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The Key
- Oxfordshire's Sustainability Newsletter
Febrauary 2012 Issue No. 11 below
for February 2012 Issue No. 10 click here
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February
2012 | Issue 11 |
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Welcome to
the The Key, your fortnightly guide to the
news, events, funding and jobs from Oxfordshire's
environmental community.
To submit content for The
Key please contact Peter Lefort at
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Oxfordshire hungry for community kitchens
The website for
DinnerTime, a brand new community kitchen idea,
has gone live, complete with a step-by-step handbook
detailing how to put on your own event.
New round of Feed-In Tariff consultations
DECC have
announced new developments and the next stage of
consultation around Feed-In Tariffs. Find out the
details and the reaction from the Low Carbon
Communities Network website.
New push for EU tar sands ban kicks off
People & Planet,
with the Co-operative, Lush, UK Tar Sands Network and
UKYCC, are ramping-up activities to shift UK opposition
to a proposed European Union tar sands ban for for the
much-delayed European Fuel Quality Directive vote on 23
February.
Call for views on the National Adaptation Programme
Defra are
looking to work with businesses, civil society and local
government to develop the UK’s first National Adaptation
Programme to maintain the resilience of the UK to
climate change and changing weather.
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Co-operative Community
Energy Challenge: around £20,000 plus extensive
support for six to eight communities, enabling them to
initiate co-operative renewable energy projects at a
significant scale
Deadline 29 February
Buy Better Together
Challenge: £60k towards training, mentoring and
seed funding for stand out projects to help inspire new
models of community buying, stimulate enterprise and
promote shared learning.
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Project Manager (Sustainabilty)
- Acre
Full time, permanent, up to £34k.
Full details here
Gardening Specialist -
Restore
Full time, £16,830 to £17,802 pa, across Oxfordshire.
Full details here - Closing date 20 February
Marketing & Supporters
Scheme Coordinator - Pond Conservation
Part time, fixed term, £22,000 - £25,000 pa pro rata,
Oxford.
Full details here - Closing date 27 February
Principal Ecologist -
ADAS
Full time, permanent, £38,178 - £45,773, Abingdon.
Full details here - Closing date 29 February
Human Resources
Manager - Berks, Bucks & Oxon Wildlife Trust
Full time, permanent, up to £30,000, Oxford.
Full details here - Closing date 1 March
Love Nature Week
Fundraising Internship - RSPB
Part time, temporary, voluntary, Banbury.
Full details here - Closing date 4 April
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News
Oxfordshire hungry
for community kitchens
New round of Feed-In
Tariff consultations
New push for EU tar
sands ban kicks off
Call for views on the
National Adaptation Programme
Events
Upcoming events
Future events
Funding
Jobs
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Half-way there – Surge of support for Cultivate!
Only four
weeks in from their launch, Cultivate’s community share
offer is already half-way to achieving its investment
target.
The community share offer,
which was launched last month, has got off to a flying
start with more than thirty thousand pounds worth of
investment from people in Oxfordshire coming forward
already.
Tom Curtis, Cultivate’s
Chairman writes,
“This opportunity for people
to invest in their own local food supply has obviously
touched a nerve. We are delighted and emboldened by the
strength of positive support Cultivate is receiving, and
by the fact that so many people are willing to play a
practical role by making a financial investment.
“I think the level of support
we are getting reflects the fact that people want to
have a food supply they can believe in, and also one
they can take part in.”
The share offer is due to
close on 16th April, by which time Cultivate hope to
have raised £55,000 in investment. For more information
on how to invest, see
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February 2012 Issue No 10
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February 2012 | Issue 10 |
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Welcome to the The Key, your
fortnightly guide to the news, events, funding
and jobs from Oxfordshire's environmental
community.
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The Key please contact Peter Lefort at
peter.lefort@resourcefutures.co.uk.
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email.
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Bicester Reuse Centre gets green light
Funding has been
secured by Cherwell District Council,
Oxfordshire County Council and
the Community Action Group Project
to develop the idea of a reuse centre
in Bicester.
Student climate forum brings experts to
Oxfordshire
The Oxford
Climate Forum runs from Friday 3 to
Saturday 4 February, with speakers including
Mark Lynas, Special Advisor on Climate Change to
the President of the Maldives; John Aston, the
FCO envoy on climate change; and John Vidal, the
Environment Editor for the Guardian.
Sign up now for the Big Green Bike Ride
Entry to the
Friends of the Earth cycle trip from
London to Edinburgh in May closes in late
February. Ride the full 500 miles in six days,
or join for just a day.
Climate Change Risk Assessment shows the UK
needs to adapt
Defra
have published ‘The Climate Change Risk
Assessment (CCRA)‘, highlighting the top 100
challenges to the UK and its economy of a
changing climate and “provides the most
compelling evidence yet of the need to increase
our resilience”. A Government report published
alongside the CCRA gives details of plans which
will address some of the risks identified.
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The Funding
Network - Oxford: £5,000 for social
change projects. Deadline 14 February.
TOE2:
Up to £2,000 towards practical or capital
projects promoting accessibility of green space.
See box below for full details.
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Assistant
Community Manager (Supplier Engagement Service)
- 2degrees
£18-25k.
Full details here - Closing date ASAP (and
ongoing call for further posts)
Research
Fellow, Building Performance Evaluation - Oxford
Brookes University
2 years, £28,251, rising annually to £30,870.
Oxford.
Full details here - Closing date 7 February
Gardening
Specialist - Restore
Full time, £16,830 to £17,802 pa, across
Oxfordshire.
Full details here - Closing date 20 February
Public
Relations Manager – CPRE Oxfordshire
Part time - 15 hours a week, for 2 years. £10k,
Wheatley/home.
Full details here – Closing date 20 February
Research Consultant
- Aether
Full time, permanent, salary dependent on
experience.
Full details here - Closing date 29 February
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Bicester
Reuse Centre gets green light
Student
climate forum brings experts to Oxfordshire
Sign up now
for the Big Green Bike Ride
Climate
Change Risk Assessment shows the UK needs to adapt
Events
Upcoming
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Future events
Funding
Jobs
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