Eager to make a positive impact on the climate emergency in your community, but uncertain where or how to begin?
Whether you’re an individual or part of a group, we offer an abundance of valuable resources, toolkits, and practical advice straight from us and organisations across Scotland and the UK .
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Resources
We have put together a range of resources to help you grow and develop and do more. You can also download our new Community Pathways for a Greener Fife (PDF).
Developing Your Project
SCCAN free web spaces –
A space is a fully fledged website hosted under the sccan.scot domain. You get the latest and greatest WordPress, but without too much clutter. You can build simple or complex layouts and use the blogging open source software that runs millions of websites.
CEC Visioning document –
The PECH structure is a useful way to build team cohesion and direction by finding commonalities and ironing out differences at the outset. It can be helpful to revisit and review the process from time to time, to check in with where the team is at, particularly around points of change- as the project develops, or team members leave/ join.
Growing Climate Confidence –
Website giving support to third sector organisations in Scotland to reduce carbon emissions and take positive climate action
How to Help Your Community Reduce Waste –
Video of Fife Climate Hub event How to Help Reduce Waste with Zero Waste Scotland and a pdf of the slides.
Community Climate Action Toolkit | The Schumacher Institute –
This Community Climate Action Toolkit will help you with easy-to-use tools and resources, to develop your group understand your local situation, to move into meaningful action ensure a diversity of views and approaches is considered achieve action at different levels find creative ways forward unique to you, not a re-defined route
How to Set up a Repair Project –
Fife Climate Hub invited Jane from Circular Communities Scotland to explain how you can set up your own repair project.
What is a Repair Cafe? –
Unsure of what a repair cafe actually is and how you use it. Circular Communities Scotland explains.
What is a Sharing Library? –
Unsure of what a Sharing Library is and how you use it. Circular Communities Scotland explains.
Adaptation Scotland’s Community Climate Routemap –
This Routemap is valuable for anyone who would like to Understand and address climate change impacts within your community now and in the future Explore what actions you can take to build resilience and adapt while addressing other important issues for you community Invest in your community and protect against future costs and learn about what funding and support is available
Shifting Normal-
Scottish Govt pdf doc for designing projects to tackle climate change.
Local Heat and Energy Efficiency Strategy Consultation –
Recording of Fife Climate Hub consultation event held in 2023 by Fife Council in how they will approach the Scotland wide required Local Heat and Energy Strategy (LHEES).
NHS Fife Greenspace Event –
NHS Fife are looking to communities to take on land for sustainable purposes. We coordinated an event where NHS Fife staff explained their strategy and what they would like to do. They are looking to see if communities would be on board.
See the presentation here:
Guide to Running and Charity or Social Enterprise –
Third Force News (TFN) have produced a guide which includes vital topics such as funding and diversity and inclusion.
See the guide here:
Event Resources
Below are resources that can be used for any type of event:
How to host a sustainable event A Fife Climate Hub guide as to how to host a sustainable event
Planning your event A Fife Climate Hub guide to planning a community event
Promoting your event A Fife Climate Hub guide to planning a community event
Event emergency plan template A Fife Climate Hub word doc template to draw up an event brief to act as your health & safety and emergency plan
Climate Outreach – Talking Climate Handbook A guide to talking about climate
Consent Form for Photos & Videos Template A Fife Climate Hub word doc template of a consent form for photos & videos at events
Health and Safety Considerations A Fife Climate Hub pdf guide with hints and tips for running a safe event at the Fife Climate Festival
Risk assessment template A Fife Climate Hub word doc template of a risk assessment for running events
Plastic Free Event Guide Practical advice on waste prevention, management and communication with vendors and event goers
Climate Quiz and Powerpoint Presentation Designed by Tayport’s gardening and climate organisation PLANT (Music section of the quiz)
How to Run a Beach Clean by the Marine Conservation Society
Engaging Your Community
National Standards for Community Engagement website guidelines-
Planning and recording software that assists individuals, organisations and partnerships to design and deliver effective community engagement.
IMPACT Community carbon calculator –
Estimator tool for measuring a community’s carbon footprint.
SP=EED –
Guide and toolkit to support more effective and meaningful community engagement in the planning system
SP=EED is our guide and toolkit to support more effective and meaningful community engagement in the planning system
Living Streets Scotland –
A website with info on how to encourage people to walk or wheel more of their everyday journeys
52 Climate Actions –
Website featuring 52 climate actions you can take under themes of travel, waste, food etc
Energy Cost Calculator –
Find out how much it costs to run common household appliances and compare them against each other.
The Week –
Too often, climate change can feel like a big, abstract and even overwhelming topic. How do we start to wrap our heads around it, in the midst of everything else going on in our lives? How will it impact me and the people I love? The Week is a way to engage on climate change, for real, with our friends, family or colleagues. It doesn’t tell us what to do, but empowers us to make up our own minds. So that we can say down the line: I knew what I needed to know, I did what I need to do and I have no regrets.
Climate Cafe Network –
A Climate Café® is a community led, informal, inspiring space to get together, share ideas, information and get involved in climate action over a cup of tea or coffee. Join the movement! #DrinkChatAct
Climate Action Towns Toolkit –
A toolkit to support people in towns and communities across Scotland to take place-based climate actions
Talking About Climate
How to Talk About Climate –
A guide to having a purposeful conversation so everyday people know what will make the biggest difference, and how to go about pushing for the change that matters.
Climate Conversation Guide –
A guide to help you feel confident talking about climate change to tailoring your approach by Australian group Climate Compass
General Climate Change news and information-
Up-to-date climate change news and information website.
How can I have easier “climate conversations”? –
Helpful tips on how to talk about climate from actionetwork.org
Britain Talks Climate-
A toolkit for engaging the British public on climate change by Climate Outreach
Communicating Climate Justice with Young People –
Climate Outreach website info on how to talk about climate injustice with young people.
How to have a climate change conversation –
Citizen Science Project webinar recording about how to have climate change conversations by Climate Outreach.
Britain Talks Climate-
A toolkit for engaging the British public on climate change by Climate Outreach
Climate Cafe Network –
A Climate Café® is a community led, informal, inspiring space to get together, share ideas, information and get involved in climate action over a cup of tea or coffee. Join the movement! #DrinkChatAct
The Week –
Too often, climate change can feel like a big, abstract and even overwhelming topic. How do we start to wrap our heads around it, in the midst of everything else going on in our lives? How will it impact me and the people I love? The Week is a way to engage on climate change, for real, with our friends, family or colleagues. It doesn’t tell us what to do, but empowers us to make up our own minds. So that we can say down the line: I knew what I needed to know, I did what I need to do and I have no regrets.
Communicating Your Project
How to plan your communications for community groups –
Recording and slides of a Fife Climate Hub and Climate Action Fife Workshop
How to.. Work with the Media for community groups –
Recording and slides of a Fife Climate Hub and Climate Action Fife Workshop
How to.. Create Engaging Community Newsletters –
Recording and slides of a Fife Climate Hub and Climate Action Fife Workshop
How to.. Do Social Media Mastery for Communities –
Recording and slides of a Fife Climate Hub and Climate Action Fife Workshop
How to.. Design Excellence for Beginners –
Recording and slides of a Fife Climate Hub and Climate Action Fife Workshop
Finding the stories in your community group –
Just Enterprise digital marketing presentation –
Just Enterprise digital marketing presentation
How to make digital technology more sustainable –
A webinar by freelancer Hannah Smith Co-founder of the Green Tech South West meet-up
Place Planning
Guide for Community Delivery of Local Place Plans –
Planning Aid Scotland’s free resources, guides and toolkits for delivering a Local Place Plan
Place Standard with a Climate Lens | Sniffer –
Place Standard Tool with a Climate Lens, to engage your community with a joined up, collaborative, and participative approach to climate action within a place
Fife Council guidance on Local Place Plans –
Guidance on deciding if a Local Place Plan is right for your community, getting started and support available.
Is a Local Place Plan right for your community –
Fife Council video providing an overview of Local Place Plans, support available and how to get started.
Climate Action Towns Toolkit –
A toolkit to support people in towns and communities across Scotland to take place-based climate actions
Wider Support
Women and Climate –
Women’s climate action website
‘Think Retrofit’ Skills Video
Newsletters to sign up to –
A list of useful newsletters you may want to sign up to
External Organisations who produce a newsletter
Adaptation Scotland-
Our team of adaptation experts is on hand to offer advice, and link organisations, businesses and communities to tools, resources and projects that can help them adapt to impacts of climate change
Circular Communities Scotland-
At Circular Communities Scotland, we empower our national network of reuse, repair and recycling charities to grow the circular economy in Scotland
Keep Scotland Beautiful-
As your charity for Scotland’s environment it is our mission to inspire action and changes in behaviour to make a positive difference and keep Scotland beautiful
Zero Waste Scotland-
Zero Waste Scotland exist to lead Scotland to use products and resources more responsibly, focusing on where we can have the greatest effect on reducing climate change together through responsible consumption, responsible production and maximising value through waste
Energy Saving Trust Scotland-
A respected and trusted voice on energy efficiency and clean energy solutions, we continue to work towards a smart, de-carbonised, de-centralised energy system
Home Energy Scotland-
Home Energy Scotland helps people in Scotland create warmer homes, reduce their energy bills, and lower their carbon footprint. We are funded by the Scottish Government and managed by Energy Saving Trust
Local Energy Scotland-
Local Energy Scotland manage CARES – the Scottish Government’s Community and Renewable Energy Scheme. CARES supports communities across Scotland to engage with, participate in and benefit from the energy transition to net zero emissions
Greenspace Scotland –
We work with a wide range of national and local partners on the planning, development, sustainable management, use and evaluation of greenspaces, green networks and blue-green infrastructure
Living Streets Scotland –
Living Streets want to create a nation where walking and wheeling is the natural choice for everyday, local journeys
Sustrans –
Sustrans work for and with communities, helping them come to life by walking, wheeling and cycling to create healthier places and happier lives for everyone
Sustrans –
Sustrans work for and with communities, helping them come to life by walking, wheeling and cycling to create healthier places and happier lives for everyone
Cycling Scotland-
Cycling Scotland is Scotland’s national cycling charity. Working with others, we help create and deliver opportunities and an environment so anyone anywhere in Scotland can cycle easily and safely
Scottish Communities Climate Action Network (SCCAN)-
SCCAN is a volunteer-led network with membership open to any community group across Scotland that is taking action on the climate crisis and to any organisation that is involved with or supports such community-led action
Wellbeing Alliance Scotland-
The Scottish hub of the Wellbeing Economy Alliance
Home Energy Scotland Winter pack-
Our Partnerships Team have put this resource together to support your staff, volunteers and service users with the aim of providing:
- Information about how we can help
- A Getting Ready for Winter web page, full of useful advice and links for your service users
- Information about our training offering, so staff and volunteers can take part in sessions which allow them to provide further help to your service users
- Resources that can be given to service users so they can understand how Home Energy Scotland can help them and know how to get in touch.
Information about how we can help
Please check out the attachment (below) which covers who is who in our Partnerships Team and what they do, as well as information on our Home Energy Scotland referral portal and the training sessions that we deliver to our partner organisations.
Getting Ready For Winter web page
We also have a Getting Ready for Winter section on our Home Energy Scotland website which has links to lots of energy saving advice and other support that is available over the winter. Please do share this with your service users or other partner organisations you feel would benefit.
Getting Ready for Winter with Home Energy Scotland
Contact your Representatives: Local and National Elected Members
Contact your Representatives: Local and National Elected Members
Welcome to our directory of contact details for local and national elected members in Fife and across Scotland. Engaging with your representatives is a vital part of the democratic process, and we are committed to making this as easy and accessible as possible.
To get our voices heard and to seek assistance with local environmental issues we need to connect with our Councillors, Members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs), and Members of Parliament (MPs). Below are some contact details for them.
The best way to get heard is to attend their surgeries in person:
Local Councillors
Our representatives in the Scottish Parliament
Our MP’s representing us in Westminster:
