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Gary Topp Development Manager

(freelance)

Brief history

• Established in 2007 by BCC• Small initial group of ‘green’

organisations• ‘Green Capital’ name• Delivered reports, events, grants and

networking.• Part of the bid team for EGC 2015• Resourced until 2013 by BCC

‘Back the Bid’ Campaign

The Bid team

Report commissioned by Bristol Green Capital Partnership – Joy Carey, co-chair of Food Action Group

2014

• Year of transition and change• Move to an independent CIC• Developing relationship with B2015

company• Exponential growth in pledge

membership- now at 800 members.• Action Groups: energy, resources, food,

water, resilience, new economy etc.

Supporting the 2015 year

• Communications – 800 members/ 4000 individual subscribers

• Projects and collaborations• Supporting grant programmes• Monthly mingles/ quarterly gatherings• Leadership, expertise and advice

Partnership Gatherings

Anson Rooms, February 2015

Place & Sustainable Building Group

Resilience Spotlight: Resilience AG

Fairtrade International

Towns Conference &

Green Capital

Partnership

Pocket Plazas: Transport AG

Food Routes: Food Action Group

one day : Day One : Small grant

funded arts project

Looking forward

• an independent civil society leadership organisation for the city

• ‘futures’ not ‘green’• a powerful legacy vehicle post 2015• an extraordinary opportunity for Bristol

to be a global leader

Leo Hollis: Cities are good for you

In 1994, PJ O’Rourke calculated that if the world’s population were gathered together in one place with the same density as Manhattan ‘everyone on earth can live in the former Yugoslavia’ ... Today the world’s population might need slightly more wriggle room, but no more than Nicaragua.Therefore, living together in a crowded place is clearly not the problem: how we live, and how we are allowed to live together, is what matters most.

Naomi Klein: This Changes Everything

Germany’s program mirrors one implemented in Denmark in the 1970s and 80’s which helped switch more than 40 percent of the country’s electrical consumption to renewables…roughly 85 % of Danish wind turbines were owned by small players like farmers and co-ops..the best track record for spurring renewable energy turnarounds..it’s communities, co-ops and farmers working within an ambitious, well designed national framework…

KPMG: Magnet cities

City government alone cannot reposition a city. It also takes a city’s business leaders, opposing political parties, academics and educational leaders, investors, community groups and residents to buy-in to the need for change. This holds equally true for cities not in crisis, but hoping to further increase their magnetic pull.

What are we working towards?

• A refreshed ‘intellectual’ foundation• A determined approach to ‘reach’• A commitment to ‘cross cutting’ and

‘collaborative’ working• A ‘service’ based organisation

Our challenges

• Creating a new business model• Bristol is a very busy market place• Mission creep• Developing a consortium approach• Leadership impact