Action For Involvement » Events http://www.actionforinvolvement.org.uk An independent forum to air and share your views Thu, 03 Jun 2010 11:47:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Climatewalk – A resounding success http://www.actionforinvolvement.org.uk/2009/11/climatewalk-success/ http://www.actionforinvolvement.org.uk/2009/11/climatewalk-success/#comments Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:36:56 +0000 wendy http://www.actionforinvolvement.org.uk/?p=71 Thank you to everyone for making Climatewalk the resounding success that it was. As always we appreciate the generous hospitality of DLA Piper LLP which enabled us to contine providing free events, free event packs and free refreshments open to everyone. Shaun Quegan, Andy Nolan and Panni Poh Yoke Loh respectively contributed their outlook and expertise on climate change issues from the global, local to personal development perspectives. Managing introductions and Q&A session, Perry Walker facilitated a lively discussion followed by the Climatewalk challenges which he developed with colleagues at the New Economics Foundation. By the end of the workshop we all better understood the implications of our carbon footprint and things we need to give up just to maintain the status quo including: long haul flights, one long haul flight every 4 years and allowing Government to disconnect our utility supplies as required. The many stark choices and the validity of our existing lifestyle choices included realisations that: * Biofuel is destroying large amazonian forests while the indiginous population is left to die. * Plastic used in retail, manufacturing, medicine, dentistry is an invisible iceberg and consumer plastic bags is just the tip * Reliance on cars and planes for personal transport and global shipping food is no longer viable. Climatewalk strategies to reverse the situation may seem draconian but the implications of not doing so with temperature increases of up to 6 degrees centigrade were considered infinitely worse. As we all agreed that every little helps, AFI is delighted to say the online registration and related charging policies eliminated waste with a close correlation between registrations and attendees.

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Youth Crime, Knife Crime and the Gun Crime Culture

 

How can we make our streets safe again?

We are proud to announce that DLA Piper LLP, the global law firm’s Sheffield Office has generously offered to host this important Workshop.

Facilitated by Perry Walker, Head of Democracy & Participation at leading London think tank, nef (new economics foundation).

 Keynote speaker: Cllr Paul Scriven, Leader of Sheffield City Council 

 PLUS

 • Michael Hunter, Orion Learning & Development Consultancy – formerly SY Police

• Jackie Freeborne, Chief Executive, Business Education – South Yorkshire

• Darryl Dawson, award-winning Connexions PR & Marketing Consultancy 

We will focus on:

• Identifying key priorities

• Reaching conclusions

• Formulating Outcomes

• Action Points and Next steps

 

Time: 3.30pm – 6.15pm

When: 18th September 2008

Where: DLA Piper LLP, 1 St Paul’s Place, Sheffield, S1 2JX

Registration: 3.30pm for a 3.45pm start

For more details, please call Wendy on 07946 453 258 or 0114 267 8720 or visit our website www.actionforinvolvement.org.uk  The Event Pack can also be downloaded here.
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