HEAT (Hungerford Environmental Action Team) evolved from concerns within the Town Council as to the growing impact of Climate Change and the necessity to deal with such in an effective way.

Public opinion (Annual Parish Meeting April 2007) supported this concern, and HEAT was born. Although a year old, HEAT has to date remained low profile while the organisation established itself and assessed the task to be undertaken.

HEAT regards itself as a resource for the community and also an instrument via which ideas and initiatives to reduce the impact of the Hungerford area on climate change can be channelled and implemented.

We do not have all the answers.

A fundamental part of the process is to assess the degree of awareness and concern within the Hungerford community with respect to low carbon initiatives, and to understand how much of the community is already implementing change.

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Establishment of HEAT

• Increasing local and national concern about climate change
• Showing of the Al Gore Film “An Inconvenient Truth” in the Corn Exchange
• Town Council’s Environment and Planning committee regarded the issue of climate change beyond their remit with existing resources
• Public opinion at the Annual parish Meeting last year

Aim of HEAT

• To reduce the impact of the Hungerford area on climate change

Preliminary Target

• To reduce the CO² emissions of the Hungerford area by 20% by 2011
• To reduce the CO² emissions of the Hungerford area by 50% by 2016

General Approach

• To be an inclusive partnership with

• Community Groups, Forums and Markets
• Schools
• Businesses

HEAT Structure

• Steering Group & Working Groups Comprising:

• Energy
• Transport
• Food
• Education and Employment
• Landscape and Biodiversity
• Waste
• Marketing