Working within the community sector and taking climate action comes with pressure. Feelings of detachment, helplessness and loss of satisfaction can be signs of burnout. Know the signs. Find your perspective and balance. Dealing with climate realities and preventing burnout will help our communities be more resilient.

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Monthly gatherings for professionals working towards the common good – with environmental films, good food and fireside conversation.

The Moray CAN quarterly meeting bring us together, in person, to catch up on progress and share updates on the projects supported by our funding.
We'll also go over details about round two of the Nature Fund and provide time for members to share their own updates.

The session will be an open space for conversation, questions, and informal networking. Book a place here.

Some people want the science, the statistics, the reports, while others might find the science confusing and alienating.

What language do you use to talk about climate change? Are you trying to engage new people with your climate action projects? Are you struggling to get people on board at work with a climate-friendly initiative?

In this one hour session the Scottish Communities Climate Action Network will explore some of the language that research shows to be most effective for communicating about climate change. An interactive, lunch time session! BOOK HERE.

Join REAP Scotland and Susan Watts from Home Energy Scotland. Grab and coffee, a tea ( and a wee bit of cake) and join in the discussion about how home heating can make a difference in tackling climate change. REGISTER YOU INTEREST HERE and come along.

With energy prices rising, Home Energy Scotland is encouraging households to attend their upcoming roadshow event Wednesday 9 October in Elgin, at the Inkwell.

Discover how you can save on bills and access government funding to improve your home’s energy efficiency.

Moray Citizen’s Advice, REAP, Scarf and other local organisations will be on hand too, to help you with advice and to connect you to the support available in your local area for saving energy, keeping warm at home, using renewable energy, and more.

Together with our partners Cairngorms 2030, we bring a special screening of the film Riverwoods, a compelling story of our Scottish salmon and its crucial relationship with the forest. After the film, there will be presentations and discussion on current restoration activities on the River Spey.

Bike Fest invites all people of all abilities (including people who have never ridden a bike before to experienced riders!) to celebrate the possibilities of cycling – and discover a healthy, sustainable, and FUN way to get around. Event takes place at Lossiemouth Highschool, Coulardbank Road.

Join Wild Things and North East Scotland Biodiversity Partnership to learn about the ancient skill of scything and how to use it to maintain our meadows and wildflowers.

Participants will get the opportunity to practice their scything skills on an important local wildlife site and learn how wildflowers and pollinators support biodiversity.

This event is for adults in Elgin at the Wards. This is a free event but booking essential. Book a place here.

Join us for the next quarterly meeting of our growing network.

Moray's Climate Action Network, Moray CAN, is dedicated to helping local communities mobilise their efforts to take climate action.

Come along to this meeting to find out the latest developments in our growing network. We'll be sharing progress made, including how the seed funding was allocated and a discussion on the funding for this year.

This event also offers the opportunity to hear updates from each Network member, to build upon collaboration and support.

tsiMORAY's annual conference - Connecting ideas, people, Moray

This year, Join The Dots takes a look at three priorities - three windows - into our future.

Together, with our panel of guest speakers, we will look at why and how the third sector and our communities can shape:

1. Building Belonging

Wellbeing starts in our communities when people feel they belong. How can we bridge 'disconnect' and make places where diversity and equality thrives? What do we need to do to build, sustain and boost belonging, so that it remains strong and integral to the work we do in our communities?

2. Using AI and Technology for Good

Digital technology enables new ways of communicating, creating, living and working.

While Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been around for awhile, for most of us, AI platforms such as ChatGPT and Bing is new. The potential power of AI technology is difficult to exaggerate. It will be up to all of us, individually and collectively, to influence how AI will shape our future. Local community groups and organisations can create a future where AI is used for Good. Let's find out how.

3. Advancing Local Climate Action

With Moray's Climate Action Network now officially launched, and with a large number of local projects underway thanks to Moray's Local Action Group and the Just Transition Participatory Budgeting Fund, we will be finding out what needs to happens next, so that we can accelerate local climate action. We'll also be able to see how this action will be supported by the new Community Led Vision for Moray.

The Future of Fundraising

In our afternoon keynote session, we will be exploring, more in depth, a critical element in shaping our future - funding.

Hear about where fundraising might be going and how funders are viewing the future, including how AI might feature.

During the day, there'll be the opportunity to network and also connect with stallholders offering information and support.

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Cost of living, climate change, food, housing, land: the multiple crises we face are deeply interlinked, which means the solutions are too.

Everything Must Change is a major new film explaining how all these crises – and the accompanying spiralling price rises – have come about, and shows how a just transition to a renewable energy system based on people's needs can work to solve all of them.

Moray is at the forefront of the energy transition from fossil fuels to renewables, but the Just Transition Commission for Scotland has issued a warning that, as a country, we are not on track to achieve a Just Transition.

We have real and pressing challenges. Moray's public services are facing severe cuts; we have some of the highest levels of fuel poverty in Scotland, and offshore oil and gas workers are not being given sufficient support to transition to renewables.

Moray Trades Union Council, Moray Climate Action Network, and UHI Moray's Just Transition research team invite you to a screening of Everything Must Change, followed by discussion of how we as workers and a community can bring about a Just Transition for Moray.

The event is free with food and soft drinks provided. Please register as capacity is limited at our venue.

Doors open at 6.30pm. Film starts 7pm (run time 72mins) followed by discussion groups.