For community organisations across the Scottish Borders

Greening a Community Building - Larger Premises

Bridging the Gap through Knowledge Transfer.

Funded by UK Government through the UK Community Renewal Fund.

This registration is for the larger premises air to water heating workshop.

This course is delivered by A Heart for Duns (Lindsay Wood) discussing larger premises air to water heating.

The course content will include the range of energy saving measures introduced by A Heart for Duns: insulation, new heating and lighting systems etc., to reduce carbon emissions and maximise the benefits of renewable energy. The solutions for their premises may not be the most appropriate for individual workshop participants, but the processes used to come to the right decisions for them, and take them forward as a project, will be the same for all. We will also provide information on other types of renewable energy solutions, and the feasibility studies on offer will help to identify what is the most appropriate in each case.

This registration is for the larger premises air to water heating workshop. The Bridge are also running a smaller premises /air-to-air heating discussion. In view of the interest in these topics participant organisations will be allocated to the most appropriate course, based on the scale of their own premises. Please contact the organiser direct to enquire.

Air to Water heating workshops sessions take place Tuesdays at10am to 12 noon and each session is repeated at 2pm - 4pm.

• Session One - Tuesday 26th April 2022
• Session Two - Tuesday 3rd May 2022
• Session Three - Tuesday 10th May 2022
• Session Four - Tuesday 17th May 2022
• Session Five - Tuesday 24th May 2022

Each topic will be covered in a short course of 5 weekly online sessions. A plenary session/conference will take place mid/end of June to bring all participants together.

Workshops will take place online during the day, each session will last up to 2 hours and will be very interactive to capture all your queries as we go along. “Learning Journeys” will be delivered as films/photos of the various activities in action, screened as part of the workshops, with opportunities for discussion of what you are seeing, just as in a real-life visit.

All those who sign up for a Workshop course will be offered the opportunity to have a feasibility study/technical report carried out via our project, by a consultant appropriate to the area of work. These studies are fully funded with an aim to help organisations move forward quickly with the development of a project.

Participants will share their own experiences as part of these sessions, and questions raised will help us to produce How To Guides/Toolkits that are realistic and achievable. We will support and encourage those who take forward their own project to stay in contact with each other so that networks of like organisations/ projects can continue to share, learn and work together.