[Netnews-action] 4 march: Training event details for waste activists

[Manchester Campaigns]

-------- Forwarded Message --------
> From: Frank Kennedy <frankk at foe.co.uk>

> Please bring this to the attention of the person/s in your group
> involved in waste/resource use/recycling campaigns.  It will also be
> of interest to local planning activists.  It is *not* only for Friends
> of the Earth groups - if you know someone else, or some other local
> group, who would appreciate this event, do please let them know.
> 

> 
> Frank
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>                       Getting Waste Policy Right
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>              An Active Training Day for Waste Campaigners
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>               Hosted by Friends of the Earth North West
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>                         Saturday 4 March 2006
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>                                                              Committee
> Room 4
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>                               Manchester
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>                               Town Hall,
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>                           11.00 am - 3.00 pm
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> Entrance on Lloyd St: follow walking signs from Piccadilly/Oxford
> Rdstations or take tram to St Peter’s Square. Contact on day: 07793
> 594365
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>                         Free for community group members
>                         
>                         Facilitators:  Anna Watson, Friends of the
>                         Earth National Campaigner (Resource Use);
>                         Frank Kennedy, NW Regional Campaigns
>                         Coordinator 
>                         
>         
>         Purposes of the day:   
>         
>         - to raise awareness of the National and NW Regional Waste
>         Strategy consultations and opportunities for community input;
>         
>         - to explain and discuss Friends of the Earth’s approach to
>         waste planning policy;
>         - to assist community groups in preparing responses to these
>         consultations;
>         - to discuss the environmental and social implications of the
>         key options for resource use and waste public planning;
>         - to provide the opportunity for networking among voluntary
>         and community campaigners and practitioners concerned with
>         waste planning issues.
>         
>         Morning Session:      Manchester Town Hall
>         
>         A chance for campaigners to discuss the policy issues and
>         tactics around working on the North West Regional Waste
>         Strategy.
>         
>         11.00          Welcome and introductions
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>         11.15          What is the Regional Waste Strategy?
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>                            - how it relates to National Waste Strategy
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>                            - how it relates to Regional Spatial
>         Strategy
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>         11.40          How groups and communities can influence the
>         RWS
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>         12.00          The Draft Strategy for NW England: 
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>                   Friends of the Earth’s perspective
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>         12.30          What’s happening around the region?
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>                            - sharing information from our local areas
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>         1.00            Lunch and informal networking
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>         2.00            End of session
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>         Afternoon:      [from 3pm, based at Manchester Friends of the
>         Earth market stall, Piccadilly Gardens]
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>         2.00-4.00    Those able to stay are invited to join Manchester
>         Friends of the Earth members in a simple questionnaire
>         exercise, collecting the public’s views on the Government's
>         proposals for how to deal with waste in England.
>         
> -- 
> Frank Kennedy
> Regional Campaigns Coordinator (North West)
> Friends of the Earth
> 60 Duke Street
> Liverpool
> L1  5AA
> T:  0151 707 4328 [F: 4329]
> frankk at foe.co.uk

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