BVSC Environment & Energy Network Meeting – Food Waste Action Week

The Event

Environment & Energy Network: Food Waste Action Week 2024

Love Food Hate Waste’s Food Waste Action Week takes place from 18 – 24 March with the theme “Choose What You’ll Use’.

This year, Love Food Hate Waste is encouraging you to “Choose What You’ll Use” by buying your fruit and vegetables loose instead of packaged. Research from Love Food Hate Waste has shown that we could reduce food waste by 60,000 tonnes just by buying loose fruit and veg!

The next Environment & Energy Network meeting will discuss Food Waste Action Week and what we can do across our communities to reduce food waste, and will take place on Thursday 21 March, 13:00 – 14:30.

There will also be the usual updates on energy bills, policy, funding and consultations.

(Please note that the date has changed from the previously advertised date of 19 March).

If your organisation has anything they would like to share with regards to WWD, or anything else at the meeting, please contact elizabethg@bvsc.org.

The Last Meeting

The last meeting took place on 28 February online. Details of the session, and of previous meetings are available here.

Joining the Network

Membership of the network is FREE and will be facilitated by BVSC. The Network will meet online for 1.5 hours at least once a month. If you can’t make the next meeting, we’d still love for you to be involved.

Click here to register and you will be provided with a link to join. Email elizabethg@bvsc.org for further information.

Future Meeting Dates 2024

• April – Tuesday 16 April, 13:00 – 14:30
• May – Tuesday 21 May, 13:00 – 14:30
• June – Tuesday 18 June, 13:00 – 14:30
• July – Tuesday 16 July, 13:00 – 14:30
• August – No Meeting! Holidays!
• September – Tuesday 17 September, 13:00 – 14:30
• October – Tuesday 15 October, 13:00 – 14:30
• November – Tuesday 12 November, 13:00 – 14:30
• December – Tuesday 10 December, 13:00 – 14:30

Benefits of Environment & Energy Network Membership

• Networking with organisations from across the Birmingham City VCFSE sector interested in environment and energy issues
• Information sharing on environment and energy funding, policy, strategy, research, peer learning, training, resources and volunteering
• Engaging the wider VCFSE sector on environment and energy issues through the Sector’s ‘Engage for Good’ Forum; linking in with BVSC Employment and Skills Network re Green Economy; linking with Greener Birmingham
• Developing relationships with key public and private sector partners on environment and energy issues
• Collaboration on partnership projects, services, activities, events and actions
• Supporting a collective VCFSE voice and campaigns on environment and energy across Birmingham City
• Anything else you might find useful!