MEA's Carbon Forum team have been developing a new training programme to train trainers in delivering their flagship community action scheme - Carbon College. The new training programme means that more people can now benefit from this very productive learn and do scheme, harnessing the creativity at a grass roots level to create vibrant and informed responses to the important issues of fuel poverty and climate change.

Carbon College combines a series of awareness raising workshops with help in planning out and running community based projects, all with a focus on climate change and/or sustainable energy. The scheme gives a core group community's members a solid grounding in energy awareness and all the skills needed to make a difference in their community - from fund raising and planning projects to using those plans to create some really effective action. In this way, the scheme empowers the group to help to cut rates of local fuel poverty and to raise general awareness of energy issues and ways of keeping carbon emissions down at safe levels.

Community leaders or established community groups can now sign up for the training - to be given all the instruction and equipment needed so that they can run the workshop series and support sessions for a Carbon College scheme of their own.

Anyone interested in registering for this training programme or finding out more can contact Nancy Davies (nancy@mea.org.uk or 01743 277 113)