Action Hampshire works with Hampshire County Council (HCC) to involve under-served communities.
As part of its work on climate action and resilience, HCC ensures it is reaching seldom heard, sometimes known as under-served, communities. To support this work, they collaborated with Action Hampshire, the Community Infrastructure Partnership and Hampshire Climate Action Network, to engage our network of VCSE organisations and the diverse communities in which they are embedded to better understand:
- How underserved communities perceive climate action
- What behaviours they already have that are good for the planet, and their reasons for those behaviours
- What further action they would like to take
- What the barriers are to taking this action
- How their communities could be better enabled to take collective and individual action for the climate, including by understanding the most appropriate communications messaging.
Demystifying climate action
The resulting project was ‘Hampshire Communities for People and Planet’ (HCPP). Action Hampshire and the Community Infrastructure Partnership recruited 19 VCSE organisations from across Hampshire to take part in the project that used the ‘Action Hampshire way’ of engagement. The participating organisations were invited to attend an introductory workshop led by Hampshire Climate Action Network, who shared their knowledge on climate action in the areas of energy, transport, food, and consumption.
Following this, the VCSEs were funded to undertake two workshops with their community members to share this knowledge to demystify climate action and explore the topic of climate action in relation to community members’ needs and lives. VCSE representatives were invited to share these insights in focus groups with other VCSEs who engage with similar communities, to understand the similarities and differences between groups experiences and develop recommendations based on these.
Read the insights from the project
All the insights from the project were gathered in a ‘Compendium of Insights, Actions & Recommendations’ which is now available to read on HCC’s website:
Follow this link to read the report
Interested in learning more about the findings and community recommendations?
To celebrate the launch of this report and all of the hard work undertaken by communities as part of this project, we’re hosting a HCPP Report Launch event on Thursday 11 September 12:00 – 13:30 and would love to invite you to attend.
At this in-person event at The Point, Eastleigh we will present the main findings, have short presentations from some of the organisations involved in the project, and a Q&A opportunity followed by lunch.
