EcoArt in Kircudbright hosts Climate: ACTION!

The D&G Climate Hub is hosted by the Galloway & Southern Ayrshire Biosphere Partnership and is active across the entirety of Dumfries & Galloway, with officers working in allocated regions supporting community-led climate action. The Climate Hub offers seed funding, facilitation, learning resources, advice, and networking opportunities and is one of the national network of community climate hubs funded by Scottish Government through Let’s Do Net Zero. Winter 2024 marks a year since the D&G Climate Hub launched and innovative new projects are taking shape all the time.

There was full house for the inaugural Kirkcudbright Climate Kitchen on 22nd October at EcoArt Studios, which takes place monthly on. It is a venue that feels like being in someone’s home, but one in which there are environmentally conscious activities for all happening several times a week! The evening began with attendees meeting each other across a bowl of parsnip soup made with surplus food.

We then settled in for a screening of Climate: Action! D&G Climate Hub’s short film featuring a selection of community projects who benefitted from the first round of seed funding launched in December 2024. One of the featured projects was the Kirkcudbright Repair Café which takes place monthly in the very same venue. There was a tangible sense of pride and motivation in the room among those gathered, some of whom had not attended an event like it before.

Following a short talk from Sarah Thomas (Climate Officer for Wigtownshire and Stewartry) about what the Climate Hub is and does, Green Party representative Laura Moodie responded to the film and invited the audience to share their stories of the climate action they were involved in, even on a small scale. Highlights included a Gatehouse of Fleet WhatsApp Group for carpooling, that had been used to bring a carload of people to this event. And in a tool sharing highlight, one attendee found her long lost sander, borrowed by another attendee who had come along. EcoArt hopes to build on ideas brought to the room and is encouraging carpooling WhatsApp groups in every village. Car use is one of the biggest contributors of carbon in D&G and doing this is an easy step that could make a big impact.

Find out more about the D&G Climate Hub and view the upcoming calendar of local events on this page. Events hosted by the Climate Hub are advertised on GSAB’s Eventbrite page, follow us on that platform to keep up to date. Got questions about how to get involved? Email us at info@gsabiosphere.org.uk.