The MK Melting Pot is organising a Cultural and Sports Fun Day for MK50.
Date – 17th June 2017
Place – Conniburrow Pavilion
Milton Keynes, MK14 7DX.
Time – 11am till 4pm
The MK Melting Pot is organising a Cultural and Sports Fun Day for MK50.
Date – 17th June 2017
Place – Conniburrow Pavilion
Milton Keynes, MK14 7DX.
Time – 11am till 4pm
The MK Melting Pot is organising a Cultural and Sports Fun Day (for the MK Jubilee celebration) on 17th June.
Milton Keynes is a cosmopolitan and vibrant city with people from different background and values. MK Melting Pot plans to host a Cultural and Sports Fun Day event to celebrate MK at 50. This event will bring all the people from diverse cultures together in a fun and creative way. Sport is a great and effective way of bringing people together from different age-groups, gender, ethnicity, and this will mobilise and engage people in coming together in a competitive manner. The Olympics is the best example of how sports can bring different cultures together.
The event will be delivered in a 2 pronged approach, Sports as well as Cultural Celebration activities, which will include: diverse display and tasting of food, cultural artefacts, story-telling, music, poem, fashion show and many more.
Venue: Conniburrow Pavilion, 37-39 Conniburrow Blvd, Conniburrow,
Milton Keynes MK14 7DX
Time: 11:00am-6pm
Contact Name: Elijah Bada & Jade Jaiyeola
Office: +44 1908 585 537 Mobile: +44 757 676 3577 Email: mkmeltingpot@hotmail.com
We are looking for volunteers interested in helping to run the weekly Coffee Afternoons at the Cross & Stable Community Centre in Downs Barn!
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E-mail: Jessica on jessicae@communityactionmk.org
The conference has been organised by the newly formed MK Community Energy Alliance, and sponsored by MK:Smart, and the CAPE Project and is taking place at Camphill Milton Keynes. Camphill is one of the first organisations in Milton Keynes to benefit from solar PV installed by Wolverton Community Energy. The conference is free to attend (with a £5 charge for lunch) but please register online www.ticketsource.co.uk/chrysalismk
For more information please contact:
Marie Osborne, Wolverton Community Energy or Anna Klis-Davies, Community Action MK:
We would like to invite you to a testing session for the website that we have been developing as part of the CAPE, Community Action Platform for Energy project. CAPE website is a new and exciting collaboration platform that will be available free of charge to residents, groups and businesses in Milton Keynes, providing them with access to useful data about their local areas and letting them collaborate through projects.
The CAPE website has now got to a stage, where we are eager to showcase it and ask for feedback from community members on how it should continue to develop before it is launched. It is really vital to us, CAPE Team, to get your feedback about it.
Please come along to our Feedback – Testing Session on Wednesday 25th January at 4pm-6pm at the Tech Mahindra Office – 401 Grafton Gate, Milton Keynes MK9 1AT.
It will be a very informal session over a cup of tea and some delicious Indian snacks provided by our partner, Tech Mahindra. We will show you the CAPE website, let you explore it and ask you to tell us what you think about it. You are welcome to bring your own laptop or use one of the computers provided – whatever works best for you.
We are also happy to reimburse your parking costs.
If you have any questions, please contact Anna at Community Action: MK at anna@communityactionmk.org or call 01908 661 623.
Thank you and we look forward to seeing you on the 25th!
We are delighted to announce that we have teamed up with the Open University to deliver a pilot project in Milton Keynes that will focus on recruiting and training community members to become volunteer Energy Champions in their neighbourhoods and communities.
The project has been made possible thanks to the funding from the Natural Environment Research Council as part of their recent funding call on ‘Engaging the UK public with the big issues of environmental science’. The Energage project is one of 18 across the UK – click here to find out more about this funding initiative.
The initiative is the result of successful collaboration and partnership-working between Community Action: MK and the Open University through the MK:Smart and CAPE, Community Action Platform for Energy, projects. It is also linked to the work of other local organisations in Milton Keynes that promote the concept of community-owned and sustainable energy. These include Transition MK, Wolverton Community Energy (through Citizens:mk) and others involved in MK Community Energy Alliance and other organisations who already provide energy training such as The National Energy Foundation and Citizens Advice Milton Keynes.
There is already a number of local volunteers who champion sustainable energy and environmental awareness in Milton Keynes, and we want to learn from their experiences. Further, we want to attract new people – anyone with an interest in energy and sustainability, and ways of helping their own communities be more sustainable is welcomed to get involved in the project, and is asked to please get in contact with Community Action: MK.
Carbon Conversations event run by Transition MK in 2015. Photo credit: Transition MK
The Energage project will develop a network of Community Energy Champions (COMECs) in Milton Keynes. One important part of the COMECs’ role will be to translate energy-based research from the Open University to the general public in a way that will help them find solutions that work to reduce their own carbon footprint. In return Open University researchers will learn better ways to engage the public with their research. This exchange of knowledge will occur through a series of co-creation workshops, facilitated by Community Action: MK.
Another important part of their role will be to grow the network through recruitment of new volunteers. Initial workshops will be followed by a ‘week of action’ in which COMECs will engage with the public. They will share their experiences amongst the community engagement specialists and Open University researchers. This pilot scheme is intended to be the start of longer term engagement between Open University energy researchers and the public.
Energage hope to build upon activities of the existing CAPE, Community Action Platform for Energy project at the Open University and lots of other energy-related initiatives across the city. The CAPE project aims to help reduce the carbon footprint of Milton Keynes by engaging the public with relevant data; it will also be linking homeowners identified as a good fit for energy saving measures (e.g. solar panels, loft insulation) with companies that can provide products, or to grant providers, such as the MK Council.
We will be actively promoting the project in the next few weeks and updating you about its further plans. If you are interested in getting involved, please click here to register your interest or contact Anna at Community Action: MK on:
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