Welcome to the 5 th Annual Skills Share event! Kerry Lock – Community Engagement Manager
Jammed packed day! 10.15 Opening pitches (CAG / LCH / Community First) 10.45 Morning CAG guide workshop series 12.15 Delicious nosh by Waste2Taste and Tiddlely Pomms local apple juice / CAG’s exhibition 1.15 Afternoon workshop adventures 2.45 Cuppa time 3.00 World Café: The Future of the CAG Network 4.30 Wine O’Clock with Bothy Vineyard
CAG Project Network
CAG Group Thank ‐ U’s and Welcomes Groups who have left: Oxford Food Justice, Monday Shop, Think Tiny, Low Carbon Headington, Headington Swap Shop and Green Appleton Groups who have joined: Oxford City Farm, Local Environmental Action Florence Park (LEAF), Incredible Edible Hook Norton, Transition by Design, the Oxford Conservation Volunteers, Fairer Housing Network, Wallingford Green Gym, Langford Community Orchard.
Some Post Report News ‐ Incredible Edible got £30K from the European social fund to run a year long programme of skills training for people who have been long term unemployed and NEET ‐ Oxford City Farm got funding to put on celebration event and it was attended by over 1000 people ‐ SESI are launching their refill station franchise and are inviting any groups to become refill partners ‐ Feeding the Gaps launched a food access map showing where to find free or discounted food in Oxford for those in food poverty
Some Post Report News ‐ Incredible Edible Hook Norton gained funding to set up an edible school garden ‐ Bicester Green moved premises to the swanky shipping containers Low carbon West Oxford had their 10 th birthday ‐ ‐ RH&ILC have finished the project Eric installing solar around the estate and doing feasibility to look at expanding possibilities of energy generation ‐ At the Oxford Community & Voluntary Action (OCVA) annual awards ceremony 19 groups were nominated for awards ‐ 3 CAG groups won awards for their outstanding projects and dedication, with a further 8 groups being shortlisted for special recognition.
Energized for the Future of CAG • Unlocking the potential of CAGs – CAG Collaborate groups • Future proofing this core network and facilitating sustainable development – strategy development • Diversifying our funding streams ‐ investment funding
World Café Session Ai Aim: to gain an understanding of what the network means to members, capture your aspirations for the future and explore how the network will need to evolve to support you and what infrastructure we need to establish to enable sustainable development. Pu Purpose: to provide an initial evidence ‐ base to feed into the strategic sustainable development planning process of the CAG network over the next 12 months
Discussion . Twitter handles: @CAGOxfordshire or @CAGoxfordshire
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