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MIDDLESBROUGH Environment City

Salary: £27784 to £29784 – 37 hrs per week – 3-year fixed term

Middlesbrough Environment City (MEC) is an independent charity that promotes healthy and sustainable living. We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and dynamic coordinator to deliver a unique project. This role will be responsible for the delivery and implementation of a localised food system change, across a three-year project based in Middlesbrough.

The three key elements of this project will include:

1. Creating healthy, nutritious sustainable food for all using local food, gluts, and food system surplus through an innovative model of community-led enterprise
2. Strengthening a localised supply of sustainable fresh produce through supporting the development of new nature friendly food producers
3. Supporting the development of a more localised nature friendly sustainable food system and resilient supply of local produce through infrastructure improvement and developing partnerships and networks with shared vision and common ground.

With a passion for a thriving, supportive and more resilient local food system, you will have the ability to motivate, provide inspiration and leadership to others. You will require excellent communication and organisational skills and a have commitment to healthy, sustainable and accessible food for all.

If you feel that you have the skills and attributes for this position, then we would like to hear from you.  For further details please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification.

To apply please download an application form from the foot of this page. Alternatively, contact Middlesbrough Environment City on info@menvcity.org.uk or 01642 579820.

Closing Date: 1pm – Thursday 8^th August 2024

Interview Date:  TBC

The #BigBikeRevival (organised by Cycling UK and supported by local authorities) is here to encourage cycling, either returning to it or starting your cycling journey, with a number of free activities and services available for everyone to enjoy!

Cycling is a fantastic, sustainable transport option, but it’s understandable that some people might be nervous to start it, or return to cycling. Through the Big Bike Revival, hopefully we’ll encourage people from all walks of life to discover, or rediscover, the joys of cycling!

As part of the Revival, we’re hosting a number of free Guided Bike Rides starting at our offices here on Sandy Flatts Lane in Acklam, starting at the end of the July and running through the beginning of August!

We are operating a gardening service that runs seasonally from April to October, operated by a pair of highly skilled Garden Maintenance Operatives. Costs start from £270, and involve cutting lawns at the front, rear and side of the property, with other tasks carried out on a case-by-case basis. Cuts are carried out every three weeks.

Call 01642 579820 or e-mail info@menvcity.org.uk for more information.

Reducing fire risks in electric blankets

With almost half of all domestic fires – that’s 20,000 each year – caused by electricity, Middlesbrough Environment City are holding a series of Fire Safety Awareness events exchanging old & dangerous single, double and king-size electric blankets for new ones.

The first event is scheduled to take place from 11am on Wednesday 21^st December 2022 at Middlesbrough Green Hub based in Middlesbrough Bus Station

Funded by “Electrical Safety First”, the Awareness Day will offer electric blanket exchanges, please bring along your old or dangerous electric blanket and we will swap it free of charge for a new one.  There will also be information on fire safety in the home and an affordable warmth advisor from Middlesbrough Environment City giving tips on how to stay warm during the cold months.

Electrical Safety First is a campaigning charity dedicated to preventing deaths, injuries and damage caused by electricity. To find out more, go to www.electricalsafetyfirst.org.uk

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For further information event, please contact: Brian Simpson, Director Middlesbrough Environment City.

Contact – 01642 579820 or brian.simpson@menvcity.org,uk

Led by The Wildlife Trusts and funded by The National Lottery Community Fund, Our Bright Future was a youth empowerment partnership that covered a number of projects including One Planet Pioneers that ourselves, Actes Employability, Tees Valley Wildlife Trust and Teesside University worked on that helped a number of young people earn useful life skills and experience in environmental sustainability.

Ahead of the closing of Our Bright Future, a video outlining the outcomes and the benefits that this wonderful initiative provided has been released, and can be viewed below.

The full report can be read at www.ourbrightfuture.co.uk/about/our-impact

Some fantastic photos from Community Actions on Friday, where ourselves, Story Contracting and Friends of Linthorpe Cemetery and Nature Reserve joined forces to maintain the paths and the general area of Linthorpe Cemetery: In doing so, we helped to clear pathways, clean up general detritus and maintained the areas to ensure the headstones receive the respect they deserve and are visible to all visitors. A huge thank you to Story and the Friends of Linthorpe Cemetery!

Great Big Green Week was a resounding success for CAM and its partners! The week saw numerous events held across Teesside to celebrate this celebration of the planet.

On Monday, children at Whinney Banks Primary School talked to us about all the things that contribute to climate change. They told us about their hopes for the next generation and buried carbon contributors in a time capsule to be dug up by pupils in 2050 along with their messages.

On Wednesday, we were at Archibald Primary School to deliver a climate change quiz, teach them how to take their own climate action, taught them about the decomposition of plastic waste and even made a climate change time capsule for future pupils to discover in the year 2050!

Over the week, we engaged with youth clubs including at Hemlington & Coulby Newham youth clubs, where they made bird feeder fat balls – learning about why they’re important (especially around this time of year) for conservation, about different types of seeds, and how they can make them again at home with the rest of the family. We also collected acorns for an initiative to help plant more oak trees after an early Autumn meant that many oaks were shedding their acorns early.

On Thursday, we ran a session of Carbon Awareness training at Camphill Village Trust, which also saw a wild food tasting session. Participants looked at the carbon footprint of food and then got to taste some of the lowest carbon food you can eat – foraged! On Friday, we delivered a soap making workshop at School Of Apocalypse, binding natural ingredients and locally grown herbs. We were also at the Green Hub in Middlesbrough Bus Station to deliver information and workshops, where we met our friends at Bridgehill Day Services in Middlesbrough: We helped them make bug hotels, and also discussed which methods of transport are best for our environment. Great to see them!

All in all, a very busy, but successful, week!

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