How we do it
Who we are • What we do • How we do it • Join our CAN
We’re a group of groups with a similar outlook on the world, similar ideas on its most urgent problems, and the wish to band together to make a better job of solving those problems in Stroud, and contributing to the world effort, than we could apart.
Some of what we do is hands-on, but we think it’s better and more effective if local community groups identify and start solving their unique problems in their own ways, and we help them with that, bringing our skills, experience, connections, support and resources to their efforts as and when they ask us to.
Amongst ourselves, our partner groups all contribute to a core group of representatives that sets the direction for, and directs the activities of, our CAN. Our approach is to either decentralise an activity, initiative or project to the partner group that’s best able to carry it out, or to form a new group where a suitable one doesn’t already exist.
Part of a greater, wider effort
One of the most important things the CAN does is to plug the many super-focused local community groups and projects in Stroud to the global picture and the best and newest thinking so that they can act in the most informed, synergistic and co-ordinated way possible. Our CAN is one of many in a broader local, regional, and national response to the climate and nature crises.
One of our partner organisations, Transition Stroud, runs the District-wide CAN Forum.
The Forum works with the District Council Carbon Neutral team, which is responsible for the District carbon strategy.
Gloucestershire County Council has its own climate change strategy.
And we all follow closely the work of the UK’s independent adviser on tackling climate change.