Tamworth Climate Action (or TCA) is a community group of residents looking to offer community-scale solutions to tackle climate change together, at our own level.
Yes at long last Tamworth has a climate action group, transition town, eco-town, sustainability club, whatever you want to call it!
Start of Tamworth Climate Action
The website domain was just registered in Feb 2022 so nothing fancy yet, we have a Facebook group, Twitter and Instagram, and then we’ll continue to build up this site. Let us know if you’d like to volunteer and help us grow our community!
We set up as an unincorporated association – a not for profit with a bank account and a constitution.
A funding application has been made to Staffordshire’s Climate action fund :
https://www.staffordshire.gov.uk/environment/Climate-change/Climate-Action-Fund.aspx
So now we need to get into action, get the community working together on human scale solutions to climate, energy, finances and environment.
More than you can do alone, and not huge global scale stuff that just seems too big to even start.
We want to have fun, not be all doom and gloom.
Projects
This is what we’ve applied for funding for in the Staffordshire Climate Action fund:
- Tree fostering and planting project: plant 77,000 new trees, 1 for every person in Tamworth. Starting with tiny saplings, residents nurturing them at home till they are big enough to be vandal resistant. We need help looking after them, collecting new seeds in the autumn, finding landowners and getting permission to plant. We’re going to make it fun by using apps and progress badges as you learn about arboriculture!
- A series of outreach workshops looking at how to get families cycling more. Can’t afford a bike?, got one but its broken, got a working one but … er, weather, its stuck at the back of the garage, shopping is too big etc. Let’s find out what is holding us all back ready for future project ideas.
We also have aspirations to start a Climate Emergency Centre that’s going to take some fund raising and team building. Think of a multi use venue where people can attend social events, or meet, co-work and dream up projects and get help making them into reality,
Contact
So then, interested or got better ideas? Jump on board for the journey to create the future that’s emerging by emailing us on: GetInvolved@TamworthClimateAction.org.uk