SEAchange: Slains Environmental Action for change
SEAchange Woodland now planted and Community Garden started!
The 15,400 trees in our community woodland have now been planted, in addition to one hundred extra trees donated and planted by Calum Falconer (thanks Calum!).Paths have been mowed by George Hitchcock (thanks George!).Because the trees are very small and easily damaged, we would be very grateful if you could stick to the paths when…
The trees are being planted!!!
About two-thirds of the trees have now been planted, on beautiful warm sunny days. It’s going well, and we are excited to see our new woodland being created at last! The trees are looking very healthy as they go in – native broadleaf, and caledonian scots pine – with some sycamore also forming part of…
Have your say
Community Enterprise have set up an independent survey asking for feedback about SEAchange’s use of the big funding award from the Rural and Island Communities Ideas into Action Fund.It’s very short, and we hope you may find a few minutes to fill it in. Community Enterprise have written:SEAchange has been undertaking a short funded programme…
Planting trees!
We have just heard that the contractor is planning to start planting trees on Thursday 20th April.Since there have been concerns expressed by some in the community over the use of the weedkiller, Roundup, we would like to hear what you think before planting starts.Some of you have asked for more detail on the reasons…
Funding award
SEAchange are delighted to receive £96,727 from the Rural & Island Communities Ideas into Action fund, a Scottish Government programme aimed at supporting “community groups to design and deliver innovative solutions to local challenges in rural communities across Scotland”. This funding has been awarded to enable SEAchange to plant 18,000 trees, to produce a final…
Thank you!
It was great to see so many at SEAchange’s open day on May 21st – thank you to all of you who came and gave us your comments, concerns and suggestions. Community Enterprise are still working on their report which will we hope bring all of these into a constructive way forward. Meanwhile here is…
Latest films…
You can watch Fiona Bell’s two latest short SEAchange films by clicking on the links: Tree-planting on 5th March 2022…. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAuWvP2wyTw Open Day on 21st May 2022…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpcvu_AcrtY
First trees planted!!!
On Saturday 5th June 2021 we celebrated planting the first trees with the p7s from Slains School and many others, young and not so young, all working together and enjoying beautiful sunshine in the Kirkland field. Click here for a link to Fiona Bell’s 3 minute video of the day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikFnuM55pFo If you would like…
Must-see new 3 min video
With graphics by Fiona Bell, and science facts from Prof Jo Smith this video is both fun and informative – illustrating what each of us can do to cut our carbon footprint to a smaller size. Cut a tonne in 21 !! https://youtu.be/H4s3tw7FF9U
Ownership news!
As of 31st March, SEAchange now owns the land for creating a community woodland, as well as the kirk building with a small piece of land alongside the graveyard. We’re very grateful to the Scottish Land Fund for their grant award which has made this possible. We’re excited to be starting out on this new…
More trees planted 5th March 2022
On Saturday 5th March there was a SEAchange open Day to plant more trees in the Kirk Wood as we have received 420 trees from the Woodland Trust, and also trees from Slains School. More than 50 people had fun planting them as you can see in this 2 minute film by Fiona Bellhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAuWvP2wyTw seachange41@btinternet.com
SEAchange Meetings
SEAchange meetings are continuing online during this time when we can no longer gather in person. You can follow what is happening here on the website, or on our Facebook page. You are welcome to join us for discussion and planning future action, sharing progress, and listening to invited speakers. Fill in the website form,…
A Vital Step for SEAchange
SEAchange has been awarded a grant from The Scottish Land Fund, which enables the purchase of the old Slains Kirk building for community use, together with land on which to plant trees to begin to offset our community carbon footprint. This funding will be a big step forward in realising a community project which began…
A Brief Outline
What we want to do and why Our vision is to become net carbon neutral as a community by 2045 at the latest, and to try to achieve net zero emissions as soon as possible. We aim to do this through changes in the ways we travel, the ways we heat our homes, the ways…
Carbon Neutral Community
Our aim is to work towards becoming a carbon neutral community. We need to address our large carbon footprint, because we are a mainly commuting community, with high heating bills from living in old stone houses. We aim to do this in a number of ways: One of our team is Professor Pete Smith, FRS,…
Activities
Longer Term: Running a café which will be a centre for sharing information about climate change and what individuals can do through lifestyle choices. There will be wall displays with information about low carbon living Our café will give a lead by example in sourcing all food as locally as possible, by providing exciting plant-based…
Grant Funding
We have already been awarded grant funding to develop this project. Our very warm thanks go to The Scottish Land Fund for their award of grant funding to purchase the Slains Kirk building for community use as a centre for the SEAchange project.They have also awarded us funding to purchase nearby land on which to…
Cafe
It will be a café that people will enjoy coming to, with a welcoming atmosphere of warmth and informality. The café will provide a place for people to meet each other on a drop-in basis – a need expressed by the community. Our café will give a lead by example in sourcing all food as…
Positive outcomes for the community
Our project’s aim to work in practical ways towards becoming a carbon neutral community will not only make an important contribution to the future environment, it also provides a focus around which we can come together as a community to work as a team. Other benefits of the community woodland are to provide leisure and…
Slains Environmental Action for Change 