Warm Homes & Climate Action Community Gathering
Warm Homes & Climate Action Community Gathering, Sat 18th November, Highfields Centre, 1.30pm - 3.30pm at the Highfields Centre in Leicester, LE2 0DS.
- 1.30-3.00 gathering with stalls, activities - including for children - and free cake.
- 2.45pm Take a huge photo of everyone, the finished quilt and all the local MPs and Parliamentary Candidates who agree to come (we're inviting all of them that we can track down, to come and talk to representatives from our Warm Home Coalition partners, meet people, see the quilt and be in the photo).
- (We are also finishing the quilt from 11.30-1.30pm but we have enough people to do this now.)
This gathering is designed to give us an opportunity to show our local MPs and Parliamentary Candidates (potentially our MPs after the general election next year) that we want them to push their parties and the government to put in place policies which will both tackle climate change AND fuel poverty. Specifically:
- Fund a nationwide street by street home insulation starting in areas with the highest levels of fuel poverty.
- Stop supporting fossil fuels and give real support to UK renewable energy generation.
- Provide proper financial support to people in fuel poverty.
To be effective we need hundreds of people to come to this gathering from all over Leicester and Leicestershire so that the MPs and Parliamentary Candidates who come see how many people care - and also to ensure that the press cover the event.
Please come, bring your family and friends, and together we can make it visible to our MPs that it's time they ensure their Parties and the Government take action to tackle climate change and fuel poverty.