Community Climate Action Toolkit

Who is the Toolkit for?
Communities like yours want to take action on climate change, but often find the tasks of forming a group, defining priorities and doing something, very challenging.

The Toolkit will help a new climate change community group to form, or an existing group to review progress and refresh itself, and to develop its initiatives. We hope it can be used to set up new groups of adults and young people as well as by groups established for other reasons such as a women’s group that now want to undertake action on climate change.

The purpose of the Community group climate action toolkit is to provide practical and easy-to-use tools and resources on how to set up and develop or refresh a climate change action group to empower any group which wants to take action together. We have harvested
knowledge about tools and use of tools from an international team of participants, and other sources.

What does it do for you?

The Toolkit aims to inspire you to act, engaging your creativity and ideas to work towards a positive future.
It provides a framework for your journey and tools and resources to support you and to help build and maintain a healthy group. By ‘tool’ we mean any kind of activity that will enable the group to achieve its goals.
Activities can include workshops with people sitting and talking, an outdoor event where participants make a map of what is important to them in their town, or engaging with the
wider community in a conversation about an important topic. The possibilities are endless.
When a community group feels it has reached a block in the road, a tool can help to find new ways forward.**