About

Lockleaze Neighbourhood Trust was funded by the National Lottery’s Climate Action Fund, to co-producte a community climate action plan combining what residents want and need with tackling climate action. Community Climate Action is a Bristol based project enabling six communities to take action to improve local resident’s lives and our environment, and help Bristol become a carbon neutral city.

Climate change is affecting all of us and now it’s more important than ever to be reducing our impact on the Earth. Being environmentally friendly is not only good for the planet, but for our health and wellbeing and for our economy. This is an exciting opportunity to work with our neighbours and with other communities in the city, to ensure we all have healthier and happier lives now and for our future generations.

Our story so far

The Bristol Community Climate Action Project consists of a partnership of community organisations across the city: Ashley Community & Housing Ltd, Ambition Lawrence Weston, Bristol Disability Equality Forum, Eastside Community Trust, Heart of BS13 and Lockleaze Neighbourhood Trust, supported by Bristol Green Capital Partnership, the Centre for Sustainable Energy and Bristol City Council (Sustainability and Climate Change Team) and sees Bristol’s communities stepping into a leadership role in the city demonstrating their ability to respond to the challenges of climate change with effective, community-led action.

The programme is led by six Bristol organisations representing communities experiencing multiple deprivation who have traditionally been excluded from the climate change debate and responses to it. During 2021 these community partners have developed Community Climate Action Plans in collaboration with the communities they represent, which will reduce emissions, and lead effective carbon reduction programmes in their own communities and across Bristol. The priorities identified in these plans will be implemented from 2022 onwards, with the extent of the delivery depending on the funding and support response to the Community Climate Action Plans from the wider city and beyond.

In Lockleaze this project has been facilitated by Lockleaze Neighbourhood Trust - you can read more about the wider project partners here.

The Community Climate Action plan was built on conversations in real life, over Zoom and through social media. We used the data and the aspirations of residents expressed at events through conversations and surveys. We built on existing knowledge from the community plan and the current baseline of what was already happening in Lockleaze at the beginning of the project. Our Festival of Solutions, which ran from July until October, was a key part of the co-production phase that allowed residents to talk to us and our partners about their concerns and explore ways to address issues in focused days of activities and events. Activities during the festival included: a cycle ride to local food producers, film screenings by Local Down to Earth film collective, Wildlife Wonders, Walk on the Wild Side with Steve England, community cooking lessons, Love Your Lungs banner workshops, upcycle events (clothes repair and renew), FutureProof Your Home, a community feast, Talking about Transport, a clothes swap and the ‘No Music on a Dead Planet’ gig.

Really Wild Lockleaze

The National Lottery is funding each partner to take forward part of their project. We are taking forward actions for nature. This builds on things Lockleaze cares about, tackles threats to nature from all the housing developments and also looks at the actions we can take in our own homes and gardens to support a really wild Lockleaze. Read more about this project here.

Throughout the project, we have worked alongside these local organisations:

Bristol Energy Network

Bristol Climate Hub

Bristol Waste 

Bristol Ideas

Lifecycle

TravelWest

Friends of the Earth Bristol

Grow Wilder 

Zerowest

Global goals 

FareShare South West