This year, Climate Clarity CIC has run 178 free/low cost sustainability workshops for the community: 127 with local groups, 30 with schools and universities, and 21 with public authorities. These activities were made possible by our corporate work, selling and delivering 121 workshops to businesses. Arguably, every single one of our workshops provide benefit to the community because every person who attends a corporate workshop holds many roles as well as ‘employee’: we are educating parents, community leaders, councillors, trustees, volunteers, consumers, voters, sportspeople, writers, worshippers - in short, citizens of all kinds. We are raising awareness among the general population of Britain about climate issues and what we can all do to rise to the challenge together. For our community work, we received a grant from the National Lottery Fund which continues to fund a climate education project, working with 8 Climate Emergency Centres across the UK. We offer the Climate Fresk workshop to the Centres and then follow up with training and coaching so they can facilitate the workshop themselves. This can be used as an outreach tool to bring the general public into the Centres and help them engage with the climate crisis in a fun, interactive and action-focused way. We are planning a big community benefit event in the North of England which will bring community leaders together and equip them with a useful outreach tool. This will help us engage more with ‘out of London’ climate campaigners and actors, which has been a goal of ours for several years. One of our team is based in Derby and is spearheading this event. Additionally, we have offered regular free educational workshops for community benefit online and in-person - such as the Digital Collage, Textiles Untangled, Construction Collage, Biodiversity Collage, and Mobility Collage. This year, we have added some new workshops into our repertoire, including the Adapting to Climate Change workshop which introduces a highly practical framework for communities to assess their risks and vulnerabilities to climate impacts and to then find effective ways to protect and adapt. These workshops inform people about the environmental impact of different industries and areas, and bring people together to discuss how to reduce emissions in these sectors. They appeal to different interests and expertise that people have, giving our offerings a broader range of appeal and engaging people who might not participate in a Climate Fresk workshop. We continue to refine and experiment with our core offering to maximise the impact of the experience. It is important to us to be able to give clear data and evidence for how our workshops can lead to tangible change, rather than relying on experiential and anecdotal evidence. We will continue to develop this in the coming year. We have been working with Bonny Williams, a marketing strategy consultant for purpose-driven small businesses. She has helped us understand better how we gather leads and how opportunities flourish, and helped us create a plan for the year that budgeted for events and scheduled key core activities. This is helping us plan ahead and make more considered choices when it comes to exhibiting and marketing what we do.

Arguably, every person on the planet has a stake in creating a safe, livable future for human beings. Our key stakeholders include people who feel concerned about the climate crisis, employees who work in sustainability teams and are trying to meet ESG goals, community climate action groups, young people, partners and collaborators in the ecosystem, e.g. other climate education actors (notably Climate Fresk NGO) and sustainability consultants. We have been consulting with the community groups we work with to see what kind of offerings would serve their needs best. We met their request for a broader variety of workshops by training to run different new interactive workshops, such as Energy Collage and Adapting to Climate Change. We continue to work on pricing and how to make our workshops accessible, while also understanding our value and charging a small sum for our services - this has the essential benefit of creating a commitment to attend, as opposed to a free event which usually has a high drop-out rate. We ran a Freskival event and put in low-cost/free tickets for those who could not afford the ticket price. This enabled some interested students to come and connect with professionals and others in the sustainability ecosystem. We are passionate about engaging young people in these issues and helping them access opportunities, as they are the leaders of the future. We are in constant consultation with sustainability leads and teams in companies about how we can best serve them on their company journey to sustainability. Recently, we have been developing a bigger package that surrounds our workshops that includes more careful tailoring and much more follow up, in the form of group calls and climate action impact email sequences. This is in response to feedback we’ve had that the workshop is very much enjoyed on the day but that the issue slips down people’s priority list as the buzz fades from the event. We are building more external accountability and touchpoints for people, so they can regularly reconnect with both the issue and others who care about it too. Without a community to support and an outside deadline for actions, it is hard for people to keep the motivation and keep pushing forward small positive changes. This is still in its early stages, but the response from stakeholders has been very promising, and they are glad for the chance to keep working with us and gain assistance to meet their goals.

£36,782 was paid in directors' remuneration during the year.

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