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Spot the bodyguards competition

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Attended the launch event of the Prince of Wales’ START programme held at the Botanic Gardens at Llanarthne yesterday.

The event was a compendium of separate launches of a disparate but related set of initiatives which included the ‘Size of Wales’, the Carmarthenshire Community Challenge and The Prince’s Regeneration Trust’s Green Guide for Historic Buildings.

I attended a talk given by Nell Hellier of Tywi Afon Yr Oesoedd on the conservation of older Welsh buildings which was very interesting. I hope to go on their lime plastering course in October.

Altogether there was too much to see and do and not enough time to do it.

(Click the photo for a larger version – no, there isn’t any prize for guessing which two are members of SO14.)

Community Action for Climate Change Network

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I attended the Community Action for Climate Change Network event held in Carmarthen today. The network is a Welsh Assembly organised and funded group for raising awareness about and helping communities to reduce their carbon footprints.

Several of the ‘usual suspects’ were present and I also met some interesting new people as well, such as Chris Blake, the chairman of The Green Valleys project. Also bumped into Anne from FoE Carmarthen who I hadn’t seen for a couple of years.

Some very interesting and thought provoking presentations by Cassie Lishman of the Lammas low impact village project and by Chris Blake on funding models. Chatted with Rhodri Thomas, a Development Officer with Cynnal Cymru, who has written and starred in a very funny short video – Eco Worriers – with welsh comedy legend Boyd Clack.
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Feed-in Tariff Consultation Workshop

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Attended the follow-up workshop to the original Feed-In Tariff Conference that West Wales ECO Centre organised back in May. This meeting was held in Pembroke Dock and about a third of the original conference attendees turned up in order to formulate the group’s FiTs consultation response to submit to DECC.

The meeting was chaired by Peter Davies while Jake Hollyfield and Charlie Mason facilitated.

The final output is detailed here: www.ecocentre.org.uk/en/renewableenergy/reprojects/fitworkshop

I shall also be putting together my own response to the FiTs consultation and submitting to DECC over the next week or so.

(As a complete aside – the meeting was held in Sunderland House and the Sunderland Trust occupy the adjacent buildings which were the home of the WWII RAF flying boats. I didn’t have time to explore there but must go back for a visit sometime.)