CSF Open Forum

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CSF Open Forum AGM 14th March
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Calderdale Sustainability Forum

• Website redesigned and up-to-date
  www.sustainablecalderdale.org.uk
• Latest news item What is Calderdale's
  'Ecological Footprint'?
• Spring 06 newsletter available online
• Now located at GBN. Contact
  info_at_sustainablecalderdale.org.uk or leave a
  message 01422 316661

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CSF Open Forum AGM 14th March

• Climate Change Partnership
• Calderdale Waste Partnership
• Calder Future
• Calderdale Transport partnership
• Calderdale Biodiversity Partnership
• Calderdale housing campaign
• And much more ..
• Then Annual General Meeting

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Calderdale Climate Change Partnership

• What needs to be done now to tackle climate
  change here in Calderdale?
• Council Strategy
• Whats been happening regionally and nationally

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www.yourclimate.org
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www.climatechallenge.gov.uk
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Calderdale Climate Change Partnership

• CSF bid to the DEFRA Climate Challenge fund for a
  Calderdale-wide communications campaign
• Partners Council, Environment Agency, Yorkshire
  Forward, GBN, Calderdale Forward, Pennine 2000,
  Metro and others
• Closing date 31st March

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Calderdale Waste Partnership

• What should we be doing now to increase recycling
  to new government targets?
• www.recycleforcalderdale.org
• Recycling rewards for schools
  www.recycle4schools.net

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Recycle for Calderdale
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Recycle for Calderdale
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Calderdale Waste Partnership

• Council's new waste strategy
• What might it say
• What will happen in 2006

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Calder Future River Partnership

• Progress so far 2005-6 and new developments
• new Volunteers Coordinator
• River Calder Day Saturday 3rd June
• Opportunities for involvement

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CSF Transport Partnership

• Some progress at last
• Councils proposed extensive programme of bus
  priority measures
• Calderdale Council Travel Plan
• www.calderdalecarshare.com
• Calderdale Forward now taking a long-term look at
  our future transport challenges

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Introducing the new Volunteer BAP Coordinator

• Edie Jolley

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Calderdales BAP

• Whats That?

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Calderdales Priority Habitats

• National
• Ancient / species rich hedgerows
• Blanket bog
• Fens
• Lowland mixed deciduous woodland
• Ponds and lakes
• Reedbeds
• Upland heathland
• Upland oakwood
• Wet woodland

• Regional
• Canals
• Flushes
• Rivers and streams
• Scrub
• Unimproved grasslands
• Veteran trees
• Urban - Brownfield Sites of Ecological Importance

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Calderdales Priority Species
Pink Waxcap
Water vole
Twite
( 291 other species)
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How businesses can get involved

• Come to the Business Biodiversity Conference on
  20th June 2006 and find out how we can help you
  with
• Employee volunteering and team building
• Site biodiversity surveys and advice on managment
  for priority species
• Direct action eg. creating a nature reserve on
  your site
• Sponsorship eg. sponsor a species

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How individuals can get involved

• Volunteer on local wildlife surveys eg toads
• Join a local or national wildlife group
• Become a Countryside Services volunteer
• Plant native flowers in your garden
• Put up a nest box
• Build a pond
• Encourage your local residents association/school/
  golf club to manage a local area for wildlife

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Calderdale Housing Campaign

• More greenfield housing on the way?
• Question of affordability
• What the Regional Spatial Strategy is proposing?
• And what PPS3 might do?
• www.calderdalehousing.org.uk

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Calderdale sustainability organisations

• Sustainable Development Team
• Green Business Network
• Alternative Technology Centre
• Treesponsibility
• Calderdale Forward

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Calderdale Sustainability Forum

• Your chance to get involved
• If you want to know more about an item, or
  participate in an Action Partnership, just
  indicate on the form and hand it in
• And were online www.sustainablecalderdale.org.uk
  info_at_sustainablecalderdale.org.uk

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Annual General Meeting Calderdale Sustainability
Forum Ltd

• Apologies for Absence
• Minutes of AGM on 25th Oct 2004
• Annual report of Chair of CSF Ltd Anthony Rae
• Report of Acting Treasurer (including Annual
  Accounts 2004/5) Keith Huyton
• Appointment of Auditors

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Annual General Meeting Calderdale Sustainability
Forum Ltd

• Report of Company Secretary (including any
  proposals for changes to the Articles of
  Associations) Sue Scholefield
• Appointment and retirement of Directors to
  (re)elect directors to the Board of CSF

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