great event so much to do. Thanks! - I think this event was amazing. Please do more - It was so much fun I loved it.

- Fantastic event - Great Community spirit and yummy healthy food. - Amazing very complete activities for everyone. - A good day out with the kids met new people and exchanged numbers. - Very well organised lots of people lots of activity. Great getting together people from different

backgrounds joined team work. - Good humored bunch visitors/staff, chefs/cooks seems effortless. - Great fun for the toddlers they did nearly all the activities

What did you learn today?

- Enjoyed the music and trying the bongo drums and getting the rhythm - I learned face paint - How to make a kite from a plastic bag, Plant peas, Make bird feeders. Thankyou! - Sharing toys and mindfulness. - Team effort get the work done. - Team work people making a mess but cleaned at all times

We love to help our environment. What activities do you think we can do together?

- Cycling to pump electricity - We could do gardening - Walking - Cycling walking, gardening, Grow own food - Recycle, beach clean ups - More things for kids dance sports

Harvest festival – sharing home grown produce in September

Community members attending a climate change workshop at dynamic earth

Young people: Increased awareness of climate change issues and carbon literacy knowledge among 38

KCYC young people through inspiring, empowering and challenging learning opportunities.

Our young people’s climate change animation film production and climate residential were major landmarks in their lives in understanding issues around climate change. They produced a great and inspirational piece of work demonstrating the stakes around climate change. It also demonstrates that their understanding of global politics and barriers to taking effective collective responsibility is impressive. They devised different means of how we could tackle the devastating effects of climate change. Some of the inventions that they came up with included a time machine, creating a mistake fixer, smart sensor and a ‘seashroom’ to suck up the greenhouse gases.

Learning and Reflection

Successes

OVERALL PROJECT highlight has been keeping our project staff from the start who were already

trained, experienced and familiar with different ways of engaging with our project communities. Not

going through the recruitment process meant that we hit the ground running starting with

community members who were on the waiting list.

Energy

During energy efficiency advice home visits to new participants, we noted people’s concerns over their fuel

bills; their limited understanding of the numerous tariffs and the poor customer service of energy providers,

their satisfaction from our advice and pledges made.

Engaging more and new community members in the uptake of our activities has been empowering for the

majority of people. They’ve told us that they didn’t realise how limited their knowledge was around climate

change and how they feel challenged to take action within their means. The project has also contributed to

increased organisation membership as many of our project communities have now become members.

Our developed comprehensive energy efficiency advice pack guided our advice and made it easy to record

data at the time of the visit. Statements of satisfaction from the advice given, appreciation of information

received, clients feeling more aware and empowered to manage their heating systems and how able they

are to deal with their suppliers were always not missed.

Food

Learning from previous experience, it was useful to have designed a service agreement statement for

home grown foods which clearly states what support the household should expect from us and our

expectation for successful monitoring, access to information and recording of data. Food growing

participants were therefore in much close communication with us, happy and willing to send us weights of

produce, pictures and video clips of their gardens. They were excited with the achievement they had made

which is reflected in the numerous pictures shared on our facebook page. The staff team was inspired with

the quick outcome/ achievement and were able to support new households in ground preparation to

prepare for the new season growing.

Transport

Although there were difficulties for people to completely change their mode of transport, we have three

champions; one started travelling to work by bus, the second one now cycles to work and the third cycles to

her parents, has been on other city wide cycle rides and has registered with us to support our cycling for

the next project.

Carbon Literacy

The different fun and exciting ways employed in increasing awareness of carbon literacy facilitated the

learning of carbon literacy. We supported clients to take the lead as their own experts especially when

talking about the emissions that came from food.

Young People Engagement

Having an already established Youth and Children’s club and more so working with young people who had

already participated in putting together a documentary made it seamless for us to engage with other

elements of our project. Our events have been popular as the young people can almost tell that they are life

changing.

Involving clients in evaluating the project meant that they could highlight the positives, negatives,

shape its course and devise any solutions to the challenges/negatives identified. Some of the

positives included:

“Electricity support, energy

advice was done well; the

advisor came to my house and

helped me with relevant

information on how to save

energy on my bill, now I enjoy

the insight of knowing how

much energy my TV, electric

kettle and my son’s gadget

use; and how to reduce the

costs; food/vegetable growing

at home, visiting lots of

community gardens and

having ideas about what could be grown;

cycling training was amazing, it gave me the

chance to increase my networks; cooking

lessons were good; health eating and good

advice given; cycling is very useful and

beneficial for kids and family; group trips are

useful for isolated people and kids; enjoyed

walking for health and fresh air; the energy

efficiency home visit was fantastic because it

brought awareness to me for the past

months, I have been aware of how to use energy efficiently, the visit empowered me educationally and

economically; I now cycle using cycle rides and have joined cycle ride groups after learning how to cycle, it

was great; I didn’t know how to cycle until I took the lessons me and my 17 year old son, because we (me

and my son) learnt to cycle, my son bought a cycle and we both cycle, my son cycles to work, I keep fit and

enjoy the environment on my cycle; helping the community to live quality life, trips are very good; learning

how to make jams from fruits, very good activities; it was good to learn energy saving tips for winter”.

We were also able to identify negatives, gaps and questions raised. “These included: More weekend and

evening cycling training to know how to cycle in the dark; how have you tackled new challenges that

include engagement, participation, isolated members of the community and involving wider members in the

locality? There should be more awareness campaign at the plaza and places of worship; more gardening

support would be helpful to more people to start growing their own food, more trips to encourage the more

isolated”.

These identified gaps have been key learning points. We will factor them into our approaches to planning

and delivery of our next project.

Challenges

Overall, there hasn’t been many major challenges in delivering the project as we have been equipped with

most resources required to support our communities to take action on climate change. However below are

some aspects that arose throughout this project:

Our target communities tend to be in flux this is due to:

- Some accepting housing in this locality as a last resort and finding their way out as soon as

possible. Others are forced to move away with SCOREscotland help due to racial

harassment/attack and anti-social behaviour from neighbours. Thus community engagement,

consultation and involvement have been vital practices that we employed throughout the project

delivery with regular monitoring and evaluation in order to ensure the project community continued

to be profoundly involved throughout the life of the project.

- Similarly, some community members living in temporary accommodation were rehoused before we

could collect the monitoring data. Once we identified this issue, we ensured homes were visited at

least a month following initial advice. In addition, we included a question on the type of

accommodation the different households had to inform our data collection priorities.

- The month of Ramaddan which started at the beginning of summer disrupted our cycling as

participants couldn’t cope with the training while fasting. We decided not to postpone the cycling but

added more sessions later in the year to accommodate those who had missed the first round.

- A limited number of Children’s bikes has been another setback for our small participants who didn’t

have own bikes. Also some bikes brought by young people were broken and unsuitable for cycling

(Broken brakes, saddle, mudguards with missing screws). Cycling instructors discussed those

issues with parents and advised them about places where bikes can be fixed. This advice was

taken by a couple of parents, who brought fixed bikes the following week. We also helped a mother

of 5 who had bought bikes but was unable to bring them for her children’s lessons to store them

temporarily in our bike shade and returned them at the end of the sessions. We are still looking for a

space in the local community to establish our eco cycle centre which will become a place for

equipping community members with bike maintenance skills and store enough bikes for our

community to use.

Finance and Administration

Since CCF allowed us to keep our diverse team which had worked on our previous project, we didn’t have

to go through the recruitment process.

As we had experienced staff, most of the claims had been processed effectively until the CCF team

requested for sessional workers’ contracts. This was a new procedure that was introduced half way into

the project and which delayed a couple of our large claims. We soon learned that salary claims could be

separated from the rest of the claims in order to speed up salary claims. When large claims were held

back, there was real danger of running out of operating funds. The CCF team has been very helpful when

required.

Ultimately, one of our community workers and the Finance Admin left during the last quarter of our project.

We therefore had to recruit sessional support to take us to year end. This development too delayed the

processing of CCF claims as the new person had plenty to learn first.

When making initial budgets, it can be difficult to get exact figures as they are simply informed estimates. We are glad, therefore, that there was effective flexibility which allowed us to address any discrepancies. For example, one of the budget headings was Crèche Expenses. However, since the majority of participants on this occasion didn’t need crèche provision because they either didn’t have young children or those with young children had home support, we were able to use the underspent on room hire for events

and workshop materials (with permission from the CCF) to raise awareness of climate change. We were also able to invest in IT for an effective system to make the project work go more smoothly.

Legacy

We have established a community cycling club, have plans to offer basic bike maintenance skills for

members to handle minor repairs on the bike while on the go. Our volunteer program will also support the

sustainability of our project. Additionally we have trained our project advisory group members in reviewing

and evaluating a project so that they can support the sustainability of this programme more effectively. We

have received support from the city of Edinburgh council to help us establish an eco-cycle Centre when we

find a suitable place in the local area for it. This Centre will become a community resource to access

reconditioned bikes, learn basic bike maintenance and cycling skills, moving towards a low carbon active

community.

Working with our young people is an approach that we would like to firm up. We have so far held a

woodland session activity with our young people aged 7 -10 years supporting them to freely access the

woodlands for wild food and remedy-making in the outdoors. The young people were taken on a short walk

to look at wild plants and explored their uses past and present as food and medicine. This was aimed at

making the group more aware of their surroundings specifically in a woodland setting so they could learn

how to collect some plants - leaves, flowers and berries in order to make simple food or/and wild remedies

such as a cream or balm in the future.

Young people’s animation production developed their knowledge, skills and values needed to find solutions

to stem climate change. This project further built their team working abilities, improved their self-

confidence, developed their talents and capacity to research, reason, understand present issues and

mitigate action needed to make a difference. These are essential and transferable life skills. They will be

sharing their climate change awareness with their peers for years. Significantly, they will share their new

knowledge with the older generations in their families and communities as effective agents of change. As

they are young, this knowledge will stay with them and it will inform their future lifestyles and their

workplaces.

A community member’s application for an allotment to the Wester Hailes Allotment Association was

approved later in the year and has begun preparing her ground for the next growing season. We believe

many will follow suit increasing the number of people to those that have already started growing own food

at home. Collectively, they will reduce their household food miles. (allotment in pictures below)

Our project led to the development of a new programme at SCOREscotland - Taste and Share - which is

part of the local Tasting Change project developed by a Wester Hailes consortium. This project is designed

to support households from different backgrounds particularly isolated residents and those in danger of

being excluded to learn how to prepare and eat locally produced food healthily and affordably. Home food

growing participating households will feed into this new project, share their new skills; knowledge and

experience in growing, cooking and eating seasonal food and vegetables. They have successfully started

growing some foods similar to those from their ‘home’ countries such as pumpkins, large leaf greens,

chilies etc. They will avoid buying such foods at premium prices in shops which import them from abroad

over thousands of food miles adding to CO2e emissions.

Pumpkins and chillies grown at our clients homes (pictures taken in September and October 2017)

Testimonials:

“I’m so glad that we don’t need to buy these salad leaves anymore. They are expensive and half of a pack

goes to waste normally” – young professional male who benefits from a balcony garden.

“It has been an enormous help to have SCOREscotland- green futures project- support and work to stablish

the raised beds, it would help me to cut down my workload on the allotment. Thanks so much for your work.”

“Thanks to services like SCOREscotland, I feel that I am part and I am included. The help, support, attention

to detail and kindness of every single member at SCOREscotland it was invaluable.”

“It was not finishing there. When I found out that they could help on my allotment, there was "a before" and

"an after" on my small allotment. These guys came not only ready to advice but to put on wellies and kick my

allotment at its best. I only hope to have a good growing season to make a huge cake for all these guys.

Many thanks!”

It was the first time for some of our community members to have grown potatoes, cabbages, Kale and spinach. Others had never eaten these vegetables and were happy to try them. They were delighted with successes realized in growing and are enthusiastic to grow more in the next season.

Climate change awareness raising at some of our events

Author: Jolly Oluka (Development Officer)

Editor: Nabirye Balyejusa (SCOREscotland Manager).

28th May 2018