Climate Action across Wales – November
Monthly updates – November – December 2023
Check out all the exciting nature and climate activities that are happening across Wales:
What’s on
There’s loads of brilliant upcoming events being held by our partners across Wales. Get your calendar out and start planning so you don’t miss out.
Event: Climate Cafe
About: Newport’s first Climate Cafe
Date & Place 29th November 4 – 6pm, The Cab, 22 Cambrian Road, Newport
Event: Wales Centre for Public Policy
About: Join Wales Centre for Public Policy to celebrate our tenth anniversary !
Date & Place: Wednesday 6th December. 12:30 – 14:00 GMT
Event by: Wales Centre for Public Policy
More info:https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wales-centre-for-public-policy-10th-anniversary-tickets-741532853727
Event: COP Global Day of Action for Climate Justice
About: 9 December Day of Action will be a vital moment to build the strength of our movement across Britain and the globe.
Date & Place 9th November – Locations across Wales (Cardiff, Swansea, Bangor, Aberysthwyth more to come)
Event by: Climate Cymru & Climate Coalition
More info: From your doorstep, to activity & action across Wales
Event: Wild Things: Saturday nature activities for families
About: Wild Things/ Y Gwylltion is our Saturday morning nature exploration session for families led by our wonderful Wild Things volunteers. It’s free, drop-in, and takes places twice a month.
Date & Place: 10 am – 12 pm Railway Gardens, Adeline Street Cardiff CF24 2DH
Event by: Wild Things
Event: Benthyg (the library of things) open for borrowing
About: A place where you can: borrow things you need but don’t own, donate things you own but don’t need & meet people to share knowledge and skills with your community
Date & Place: Railway Gardens, Recurring weekly, 10am – 2pm on Wed, Thurs and Sat
Event by: https://splott.benthyg.cymru/
More info: https://greensquirrel.co.uk/projects/railway-gardens-programme/
Job opportunities
Looking for a job in environment, climate or social justice in Wales? Check out the opportunities for rewarding work with organisations making a difference.
Name of organisation: Keep Wales Tidy
Event/Job title: Policy and Research Officer
Link: https://keepwalestidy.cymru/about-us/work-with-us/community-communications-officer-copy/
Date, location and/or deadline: Home-Based; North Wales
Closing date: 27 November
Salary: Starting £28,004
Name of organisation: Keep Wales Tidy
Event/Job title: Community Communications Officer
Link: https://keepwalestidy.cymru/about-us/work-with-us/community-communications-officer/
Date, location and/or deadline: Home-Based; North Wales
Closing date: 27/11/23
Salary: Starting £28,004
Name of organisation: Keep Wales Tidy
Event/Job title: Education Officer
Link: https://keepwalestidy.cymru/about-us/work-with-us/education-officer/
Date, location and/or deadline: Home-Based; South East Wales
Closing date: 27/11/23
Salary: Starting £28,004
Name of organisation: Marine Conservation Society
Event/Job title: Hiraeth Yn Y Môr (HYYM) Project Assistant
Link: https://app.webrecruit.co/JobSeeker/Apply/cSlgpfaRJnkIqMT47sgKu1_xk59qtpDypDE9BaphtCI#
Date, location and/or deadline: Home-Based; Role requires operating in Denbighshire & Conwy, NE Wales
Closing date: 30/11/23
Salary: £21,840 pro rata per annum
Name of Organisation: Radnorshire Wildlife Trust
Role: Wilder Lugg Project Officer
https://www.rwtwales.org/jobs/wilder-lugg-project-officer
Date, location and/or deadline: Full time, 37.5 hours per week – hybrid contract
Closing date: Friday 1 December 2023
Salary: £30,000 per annum
Name of organisation: Acorn
Event/Job title: Member Defence Organiser
Link: https://www.acorntheunion.org.uk/cardiff_mdo
Date, location and/or deadline: Cardiff
Closing date: 4th December 2023 at 11:59pm
Salary: £21,840 per annum
Name of organisation: Radnorshire Wildlife Trust
Role: Assistant Reserves Officer in Powys
https://www.rwtwales.org/jobs/assistant-reserves-officer-0
Date, location and/or deadline: Warwick House, Llandrindod Wells (with travel within England and Wales), hybrid
Closing date: Friday 8 December 2023
Salary: £21,255-23,000 (plus relocation package)
Grants available
There are so many amazing projects urgently tackling the climate and nature crisis in Wales. But finding the right funding for your organisation can be really challenging. We hope this list helps.
Warm this Winter Grants
We’ve launched our next round of Warm this Winter (WTW) grants for grassroots groups taking action on the energy crisis.
Application submissions are open until 5pm, monday the 27th of November 2023.
Email: Bethan@climate.cymru for more information.
Postcode Community Trust
Awarding funds thanks to players of People’s Postcode Lottery
https://www.postcodecommunitytrust.org.uk/
The funding criteria and application dates for 2024 will be available on our website early 2024.
Get involved
Looking for inspiring ways to take action for people, nature, climate justice and human rights? We’ve got the list you’ve been looking for!
Sign every petition – then get organising.
Energy for All – Everyone has a right to the energy needed for heating, cooking and light
Find out more here: Fuel Poverty Action – Energy for All
Sign the petition here: https://www.change.org/p/energyforall-everyone-has-a-right-to-the-energy-needed-for-heating-cooking-and-light
Emergency Energy Tariff Now!
Find out more here: We are proud partners with the End Fuel Poverty Coalition through our Warm this Winter campaigning.
Sign the petition here: https://www.warmthiswinter.org.uk/get-involved/emergency-energy-tariff-petition
Make Polluters Pay
Make it count, lets get to 40,000 signatories to the Prime Minister
Sign the petition here:
https://act.globaljustice.org.uk/make-polluters-pay-their-climate-damage-0
Support the global exit plan from fossil fuels:
The world is on track for 3c – It is clear that a global plan, legally binding agreement is need to stop the proliferation of new oil and gas.
Follow the science – pressure the politicians.
Sign the petition here:
https://act.globaljustice.org.uk/uk-leaders-support-global-exit-plan-fossil-fuels
Demand the UK government Exit the Energy Charter Agreement
“Fossil fools are holding climate action to ransom.”
Sign the petition here:
https://act.globaljustice.org.uk/dont-let-fossil-fuel-companies-block-climate-action
Debt Justice – cancel it.
There can be no climate justice without debt cancellation. But it will only happen if enough of us act.
Sign the petition here:
https://act.debtjustice.org.uk/cancel-debt-climate-justice-3
Save Penrhos, Ynys Mon – No if’s. No buts.
Full story here: https://bylines.cymru/environment/save-penrhos-nature-reserve/
Sign the petition here:
Save the Darwin Oak:
Full story here: The Shrewsbury bypass – which will likely impact the towns drinking water, fell 200 veteran trees and much more..
https://www.bettershrewsburytransport.org/
Sign the petition here:
https://www.change.org/p/save-the-darwin-oak
Fossil Free Careers Cardiff:
About: Swansea just kicked fossil fools off campus – lest see it happen in Cardiff.
We call upon the university careers department to:
Refuse all new relationships with oil, gas or mining companies
Decline to renew any current relationships with oil, gas or mining companies after the contractually obligated period ends
Adopt a publicly available Ethical Careers Policy that explicitly excludes oil, gas and mining companies from recruitment opportunities
Campaign by: People and Planet
Link: https://peopleandplanet.org/petitions/fossil-free-careers/fossil-free-careers-cardiff
Land of Our Future:
How to create a future where people and nature thrive.
Campaign by: WWF Wales
Link: https://www.wwf.org.uk/wales/land-of-our-future
Support Rewarding Farmers to Become Nature and Climate Champions
Campaign by: RSPB Cymru
Link https://action.rspb.org.uk/page/131620/action/1?ea.tracking.id=rspb_cymru_facebook
About
Join Project Climate Vote
Together, we’re going to recruit a million climate voters before the next election – and everyone has a part to play. Get involved here.
Campaign by: Greenpeace UK
Wildlife Trust Wales
About: The six Wildlife Trusts in Wales have come together to tackle climate change with the help of the young people of Wales. Join them!
Campaign by: Wildlife Trust Wales
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