Well after a few long weekends over the past year or so I have successfully passed the IEMA Associate Cetificate Course in Environmental Management.
The Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment course dealt in depth with the three areas of
(i) Environmental Sustainability
(ii) Environmental Legilsation and
(iii) Assessment, Interpretation and Management of Environmental Performance.
This additional training very much complements my previous work around finance, econonmics and social accounting and is very much in line with developing my holistic support to businesses and organisations; where money, society and environment are all addressed and all given the attention that they deserve.
The latest SRDP Rural Priorities Deadlines for the Summer and Autumn Funding Rounds has been announced. They areas follows:
June 1st for submit, July 5th for commit
August 2nd for submit, September 6th for commit
For fuller details click here
Any rural micro-business or community group interested in taking forward an application please feel free to contact me for advice.
After a rather hectic week, the SRDP RP application deadline has now passed, now it is just a waiting game to see how clients applications get on, fingers crossed!
Of the SRDP application process the following Confucius quote springs to mind: “life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”
The latest awards for the Climate Challenge Fund have just been announced:
CCF Round 6 Awards
As someone who is extremely motivated by the need to improve our understanding of and lessen our adverse impact on the environment I am encouraged to see the plans of these community applications.
If any one has an idea that they think may fit the fund objectives then please get in touch with them, they are very helpful. At a local Shetland-level I would also be willing to help community group develop bids or thrash about some ideas, no charge of course!!
The Scottish Government has this week published its consultation document with regard to the proposed regulation of the new Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation. I have not had time to fully assess the paper yet but it is available from:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2009/11/16181221/0
The new SCIO form is clearly an important step and I would encourage you to have a read through the consultation document.
General | Steven | 
29/03/2010 | 
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