Funding Socials: Environmental Focus (Stirling) - 23rd January

Funding Socials is an inspiring in-person event series designed for charity and social enterprise leaders looking for fresh ideas and connections to help boost income through cost saving and support information. For this one off session we will specifically focus on people and planet, ways to save energy and support for your net-zero outcomes.

Our session in Stirling, we will be hosted at the Barracks, part of the Robertson Trust.

The event is designed to help you cross the divide and connect with experts and new peers, who can help you on your journey.

We will break up into small groups for you to meet and ask questions of:

Matt Lewis, Circular Communities Scotland , Sam Moir, Manager - Prevention and reuse, Zero Waste Scotland. Joanne McClelland and Aythan Lewes, EALA Impacts and Kieran Daly, Head of Market Building at Social Investment Scotland.

Naomi Johnson will facilitate the session with the aim of creating an informal and accessible event.

Matt, Sam, Joannne, Aythan and Kieran will explain the support they offer charities and social enterprises and be ready to answer any questions you have.

You will be given a warm welcome with teas/coffees on arrival and the session will close with a light lunch, where you will have the chance to mix with experts and peers and make some new connections.

10.00 - 10.30: Arrival and networking

10.30 - 11.30: Small Group presentations

11:30 - 12.00: Working out your funding next steps

12.00 - 13.00: Networking lunch

Matt Lewis, Circular Communities Scotland

Matt is lead the Member Services Team that delivers the membership functions for Circular Communities Scotland, supporting our diverse member network and helping them get the most out of their membership. He manages the Events Officer, who runs our annual events programme, and the Communications and Campaigns Officer, who delivers our marketing output.
Matt has been in post since 2011 but have links with the organisation all the way back to 2004 when the original organisation, Community Recycling Network Scotland, was formed. Matt holds an Environmental Science BSc and a science teaching qualification and am a member of the Chartered Institution of Wastes Management (CIWM).

Joanne McClelland, EALA Impacts 

Joanna is an Accredited Conservation Architect with the RIBA. Jo’s twin passions of conservation and sustainability are shown in her work as well as memberships of the RIAS boards for both areas, as well as memberships of SEDA, SPAB and IHBC. Jo is currently the EAA President, a trustee of the RIAS, and Treasurer of the Edinburgh Building Retrofit & Improvement Collective. The Collective is a community support organisation to improve the relationship of people and their buildings in
Edinburgh. She was responsible for the Edinburgh RIAS COP26 activities, including the steering group of SpACE – Space for Architecture Carbon and Environment. Jo is a tutor at the Edinburgh School of Architecture & Landscape Architecture (ESALA).

Aythan Lewes is a Chartered Building Surveyor focused on how a knowledge of Building Physics and its intersection with triple bottom line sustainability can positively impact wider society. Aythan is currently a member of the RICS Scotland Sustainability Group and Chair of the Edinburgh Building Retrofit & Improvement Collective. Aythan was the sole Scottish representative in the group that re-drafted the RICS Whole Life Carbon Assessment Professional Statement. Aythan specialises in building pathology, condition surveys and analysis of building performance against the needs for triple bottom line outcomes from all built assets. This may take the form of maintenance planning, defects diagnosis and rectification, retrofit planning, material passports and pre-demolition audits. Aythan is also an experienced Project Manager, delivering rural diversification projects, large survey operations and complex contract management meeting a wide range of client and stakeholder aims including environmental and social outcomes.

Sam Moir, Manager - Prevention and reuse, Zero Waste Scotland

The hosts for this session are:

Naomi Johnson, Associate, Social Investment Scotland

Naomi is passionate about the circular economy having started her career managing operations for a recycling social enterprise in 1997.

She has worked on UK Waste Policy, recycling, reuse and repair strategies and overseen business support services for social enterprise and charity waste and recycling enterprises. Chair of Circular Communities Scotland, she is also currently working on various upscale reuse, repair and alternative consumption initiatives.

Outside of the circular economy, Naomi established a start-up social enterprise agency, Firstport, and its Social Entrepreneurs Fund developed the Buy Social Scotland initiative.

Naomi is also a published author relating tales of her two-year world cycling tour!

Naomi's LinkedIn profile can be found here

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Kieran Daly, Head of Market Building, Social Investment Scotland

Kieran started his career as a youth worker at The Prince’s Trust, devising and delivering training programmes. He has held senior management roles in business development for a range of arts, volunteering and youth organisations for over 15 years.

Kieran was Chief Operating Officer at food waste and food poverty fighting organisation, FoodCycle. While there, he grew the organisation’s presence from 14 to 30 locations around England in under two years, through a social franchising model.

Most recently, Kieran was Scotland Manager for Big Issue Invest, where he delivered a multi-agency partnership, engaging the private, public and third sectors in mentoring and lending money to early-stage social ventures. He is a keen cyclist who enjoys giving back by being on the Board of Social Enterprise Scotland.

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