Meeting notes Jan 2026

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Notes - Monday 19 January 2026 7.30pm - 9pm


Attendees: Liddy, Shaun, Saul, Claire, Ashwini, Sue, Julie

Legacy Gift - At the end of December we received £1000 from the estate of Majorie Cowan This means we now have a balance of 3069.15 in the local group account

Sheffield Renewables AGM - 2pm Saturday, February 28th 2026. - volunteer is needed to attend and potential to invite a student to come too.


Campaigns

Planet over Profit Campaign

  • Change Lab
    • Update on progress with businesses
    • Update on progress for the film screening
  • Unions
    • Progress update
  • Stalls
    • Free stalls on Saturdays at Sheffield Utilita Energy Hub - Sue will find a time to visit when they are open
    • Monthly Pollen Markets are starting again on Grey to Green/Castlegate area - current dates are 15 March and 17 May (19 July potentially too late for postcards) - Claire to share doodle poll for availability.
    • Shaun has set up a Stalls folder on the googledrive with information on stalls in the year ahead; includes Weston Park (also on 17 May) - Shaun shared a link
    • https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1d-d_3yu3D74a2n1o-effNUgBCA8JNSvTiJku0wfeBxk/edit?gid=0#gid=0
    • The gazebo is difficult to transport so there was discussion of producing other items that could help to raise our profile eg things to give away, local group flyers etc, Saul to share options for banners etc.

Data Campaign- Saul shared a FoE presentation on using local data in your campaign and suggesting ideas on how and when to use data tools. There are maps of data available level at LSOA for air pollution by pollutant level and for renewable energy, climate change impacts and bus service decline by geography. Possible to generate comparative data eg for different areas within SouthYorkshire. They are also mapping a composite measure IMED (Index of Multiple Environmental Deprivation). They can share GIS mapping tools for mapping local data. Saul suggested we could generate short reports to share with MPs, journalists and on our stalls. Shaun had some suggestions for national FoE to bring all the data sets and mapping.mapping tools into one portal - Saul suggested we could all contact the national FoE team if there was specific data that it would be useful to map locally.


Climate Change
  • Election campaign - local elections will be early May and could be an opportunity to engage with candidates and councillors. However Shaun and Sue attended a FoE webinar which encouraged groups to start by engaging people in the local community through a listening exercise before addressing the issues identified by dispelling myths or providing information. We discussed methods for getting information including surveying our members or using the survey data that has already been collected in FoE datasets that Saul shared. We agree to keep a watching brief, talk to people whilst running stalls but continue mainly to focus on the PoP campaign.

Any Other Business
  • Building People Power training course - Ashwini & Liddy are completing three modules over the next three months and the first one focuses on group culture and group development. Questions for the group include considering our strengths and what we struggle with and we identified that we do feel we are an inclusive, welcoming group which values people with different levels of knowledge and different capacity to contribute according to their capacity. It was suggested we could organise an annual event to attract new members so we could continue to grow the group and that Simon might be able to support this.
  • Social Media - Shaun is working on social media with one of the Change Lab students and has signed up for updates on Misinformation and Disinformation. We have had a request about our Thermal Imaging Camera and Shaun is going to see if we can get it from Lindy to use next winter.